In Japan, Marc Kroon regularly threw pitches that hit 163 kilometers per hour on Asian baseball radar guns, which equates to 101 miles per hour He was a highly successful relief pitcher there who turned a one year tryout into a six year career that earned him nearly $20 million

Harvard’s basketball team won a share of its first Ivy League title this week, ending 55 years of futility On Saturday, the Crimson will seek to make its first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 1946 when it takes on Princeton in a tiebreaker game at Yale

When one thinks of the Bronx several images come to mind: burned out buildings; a crowded retail environment; Yankee Stadium; housing projects; a zoo; and an overall area about 60 years past its prime What one does not think of is that it is a breeding ground for Olympic swimming success

According for former NBA star Doug Christie, physical ability is only about 30-40 percent of the battle when it comes to success in professional basketball With that in mind, he has opened Christie Sports Management (CSM) to help players realize their full potential

The dad is Black The mom is multi-racial

The heavyweight boxing division was dominated by fighters of African descent for nearly 70 years From Joe Louis in the late 1930s to Lenox Lewis in the early part of this century, there was an almost uninterrupted string of Black heavyweight titlists, most of them Americans

The Atlanta metropolitan area sports a population that is more than 50 percent Black, and its hockey franchise has only led the National Hockey League (NHL) in empty seats since its inception in 1999 This year they are trying something new in the predominately White NHL, a roster that at times this season has sported five Black NHL players

Sometimes mother does not know best Following Arian Foster’s junior season at Tennessee his mother, Bernadette Sizemore, encouraged her son to return to Tennessee for his senior year despite gaining 1,193 yards, scoring 12 touchdowns, and receiving indications that he would be a second round pick in the 2008 NFL draft

By far the biggest moment in the NBA offseason was the hour-long ESPN special in which LeBron James made what he called “the decision” to “take his talents to South Beach” and in tandem with Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade make the Miami Heat an instant championship contender as the 2010-11 NBA season gets underway

“I think we are the team to beat in the NL East – finally” Jimmy Rollins said that before spring training in 2007

Until this season Delmon Young was best known for throwing a bat at an umpire during a minor league game that led to a 50 game suspension in 2005 He was also considered to be a mild disappointment on the field and had been traded away from the team that made him the first pick in the nation in 2003

Michael Vick got to celebrate Easter twice this year as his NFL career completed its rise from the dead when he was named starting quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles by head coach Andy Reid on Sept 21

Baseball legends like Don Newcombe don’t come along often Newcombe began with the Newark Eagles of the Negro National League of the 1940s, he was an ace pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers during the Jackie Robinson era, and won the Cy Young and National League MVP Award in 1956, the first time the Cy Young Award was offered