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Today β€” 11 April 2025Sport News

College baseball players involved in wild brawl in 11th inning

The college baseball season is winding down and Spring Hill College and the University of Mobile are two schools hoping to get a chance at the postseason in NCAA Division II and NAIA respectively.

The intensity of the last few games of the 2025 season appeared to have added to the pressure of their game on Tuesday as things quickly got out of control between players from both teams.

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In the bottom of the 11th inning, the two teams were tied. Spring Hill was up at bat when Seth Williams popped a foul ball behind the catcher. Pitcher Isidro Jimenez was hyped after the catch and let Williams know about it.Β 

It did not sit well with the batter.

Williams and Jimenez went nose-to-nose when Mobile players rushed toward the Spring Hill player and bumped him. The Spring Hill players came back to retaliate, and it was on from there.

"These are haymakers being thrown," the broadcaster said. "This is not just a … these are pure haymakers."

The game was suspended in the 11th inning.

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"During Tuesday’s baseball game between Spring Hill and Mobile, play was suspended after the 11th inning following an on-field altercation involving members of both teams," Spring Hill College told WKRG-TV.

"SHC holds all of our student-athletes and coaches to the highest standards of conduct and sportsmanship. What occurred does not reflect the values of our program or institution."

The University of Mobile declined to comment to the station.

Mobile is 22-18 this season and 9-12 in the Southern State Athletic Conference. The team competes in the NAIA.

Spring Hill is 28-9 this season and 21-2 in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The team competes in NCAA Division II.

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Leigh Steinberg signs elite athletes aiming to boost charity awareness and improve their home communities

Despite an impressive 51 years in the sports industry representing the crème de la crème of athletes, Leigh Steinberg's career as an agent and philanthropist is far from over.

Steinberg’s approach to athlete management, which includes negotiations for top-tier athletes such as 64 first-round NFL Draft picks in just the first eight years of his career, elite MLB players and Olympic athletes, has remained strategic in both hustle and heart for decades.

The inspiration for "Jerry Maguire" signs athletes who dream of both reaching Hall of Fame status and embedding philanthropy into the minds of their loyal fan base.

LEIGH STEINBERG SAYS β€˜JERRY MAGUIRE’ HUMANIZED SPORTS AGENTS AS PUBLIC PERCEPTION WAS β€˜NOT THE BEST’ IN '90S

"Whether it’s setting up a charitable fund at their high school, a similar thing at their colleges, charitable foundations at the professional level where they take some issue they’d like to address and set up a foundation," Steinberg told Fox News Digital, "all with the concept of an athlete as a role model."

Steinberg highlighted NFL superstar and client Patrick Mahomes’ initiative, 15 and the Mahomies Foundation, as an example of what is possible when elite athletes use their names to raise awareness and funds for a cause.Β 

Mahomes’ foundation, established in 2019, is dedicated to improving the lives of at-risk and underserved youths. Most recently, the foundation revealed the expansion of scholarships in childhood education and reported in 2024 that youth volunteers contributed $2.6 million in service hours through the organization.

β€˜JERRY MAGUIRE' STAR'S NURSING CAREER GAVE HER β€˜PERSPECTIVE’ BEFORE TACKLING HOLLYWOOD

"I’ve been very involved with restating what an agent’s responsibility is," Steinberg said. "I think part of it is to care for a player’s health."

Beyond working with athletes to choose a foundational focus, Steinberg clocks time daily as chair of the Leigh Steinberg Foundation, which aims to educate and raise information about the risks of athletic concussions and fund prophylactic treatment of concussions and healing the concussed brain.

"In a sport like football, which is a traffic accident in every play and concussion is an ugly specter, I’ve tried to be proactive over the years," Steinberg told Fox News Digital. "I had a crisis of conscience back in the 1980s because I was representing half of the starting quarterbacks in the NFL. They kept getting hit in the head, and we would go to doctors and ask how many is too many? When should they contemplate retirement? And they had no answers, and so I started holding concussion conferences back in 1994."

Since its inception, Steinberg said the foundation has worked with treatment clinics IQMIND and NESTRE to identify two new breakthrough technologies, transcranial magnetic stimulation and neurofeedback, which heal a concussed brain through the theory of neuroplasticity.

"We also try to provide treatment for underserved communities that don't necessarily have a way to deal with brain health," Steinberg said. "So we'll be looking to bring treatment to a number of people who wouldn't otherwise have it."

In just one week, Steinberg says the foundation raised $500,000, which, in part, will be allocated to host seminars and spread awareness to parents with children in athletics.

Among the voices behind the foundation’s public service announcement and educational campaigns are former NFL quarterback Warren Moon, former defensive end Bruce Smith and former linebacker Ray Lewis. Steinberg hopes to welcome female soccer players to the team of messengers in the future.

"There's hope out there and people need to know they can get treatment," Steinberg said.

Leigh Steinberg signs elite athletes aiming to boost charity awareness and improve their home communities

Despite an impressive 51 years in the sports industry representing the crème de la crème of athletes, Leigh Steinberg's career as an agent and philanthropist is far from over.

