Jun 26 How Hurling Spears 2 Million Years Ago May Have Given Us a 96-mph Fastball MVP pitcher Justin Verlander is known for consistently throwing heat for the Detroit Tigers. In a study published this week, scientists learn how professional pitchers can throw with such high velocity and what this skill meant in our evolution. Continue reading
Jun 25 Inside Softball: Politicians and the Press Slug It Out for Good Cause By Ellen Rolfes EmbedVideo(6782, 482, 304); The "Bad News Babes" face off against female members of Congress Wednesday for the annual charity Congressional Women's Softball Game. Washington, D.C. -- The sun had yet to peek above the tops of multi-colored rowhouses in… Continue reading
Jun 21 Shields and Brooks take ‘The Doubleheader’ live By Hari Sreenivasan Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, thank you so much for participating in a special live edition of “The Doubleheader,” the show where we talk about the sport of politics and the politics of sport with syndicated columnist Mark… Continue reading
Jun 20 Watch For NBA and NHL, This Year’s Championships Are Games to Watch and Remember For NBA and NHL, This Year's Championships Are Games to Watch and Remember… Continue watching
Jun 20 Pitch Your Questions to Mark Shields, David Brooks for ‘Doubleheader Live’ Watch the "Doubleheader Live" with Mark Shields and David Brooks beginning at 5:15 p.m. EDT… Continue reading
Jun 14 Watch Shields, Brooks on Hillary’s Hints, Congressional Baseball Shields and Brooks on Hillary's Hints, Congressional Baseball… Continue watching
May 31 Shields and Brooks on Bachmann’s Retirement, Yankee Favoritism By Christina Bellantoni NewsHour Political Editor Christina Bellantoni guest-hosts the Doubleheader with Mark Shields and David Brooks Mark Shields and David Brooks made a triumphant return to the Doubleheader Friday and I filled the host chair as Hari Sreenivasan is… Continue reading
Apr 29 Watch Jason Collins Is NBA’s First Active Player to Say ‘I’m Gay’ Jason Collins, a 34-year-old veteran NBA player, has become the first male pro-athlete currently playing one of the four big sports to come out and say he's gay. Jeffrey Brown talks with LZ Granderson, sports writer and columnist for ESPN… Continue watching
Apr 29 After Coming Out, Jason Collins Gets Support from Across the NBA Sports Illustrated's May 6 cover features NBA center Jason Collins, who is openly gay. Jason Collins made headlines this morning as the first male athlete from a major U.S. professional league to announce that he is gay. The NBA… Continue reading
Apr 26 Shields and Brooks on Bush Legacy, NFL Draft By Hari Sreenivasan The musings of syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks return in this, another episode of the Doubleheader, where we tackle the sport of politics and the politics of sport. Our captains of civility… Continue reading