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It wasn’t supposed to happen like this for Louisville. The No. 2 national seed Cardinals were the Vegas favorite to win the College World Series this year, until UC Santa Barbara came along and spoiled that fun in ridiculously dramatic fashion: a bottom of the ninth one-out grand slam and the Gauchos have punched their ticket to Omaha. This is UCSB’s first ever trip to Omaha, and they join Arizona has…

This is the way it’s always going to be with New England college baseball: The season starts, the season ends, and nobody really cares. For those who do care — and, really, we’re talking mostly parents, buddies, students, a few alums and a roving cast of connoisseurs — it ain’t easy. The games get rained out, get re-scheduled, get moved to different sites. Bring a parka and a Thermos and…

The Horned Frogs (47-16) got a masterful outing from 6-foot-9 starter Brian Howard (9-2). He allowed two hits, and one of those was to the Aggies’ first hitter, J.B. Moss. The rangy junior settled in and kept the Aggies (49-16) off-balance for seven innings. TCU coach Jim Schlossnagle then turned to hard-throwing reliever Durbin Feltman to close out the stunned Aggies. A&M led 1-0 nearly half the game before TCU…

In a year with no consensus top player, the Philadelphia Phillies led off Major League Baseball’s draft Thursday by taking Mickey Moniak, a high school outfielder from California. It could be a while before we’ll have a sense of whether Moniak is worthy of that selection. Even the top picks need time to develop, and that certainly figures to be true of Moniak, who was the first prep outfielder taken…

The baseball field in Village Hall Park in Prairie Grove was full of 19th century lingo Sunday as the McHenry County “Independants” – spelled incorrectly in a newspaper clipping from more than 150 years ago – faced the Grayslake Athletics. The teams, in semi-authentic garb of white button-up shirts and black trousers, played as if it were 1858. That meant underhand pitching, barehanded play and outs on balls caught after…

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<!– For a list of all the completed deals, check out the transfers page. <!– Crowd disturbances at Euro 2016 dominate the British press Manchester United are ready to make a £79m bid for Paris St-Germain’s 23-year-old midfielder Marco Verratti. (Corriere dello Sport, via Daily Star) Zlatan Ibrahimovic has promised to reveal the next club he will play for “soon” amid continued speculation about a move to Old Trafford. (Daily…

RELATED: Results | Post-Michigan standings | Chase Grid | Day in photos BROOKLYN, Mich. — It won’t silence all those “he needs to win” comments following Tony Stewart through his final season as a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver, but Sunday’s seventh-place finish was deemed a success just the same. “We haven’t been running good enough to worry about just winning,” the co-owner/driver of the No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet said on the…

Regular season baseball and playoff baseball are different. If the Atlanta Braves, the region’s favorite Major League team, have taught us anything, it’s that. South Carolina fans were reminded of that Sunday, when Oklahoma State ended the Gamecocks’ season with a 3-1 victory at Founders Park. USC finished the season 46-18 and won one of college baseball’s toughest divisions in the SEC East, but it didn’t win a game in…

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Dozens of teams ventured out for the Jimmy DeBoy Classic Baseball Tournament. The 10th annual event honors the late Jimmy DeBoy who was killed by an impaired driver in 2006 (WLFI). LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) — Dozens of teams ventured out this weekend for the DeBoy Classic Baseball Tournament. The 10th annual event honors the late Jimmy DeBoy, a Lafayette boy who was killed by an impaired driver in 2006. Lafayette…

Texas A&M is playing for a trip to the College World Series. The stage is big, which provides the perfect opportunity for a videobomb. Did anyone else notice this? I’m dead. pic.twitter.com/yVZtdgrbT9 — Carter Karels (@CarterKarels) June 13, 2016 Classic millennial move! Well done, ma’am!

The Seattle Mariners used one of their 2016 draft picks to select someone who doesn’t even play baseball. In the 24th round, the team drafted Trey Griffey, a six-foot-three redshirt senior wide receiver with the University of Arizona Wildcats. Trey Griffey, son of Ken Griffey Jr., who played 11 seasons with the Mariners, does not play baseball. The younger Griffey reportedly hasn’t played baseball competitively since before he started high school. The Mariners listed…

Texas A&M would cruise to a 7-1 win over TCU in Game 2 of the Super Regional in College Station, TX to force a Game 3. The Aggies were helped by the home run tonight as the team finished with four.

For most people, what Jay Johnson has accomplished in his first year at Arizona doesn’t happen in a lifetime. Maybe the Wildcats didn’t win a Pac-12 Championship. But they’ve done better. They’re going to the College World Series. “I’m speechless,” Johnson said after winning Saturday night’s game 6-5 to advance to Omaha. “I’m so proud of these guys, their teammates that I can’t really put it into words….

x Embed x Share Louisville coach Dan McDonnell and key players talk about their loss to UCSB and exit from the NCAA tournament. Sam Upshaw Jr./The CJ Buy Photo Louisville Cardinals head baseball coach Dan McDonnell, right, gets a hug shorty after UC Santa Barbara overcame a 3-run deficit in the bottom of the 9th inning to win with a grand slam by freshman pinch hitter Sam Cohen. 12 June, 2016(Photo:…

Brooks Thompson, a first-round NBA draft pick and former Oklahoma State basketball player, has died.

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I’ll never forget the first time I saw a naked woman who wasn’t my mum. I was 12; she was a grown-up and standing in the showers at our local swimming pool, soaping her pubic hair into a lather. I don’t remember anything about her face, just her body: sinewy with some wobbly bits, and a big bush down below. At the time the sight of women displaying their bodies…