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Baseball Goes Global in 2026

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Baseball Is Back: 2026 Is Going Global Baseball is officially back! And the 2026 baseball calendar is starting off with a bang! With Spring Training fully underway in Arizona & Florida, Opening Day hits March 26 on NBC and Peacock, with the Pirates facing the Mets in the afternoon and the defending champion Dodgers playing that night. Sunday Night Baseball is back in primetime this season, too, with matchups like Yankees–Red Sox, Cubs–Cardinals, Padres–Dodgers.  But before the regular season even fully settles in, the sport goes international... The 2026 World Baseball Classic The World Baseball Classic runs March 5–17, with games in Tokyo, Houston, San Juan, and Miami (which hosts the semifinals and final). There are 20 teams split into four pools, and the top two in each advance to a knockout bracket. Japan won it all in 2023 behind Shohei Ohtani, and he’s back again this year. Team USA is stacked with Aaron Judge, Bryce Harper, Paul Skenes, and more. The Dominican Republic, ...
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The Olympics, Tai Babilonia, and the Cartoon That Helped Build TRON

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The emotional intensity of the Olympics can be viewed through two very different lenses: the real-life story of Tai Babilonia and the animated fever dream that is Animalympics. One is a story of devastating loss at the height of ambition. The other is an animal parody of the Olympics that quietly helped finance TRON... (AP Photo, Tai Babilonia & Randy Gardner) On Thin Ice : The Tai Babilonia Story In the heart of Black History month, we remember that at the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid, Tai Babilonia and her skating partner Randy Gardner were favorites for gold. They were charismatic, technically strong, and widely expected to win. The pressure was huge, but they were ready for it. Then, just before the competition, Gardner suffered a groin injury. They had to withdraw from the 1980 Winter Olympics. After years of training for that exact moment, it was over before it even began. The TV film On Thin Ice tells the story of what happened next. It focuses not just on the injury b...
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