College Baseball
FORT WORTH, Texas - Undefeated TCU freshman pitcher Matt Purke certainly prefers making the 663-mile trip to the College World Series over what the former - and likely future - first-round draft pick could have been doing instead this summer.
OMAHA, Neb. - Greg Pivovar is a one-man welcoming committee for College World Series fans.
The first ticket to the round of 16 will be punched when second-seeded Villanova tussles with West Coast Conference champion Saint Mary's at 1:05 p.m.
There may be no harder working coach on the sidelines than Gary Williams, who has Maryland close to advancing to the second round of the NCAA tournament for the second straight year.
Quite the three-headed monster that sent Cal to a 77-62 victory over Louisville and into a second-round game against top-seeded Duke on Sunday.