Tragedy has struck the New Zealand baseball community with news that Diamondblacks pitcher Lincoln Holdzkom has been killed in a car accident in the United States.

It's never fortunate to be trapped in a bathroom, but even less so when you are participating in the MLB playoffs.

Great Scott! Is Back to the Future 2 set to predict the 2015 World Series champion?

Bart Campbell says he has never had a Jerry Maguire moment - but his company does own the building where Tom Cruise shouted that movie's most famous line.

A beloved tradition in American sport, rookie hazing, can go very wrong, as when Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Jonathan Martin was harassed to such an extent in 2013 that he contemplated suicide and eventually quit the sport.

ESPN Radio host Colin Cowherd has been taken off air.

A former Major League pitcher visits Greymouth to find out what happened on a rafting trip 17 years ago.

In popular culture, Chicago is home to Al Capone and the Valentine's Day Massacre, to John Dillinger and bank robbery, to Chess records and the Blues.

NZ baseball pitcher John Holdzkom has been promoted to the Pittsburgh Pirates' 40-man Major League Baseball roster, after stints in the sport's minor leagues.

A New York Yankees fan who was caught on television sleeping in the stands during a game is suing broadcaster ESPN and Major League Baseball for US$10m.

Rising Kiwi basketball star Steven Adams is making a name for himself in the NBA for getting under the skin of opponents. Several of them have lost their cool this season and been ejected and fined for attacking Oklahoma City's giant Kiwi.