A $59 million investment in software developer Social Solutions aims to ease the flow of data among schools and social service providers.

Voters in three southern states will head to the polls for governors races that have shined a spotlight on educator activism, school funding, and teacher pay.

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In a video posted along with the schedule, the Seahawks gave season tickets to 12 workers who had been nominated for consideration. The 12 were told of receiving season tickets in video calls with Seahawks players Shaquill and Shaquem Griffin, DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett, Will Dissly and coach Pete Carroll. The Royal St. John’s Regatta in Canada has been canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Texas dismissed women's basketball coach Karen Aston on Friday, ending an eight-year stint that included four straight trips to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 from 2015-2018.

Since the day she stepped on campus, Satou Sabally's game has turned heads — and for good reason. She's had many memorable moments in a Duck uniform, including a standout performance against the USA Women in Nov. 2019, a monster game against Cal in Jan. 2020 and a career performance in Pullman in Jan. 2019.

Kobe Bryant was already immortal. Bryant and fellow NBA greats Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett headlined a nine-person group announced Saturday as this year’s class of enshrinees into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Two-time NBA champion coach Rudy Tomjanovich finally got his call, as did longtime Baylor women’s coach Kim Mulkey, 1,000-game winner Barbara Stevens of Bentley and three-time Final Four coach Eddie Sutton.

A look at the newest members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, announced on Saturday:

Pac-12 Networks' Ashley Adamson speaks with Oregon stars Sabrina Ionescu, Ruthy Hebard and Satou Sabally to hear how special their recent Naismith Starting 5 honor was, as the Ducks comprise three of the nation's top five players. Ionescu (point guard), Sabally (small forward) and Hebard (power forward) led the Ducks to a 31-2 record in the 2019-20 season before it was cut short.

Pac-12 Networks' Ashley Adamson catches up with Oregon's "Big 3" of Sabrina Ionescu, Ruthy Hebard and Satou Sabally to hear how they're adjusting to the new world without sports while still preparing for the WNBA Draft on April 17. They also share how they're staying hungry for basketball during the hiatus.

Athletic forward Satou Sabally is preparing to take the leap to the WNBA level following three productive seasons at Oregon. As a junior, she averaged 16.2 points and 6.9 rebounds per game while helping the Ducks sweep the Pac-12 regular season and tournament titles. At 6-foot-4, she also drained 45 3-pointers for Oregon in 2019-20 while notching a career-best average of 2.3 assists per game.

Ruthy Hebard and Sabrina Ionescu have had a remarkable four years together in Eugene, rewriting the history books and pushing the Ducks into the national spotlight. Catch the debut of "Our Stories Unfinished Business: Sabrina Ionescu and Ruthy Hebard" at Wednesday, April 15 at 7 p.m. PT/ 8 p.m. MT on Pac-12 Network.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago State women’s coach Misty Opat resigned Thursday after two seasons and a 3-55 record.

DETROIT (AP) -- Detroit Mercy hired AnnMarie Gilbert as women’s basketball coach.

Pac-12 Networks' Mike Yam has a conversation with UCLA's Natalie Chou during Wednesday's "Pac-12 Perspective" podcast. Chou reflects on her role models, passion for basketball and how her mom has made a big impact on her hoops career.

On the day Kobe Bryant suddenly passed away, the Beavers embraced their rivals at midcourt in a moment of strength to support the Ducks, many of whom had personal connections to Bryant and his daughter, Gigi. For this, Oregon State is the 2020 recipient of the Pac-12 Sportsmanship Award.

Pac-12 student-athletes give shout-outs to their moms ahead of Mother's Day on May 10th, 2020 including UCLA's Michaela Onyenwere, Oregon's Sabrina Ionescu and Satou Sabally, Arizona's Aari McDonald, Cate Reese, and Lacie Hull, Stanford's Kiana Williams, USC's Endyia Rogers, and Aliyah Jeune, and Utah's Brynna Maxwell.

Dale L. Zimmerman, Jun Tang, Rui Huang.

Source: The Annals of Applied Statistics, Volume 13, Number 4, 2416--2451.

Abstract:
We extend statistical shape analytic methods known as outline analysis for application to the strike zone, a central feature of the game of baseball. Although the strike zone is rigorously defined by Major League Baseball’s official rules, umpires make mistakes in calling pitches as strikes (and balls) and may even adhere to a strike zone somewhat different than that prescribed by the rule book. Our methods yield inference on geometric attributes (centroid, dimensions, orientation and shape) of this “called strike zone” (CSZ) and on the effects that years, umpires, player attributes, game situation factors and their interactions have on those attributes. The methodology consists of first using kernel discriminant analysis to determine a noisy outline representing the CSZ corresponding to each factor combination, then fitting existing elliptic Fourier and new generalized superelliptic models for closed curves to that outline and finally analyzing the fitted model coefficients using standard methods of regression analysis, factorial analysis of variance and variance component estimation. We apply these methods to PITCHf/x data comprising more than three million called pitches from the 2008–2016 Major League Baseball seasons to address numerous questions about the CSZ. We find that all geometric attributes of the CSZ, except its size, became significantly more like those of the rule-book strike zone from 2008–2016 and that several player attribute/game situation factors had statistically and practically significant effects on many of them. We also establish that the variation in the horizontal center, width and area of an individual umpire’s CSZ from pitch to pitch is smaller than their variation among CSZs from different umpires.

