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Cole and Bauer look to lead UCLA to CWS

Brian Foley — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:00:00 +0000

Our good friend over at Rivals.com Kendall Rogers recently did an excellent feature on Gerrit Cole and Trevor Bauer. Both of these sophomores are expected to led the Bruins back into the hunt for a National Championship. Cole was ranked 14th and Bauer was 26th on our Top 100 countdown which was recently finished. [...]

KR: Top 10 Stories of 2009

Brian Foley — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:00:00 +0000

Kendall Rogers of Rivals.com looks back at the year 2009 with an article detailing the Top 10 stories of the past year. He talks about the frenzy around Stephen Strasburg during the 2009 season and how that helped the college game become more visible. One of the other big stories is the resignation of [...]

KR talks with LSU’s Paul Mainieri

Brian Foley — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +0000

Kendall Rogers of Rivals.com recently sat down with LSU head coach Paul Mainieri to get his thoughts on winning the 2009 National Championship and how things are coming in Baton Rouge. As always, Coach Mainieri is an interesting interview and gives some great insight into the program.

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KR: Top Hitters of 2000s

Brian Foley — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:00:00 +0000

Kendall Rogers of Rivals.com recently put out his list of the Top Hitters during the 2000’s which is led by Dustin Ackley of North Carolina. He hit over .400 in each of his three seasons in Chapel Hill including playing in the College World Series during each season.

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First look at New TD Ameritrade Park (New CWS Home)

Brian Foley — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Kendall Rogers of Rivals.com recently was able to acquire some nice aerial photos of New TD Ameritrade Park where the College World Series will be held starting in 2011. I was in Omaha for the 2009 CWS and thought that the new location for the CWS was much better then Rosenblatt which is located [...]

KR talks about Rising and Falling Programs

Brian Foley — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Rivals.com College Baseball editor Kendall Rogers has put out an article detailing five programs that are rising in prestige and five that are starting to fall off the map. The programs that he sees coming on are: TCU, Virginia, East Carolina, Kansas and Ohio State. The five programs that are starting to fall are: [...]

KR: New Powers in the Sun Belt?

Brian Foley — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:00:00 +0000

Kendall Rogers of Rivals.com continues his series of articles previewing different conference today with the Sun Belt. He talks about how last year was a surprise as Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee broke through with NCAA tournament bids and hope to continue the success from last season in 2010.

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KR: Mountain West looking to build on Success

Brian Foley — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:00:00 +0000

Kendall Rogers of Rivals continues his series of articles on conferences with the Mountain West conference. The teams in the conference are looking to build on the national media attention that came to them last season as Stephen Strasburg was a member of the San Diego State Aztecs. They were not the only team [...]

KR: West Coast Conference teams looking to make an impact

Brian Foley — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Kendall Rogers of Rivals continues his series of articles previewing teams heading into fall ball with the West Coast Conference. The Gonzaga Bulldogs won the conference’s regular season and the subsequent post-season championship series to make the NCAA Tourney before bowing out after three games in the Fullerton regional.

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KR: Big West programs ahead of the game

Brian Foley — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:00:00 +0000

Kendall Rogers of Rivals continues his previews of conferences around the country today with the Big West. He believes that the Big West has nothing to worry about this year as they are deeper then usual as Cal-State Fullerton and UC-Irvine are contenders for a CWS bid.

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