Fairuza Balk made her acting debut in the 1980s with roles in Return to Oz and The Worst Witch, but it was her turn as Nancy Downs in 1996’s The Craft that is her most recognizable to date. However, ...

But, seriously, what is a balk, anyway? Baseball has a fair amount of rules that are open to subjectivity, but none more famous than a balk. While there are letter-of-the-law rules regarding a balk, ...

There are a lot of ways to lose a baseball game, but the Houston Astros managed to lose to the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-7 on Saturday night in one of the most annoying ways possible: a balk. Let's set ...

Pitchers aren’t the only players who can be called for balks, evidently, and the San Francisco Giants found this out the hard way. I, a man paid to write about baseball, did not know this either! So I ...

In 1988, the A’s won 104 games. The Dodgers won 94. But Los Angeles won four of five against Oakland in October, which is all that really matters, and the Dodgers’ Kirk Gibson’s Game 1 walkoff homer ...

If it walks like a balk, looks like a balk, and sure as hell moves like a balk, then it’s probably a balk. Unless you’re Matthew Boyd. The Cubs’ lefty has somehow tiptoed past every balk call this ...

A former soccer player who now lives and works in Barcelona, Paul has been living in Spain since 2011. Ten years later in 2021 is when he joined the Diario AS family and he's been churning out ...

Max Scherzer has theorized that baseball's new pitch clock will allow pitchers to dictate the pace of games. In the eyes of one umpire, he raced too fast even for the pitch timer Friday. Scherzer ...

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Balk explained that she wasn’t initially interested in the project, at least not until writer-director Zoe Lister-Jones met with her and explained her concept for ...

Shoppers flexed their strength over a recent three-month stretch, powering the fastest quarterly U.S. economic growth in two ...

Many baseball games have ended in the now tired, overused "walk-off" term. A Pennsylvania high school contest put a unique spin on it. How about the balk-off? In the PIAA-6A State Championship, Cedar ...

The Chicago White Sox continue to come up with painful ways to lose. Just when they thought they’ve seen it all, the Sox fell 7-6 to the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday at Kauffman Stadium. The ...