Top Sports (TVNZ)

Softball and baseball made dramatic exits from the Olympic stage with Japan and South Korea pulling off shock gold medal wins.

Baseball and softball strike out with IOC (Deepika)

BEIJING, Aug 24 (Reuters) Softball and baseball made dramatic exits from the Olympic stage with Japan and South Korea pulling off shock gold medal wins.

Baseball and softball make exit (rediff.com)

Softball and baseball made dramatic exits from the Olympic stage with Japan and South Korea pulling off shock gold medal wins. Neither county will have the opportunity to defend their crowns in London in 2012 because both sports have been trimmed from the Olympics line-up.

Reading between the yard lines (Bethesda Gazette)

For Landon alum Will Snyderwine, the road to Division I college football didn't begin with a star-studded prep career, like most of his Duke University teammates. In fact, it wasn't any athletic talent at all that first put him on the gridiron.

Sports briefs (Portsmouth Herald)

Fall sports begin on Monday at Traip Academy. Sports physicals will be given on Tuesday at Traip from 8 to 11 a.m. You may pick up forms ahead of time at Traip. The cost is $5.The fall practice schedules are as follows.