This won’t be one of those notorious “no-life” entries of incredible length. See, I spent all day down in San Diego for the USD-Fullerton game this afternoon, then spent a few innings at the UAB-San Francisco game over at Tony Gwynn Stadium. Then, as if that wasn’t jam-packed enough, I went to the House of Blues in downtown San Diego for the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club concert.
(pause to exhale)
Fullerton coach Dave Serrano is counting on All American shortstop Christian Colon to help what has been a very sluggish offense so far.
Then of course, add the two hour drive back to Smogtown.
As if that series win at East Carolina wasn’t enough, get this, Brian O’Connor takes his boys on the road once again and opens ACC play against No. 2 Florida State with a 5-0 win at Dick Howser Stadium. Yep, that team that came in hitting over .900 or so… they got blanked.
Wow.
Steven Proscia and the Cavs had their game-face on tonight.
Nice win for the Wahoos, going into Tallahassee and completely shutting down an offense I didn’t think was capable of being shut down. I mean, this was like it was some kind of rolling blackout or something. Do me a favor, remember the names of Danny Hultzen, Dan Grovatt and Steven Proscia for me. You’re going to hear them again.
Sorry that it took a few days to get this clip delivered to me and to have it edited down to a YouTubeable size and everything. But it’s worth the wait ‘coz I really like this back-and-forth I had with the Nebraska head coach. Mr. Anderson sat down with me smack-dab in the middle of Jackie Robinson Stadium during his team’s trip out to Los Angeles for the UCLA series last week.
Danny Hultzen will lead UVa into dangerous Seminole country.
Yep, conference play starts already.
It just doesn’t seem right, does it? It seems like conference games shouldn’t start for at least another three weeks or so. Non-conference weekends have become members of the endangered species list. Go ahead and call the World Wildlife Fund… I’ll wait.
Of course, this big problem was brought on by the money-hungry conferences grabbing the cash cows of over-membershiping their maximums. Some leagues have just gotten too big if you ask me - 12-teams, 14-teams, and the Big East basketball chase involves 16 teams, c’mon - it means that intriguing non-conference play gets squeezed out like a rat by a boa constrictor. Sure, Alice Cooper would love it. But not me.
(Be sure to catch Part 2 of the Weekend Preview below)
Coach Penders has had a lot to smile about in his 5-2 start.
Today was a historic day for the Huskies athletic department. What’s that?… Oh, no, no, no, not for that boring girls basketball win-streak thingee either. With 71 games in a row? Or as I like to say, 71 straight dunk-free basketball games… no thank you.
Nope, today was much more important than that for Connecticut athletics. It was the baseball teams’ chance to get a four-game sweep at Cal State Northridge.
I also got the chance to talk to UConn head coach Jim Penders after his Huskies came up just short in getting that sweep. But it should be noted that they showed signs of life for a much, much, much better season in 2010.
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Weekend three of the 2010 season comes to a close with a lot of fanfare and projections of who the worthy winners are and what they did to earn the spotlight on this college baseball Sunday.
So in honor of that timeless tradition of the Oscars ceremony, let’s put this weekend of stitched-ball action in the books and announce our winners of the day and the weekend.
The first limo of the evening has just pulled up, so cue the music and let the flashbulbs start lighting up the sky. And again, gentlemen, put on your best suit and tie and high-shine shoes. Ladies, get that dress that shows off as much skin as possible. The immense cleavage wars begin here.
Recruiting guru Turtle Thomas is weaving his magic at FIU.
And here’s what I found out…
FIU is a work in progress… heavy emphasis on the “progress” part.
Whoever wrote the song lyric that said, “It never rains in California” is a stoned liar. This is the third weekend in a row where rain has altered the schedule of games in the L.A. Basin. So with showers aimed to pelt the Los Angeles area on Saturday, it was time to load up my ‘64 Dodge Dart with the wire-hanger for an antenna and make a road trip over to the Coca-Cola Classic out in the Valley of the Sun.
Once I got there, I found an interesting story with Florida International emerging as a national player in just the third year of the Turtle Thomas era. Today, I was able to catch the Golden Panthers close-shave win over Cal Poly, 10-8, to improve to 8-1 on the season.
The weekend started early with a couple of marquee matchups coming on Thursday night, instead of the usual Friday lidlifters. And I figured the game I went to tonight would be THE pitching matchup of the weekend.
Addison Reed was a blur to the Kentucky batters tonight.
Unfortunately, it turned out to be much ado about nothing.
