Ray Hacke

1 day ago | wng.org | Ray Hacke

In the classic R-rated baseball comedy Bull Durham, an up-and-coming minor league pitcher wears his girlfriend’s garter belt under his uniform when he pitches. The undergarment’s purpose, the much older girlfriend tells him, is to “keep one side of your brain occupied when you’re on the mound, thus keeping the other side slightly off center, which is where it’s supposed to be for artists and pitchers.” When I think of that line, Caleb Williams now comes to mind.

2 weeks ago | wng.org | Ray Hacke

It doesn’t seem to matter to those in power in Democrat-controlled states that most Americans—even some Democrats—are against letting male athletes compete against girls and women in sports. Anyone who dares speak out against the inclusion of so-called “transgender” athletes in those states faces punishment. Exhibit A: Frances Staudt, a sophomore guard/forward for the girls’ basketball team at Tumwater (Wash.) High.

3 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Ray Hacke

When Anastacia and Abreanna Alba last joined forces on the softball diamond, they led Watsonville High to a Central Coast Section championship. That was four years ago. The sisters have since reunited at Cal State University Monterey Bay for one last season together – and as the top two hitters in the Otters' lineup, they're certainly making the most of it. "I missed my sister when she was at Chico (State)," Abreanna said. "It was really hard on me.

3 weeks ago | santacruzsentinel.com | Ray Hacke

When Anastacia and Abreanna Alba last joined forces on the softball diamond, they led Watsonville High to a Central Coast Section championship. That was four years ago. The sisters have since reunited at Cal State University Monterey Bay for one last season together – and as the top two hitters in the Otters’ lineup, they’re certainly making the most of it. “I missed my sister when she was at Chico (State),” Abreanna said. “It was really hard on me.

3 weeks ago | wng.org | Ray Hacke

Madonna—the highly controversial pop music performer of whom I’m generally not a fan—wrote the wistful ballad This Used to Be My Playground for the 1992 film A League of Their Own. The song laments the folding of the long-defunct All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and the long-lost camaraderie of the women who played in it.