A crying child in the stands turned what should have been pure tennis drama into something far more complicated. Emma Raducanu and World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka were locked in an exhausting Cincinnati Open thriller when the disruption began, and what happened next sparked a heated debate about crowd control, parenting, and whether a chair umpire went too far. How …
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MLB All-Star Game to feature robot umpires for the first time
ATLANTA (AP) — Tarik Skubal views the strike zone differently than robot umpires. “I have this thing where I think everything is a strike until the umpire calls it a ball,” Detroit’s AL Cy Young Award winner said ahead of his start for the American League in Tuesday night’s All-Star Game. MLB has been experimenting with the automated ball-strike system …
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