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There are a few things that don’t happen in life, and scoring runs on TCU’s Riley Ferrell is one of them. As one of college baseball’s most dominant closers climbed the mound in the top of the ninth with a one-run lead over NC State on Saturday night, he’d allowed just two earned runs over roughly 27 innings in 2015. So with the bases uninhabited and the Wolfpack down to…

SAN JOSE — In a hotly contested Central Coast Section Open Division championship game Saturday night in which two Los Gatos coaches and a St. Francis player were ejected on close plays at the plate in the fifth inning, Andrew Martinez settled the issue with one swing. The St. Francis junior ripped a two-run triple just past diving left fielder Doug Neubauer to break a tie in the sixth and…

facebook twitter googleplus tumblr pinterest On the first elimination day of the 2015 NCAA Baseball Tournament, Mother Nature ensured that several schools would live to play another day. Rain forced the postponement of multiple games and affected the regionals in Baton Rouge, Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, College Station, Texas, Nashville, Springfield, Mo., and Champaign, Ill. All of the games in the Dallas and Champaign regionals were pushed to Sunday. NCAA TOURNAMENT 2015: Top…

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With the news that the Orlando City Soccer Stadium is expanding, Lion fans told News 13 they are excited, but wary about the change. “We can hope for the best that it will expand Orlando City Soccer,” Orlando City Soccer Club fan Lauren Stockner told News 13. It’s all about Expansion with Soccer fans after hearing the news that the Soccer Club will now privately fund and own the stadium…

Arizona State baseball opened NCAA Tournament play against Clemson on Friday in the Cal State Fullerton regional.(Photo: Jessie Wardarski/azcentral sports) FULLERTON, Calif. — Arizona State survived its first game in the NCAA baseball regionals Friday by overcoming one of the nation’s best pitchers. The Sun Devils rallied for six runs in the seventh and eighth innings, then had to defuse its opponent’s potential recovery to earn a 7-4 victory over…

HARRISON, N.J. — The United States’ fate at the Women’s World Cup may hinge on Alex Morgan’s left knee. The 25-year-old star forward missed her third straight game because of a bone bruise, a listless 0-0 draw against South Korea on Saturday in their final warm-up match. Morgan hasn’t played in a month but says she will be ready for the Americans’ opener against Australia on June 8. Coach Jill…

It took a few innings and, granted, the opponent won’t be mistaken for the ’27 Yankees, but Tulane finally got its groove back. The Green Wave took up where they left off Friday night in Saturday’s elimination game against Lehigh, quickly falling behind the fourth-seeded Mountain Hawks, 3-0, in the first inning. Starter Corey Merrill was shaky, the offense was, again, misfiring in the clutch and Tulane was in a postseason…

ShareTweet On Friday news began leaking out on Twitter that Fox Sports was laying off its regional writers.  While Fox has launched two national networks recently in Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2, it still contains a robust network of 18 regional channels (plus YES) that span coast to coast.  The regional networks are a significant aspect of Fox’s sporting empire as they house local sports rights from the NBA,…

Is Our Dusty Old Cowtown the worst major professional sports market in the country at this exact moment? A lot of candidates, a litany of criteria and a legion of critics make the Most Awful Major League Sports City debate tempting. What about Cleveland, which hasn’t won any championship in pro sports since 1964 (NFL, pre-Super Bowl)? Or Buffalo, which lost four consecutive Super Bowls, didn’t rattle its Sabres to…

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74:56 Alan Hutton (Aston Villa) wins a free kick on the left wing. 70:17 Substitution Substitution Substitution, Aston Villa. Carlos Sánchez replaces Ashley Westwood. 69:39 Offside, Arsenal. Mesut Özil tries a through ball, but Theo Walcott is caught offside. 67:35 Substitution Substitution Substitution, Aston Villa. Leandro Bacuna replaces Kieran Richardson. 63:05 Foul by Nacho Monreal (Arsenal). 63:05 Alan Hutton (Aston Villa) wins a free kick on the right wing. 61:32…

England would back a European boycott of the 2018 World Cup in protest at the re-election of Sepp Blatter as Fifa president, says Greg Dyke. A boycott will be considered by European football’s governing body Uefa when it meets next week in Berlin. Football Association chairman Dyke said: “There’s no point boycotting on our own, but if the rest of Europe decided to…

As over 20 major universities descend on Philadelphia this weekend to participate in the 6th Annual Penn Mutual Collegiate Rugby Championship (CRC), the game’s popularity in the United States has never been stronger. Spurred in part by the growth of the game on both the amateur and collegiate levels, as well as the development of a number of professional properties, there is ample indication that rugby is ready to become…

The NBA playoffs and Steph Curry’s daughter joining in on press conferences weren’t the only things happening in the sports world this week. In fact, a handful of athletes with Las Vegas ties made sports headlines this week — all in the baseball world. Las Vegans Bryce Harper and Kris Bryant faced off in the major leagues for the first time this week when the Washington Nationals paid a visit…

From the moment he made a century on his England Test debut, it appeared Alastair Cook was destined for greatness. During the second Test against New Zealand at Headingley on Saturday, England captain Cook, 30, overtook Graham Gooch’s tally of 8,900 runs to become his country’s most prolific batsman in Test cricket. BBC Sport looks at the different sides of Cook and how they shaped…

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From the moment he made a century on his England Test debut, it appeared Alastair Cook was destined for greatness. During the second Test against New Zealand at Headingley on Saturday, England captain Cook, 30, overtook Graham Gooch’s tally of 8,900 runs to become his country’s most prolific batsman in Test cricket. BBC Sport looks at the different sides of Cook and how they shaped…