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IOLA – Brian Korb grew up in this central Wisconsin community that for many years prided itself on a distinct Norwegian heritage, and a fondness for baseball. He has made Iola his home as an adult. He graduated from Iola-Scandinavia High School. He played for and coached the Thunderbirds baseball team. Currently, Korb serves as the coach for the American Legion … Read More

The KHL is a crazy place where anything and everything can happen. Here’s another incredible example from the KHL Final between SKA Saint Petersburg and Metallurg Mg. With the scored tied at three late in the game, SKA was trying to break through with the man advantage. They carefully and patiently set up their play and found the back of the net … Read More

The RSPCA is reminding people to put sports netting away when finished, after the charity was called to rescue a deer who had got tangled up in football netting. A member of the public contacted the charity after spotting the deer with his antlers tangled in the sports netting in Wellington Road in Little Wenlock, Telford, on Friday (31 March). … Read More

The hockey arena in Salluit is one of a few in Nunavik that doesn’t have netting around the rink to protect spectators from pucks shot from the ice. That created rare, but fatal consequences April 1, when a slapshot bounced off a net behind the goal area and into the crowd, hitting a child in the head. The 12-year-old girl … Read More

Nine years after Steve and Lori Kniffen first built a baseball batting cage on their property, used by countless Little League and high school players through the years, the netting around the cage took a beating and needed to be replaced. So the Lions Club of Cambria stepped up and provided new netting (costing roughly $400) for the cage. Lions … Read More

BRIDPORT Museum has had a £1.3 million redevelopment – but it will still be free to go in and now plans to open all year round. The five-year long project has enabled a complete internal modernisation of the galleries making them innovative and interactive. Curator Emily Hicks said: “One of the stars of the museum will be the Ackerman netting … Read More

A NUMBER of seagulls have managed to make their way inside a protective netting on the roof of the B&Q superstore in Barrow – with at least one dead bird clearly visible. Members of the public have reported seeing distressed seagulls – a protected species, desperately attempting to find their way out of the netting. One bird appears to have … Read More

A Brooklyn councilman wants the Mets and Yankees to do more to protect fans from hard hit balls. Rafael Espinal is pushing a bill that would require Yankee Stadium and Citi Field to put up more netting. Before last season, Major League Baseball recommended teams extend the netting from behind home plate to the inner portion of each dugout. Many … Read More

Alarmed by the number of fans injured by foul balls at Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, a member of the New York City Council is preparing to propose legislation that would require those stadiums to construct protective netting to reach the ends of both dugouts. It might be the first time a legislative body has jumped into the debate about … Read More

A jury ruling last  week that involved a fan being blinded by a foul ball during Cleveland Indians game will not alter how Major League Baseball plans to go forward with increased safety netting. The fan, Keith Rawlins, of Rochester, New York, was not awarded any monetary damages by the jury in the case. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Daniel … Read More