college-world-series Stories - Arkansas Expats
Sticky Notes
As May marches on, the NCAA baseball picture continues to come into focus. Even from last week to this week, fans can now flex a bit more certainty when looking toward Omaha. And by the way…that Garrett Wittels guy (the one with the hitting streak) that was mentioned last week? He’s...
Tossing projectiles
Had enough rumor mongering about conference realignment? If so, there is some quality discussion to be had regarding the upcoming College World Series. The regular season is winding down and there are a boatload of possibilities for postseason positioning. In addition to the traditional seeding,...
College World Series Legends Team
The NCAA And CWS, INC., recently announced their College World Series Legends Team. The 28 members of the Legends Team, pared down from an original list of 95 nominees, were selected after more than 100,000 votes were cast by college baseball fans, college baseball writers and Division I head...
Texas Baseball: Team of the Decade
Texas Baseball: Team of the Decade Baseball America chose their ‘All-2000s team’ and sent voting ballots to every Division 1 baseball coach (150 of which responded). Augie Garrido sent his votes on a cocktail napkin. Texas was the team of the decade with 32.6% of the vote. Two national...
Texas-LSU CWS Series A Ratings Hit For ESPN
The final game of the best 2-of-3 series for the College World Series Championship may not have been close, but the buildup was good enough to give ESPN three of the four highest-rated CWS games ever. The three-game series for the National Championship grew in numbers with each game, until it...
Texas Longhorns Baseball: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Texas’ two biggest strengths coming into the College World Series were pitching and defense. They had carried a rather anemic offense throughout the year. If you had told me before the series started that Texas would hit fourteen homeruns, I would have told you that we would win it. I never would...
College World Series: Final Game - Horns / Tigers
Huck is going to be late. HenryJames may add some commentary. Please feel free to comment below. - S.R. I get home form work, cut the tv on and the very first thing I see is a three home run by LSU. Damn. Green got the first two guys before hitting the 3rd batter and then allowing a...
Baseball Geography Update
With only Game Three of the championship series left to play, all games pitting an Eastern team versus a Western team have been decided. A review of the results from this season: In the tournament, Green was 27-14 against Red for a .659 winning percentage. The last four teams standing are all from...
The National Championship on the Line Right Here
This one's for all the marbles. It all comes down to this. Winner takes all. To help tide us over until gametime and get through the workday, here are some videos of the runups and the final games of our athletic department's last three chances to take home a national championship with one more...
Texas evens series
Before pitching the deciding game against TCU in the super regional, Taylor Jungmann was asked about his nerves. "Nerves? I don't get nervous, man," he said. Apparently not. He’s been fantastic the whole series (6 pitches last night excluded), and he was brilliant last night. He stayed down and...
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