Here are some of the best links from around the nation. The first article comes from Rivals College Baseball editor Kendall Rogers who looks at the winners and losers from the weekend. The next group of articles come from The Daily Cal which recaps the Cal-Stanford series. The last article is from The Huntington News which talks about the Northeastern and James Madison series. Read the rest of this entry »

Bill Thurston (Courtesy of Amherst Media Relations)

I will check in throughout the year with some interesting links from around the nation. If you know of an interesting article please send it to us by clicking here. We start today off with an article from The Republican (MA) which talks about Amherst baseball coach Bill Thurston who picked up his 800th victory on Thursday with a 15-8 win over Bowdoin College. Read the rest of this entry »

Courtesy of Alabama Media Relations

Rivals College Baseball Editor Kendall Rogers has been putting out some great articles about College Baseball over the past few days. Rivals put out their Top 25 today which featured North Carolina in the top spot for the second straight week. Kendall also put out a great article featuring Kyle Gibson of Missouri. Finally, Rivals put out their weekend winners and losers. Read the rest of this entry »

Tony Sanchez (Boston College)

Here are some of the best links from around the country for March 10th. The first article comes from The Tallahassee Democrat which states that FSU will be changing out their weekend rotation after losing two out of three games to Boston College. The next article comes from Rivals College Baseball Editor Kendall Rogers who talks about the winners and losers from around the nation after an interesting weekend. Baseball America writer Aaron Fitt has a blog entry on the three stories from the weekend. Read the rest of this entry »

Courtesy of Northern Star Online

I ran across three great articles from around the nation today. We will try to do this everyday until the end of the season. You can send links to articles by clicking here.

The first article is from Rivals.com College Baseball Editor Kendall Rogers thoughts on the uniform start date after the first year. He brings up many good points including starting the season a week earlier which is wanted by the southern schools or running it a week longer which is wanted by the northern programs. Read the rest of this entry »

Kendall Rogers continues his countdown of the Top 25 teams in the nation with San Diego at the 15th spot. The Toreros return a young pitching staff that is talented but lack experience on a collegiate mound. They will need to replace All-American Brian Matusz who was drafted in the first round of the 2008 MLB Draft. Josh Romanski also made the jump into the minor leagues after a strong career. We spoke with Rich Hill a few weeks ago to talk about the 2009 squad and you can read that article by clicking here. Read the rest of this entry »

Jim Wells (Courtesy of Alabama Media Relations)

I have been slacking recently on keeping up with the Rivals Top 25 countdown. Kendall Rogers has rated three teams that I have missed over the last few days. He has Baylor at 18th overall as they are led by Kendal Volz. The Louisville Cardinals check in at 17 as they will be led by senior third baseman Chris Dominguez. Kendall Rogers puts Alabama at number 16 as they will be led by sophomore shortstop Josh Rutledge. Read the rest of this entry »

The Missouri Tigers are the 19th best team in the country according to Kendall Rogers of Rivals. He believes that the toughest challenge that the Tigers will have to overcome is losing 2/3 of the pitching rotation. They will have to also replace Jacob Priday who was a major power threat last season with 16 homers. Read the rest of this entry »

Kendall Rogers of Rivals.com continues his Top 25 countdown today with the Clemson Tigers checking in at the 20th spot. The Tigers are coming off a 31-27 campaign which saw they struggle in the ACC with a 11-18 record. They ended up missing the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1986. Read the rest of this entry »

UCLA looks to win Pac 10 in 2009 (Courtesy of UCLA Media Relations)

Rivals writer Kendall Rogers continues his Top 25 Countdown today with UCLA checking in at 21. The Bruins are coming off a Regional final appearance against Cal-State Fullerton but ended up eliminated by the Titans. The Bruins return a solid group of pitchers with an impact freshman Gerrit Cole stepping into the rotation after spurning a multi-million dollar deal with the New York Yankees. UCLA suffered some losses on offense but Kendall expects UCLA to win the Pac-10 title. Read the rest of this entry »

Kendall Rogers of Rivals.com continues his Top 25 countdown today with Number 22 Arizona State. They are coming off a Super Regional appearance where they were upset by eventual NCAA Champion Fresno State. The Sun Devils suffered heavy losses to one of the best 2008 lineups. Brett Wallace and Ike Davis were the biggest names to make the jump into minor league baseball where Wallace has already seen much success. The best returning hitter for the Sun Devils is Jason Kipnis and the top pitcher is Mike Leake. Read the rest of this entry »

Jim Morris looks to lead Miami (FL) back to Omaha

Rivals.com continues their Top 25 countdown today with the Miami (FL) Hurricanes checking in at the 23rd spot. Last year, Miami (FL) was ranked in the Top 5 in the country throughout the year and held down the number 1 spot for several weeks. The season ended with a trip to the College World Series where they went 1-2 with a victory over ACC and instate rival Florida State. The Hurricanes have heavy losses in the lineup with Yonder Alonso, Jemile Weeks, Blake Tekotte, Adan Severino, Mark Sobolewski and Dennis Raben all leaving the program. The Hurricanes pitching staff looked on paper to be the strongest part of the squad but Eric Erickson ended up coming down with an arm injury which required surgery and will miss the 2009 season. Sophomore pitcher Chris Hernandez and Junior pitcher Kyle Bellamy will have to pick up the slack. Read the rest of this entry »