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Men’s College World Series: LSU knocks off Coastal Carolina to claim their eighth title
In the wake of a loss to Little Rock in the Baton Rouge Regional, the LSU Tigers were one loss away from being eliminated in the opening round of the Men’s College World Series. Instead, the Tigers went on to win the whole thing. After a complete game masterpiece from Kade Anderson staked LSU to…
Men’s College World Series: How Coastal Carolina catcher Caden Bodine stands out behind the plate
Tonight the Men’s College World Series finals begins as Coastal Carolina takes on LSU in a best-of-three series. The matchup features some of the top prospects in the upcoming MLB Draft, including LSU starting pitcher Kade Anderson, a potential top-five selection next month. But another player to watch in this series is Coastal Carolina catcher…
Men’s College World Series finals: LSU and Coastal Carolina preview and predictions
What began as a field of 64 is down to two, as Coastal Carolina and LSU are the last teams standing in Omaha. Those two teams begin a best-of-three series on Saturday to crown this year’s NCAA baseball champion. Here is a look at both teams, how they got here, players to watch, the schedule…
Big 12 football 2025 power rankings for college football’s most wide open conference
If you ask me, the Big 12 is the best conference in college football. Are any of the teams surefire title contenders? Probably not. Is every game batshit insane and unpredictable? Absolutely. The Big 12 took on the spirit of the Pac-12 in realignment, with some of the best and most chaotic games of the…
Recent graduates facing ‘deteriorated’ labor market as unemployment reaches highest level in years
Recent college graduates are aggressively hunting for their first job, but they are facing one significant problem: the labor market is deteriorating. Economic research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York indicated the labor market “deteriorated noticeably” in the first quarter of 2025, with those just entering the workforce taking the hardest hits. The Labor…
Men’s College World Series: Gage Wood throws third no-hitter in MCWS history to keep Arkansas’ season alive
Facing elimination Monday in Omaha, Arkansas needed a big performance from starting pitcher Gage Wood against Murray State if the Razorbacks were going to keep their title dreams alive. Arkansas got that and a whole lot more from the righty. Wood threw just the third no-hitter in Men’s College World Series history, and the first…
Men’s College World Series: Brackets, scores, and more
The 2025 Men’s College World Series is underway from Omaha, Nebraska. Eight teams arrived in Omaha with dreams of a College World Series title, after surviving both the Regionals and the Super Regionals. As with those two earlier rounds, the final two stages of the Men’s College World Series combine a double-elimination tournament with a…
12 top MLB prospects to watch in the 2025 College World Series
Though not officially the case, college baseball is in effect a farm system for Major League Baseball. While players can get drafted directly out of high school, and hundreds do each year, most of those drafted annually spent time at the collegiate level. The 2024 MLB Draft saw the top eight picks come from college,…
Why MLB owners are bigger fans of the Angels than the Dodgers
The winter wails of “Are the Dodgers ruining baseball?” pretty much established the Dodgers as the team other major league owners love to hate. If there is one thing most owners love more than winning, it is cost control. That is why they covet a salary cap. The team other owners love? It might just…
8 College World Series teams left standing, ranked by their championship chances
To get to the College World Series, teams had to win at least five games over two weekends without losing more than once each round. Three of the eight qualifiers swept their way to Omaha, while one (Oregon State) had to play eight times to secure a spot. None of that matters anymore, as a…