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Morning Quack Fix: 4.21.09
Let's win the day with some Quack! The injury bug continues, with Blount and Alston bowing out of practice due to foot injuries. WIth Blount day-to-day and Alston now out for the spring, Chris Harper was conscripted to practice with the running backs, Moseley informs us. The secondary is...
Reliving the Omaha Dream: OSU 7, UC Irvine 1
The Beavers ended UC Irvine's marathon run through Omaha on June 20, 2007 with a 7-1 victory over the Anteaters. The game drew the second largest crowd in College World Series History, with 29,921 people on hand at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha. The 'Eaters started their week off with a...
One More Game
Jared Janes has a great piece in the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate today about the magic of Alex Box Stadium. With each successive hit off UC Irvine’s closer by the Tigers in the ninth, LSU fans grew louder and louder while a small contingent of UC Irvine fans looked dumbstruck. The Box...
Unbelievable!
Saturday's stunning 9-7 win by LSU over UC-Irvine was one for the ages, and fitting for a stadium that has seen so many transcendent moments as it makes one last trip around the bases itself. Watching -- albeit without sound -- from my home far away from Alex Box Stadium, I truly believed as early...
The Last Hurrah
It's gameday at Alex Box as the final weekend in the venerable stadium's history begins, with a College World Series berth on the line between LSU and UC-Irvine. First pitch is set for 5 p.m. CT and, unfortunately the game will be on ESPNU, so most of the country won't get the chance to watch. All...
CWS - Catching Up
Given a network upgrade and a line outage, I've been consumed by real work over the past few days - hence the few updates. Thank goodness for CSTV's Game Trackers, otherwise I would have completely missed what's been happening throughout the CWS, although I did get killed at one point when the NCAA...
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