Men’s Basketball Rights Acquired As Well… The NCAA has reached an agreement that will allow ESPN to broadcast the College World Series and other NCAA championships through the 2023-2024 academic year. The deal will give ESPN the international rights to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. It will also continue to hold the rights for...
There is more good news for college baseball fans who want to watch games on TV in 2011. ESPN and the SEC have announced a schedule that includes more games on the ESPN family of stations in the upcoming season. In addition to the previously announced Thursday Night Baseball SEC Game of the Week...
46 Games Slated For Broadcast BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The Southeastern Conference has announced its 2010 SEC Baseball television schedule, the first under a new 15-year contract with ESPN. The regular-season package will include 46 broadcasts in 2010, up from eight games in 2009. In addition, all games from the 2010 SEC Tournament will continue...
Four Things I’m Thinking About Right Now By Collegebaseball360.com Editor Sean Stires 1. College football’s Doak Walker and Biletnikoff Awards could both go to guys who also play college baseball. If you have followed our Two Sport Reports so far this season you know that Stanford’s Toby Gerhart and Notre Dame’s Golden Tate are...
Baseball Team Will Be Recognized For Conference USA and Greenville Regional Crowns GREENVILLE, N.C. - Pirate fans are encouraged to stay in their seats at halftime of Thursday nights nationally televised football game on ESPN when East Carolina plays host to No. 22 Va. Tech inside Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, as the 2009 East Carolina baseball...
Since the first time I heard of San Diego State’s Stephen Strasburg, I have always heard the “a” in his last name pronounced “ahh”…like the dentist “Open-up and say ahhh”. Now, two different TV talking heads have taken it upon themselves to go with a different flow. Ryan Burr, who was the ESPN anchor...
(This was originally posted on 7/30/09. We just moved this and all other CWS posts from our old blog after we launched our new web site design on 9/25/09.) It’s been a while since my last post, so I thought I would share a few thoughts while I’m watching the Cubs vs. Astros on...
Collegebaseball360.com Editor Sean Stires with some thoughts on Friday’s LSU-Arkansas and Texas-Arizona State games… So much for Cinderella this year. LSU beats Arkansas 14-5 while Texas edges Arizona State 4-3 to each advance to this year’s CWS Chamionship Series. That means teams with five and six national championships, respectively, will play for the title....
Collegebaseball360.com Editor Sean Stires shares some thoughts from another day at the College World Series… Does Arizona State’s Kole Calhoun remind anyone else of the character ‘Ham” Porter from the movie Sandlot? Calhoun (pictured right) and his teammate, Carlos Ramirez, are built more like beer league softball players than college baseball players, but...
Collegebaseball360.com Editor Sean Stires shares some College World Series thoughts… How important is it to win your first round game in Omaha? Since the CWS began in 1947 just ten teams have lost their first game and gone on to capture the national championship. Since 1980 just Oregon St. in 2006, USC in 1998...