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BY Zach Lawson 8 hours ago FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Tickets remain on sale for this weekend’s NCAA Fayetteville Baseball Regional at Baum Stadium. All-sessions general admission passes are now available and are $75. They may be purchased online at ArkansasRazorbacks.com, by calling 1-800-982-HOGS (4647) or in-person at the Razorback Ticket Center. Based on availability, single game tickets…

After 33 years as coach of the Southern baseball program, Roger Cador will announce his retirement from coaching in a press conference on Friday morning. Cador told the Advocate he has decided to step away from coaching but will stay on at the University for at least one more year in a non-coaching capacity. Bigger than life. The role in which Cador will play in the athletic department…

That sound? It’s the approaching hoofbeats of June, and June, it so happens, is a big month for baseball on any number of levels. “Why is June a big month for baseball?” you’re presently not asking. Fortunately for you, this scribe’s stock in trade is answering the questions no one is asking.  So here, people of baseball, is why the sport that binds is of central importance in June … …

Timothy D. Easley/Associated Press The 2017 NCAA Division I baseball tournament begins on Friday with regionals featuring 64 teams at 16 different locations around the country.  Oregon State is the No. 1 overall seed after going 49-4 and winning the Pac-12 conference title during the regular season.  Regionals are a double-elimination format, giving teams more than one opportunity to make their presence felt. The winners of the regionals will then…

7:30 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Most of the time, Joe Kelly doesn’t have to peek at the radar gun. No, the burn of a baseball’s stitches against the tips of his fingers — “That tug out of your hand when everything is going right,” Kelly says — usually tells him whatever he needs to know about how hard he’s throwing. When it doesn’t? When…

Washington Nationals star outfielder Bryce Harper agreed to drop his appeal of a four-game suspension and in turn had one game shaved from the punishment. He reached the agreement Wednesday with Major League Baseball and began serving the suspension immediately. The punishment stemmed from a bench-clearing brawl Monday after Harper was hit by a 98 mph fastball from Giants reliever Hunter Strickland. There was no word…

Baseball is in the air, literally and figuratively. Island Little League fields are packed with eager players and loyal fans, their shouts carrying…

There’s a surprising new best team in baseball, and it doesn’t reside in Chicago, New York or L.A. Instead, it’s the Houston Astros, who are projected to finish with the majors’ top record according to both FanGraphs.com and FiveThirtyEight’s own Elo ratings. Those are lofty expectations, but if the Astros can meet them, they’ll complete a historic turnaround that few teams in major league history can match. It’s still early,…

Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images The thing with sports fights is they’re typically prompted by something most responsible adults would consider petty or childish. This is especially true in baseball, where beefs between players and teams can outlast the postseason, the offseason and even cross over into the new year. In 2016, Rangers reliever Matt Bush plunked Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista in the ribs with a 98 mph fastball as…

7:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment CHARLIE BLACKMON, THE Colorado Rockies‘ leadoff hitter, center fielder and Renaissance man-in-residence, believes it’s possible to dedicate himself to his profession without becoming a one-dimensional, cardboard cutout of a human being. So he likes to carve a chunk out of his offseason and explore far-flung locales in the name of self-fulfillment. A few years ago, Blackmon jetted off to…

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DOWNLOAD COMPLETE RELEASE (PDF) BY THE NUMBERS 10 – For the tenth-straight week Oregon State tops the national rankings in the USA Today poll, NCWBA poll, Collegiate Baseball poll, and the Baseball America poll. 5 – Five Pac-12 student-athletes appear on the 2017 Golden Spikes Award semifinalist list: Griffin Canning, UCLA; Luke Heimlich, OSU; Nick Madrigal, OSU; JJ Matijevic, ARIZ, and David Peterson, ORE. 14, 16 – For the fourteenth-straight USA Today poll…

Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images The thing with sports fights is they’re typically prompted by something most responsible adults would consider petty or childish. This is especially true in baseball, where beefs between players and teams can outlast the postseason, the offseason and even cross over into the new year. In 2016, Rangers reliever Matt Bush plunked Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista in the ribs with a 98 mph fastball as…

BASEBALL SOUTHERN SECTION DIVISION 1 Semifinals, Tuesday •Corona 5, El Dorado 2 (8) •El Toro 3, Mater Dei 0   DIVISION 2 Semifinals, Tuesday •Etiwanda 5, St. John Bosco 2 •Palm Desert 4, Capistrano Valley 3   DIVISION 3 Semifinals, Tuesday •Walnut 3, Paso Robles 2 •Righetti 1, Paraclete 0   DIVISION 4 Semifinals, Tuesday •Tahquitz 5, Nogales 3 •Grace Brethren 7, Victor Valley 1   DIVISION 5 Semifinals, Tuesday…

When you ask Oregon State baseball coach Pat Casey how he has led his top-ranked Beavers to an otherworldly 49-4 record this spring, or how the Corvallis-based program over which he has presided for 23 seasons is the only school north of Palo Alto to win the College World Series in the past half-century, he provides a succinct answer. “I had the good fortune,” says Casey, “of not having anybody…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Chad Holbrook is confident he’s the coach to lead South Carolina back to its NCAA Tournament success, despite missing the postseason for a second time in three seasons. “I met with the team,” Holbrook said Tuesday. “We’re making progress and making plans to make sure that this doesn’t happen again in 2018.” Because it has already happened twice in Holbrook’s five seasons has led to questions…

Strickland hit Harper in the hip with a pitch in the eighth inning and the Washington slugger charged the mound, wildly firing his helmet before trading punches to the head with Strickland during the Nationals’ 3-0 win Monday at San Francisco. MLB Chief Baseball Officer Joe Torre’s explanation of the disciplinary decisions said Strickland intentionally hit “Harper with a pitch, inciting the bench-clearing incident and fighting”…

For as long as there has been baseball played on these shores, there has been one subset of players, generally veteran ones, that has taken it upon itself to teach another subset of players, generally younger ones, how to — say it with me now — “play the game the right way.” If that seems like a tired phrase, it’s becoming an even more tired concept. On Monday at AT&T…

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