The University of South Carolina baseball team is returning to Omaha for the third consecutive year – seeking its third straight national championship.
The two-time defending champs defeated Oklahoma 5-1 on Monday in the continuation of a weather-delayed tilt from Sunday to punch their ticket to the 2012 College World Series – extending their NCAA postseason [...]
Omaha Bound!
ESPN’s PC Addiction Strikes Again
An ESPN college football anchor is the latest employee to fall victim to “The Network’s” addiction to political correctness.
On Saturday evening, ESPN News anchor Todd Grisham referred to the No. 3 Oklahoma Sooners loss to Texas Tech in football as a “trail of tears.”
“It’s a trail of tears in Oklahoma!” Grisham exclaimed as a video [...]
CWS: Carolina Beats Clemson, Forces Deciding Game
By FITSNews || South Carolina relief pitcher Michael Roth pitched a complete game three-hitter against Clemson on Friday night, leading the Gamecocks to a 5-1 victory over the Tigers and forcing a deciding rematch between the arch-rivals on Saturday in Omaha.
What’s at stake? Only a trip to the championship round of the College World Series [...]
Oklahoma: We Rebuffed The SEC
By FITSNews || The University of Oklahoma rejected invitations to join the Southeastern Conference and the PAC-10 during the most recent NCAA reshuffling, according to the school’s president David Boren.
The Sooners were invited to join the SEC along with Texas A&M – but Boren said that the offer wasn’t seriously considered because the SEC declined [...]
CWS: Clemson Hangs On To Beat Oklahoma
By FITSNews || Clemson University’s baseball team survived a one-day rain delay – and a furious Oklahoma rally – to win its second consecutive game at the College World Series in Omaha on Wednesday.
Clemson was leading Oklahoma 6-1 on Tuesday when inclement weather struck – thwarting the momentum built up by a potent Tiger offense [...]
CWS: Clemson Hangs On To Beat Arizona State
By FITSNews || Clemson University’s baseball team got the jump on top-seeded Arizona State at the College World Series in Omaha on Monday – and then held on to notch a 6-3 victory over the favored Sun Devils. The Tigers (43-23) used a fourteen-hit onslaught to defeat Arizona State (52-8) in a game that was [...]
Bama V. Texas … When Right Is Wrong
Although Texas Christian, Cincinnati and Boise State all have legitimate gripes, the hated Bowl Championship Series got it right this year … which, when you think about it, is precisely the problem.
By successfully matching up the No. 1 and No. 2 football programs in the nation, the computer algorithm actually worked (for a change) – [...]
Bull Championshit
The fact that college football’s corporate-sponsored, computer-generated Bowl Championship Series is devoid of any redeeming competitive value hasn’t been a secret to anybody since the format’s inception ten years ago.
Each year, there are multiple mind-numbing controversies about which two teams should ultimately square off in the title game, and while that’s burdensome enough, it’s really [...]
Immigration Irony
ALL THAT PANDERING COULD BE FOR NOTHING
FITSNews – June 8, 2008 – On the same day that S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford signed the “nation’s toughest” immigration reform bill into law, a federal judge in Oklahoma tossed out similar employer verification standards which were included in that state’s immigration reform bill, which proponents also referred to [...]