Speech by Mr Agustín Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, at the Eurofi Financial Forum, Helsinki, 12 September 2019.

"This could be the oldest and longest-lived team ball game in the world," says one archaeologist

Major League Baseball players and team employees to participate in 10,000-person COVID-19 study

Coyotes, bears and more are enjoying areas usually reserved for crowds of human visitors

During his 20-year professional career, his boisterous style endeared him to fans but rankled traditionalists

The Northwoods League announced Thursday that its 2020 season will not begin on May 26, as originally scheduled, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Independent MHA Eddie Joyce is suing four people, including the premier, for defamation over the handling of a harassment complaint that saw him turfed from the Liberal cabinet and caucus in 2018.

The COVID-19 briefings started out as an urgent response to a public health crisis. As John Gushue writes, Premier Dwight Ball has grown comfortable in the role of hosting a program focused on government programs.

The following is a guest post by Hanna Soltys, Reference Librarian, Prints & Photographs Division. The post was written with the help of Sara W. Duke, Curator of Popular and Applied Graphic Art.   While professional baseball’s Opening Day will take place at a later date, the spirit and excitement of the day still live […]

Live professional baseball games could be televised in the United States as early next week, with South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reporting Monday that ESPN and the Korea Baseball Organization are nearing an agreement.

Derek Jeter, Larry Walker and the rest of this year's Baseball Hall of Fame class will have to wait another year for their big moment at Cooperstown.

The Korean baseball league opens its delayed season Tuesday in empty stadiums across South Korea and Canada's Jamie Romak, along with the rest of the league's players, are getting used to a new baseball normal that includes rules against high fives and spitting, daily temperature checks and the absence of fans.

The new baseball season began in South Korea on Tuesday with the crack of the bat and the sound of the ball smacking into the catcher's mitt echoing around empty stadiums.

Everyone is rooting for Korean baseball to succeed right now because, if it fails, we're left with a pretty dark thought: If they can't pull this off, what hope do we have?

Remarks by Mr Olli Rehn, Governor of the Bank of Finland, at the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee Panel Discussion on "The world economy transformed: Reflections on policy responses and the future post pandemic monetary architecture", in the context of the virtual IMF Spring Meetings, Washington DC, 17 April 2020.

Notre Dame women's basketball coach Muffet McGraw is retiring after winning two national championships in 33 years with the Irish.

It’s been 20 years since his last NBA game, but Dennis Rodman is a hot topic again. The featured character in a new episode of The Last Dance was many things to many people — and a genuine trailblazer.

Canadian basketball players Dylan Ennis and Kevin Pangos, who both play in Liga ACB, opted to stay and weather the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.

After the Canadian Football League confirmed its request for financial assistance from Ottawa on Wednesday, the Canadian Premier League and Canadian Elite Basketball League have followed suit.

It's not often people want to hang onto winter, but a Summerside, P.E.I. woman has kept a piece of it in her freezer for over a decade: a snowball in a ziplock bag.

As a child, Fay Richardson wanted to dance, with the grace and movement of ballet captivating her. Now, at 79-years-old, she's doing just that.

A team of Canadian balloon twisters earned five awards at the World Balloon Convention in California this month for their Mickey and Minnie Mouse as Romeo and Juliet design.

The string of pratfalls that was the comedic highlight of this year's New Waterford Coal Bowl Classic in Nova Scotia will be seen by millions of TV viewers.

A sports writer covering the strange return of South Korea's baseball season says fans should brace for similarly odd experience in Toronto, if and when the 2020 season begins.

The impact of baseball as an outreach tool is growing far beyond the first teams that began nine years ago in Érd.

OM Hungary's Sports Team brings baseball and the Gospel to local schools in their now-annual visit to sports classes.

Sports ministry is having an impact on peoples' lives, both young and old. In Hungary its no different with their ever growing Baseball Ministry

Softball ministry in Hungary shows hospitality, international influence by hosting the 2016 Danube Cup

OM Hungary’s baseball ministry celebrates brothers in Christ and starts new family outreach.

OM Ireland's Big Red Bus visited a housing estate in the town of Ballina in County Mayo.

We find out about a life-changing scheme in Bosnia and Herzegovina.