Ripken the Bat Dog, the endlessly eager black Labrador who charmed fans at Durham Bulls and N.C. State University football ...

Ripken joined the rest of the state’s mascots at the game. “It was an incredibly humbling experience and representative of exactly how much Ripken meant to the people of his home state,” the ...

Beloved Ripken The Bat Dog who retrieved baseball bats for the local baseball teams and fetched kicking tees for the North ...

Some baseball records are so epic they seem to have been carved in stone. Ripken Jr. and Nolan Ryan are among those who know ...

News Editor Matthew Burkhart recounts his first meeting with Ripken, NC State football’s beloved tee-fetching dog, in wake of ...

It was an incredibly humbling experience and representative of exactly how much Ripken meant to the people of his home state. Ripken's final appearance was on Sunday, December 22nd, just 10 days ...

There were a lot of people in attendance at Wednesday afternoon’s signing ceremony for P.K. Yonge soccer players Emma ...

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The family that trained Ripken The Bat Dog — best known for fetching bats and football kicking tees ...

Ripken the bat dog, a staple of the North Carolina sports community, died on New Year's Day. Here's what we know and how ...