Steinberg’s approach to athlete management, which includes negotiations for top-tier athletes such as 64 first-round NFL Draft picks in just the first eight years of his career, elite MLB players and Olympic athletes, has remained strategic in both hustle and heart for decades.

The inspiration for "Jerry Maguire" signs athletes who dream of both reaching Hall of Fame status and embedding philanthropy into the minds of their loyal fan base.

LEIGH STEINBERG SAYS β€˜JERRY MAGUIRE’ HUMANIZED SPORTS AGENTS AS PUBLIC PERCEPTION WAS β€˜NOT THE BEST’ IN '90S

"Whether it’s setting up a charitable fund at their high school, a similar thing at their colleges, charitable foundations at the professional level where they take some issue they’d like to address and set up a foundation," Steinberg told Fox News Digital, "all with the concept of an athlete as a role model."

Steinberg highlighted NFL superstar and client Patrick Mahomes’ initiative, 15 and the Mahomies Foundation, as an example of what is possible when elite athletes use their names to raise awareness and funds for a cause.Β 

Mahomes’ foundation, established in 2019, is dedicated to improving the lives of at-risk and underserved youths. Most recently, the foundation revealed the expansion of scholarships in childhood education and reported in 2024 that youth volunteers contributed $2.6 million in service hours through the organization.

β€˜JERRY MAGUIRE' STAR'S NURSING CAREER GAVE HER β€˜PERSPECTIVE’ BEFORE TACKLING HOLLYWOOD

"I’ve been very involved with restating what an agent’s responsibility is," Steinberg said. "I think part of it is to care for a player’s health."

Beyond working with athletes to choose a foundational focus, Steinberg clocks time daily as chair of the Leigh Steinberg Foundation, which aims to educate and raise information about the risks of athletic concussions and fund prophylactic treatment of concussions and healing the concussed brain.

"In a sport like football, which is a traffic accident in every play and concussion is an ugly specter, I’ve tried to be proactive over the years," Steinberg told Fox News Digital. "I had a crisis of conscience back in the 1980s because I was representing half of the starting quarterbacks in the NFL. They kept getting hit in the head, and we would go to doctors and ask how many is too many? When should they contemplate retirement? And they had no answers, and so I started holding concussion conferences back in 1994."

Since its inception, Steinberg said the foundation has worked with treatment clinics IQMIND and NESTRE to identify two new breakthrough technologies, transcranial magnetic stimulation and neurofeedback, which heal a concussed brain through the theory of neuroplasticity.

"We also try to provide treatment for underserved communities that don't necessarily have a way to deal with brain health," Steinberg said. "So we'll be looking to bring treatment to a number of people who wouldn't otherwise have it."

In just one week, Steinberg says the foundation raised $500,000, which, in part, will be allocated to host seminars and spread awareness to parents with children in athletics.

Among the voices behind the foundation’s public service announcement and educational campaigns are former NFL quarterback Warren Moon, former defensive end Bruce Smith and former linebacker Ray Lewis. Steinberg hopes to welcome female soccer players to the team of messengers in the future.

"There's hope out there and people need to know they can get treatment," Steinberg said.

Ex-NBA stars call out Ja Morant over grenade celebration

Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant raised eyebrows earlier this week when he performed a grenade celebration a week after getting fined for using gun gestures.

Morant faced criticism for the new celebration maneuver from former NBA stars Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith on Thursday night.Β 

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"He has a history that maybe he should leave the celebrations where people might die alone," Smith advised during the "Inside the NBA" broadcast.

Barkley called it "immature" and predicted that former Grizzlies head coach Taylor Jenkins was happy that he did not "have to deal with is crap" anymore.

Morant, again, did the grenade celebration, mimicking throwing one into the crowd and covering his ears for the imaginary explosion. The Grizzlies star received much criticism over the course of the week, and he responded to it on Thursday before the team’s loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves.

"That's my celebration now until somebody else has a problem with it, and I'll find another one," he said.

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Morant was suspended for 25 games at the start of the 2023-24 season after several gun-related issues came to light. He was fined last week for gun-aiming gestures that were deemed to be "inappropriate." He had received a warning before the fine.

"He knows what he's doing, because y'all are going to keep talking about it.," Shaquille O’Neal added on the TNT broadcast.

Morant’s teammate Vince Williams Jr. backed the guard, saying he "would have went to that too."

"It's good for him," Williams said. "He gets to save his money. Anything that benefits him saving his money, I'm all for it, honestly."

Despite the loss, the Grizzlies are still in the playoffs but are fighting to get out of the play-in bracket. Right now, they would be the No. 7 seed and would have to face the Dallas Mavericks.

However, with two games left, the team is just a tiebreaker behind the Golden State Warriors for the No. 6 seed and a game behind the Denver Nuggets and Los Angeles Clippers for a possible No. 4 or No. 5 seed.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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