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2011 NCAA Baseball Tourney Preview (Part 1)

Shortly after his Virginia Cavaliers defeated Florida State to win the ACC Tournament, Brian O’Connor told the media how proud he was of his team for winning the nation’s toughest conference. It was an opinion expressed by eve [...]

Posted On : Jun, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

College baseball

For Clemson and South Carolina, a return trip to the College World Series begins at home. The Tigers and Gamecocks were named as regional hosts Sunday in the NCAA baseball tournament, which begins this week. Both No. 14 Clemson and No. 1 [...]

Posted On : May, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Will Buster Posey's injury change baseball rules?

Giants catcher Buster Posey, one of the game's brightest young stars, sustained a potentially season-ending injury during a violent -- and perfectly legal -- collision at home plate, prompting calls Thursday for baseball to r [...]

Posted On : May, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Big 12 baseball notebook: Three Sooners on All-Big 12 first ...

Three Oklahoma players — infielder Garrett Buechele, catcher Tyler Ogle and starting pitcher Michael Rocha — were named to the All-Big 12 first team Tuesday. Oklahoma State had one, designated hitter Dane Phillips, and Zach Jo [...]

Posted On : May, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball ends season on the bottom

Win and keep playing, or lose and go home. The Jayhawks (26-20, 9-18) took the field against in-state rival Kansas State (34-21, 12-14) this weekend with a bid to the Big 12 tournament on the line. Instead, a pitching collapse led to 34 W [...]

Posted On : May, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Payette baseball carries Killebrew legacy into State playoff...

"Harmon Killebrew Day" in Payette didn't begin until 2005, after baseball coach Tracy Bratcher walked into principle (and then-Mayor) Mark Heleker's office and asked, "Why aren't we doing more with Harmon Killeb [...]

Posted On : May, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Angels Manager Mike Scioscia supports expanding baseball's p...

Angels Manager Mike Scioscia said Monday that expanding baseball's playoff field from eight to 10 teams would create excitement without watering down the postseason or diminishing the importance of the regular season."I think it [...]

Posted On : May, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

High & Inside: Baseball Notes Philadelphia Inquirer 2011-05-...

The New York Mets' streak of questionable, even suspect behavior, continues. This time, the spotlight is on former clubhouse manager Charlie Samuels, a 27-year employee who was fired in November amid allegations that he bet on basebal [...]

Posted On : May, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Major League Baseball rescinds appointment of assistant to D...

During a Monday morning radio appearance in New York, Commissioner Bud Selig announced that he had appointed former San Diego Padres president Dick Freeman as an assistant to Dodgers trustee Tom Schieffer. Within hours, Major League Baseb [...]

Posted On : May, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

UConn baseball team is one of the best kept secrets in the s...

It has been suggested, perhaps by a theorist comfortably indoors, that a person's normal environment is therapeutic. Notable exception: the college baseball player of the northeast. Their normal environments keep Under Armour afloat. [...]

Posted On : May, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball According to Beckett: A Game That Wouldn’t End

In April 1981, in a dumpy stadium in blue-collar Pawtucket, R.I., two minor-league baseball teams played one of the strangest games in history: 32 unbroken innings beginning in twilight on Holy Saturday and pausing, more than eight hours [...]

Posted On : Apr, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Sooner baseball team desperately needs wake-up call

The OU baseball team is in trouble. Since starting 16-0, the No. 11 Sooners are 11-11 and have lost three-of-four Big 12 series. Despite the setbacks, this year’s team (27-11, 7-7 Big 12) is one conference game better at this [...]

Posted On : Apr, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

University of Alabama at Samford University Baseball

Samford University junior first baseman Saxon Butler (33) is congratulated by a teammate after hitting a home run during the fourth inning of the University of Alabama at Samford University baseball game Tuesday April 19, 2011 at Joe Lee [...]

Posted On : Apr, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Rockies' best-in-baseball start excellent collateral for lat...

1. No low in Tulo: During last summer's All-Star Game, St. Louis' Albert Pujols and the Rockies' Troy Tulowitzki were talking hitting and numbers, a couple of masters discussing their art. "I'm waiting for that month [...]