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N.C. State’s baseball team talked a lot this season about putting last year’s painful NCAA tournament loss to TCU behind them. Coastal Carolina twisted the knife and added to the Wolfpack’s NCAA frustrations on Tuesday with a ninth-inning to win 7-5 and take the Raleigh regional. The Chanticleers (47-16) rallied for four runs in the ninth — in a game delayed three different times by rain, including for 14 hours…

Time for your weekly edition of the Deadspin Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we’re covering Ali, pasta, vomiting, youth sports, and more. Your letters! Matthew: Advertisement Why do baseball players have to wear caps? In pretty much every sport I can think of, required head gear is there for legitimate protection (football, lacrosse, and hockey helmets; head gear for wrestlers) or to offer a strategic…

There seems to be something hard-wired in fantasy baseball owners’ DNA that makes them suddenly start thinking about trading once the calendar flips to June. It must be something about the season reaching the one-third mark that makes us think what’s happened already is no longer just a product of small sample sizes. Mookie Betts has scored more than 50 runs and is on pace for 153. That would be…

N.C. State’s baseball team talked a lot this season about putting last year’s painful NCAA tournament loss to TCU behind them. Coastal Carolina twisted the knife and added to the Wolfpack’s NCAA frustrations on Tuesday with a ninth-inning to win 7-5 and take the Raleigh regional. The Chanticleers (47-16) rallied for four runs in the ninth — in a game delayed three different times by rain, including for 14 hours…

Photo: AP The Rockies’ AA affiliate Hartford Yard Goats are performing well enough in their first season, and sit in third place in the Eastern League, but the Connecticut club’s stadium situation is a different story. To make matters worse, the mayor and developers are blaming each other for the fiasco. Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin announced Monday that the city had fired developers DoNo Hartford LLC and Centerplan for falling…

BOSTON (CBS) — Just over two months into the 2016 baseball season, we have a pretty good feel for who is having a great year, who is struggling, and a whole bunch of players in between. CBS Sports’ Dayn Perry ranked the 100 best players just prior to the season, and has now updated that list based on players’ output over the first 55+ games of the season. After four…

BOSTON (CBS) — Just over two months into the 2016 baseball season, we have a pretty good feel for who is having a great year, who is struggling, and a whole bunch of players in between. CBS Sports’ Dayn Perry ranked the 100 best players just prior to the season, and has now updated that list based on players’ output over the first 55+ games of the season. After four…

Now that the NBA Finals have begun, TNT is no longer broadcasting any games. That means Charles Barkley has all the time in the world to do something else other than make fun of Shaq or throw shade at the Golden State Warriors. Sure, he can use his leisurely time to play golf, but we’ve all seen his swing. Why not try baseball instead? Barkley got the chance…

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Now that the NBA Finals have begun, TNT is no longer broadcasting any games. That means Charles Barkley has all the time in the world to do something else other than make fun of Shaq or throw shade at the Golden State Warriors. Sure, he can use his leisurely time to play golf, but we’ve all seen his swing. Why not try baseball instead? Barkley got the chance…

On a recent vacation in Tokyo, my wife and I had the opportunity catch a Yakult Swallows game. The vibe in the stadium on a weekday night felt like a cross between watching live college football and European soccer, mixing the volume of the former with the chants of the latter. While American baseball columnists endlessly debate the unspoken rules of the sport, drawing lines on just how much fun…

June 6, 2016 2:04 p.m. ET On the Pearland Little League team in Texas just about every 12- and 13-year-old takes his turn on the pitcher’s mound. This is one strategy coach Andrew Solomon, whose team placed second in the country in the 2015 Little League World Series, has taken to avoid the increasingly common elbow and shoulder injuries that plague youth baseball players. Mr. Solomon’s rigidity with adhering to…

Andre Jernigan’s solo home run in the first inning of Sunday’s win over Washington marked his 14th of the season, moving him into a tie for third in the XU single-season record books with Matt Watson (1999).(Photo: David Wegiel / Xavier Athletics) With a 7-5 win over Washington late Sunday in Nashville, Xavier’s baseball team clinched a spot in an NCAA tournament regional championship for the first time in program history….

Kyle Muller is the 2015-16 Gatorade National Baseball Player of the Year (Photo: Trent Musho, Gatorade) The Jesuit College Prep (Dallas) baseball team photo Monday became even more of a memorable souvenir for senior pitcher Kyle Muller when Texas Rangers ace Cole Hamels ducked into the frame and handed Muller the 2015-16 Gatorade National Baseball Player of the Year trophy. “This is overwhelming,” said Muller, 18, a Texas signee who is projected…

Baseball’s 2016 First-Year Player Draft, in which some of the best college and high school talents around will be selected by major-league organizations, is scheduled for June 9-11. To set the scene for all of that, CBS Sports recently chatted with Baseball Prospectus draft expert Chris Crawford. Needless to say, this time of year is an ideal one to give Crawford a follow on Twitter (@CrawfordChrisV) or check out his…

Virginia and Vanderbilt have comprised each of the last two College World Series Finals. Both of them were gone less than 48 hours into the 2016 NCAA Tournament. A day after Vanderbilt’s heartbreaking weekend came to an end against Washington, Virginia was bounced out of its own regional by William & Mary — the same team the Cavs trounced by 13 runs on Friday. On Saturday, Virginia’s bullpen coughed…

ANDREW SHURTLEFF | The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress NCAA William Mary Virginia Baseball ANDREW SHURTLEFF | The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress ANDREW SHURTLEFF | The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress Virginia coach Brian O’Connor watches a play during Sunday’s NCAA regional baseball game in Charlottesville. William & Mary ended Virginia’s season with a 5-4 victory. Posted: Sunday, June 5, 2016 8:19 pm Woody: UVa baseball coach shows strength of character By Paul Woody Richmond…

The University of Minnesota plays in the NCAA men’s baseball tournament at 8 p.m. against Texas A&M. If the Gophers win, another game for the regional title will be played against Texas A&M, the host team, on Monday night. If the Gophers lose they will be eliminated. For those with access through a cable or satellite provider log-in, the game can be watched on ESPN3 or the ESPN mobile app….

Despite gallant efforts against some of college baseball’s heavyweights, the MEAC’s Bethune-Cookman and the SWAC’s Alabama State saw their seasons come to an end in the NCAA Division I baseball championships. In its 15th regional appearance, Bethune-Cookman, of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, dropped its Friday and Saturday games 9-3 to No. 1 overall seed Florida and 12-3 to Georgia Tech in the Gainesville Regional. Alabama State fell 18-6 on Friday…