It’s Officially Dogpiling Season

    As the Foo Fighters would say, there goes my hero. On the last Saturday of the regular season for most conferences, today was full of heroes as games went down to the wire and regular season titles were up for grabs.

Slapback Saturday

Avent’s Army was pounding the wall to help N.C. State get the final out vs. Florida State in Raleigh today. P.S.: It worked.

Lots of ebb and flow to this weekend’s action already, and it was certainly exemplified on Saturday.

Columbia: Champions of the Ancient Eight.

The piling is on. Columbia celebrates winning the Ivy League title in the lets-hope-no-one-gets-injured way.

“I want to wake up in that city that doesn’t sleep,

and find I’m king of the hill, top of the heap.”

- Frank Sinatra “New York, New York”

Creighton, Oklahoma State Advance to “Regional” Finals

Reagan Fowler – the tallest of the Bluejay celebration – gets a lift after his RBI single won the game for CU over Rutgers in 11 innings.

With these four teams all hovering in at-large land of the RPI, this tournament almost feels like it could be a four-team Regional field. All good teams and all playing good, competitive games. Today was a pretty cool day in The O. And sure, it was a little on the long side too, since there were three games played.

FYI, the champions are doing fine… for now.

Arizona congratulates itself for beating Stanford, as noted on the scoreboard behind them.

Hmmm… just how ARE those defending national champions doing this year?

Here’s where I found out.

Into the Den of the Railsplitters

Like a trip to Mecca, I finally made my way to the home of the Railsplitters.

C’mon, did I really want to see the Ryan Eades-vs-Ryan Stanek showdown in Fayetteville, when I could get a chance to see Central Arkansas live and in-person? Oh HELL no.

Sorry Tigers. Sorry Razorbacks. Today, it was Railsplitter time.

Hmmm, Doesn’t Look Like Much Is Wrong With Texas To Me

Huggin’ it out. Dillon Peters gets some man-love from relief ace Corey Knebel as he exits the game in the 8th inning.

Since I wanted to make sure to watch the Final Four basketball games, I sat my fat butt on my couch today and didn’t go anywhere. And I’m glad I did. Among other things, I was finally able to see Texas up-close and in living color, and I saw them do what they do best, pitch like a mother and defend like they’ve got a moat around the diamond.

Baseball In Bigfoot Country, Day 2

Freshman Ryan Kellogg added his name to the history books today.

Remember how I wrote in Friday night’s column that Oregon State pitcher Matt Boyd was nearly a shoe-in for his second consecutive Pac 12 Pitcher of the Week honors?… baring that there was no perfect game or something.

Well, it looks like the “or something” part has come about.

UNLV Listens to Old Blue Eyes

Frank Sinatra was right, this is a “love you” town. But it’s also a “shove you” town. And this time, UNLV shoved back.

To Louisville, I say “Yum!”

Walking Tall: The Cardinals were the cock of the walk on a sun-soaked day at Patterson Stadium.

These Cardinals know how to shake a tail feather. And I suppose I was drawn to Cassius Clay-town only to be impressed.

If you’re wondering, here’s how I got here today. A couple weeks ago I got an Email from Louisville baseball SID Garett Wall saying, “Louisville is calling.”

“Oh really?… Hmmm.”