The Spokesman-Review

A Grip on Sports: From predictions to awards and everywhere else in-between, Pac-12 football media day tells us how close the season really is

A GRIP ON SPORTS • College football season hasn’t officially begun, but the hype for the 2019 season is in full trot. Today in Hollywood, the Pac-12 fires its opening salvos, with the conference once ...
The New York Times

Why Masahiro Tanaka changed the grip on his splitter and how that’s affected his signature pitch

Masahiro Tanaka developed his splitter in Japan in 2010, transitioning it from the forkball he threw in the first few years of his professional career. The splitter has since been Tanaka’s signature ...
The Spokesman-Review

A Grip on Sports: Gonzaga’s dominating performance last night says more about UNC than anything else

A GRIP ON SPORTS • After all the buzz and hubbub, last night’s game in the Kennel sort of fizzled. Not the atmosphere, which seemed electric even while watching at home. But the game itself. The Zags ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Brewers' Trent Grisham got new grip on his career by going back to an old grip on the bat

Baseball is a game of conformity, particularly in these ever-changing times when analytical evaluations break down every player’s skill set, 10 ways to Tuesday. If you don’t conform, you better ...