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MEAC Baseball Tournament: Live Blog

Posted by Jim Folsom on May 19 2011 Add Comments
The college baseball post season is underway as the MEAC is having its baseball tournament in sunny Daytona Beach, FL.An automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament is on the line as the winner of the tournament will advance to the Big dance. Bethune Cookman has won this tournament five straight times and is again the favorite to win it all this year.The Wildcats went 18-0 in the regular season in MEAC games. On Wednesday they ...

College Basketball Recruiting: Dominic Artis, Best PG of the 2012 Class?

Posted by Zach Herring on May 14 2011 Add Comments
Dominic Artis is an artist with the basketball. He has some of the best ball handling in the class of 2012, but Artis is very underrated. ESPN.com has Artis rated a 40 out of 100, but he hasn’t gone completely unnoticed. Artis, 5’11", 165 pounds, has offers from California, Florida International, Nevada, UC Davis and Washington State. Florida International and Nevada are strongly pursuing Artis, and who could blame them? With a killer step-back jumper to go ...

College Football: Comparing Every Preseason Top 25 Team to a MLB Team

Posted by Tom Perry on April 25 2011 Add Comments
As spring football practices wrap, many college fans turn their focus on baseball as they wait for fall. Since this is all most of us have, who do you think each preseason Top 25 team corresponds with in Major League Baseball?Seriously, this means absolutely nothing, but it’s sort of a fun exercise.Begin Slideshow

UCLA Football 2011: Notes and Analysis from Bruins Spring Game

Posted by Josh Martin on April 24 2011 Add Comments
The UCLA Bruins concluded their spring practices for 2011 with a spring game at chilly Drake Stadium that came and went virtually without incident.In front of a solidly blue but mostly subdued crowd, Rick Neuheisel unveiled a team that can best be described as a "work in progress", with plenty more to be done in the four-and-a-half months left until the Bruins open their season with a road game against the Houston Cougars.It's tough to ...

Charlie Sheen Hangs Out With The Georgia Tech Baseball Team

Posted by Adam Bernacchio on April 22 2011 Add Comments
Before taking stage for his “Violent Torpedo of Truth” show in Atlanta on Thursday, the most popular man in the universe, Charlie Sheen, made a stop at the Georgia Tech University campus. After Todd Zeile of all people reached out to Georgia Tech baseball manager Danny Hall to arrange the visit, Sheen practiced with the Georgia Tech baseball team for nearly hours on Thursday afternoon. According to Georgia Tech spokesman Dean Buchan, Sheen took some BP and ...

Cincinnati Football 2011: Defense Impresses at Bearcat Bowl V

Posted by Alex Callos on April 22 2011 Add Comments
The Cincinnati Bearcats took to the field last weekend for their annual spring game, deemed Bearcat Bowl V.  In a slight change from last year, head coach Butch Jones instituted a modified scoring system. He put his players in different game situations and awarded points for the offense and defense based on performance.  In a surprising result to those on hand on a rainy Saturday in Cincinnati, the defense came out on top 63-53, and ...

Jim Larranaga: George Mason Coach to Miami, Can He Lead the ‘Canes to Greatness?

Posted by Tom Kinslow on April 22 2011 Add Comments
Jim Larranaga To Join the Miami Hurricanes, But Can He Improve Them Like He Did George Mason? Eventually, you have to leave for greener pastures. Jim Larranaga, the man who once famously led George Mason to the Final Four, will be named the new head man at the University of Miami, according to Gary Parrish of CBSSports.com While coaches at schools like George Mason don't have an impressive pedigree, Larranaga is one of the few ...

College Football Bowl Projections: Where Is Every Pre-Season Top 25 Team Going?

Posted by Carl Stine on April 21 2011 Add Comments
Can Landry Jones lead the Sooners to the national championship?Is Florida State back?Will the suspensions affect Ohio State's BCS bowl streak?Is Brian Kelly going to lead the Irish to the BCS promised land?These and other questions are chasing each other around in the heads of college football fans everywhere.While bowl predictions may seem a bit premature, it's never too soon for some prognostication, especially when it involves bowl projections.Take a look...Begin Slideshow

College World Series’ New Home, TD Ameritrade Ballpark Brings Major League Feel

Posted by Ravi Lulla on April 20 2011 Add Comments
Tuesday night, as the gates opened at TD Ameritrade Ballpark in Omaha, Nebraska, for the first time, there was one thing in the back of everyone's mind.  It was not the upcoming game between Nebraska and Creighton.  It was not even the frigid 40 degree temperatures at game time.  It was the ballpark that TD Ameritrade was replacing: Rosenblatt Stadium. For much of the past two years, since city officials announced plans to build a new downtown ballpark ...

Harrison Barnes: An Objective Look at What His Return Means to the UNC Tar Heels

Posted by Daniel Szewczyk on April 20 2011 Add Comments
With Harrison Barnes returning to North Carolina for his sophomore year, I have found myself wondering just how significant is his return to the team and just how good will this team be with Barnes returning. Barnes’ return, along with the returns of Tyler Zeller, John Henson and Kendall Marshall, means all five starters from last year’s Elite Eight team will be returning as starters again this year. It means that four potential first round draft ...