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Coaches who think it's OK to ride the refs, fans who feel it's cool to yell at officials all the time and the confusion of professional sports with youth sports lead to a breakdown in respect for authority.

From Little League World Series champion to top prospect and now a budding Major League star. Jurickson Profar is the second-youngest player and third teenager in Major League Baseball history to hit a home run in his first career at-bat. Only 18-...

Yankees manager Joe Girardi was just like anyone else who watched Team Uganda in the Little League World Series last week. Amazed. "It was truly amazing," Girardi said. "It's a bunch of kids that really just started to play the game and to be a...

He's just a rookie from Jersey, but Todd Frazier already has a sandwich named after him. And he has the Reds feasting on the National League.

Garciaparra was a 6-time all-star and the 1997 AL Rookie of the Year. Welcome to SportsNation! On Friday, former MLB player, and current ESPN MLB analyst, Nomar Garciaparra stops by to chat about broadcasting this year's Little League World Series...

Little League memories and lost youth come to the fore on the occasion of the death of our writer's old coach.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Jurickson Profar has pitched in the Little League World Series and was even in the All-Star Futures Game last year. But he admitted that Sunday's Futures Game, which included a solo home run in the first, was one of the highlights...

Courtesy of Little League International, South Williamsport, Pa. Binghamton Mets right-hander Greg Peavey (front row, third from left) participated in the 2000 Little League World Series. His father Tom (back right) served as coach. Right-hander Gr...

The story of two boys, two countries and how baseball brought them together

The Ugandan team finally got to face a team from Langley, British Columbia, in an exciting game that was supposed to have been played at the Little League World Series five months ago in Williamsport, Pa.

The Rollins Family Foundation provided $10,000 for the Pearl of Africa Series between Canada and the Ugandan Little Leaguers, who were denied a trip to the Little League World Series because of visa problems.

Earlier today, we posted a blank cartoon and readers offered their captions. Our favorite was by user louieshwander. Thanks for participating. Check back tomorrow for another cartoon....

Earlier today, we posted a blank cartoon and readers offered their captions. Our favorite was by user louieshwander. Thanks for participating. Check back tomorrow for another cartoon....

Take a shot at writing a cartoon caption. Page 2 cartoonist Kurt Snibbe will offer up a blank cartoon each weekday morning, and he will fill in the blank with our favorite reader submission at the end of the business day. So please, by all means, sh...

He still recalls it as the most difficult loss he's ever had to swallow. Hank Conger was 12 years old in 2000 when his Ocean View team fell one game short of the Little League World Series. He had been playing with that group of guys since they we...

Big audience numbers are expected for the ABC/ESPN broadcasts of this weekend's Little League World Series games in Williamsport, Pa. That is likely to mean big criticism as well. ESPN has already attracted its share of disapproving columnists and...