Sept. 23 (UPI) --Major League Baseball entered an age of robot umpiring Tuesday after a league committee approved a high-tech system for players to challenge calls. The Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) ...

Beginning in 2026, the “Challenge System” will be used in all Spring Training, Championship Season, and Postseason games. The Competition Committee – comprised of six owners, four active players and ...

The ABS arrives amid social media accounts and content creators regularly using data and game footage to evaluate umpire ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Do you miss those robots yet? We’ve spent the past five weeks watching them pop out of hiding, every time a catcher, hitter or pitcher tapped his head to ask his favorite robot umps ...

Automated ball-strike challenges are coming to Major League Baseball next season. The particulars are pending a Tuesday vote from the MLB competition committee, an 11-person group that includes six ...

The conferences of Siena University and the University at Albany have launched a men's and women's basketball challenge between the two leagues that will start in the 2026-27 season. The America East ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WMBB) — Basketball Challenge is back! WMBB Sports Director Sam Granville has submitted his picks for the 2025 Basketball Challenge. Think you can beat him? Sign up now! The local ...

PHOENIX — For more than 150 years, the game of baseball has relied on humans behind home plate to call balls and strikes. This spring, for the first time in Major League history, players will be able ...

NEW YORK – Will there be fewer of Aaron Boone’s famous tirades about the strike zone in 2026? Well, maybe. On Tuesday, MLB’s Joint Competition Committee adopted the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) ...

NEW YORK – Starting next season, MLB players will be able to challenge balls and strikes a few times per game. A vote on Tuesday approved the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System, which had been ...