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Female pitcher Yoshida signs with U.S. men' s team

Topix - Sports News  Sun, 04/11/2010 - 13:08

A female pitcher from Japan, Eri Yoshida , signed on to play with an all-male minor league baseball team in the United States, reported the Associated Press on April 9.

Yoshida will be playing for the Chico Outlaws, based in Chico, Calif.


 

Is Toledo, Ohio the best spot for UFL expansion?

Topix - Sports News  Sat, 10/31/2009 - 00:03

Toledo, Ohio is a great sport town, and is the home of one of the most famous Minor League Baseball Team in the Toledo Mud Hens.

The population of the city is right around 700,000, and it is a part of the Great Lakes region of the United States that 54 million people call home.

IN 2009 the city added a Minor league hockey team, the Toledo Walleye, and through the opening part of the season they are leading the ECHL in average attendance.

For all those reasons, and a few more, Toledo seems to be a perfect place for the UFL to expand to.


 

Game over for Defenders

Topix - Sports News  Wed, 09/23/2009 - 10:59

(WTNH) -- The official press conference is still a few hours away, but word has already gotten out that the Connecticut Defenders minor league baseball team is moving to Richmond, Virginia.