This “challenge” was the wurst. Citi Field tried to glom onto the viral “999 Challenge,” in which baseball fans gobble down nine hot dogs and nine beers in nine innings — but my attempt to devour the ...

With a new Major League Baseball season here, a major change will play a unique role in how the year progresses. Coming to the majors this season is the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System, or ABS ...

Robo-umps have arrived. Kinda. Beginning this season, Major League Baseball will use the ABS (short for automated balls and strikes) challenge system, so it's not full robo-umps, but there is now a ...

Call them an extra set of eyes. With the start of Major League Baseball's regular season this week, the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System makes its debut in all 30 ballparks. The system, ...

From the moment MLB began testing an automated strike zone in the minor leagues, its eventual arrival to regular season MLB games was an inevitability. And that time has finally arrived. After testing ...

Detailed view of the scoreboard showing an ABS ball and strike challenge call being overturned to a strikeout during the Chicago White Sox against the Chicago Cubs during a spring training game at ...

It’s nearly impossible to scroll social media without coming across some kind of buzzy health or fitness challenge. Many of them tend to be very rigid, like 75 Hard (where you do two workouts a day, ...

Educators have seen wave after wave of “innovative” solutions promise to address long-standing challenges — from personalization and engagement to college- and career-readiness — yet many issues ...

The ABS Challenge System was first utilized in MLB during spring training in 2025. | Mike Lang / Sarasota Herald-Tribune / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images MLB games will look different in spring ...

The Department of Energy has identified 26 challenges that it’s looking to tackle in order to advance the Genesis Mission, representing broad problems such as “bridging the gap between scientific ...

The Department of Energy (DOE) has released specifications for 26 artificial intelligence (AI) challenges under its Genesis Mission that could reshape how power plants are designed, licensed, built, ...

For people who don’t follow the NFL closely, or even those who do, some of the rules can be a bit confusing. So in anticipation of the 2026 Super Bowl we’re going through a few of the rules to help ...