Beginning with 2010, the Northern Sun Conference has announced that all conference series will start with a nine inning game, immediately followed by a seven inning set. The series will consist of four games over a period of two days. Northern Sun Baseball brings up some interesting points about this change: Read the rest of this entry »

The Wall Street Journal has put out a very interesting article about the median revenues of major football schools and the numbers are not good for baseball at all. Baseball on average at these schools lose $709,000 while the football programs make nearly 2 million dollars. These numbers are skewed as most major football schools in the northern part of the country have fully funded football programs but do not fully fund the baseball program.

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This is an argument that comes up every single off-season at least once on this site about the use of Wood Bats vs Metal Bats. There is currently a case in a Montana court room where a pitcher was struck by a ball in the temple and died a few hours later when a blood clot formed. The pitcher’s parents are suing Hillerich & Bradsby which is the parent company of Louisville Slugger.

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The owners of PingWits.com, new College Baseball forum contacted me recently and wanted to see if I could make a post about their fabulous new site. They are looking for people to come on the site and discuss College Baseball from all conferences and levels. Each Division 1 conference has their own seperate forum while Division 2, Division 3, and NAIA also have theirs.

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The staff over at WholesaleKeychain.com sent us three 1 Gigabyte USB drives for use with the website. They were nice enough to engrave them with the name of the site. These drives have worked excellent as I have been able to transfer many files between all the computers I use during one day with ease. I would highly recommend checking out their site to see if you could use them for your company/personal needs.

Here are the Top Five Articles of the Week for September 20th.

1. Former NCAA President Myles Brand passes away
2. Former Florida coach Dave Fuller passes away
3. 2010 Big East/Big Ten Challenge schedule released
4. Erik Bakich taking Aggressive Approach
5. San Diego announces staff changes

As always, you can check out our listings of 2010 schedules by clicking here.

Myles Brand who served as the NCAA President since 2003 passed away from Pancreatic cancer on Wednesday. He was diagnosed in January and fought the disease with great effort but sadly passed away yesterday. He will be known nationally for firing legendary Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight when Brand was the President of Indiana. Knight choked one of his players during a practice which led to the firing. On the baseball side of things was a key component in keeping the NCAA baseball season at it’s current 56 game limit but currently we don’t know what the new president of the NCAA will do during their tenure.

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Since this is a slow time for news in College Baseball, I think this would be an excellent time to get some feedback from our great readers on some of the great stuff we have done over the year. What have you liked/disliked? What would you like to see more of? Question and Answer sessions? Live Game Blogs? More Feature Articles? Leave your comments in the section below or by sending me an email by clicking here.

Pitchfork Nation reporter Michael Kossett recently sat down with Arizona State senior pitcher Josh Spence to discuss his decision to return to Tempe for his final season of eligibility. Spence had a solid 2009 season which saw him go 10-1 with a 2.37 last season including a solid outing at the College World Series. You can check out the full video below.

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It is very rare that I have to come on here and actually be disgusted with the story that I have to report but tonight is a different story. According to multiple reports in the Winston-Salem NC area, former Wake Forest assistant coach Jon Palmieri was arrested on Tuesday after allegedly soliciting a 14 year old girl for sex. The girl come to find out was a police officer on the other side. Palmieri continued conversations with the officer for a month before setting up a meeting on Tuesday where the police apprehended him when he showed up.

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I reported on January 6th that West Virginia head coach Greg Van Zant made a proposal for a change to the RPI. (FULL STORY) It was discussed at the ABCA convention and recently was sent off to the NCAA Division 1 Baseball Committee where it will be reviewed again. Read the rest of this entry »