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Much like his 34 other teammates, Oregon State pitcher Bryce Fehmel awoke Monday morning expecting an announcement that the baseball season would last at least one more week. But when the final four teams were announced for the Coral Gables regional Monday during an ESPNU broadcast, the Beavers had not heard their name called in the field of 64. “When the last teams were announced, the room went pretty much…

Scott Googins, the driving force of the Big East coaching staff of the year, has Xavier’s baseball team back in the NCAA tournament for the second time in three years. The Musketeers play at Vanderbilt at 8 p.m. Friday.(Photo: Xavier University) After a Big East Championship title, a bus breakdown and a 16-plus hour journey from Maryland, Xavier’s baseball team barely made it to Buffalo Wild Wings in Montgomery for…

Looking for daily fantasy baseball picks, strategy and advice? This is the DFS MLB Playbook for Tuesday, featuring all the MLB DFS info you need to know from Sporting News partners FantasyAlarm.com. You can bet DFS players will be even more eager to use Reds and Rockies in Coors Field after a 19-run game on Monday. Today’s tilt between those teams also features one horrific starting pitcher for Cincinnati (Jon Moscot) and a Colorado pitcher (Jon Gray)…

The World Anti-Doping Agency, the International Olympic Committee and the International Association of Athletics Federations are facing a real dilemma. Having pushed Kenya towards improving its anti-doping environment, the question remains whether to follow through and deliver the ultimate sanction – disqualification from the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Such a move would potentially prove disastrous for Kenyan sport. Athletes would lose the opportunity of participating in the most prestigious event….

The dog was pooping all over the floor. That’s how nervous it was in my house before Game 7 against Tampa. My three little boys were freaking out. They could barely handle it. I guess the dog knew something was wrong. My sons are six, seven and nine, and they are the biggest hockey fans in the world. You really have no idea. I’d say 45 minutes out of every…

Malmö, Sweden — On the face of it, the decision to offer special women’s swimming hours at the Hyllie sports center, a municipal swimming pool in the southern Swedish city of Malmö, should not be contentious. Indeed, Malmö is not alone. According to a survey by the Swedish TV channel TV4, 13 of Sweden’s 100 largest municipalities have begun offering separate swimming hours for men and women. “Our facilities are…

One of Spain’s most famous athletes, the basketball player Pau Gasol, has said he is considering skipping this summer’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro due to fears over the Zika virus. Gasol said he has spoken to other athletes who were considering whether to compete at the Games. “It wouldn’t surprise me to see some athletes deciding not to participate in the games to avoid putting their health and the…

About 24 hours after he was kidnapped, Mexican soccer star Alan Pulido found himself alone with one of his captors and saw his chance. He wrestled away the man’s pistol and his cellphone and dialed Mexico’s emergency number. Within minutes, he was free. An official summary report of three calls to an emergency operator obtained by The Associated Press shows the 25-year-old forward for Olympiakos in the Greek league threatened…

As the selections announcement dragged on Monday morning, someone on the Long Beach State baseball team mustered a question: Hey, how many regionals are left? The team, which thought it would be comfortably in the 64-team NCAA regional field, started running through which matchups had been revealed.  “We’re like, ‘God, I don’t think there’s many left,’ ” Coach Troy Buckley said. “And next thing you know there isn’t. There’s one…

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Bracket (PDF) SAN FRANCISCO – Four Pac-12 baseball teams earned berths to the 2016 NCAA Baseball Championship, the Division I Baseball Committee announced today. UTAH earned the Pac-12’s automatic bid while ARIZONA, ARIZONA STATE, and WASHINGTON earned at-large selections. Regional action begins on Friday, June 3. All games will be broadcast live on the ESPN Networks. The Pac-12 currently holds an all-time record of 784-474 (.623) in the NCAA Baseball…

If you hadn’t been following college baseball this season and happened to take a cursory glance at the recently released NCAA Tourney field of 64, your first question would probably be some version of “what the hell happened to the West Coast?” Not a single one of the 16 regional host sites is West of Texas, a surprising development for one of the sport’s most talent-saturated areas. It’s a credit…

print AUSTIN, Texas — Augie Garrido, the winningest coach in college baseball history, is out after 20 seasons at Texas. The decision Monday comes after the Longhorns’ first losing season since 1998. Texas will miss the NCAA postseason for the third time in five years. The university said in a statement Monday the 77-year-old Garrido was “relinquishing his duties” as coach and will become special assistant to athletic director Mike…

Mitch Gaspard has resigned as Alabama’s head baseball coach after seven seasons. The Crimson Tide went 234-193 in Gaspard’s tenure, but missed the NCAA Tournament in three of those seasons. He took over for Jim Wells prior to the 2010 season and Alabama reached the Super Regional round, but had not reached that point since then. Alabama also made NCAA regionals in 2011, 2013 and 2014. Alabama was not selected as…

Western Michigan is headed to Louisville to start the NCAA baseball tournament. The Broncos are the only in-state program to make the tournament, as both Michigan and Michigan State were left out of the field of 64 teams announced Monday. Western Michigan (22-32) was the surprise winner of the Mid-American Conference tournament, earning a bid to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1989. The No. 4 seed Broncos…

Kidnapped Mexican soccer star Alan Pulido was found and rescued safely by police, according to authorities in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Pulido, 25, was kidnapped over the weekend by armed men after he left a party in his hometown of Ciudad Victoria in northern Mexico, officials said. The rescue happened shortly before midnight involving federal and state forces, the Tamaulipas Coordination Group said in a statement released early this…

Mixed Leagues Adam Lind, 1B, Seattle Mariners Aaron Hill, 2B/3B, Milwaukee Brewers Brad Miller, 2B/SS, Tampa Bay Rays Jurickson Profar, 2B/SS, Texas Rangers Coco Crisp, OF, Oakland Athletics Hyun-Jin Ryu, SP, Los Angeles Dodgers Danny Duffy, SP/RP, Kansas City Royals Archie Bradley, SP, Arizona Diamondbacks   AL-Only Paulo Orlando, OF, Kansas City Royals Whit Merrifield, OF, Kansas City Royals Matt Boyd, SP, Detroit Tigers Pat Dean, SP, Minnesota Twins Tim…

Lost in an offseason slog, dreaming of those fall afternoons spent arguing online about the existence of an SEC bias? Don’t worry, the NCAA baseball tourney has your fix! No conference in tournament history has ever earned more than three of the available eight national seeds (which means you get to host the first two rounds at your home park), but the SEC looks poised to do so when…

Monday’s MLB schedule is packed with games starting at different times, so those in daily fantasy baseball contests will have to double-check every entry to make sure the players they want are available in that specific FanDuel or DraftKings tournament. The late-afternoon contests have the most interesting splits (at least on FanDuel, where the Dodgers-Cubs and Rangers-Indians are included on that slate), with the Twins, Reds, Astros, Cubs, Indians and Rangers all…

I was a horrible lacrosse player in high school: bad at catching the ball, slow, and not very aggressive. Yet I’d spend hours at a handball wall with my stick: throwing, catching, repeating. I played on winter leagues, and woke up early for 6 am pickup games. Freshman and sophomore years, I made it on to the junior varsity team — a miracle. By 11th grade, it was time to…