This worked for Ole Miss yesterday. Let’s see how it does today. OK, Rebel fans, you want the good news or the bad news first? The good? OK, you defeated TCU 6-4 last night to send the Horned Frogs packing from the College World Series. Six runs in this CWS is tantamount to an offensive […]
OK, Rebel fans, you want the good news or bad news? Good? OK, the TCU pitcher you face tonight, Tyler Alexander, is just a freshman and coming off his worst performance of the season in a Super Regional loss to Pepperdine. This will be the biggest stage on which he has ever pitched. The bad? […]
It seems somehow appropriate the biggest Ole Miss hit of this College World Series traveled about 120 feet, barely reaching the outfield grass. This is not a knock on senior John Gatlin’s game-winning, pinch-hit single in Tuesday’s Ole Miss victory over Texas Tech in an elimination game. Gatlin, playing with a heavy heart, fought of […]
Often readers comment on stories and columns on this website long after publication. And, for that reason, I fear a lot of readers, who might be interested, never read the comments. Today, let’s catch up on what readers have said about some past columns and blogs. Well over a year ago, I wrote a column […]
New Orleans resident Archie Manning has been invited to Omaha and the College World Series several times by his LSU friends down in south Louisiana. Manning says he has always told them: thanks, but no thanks. “I was holding out for Ole Miss to make it,” Manning said Tuesday morning. So now the Ole Miss […]
Last year, Mississippi State’s Hunter Renfroe won the C Spire Ferriss Trophy, and then the Bulldogs won an NCAA Regional, a Super Regional and made it all the way to the finals of the College World Series. This year, Auston Bousfield of Ole Miss won the C Spire Ferriss Trophy, and then the Rebels won […]
So, here’s tonight’s Super Regional pitching matchup in Lafayette where the Ragin Cajuns won the coin flip to be the home team in the deciding game against Ole Miss. • For ULL, senior left-handed pitcher Cody Boutte, who has an imposing 9-0 record as the Cajuns No. 3 starter. He is the epitome of the […]
Sixty nine years ago, one year after D Day, the Boston Red Sox beat the Philadelphia Athletics 5-2 at Fenway Park. For rookie Boo Ferriss, it was his eighth straight victory in eight starts to begin his Major League career. It tied an American League record. Ferriss went the distance and scattered 14 hits, which […]
