About Eric Sorenson
After growing up in Omaha, Nebraska and skinning his knees on the concrete walkways of Rosenblatt Stadium, Eric has had college baseball in his veins for as long as he can remember. When the College World Series was going on each June, his parents would drop him and his friends off at the stadium in the morning and pick them up after the last game that night. Poor parenting? Sure. But it also fueled his fever for the sport that much more.
Eschewing the normal journalistic road to sports writing, Eric has been an advertising copywriter for years. He admits that creative background has added to his unconventional approach to sports writing and is a main contributor to his unique style.
Eric’s “addiction” to college baseball writing began back in the late 90s, when he became one of the original national writers for the sport. In the years that followed, he has covered college baseball for such media outlets as USA Today, CSTV, CBS Sportsline, CBS College Sports, College Baseball Insider and his current gig with College Baseball Today.
Living in Southern California with his wife Mandy, Eric sits in one of the hotbeds of college baseball. When he’s not covering a game or writing about the sport, he enjoys surfing, snow skiing, playing hockey and rough-housing with his black lab “T.O.” Eric was also 7th runner-up in “The Most Interesting Man In the World” competition held by Dos Equis in 2009.
A Supers preview and a bit on the Nebraska/Big 10 thing
A lot has changed in the last 48 hours or so for college sports. And I’ll have a few things about that below. But before that, we know one thing is for certain, this week’s Super Regionals are going to go off without a hitch and the chase for bids to Omaha are going to be some kind of wonderful.
So let’s get you started on this baseball weekend with a quick look-see at the eight Super Regionals.
Recent Comments:
June 11, 2010 at 5:44 pmAl-D says:
I'll be at the Gainesville super tonight, can barely wait. With the supers week
June 11, 2010 at 4:35 pmThe Lemonhead says:
The Big 10 could get even better if Missouri or Notre Dame were to be added. Bot
The President is a Stitch-Head too.
Baracketology: Here I am helping the President fill out his NCAA Baseball tournament bracket.
Forgot to tell you guys, on my way back from Tennessee, I had to make a quick trip to D.C. to do the official executive branch picks for the NCAA baseball tournament brackets. He’s got Texas winning it all.
Now let’s get on with our Regional snapshot here.
Ark. State and Fla. Atlantic get the treats. WKU goes home with a rock.
Here in the ‘Boro today, ASU and FAU got the big winner’s bracket wins and move into Friday’s action needing just one win to advance to the title game on Saturday.
Some teams have already seen their post-season hopes hit the freakin' wall this week.
Western Kentucky got run out of town with a 7-3 loss to Florida International, prompting their coach to spew that his team “did not deserve” to play in the NCAA tournament – when’s the last time you heard a bubble team’s coach say THAT?
Elsewhere, it was a day of records around the country. And by the way, if you’re reading this first thing Saturday morning, can you go ahead and check to see if Wichita State and Evansville are still playing? Thanks.
Thursday Thoughts, part 2
With conference tournaments starting up next week, most conferences across the country got an early start on their three-day weekends to allow for an extra day of rest.
Florida International's Garrett Wittels extended his hitting streak to 46 games on Thursday night.
Here’s a rundown of the best and worst of Thursday’s action on the diamond.
The Weekend Preview
A lot of NCAA tournament talk. A lot of conference tournament talk. A lot of RPI talk. In other words, it's starting to look a lot like Christmas... for junkies like you and I.
Quick apology here. I’m too tired to write anything funny or pithy or clever here. Just do me a favor and click here to go to my ESPN Weekend Preview. I think you’ll dig it, though long-winded it may be.
Have a good college baseball weekend Stitch-Heads out there. I’ll be sure to add my two cents every night so you’ll have some fresh propaganda to read in the morning.
The ESPN College Baseball Weekend Preview
The ESPN college baseball weekend preview, part deaux. This time, it's personal.
All my life, all I’ve ever wanted to do was make former ESPN Sports Center anchor woman Gayle Gardner proud of me.
The poofy hair. The padded shoulders. The garish, oversized clothing. The talon-like fingernails. I miss her. Hopefully, she is watching my career pursuits as earnestly as I watched hers in the mid-80s and she is welling with pride as I am now a fellow employee at the monster sports enterprise known as ESPN and making the same salary as she was… okay Gayle, I’m kidding about that part.
But Gayle, if you’re out there… click here and read my ESPN.com college baseball weekend preview. Tell your friends to read my weekend preview. Then be sure to leave a comment on there to let those ESPNers know that the college baseball community at large is glad they are using original content on their site and giving our beloved sport a little more attention.
And Gayle. Please come back soon. When it comes to female sports anchors, Hannah Storm and Linda Cohn can’t hold your jock strap. And I mean that in the most flattering way possible.
ESPN: Eric Sorenson’s Propaganda Network
Hey Stitch-Heads. Do me a small favor. I’ve been lucky enough to be tapped by ESPN.com to start doing weekend previews for them. So this week’s preview can be found by clicking here.
I’m very stoked to see that ESPN is serious about doing more original content for college baseball on their site now. In fact, if you guys want to click on the column as many times as possible – and tell your friends and family to do so too – just to make sure ESPN knows that there are a LOT of people that care about college baseball out there, well, I’m not going to be against you doing so.
Thank you April. Keep the change.
Johannes Heraclitus, apparently praying for change.
This is my tribute to Johannes Heraclitus, the ancient Greek philosopher. He was the one man smart enough in the year 500 BC that decreed the doctrine that change was central to the universe and the only thing that endures in this world of ours.
Guess what, same goes for college baseball. April saw it’s usual dose of a heavily changing landscape with teams getting hot and moving up and teams going cold and sliding down. Heraclitus would be proud of our sport.
In the end, amidst this evolution of our 2010 season, the only thing that has stayed the same is… the RPI still blows.
Now THIS is a setting for college baseball
South Dakota State and Southern Utah battle it out at the foothills of Zion National Park.
Couldn’t help myself. Was sitting around in the warm mid-70s weather of Southern California and just plain sick of all that intense pleasantness. I had to find some weather somewhere.
So I loaded up the pooch and we struck out on a roadie to see one of the bigger off-the-grid success stories of the 2010 season as South Dakota State was playing at Southern Utah. Guess what? I got the weather I was hoping for. But the problem was, only one team showed up – and it wasn’t the off-the-grid success story.
Taking a Chants on Coastal Carolina
One of the biggest stories of the first half of the season has been Coastal Carolina’s domination of tobacco country. The Chanticleers have been sitting most of the season inside Boyd Nation’s top eight spots in the RPI, meaning they’re worthy of national seeding – so long as their schedule doesn’t drag them down from here on out.
Veni Vidi Vici. Coastal Carolina self-congratulates another solid W to its ledger.
I got the chance to catch the Chants on Wednesday night as they made quick work of North Carolina at Boshamer Stadium.
Go Gophers says:
I think it will be great to have the Huskers in the Big 10. Great school, tradi