ADELAIDE struggled with being the competition's "guinea pigs" as the AFL unveiled its contentious sliding rule for the first time in the home and away season. In slippery conditions during the ...

Taking batting practice and infield practice are rituals in baseball. Sliding practice? Not so much. Ask a player at the highest levels of the game when he last rehearsed the art of getting down and ...

The Associated Press recently took a look at some of the different sliding practices (or lack there of) in the major leagues — including a discussion with NU coach Darin Erstad, New York Yankees ...

PHILADELPHIAPHILADELPHIA — Every spring training, and occasionally even during the regular season, each major league team gets out the sliding pad and lines everybody up for drills. Nobody ever, ever, ...