March Madness carries a one-of-a-kind buzz to the wide world of sports.

The Peninsula Seahawks fastpitch team has nowhere to go but up.

The Gig Harbor Tides baseball team has three pitchers with NCAA Division I talent.

Dogs have always been by Kristin Baird’s side. But in the past five years, her chocolate Labradors have become her teammates. Baird plays fetch with her three labs with a competitive twist. While one is more of a pheasant tracker during hunting season, the other two have dueling strengths in the sport of dock jumping.

What’s great about technology these days is you can watch a live update of a baseball game through the Internet. If you don’t have ESPN, all you likely have to do is visit a specific Web site, like www.seattlemariners.com, in order to see what the Seattle Mariners score is.