Reviewing Reckling Park

As you might’ve seen, I didn’t do any kind of write up on the Arizona-Rice game I went to at Reckling Park on Wednesday night (won by Arizona 8-5, by the way. And I was impressed with their offense and athletic ability). I was still in the middle of working on finishing my weekend preview [...]

ESPN Weekend Preview – Week 5

Between flying to Dallas, going to the DBU game, driving to Houston, going to the Rice game and then driving to Austin, you might guess that the energy backpack I’m wearing is running a little low on juice. I mean this Thursday night feels like a Sunday morning to me… that’s how discombobulated my wits are right now. But I say “Pshaw!”, never you fear my fellow Stitch-Heads. I was still able to throw together a weekend preview. So go ahead,
click on this highlighted bit of copy and you’ll go straight to it.

More soon.

G’night

“If You’re Not A Bronco Fan, Buck Off”

Yes, I once owned a T-shirt that read that on the back, with the words “Santa Clara University” etched on the front. It was a holdover from the school’s now-defunct football program, of which one of my good friends was a coach on the staff at the time.

Well now, that T-shirt (which was not-so-shockingly reviled by the Jesuit-based school administrators) may be more apropos than ever. Only this time, it may be time to rally around the Bronco baseball team. I found out why tonight.

Right now, while you are steeped in misery or hating life for one reason or another, the Santa Clara baseball players are having the time of their lives. And what's even better? They're winning their asses off too.

ESPN Weekend No. 4 Preview

The official sponsor of my Weekend Preview video. Is that cool or what?

A Walter Villa feature, the Upset Watch, Mid-Major Spotlight, and best of all, Jim Beam Whiskey the sponsor bumper that plays before my video kicks in. I raise my tumbler in full salute. Click on this highlighted line for the ESPN weekend preview.

Facing My Demons

I am stepping into the exorcism suit. I’ve got my black suit with the white collar and the black fedora. I’ve got my holy water and the good book. I’m ready to face the devil. The spinning heads. The pea green soup barf. The foul smell. The spinning head of Linda Blair. I’m ready to face my demons.

Yes, I get Emails. All the time. Most of ‘em are complimentary, though admittedly a lot of them are to correct something I got wrong. And yes, I even get Emails that are angry birds… to which I usually give the bird back to them.

But for the first time ever, I thought I’d start answering a few Email and twitter questions every other Thursday when I’ve got time to do so, maybe even make it a regular feature. So here I go.

ESPN Weekend Preview – Week 3

I’m pretty fired up about this week’s Weekend Preview on ESPN.com that I helped put together. And yes, heavy emphasis on the “helped” part because there are some outstanding (and I don’t use hyperbole often) contributions from my man Walter Villa writing about Florida Atlantic, from D1baseball.com guru Jeremy Mills talking some boxscore bingo and from GatorsNation writer Michael DiRocco on the Florida-Miami series.

So check out the latest ESPN garb, click here for the star-studded weekend preview.

It Was THAT Kind of Day for BYU

Still a day away from game one of the Texas-Stanford series, so I decided to get my wanderlust on and head over to see the first-ever game for BYU in the West Coast Conference. The Cougars were taking on St. Mary’s in the lovely hamlet of Moraga, where, unfortunately for Big Love U., everything went the Gaels’ way.

The 1st ESPN Weekend Preview

Okay bros and foes. We’re really close to first pitch. THISCLOSE. “Giddy” ain’t descriptive enough of a word, man. In the words of George Clinton, let’s tear the roof off this sucker.

In the meantime, here is the first ESPN preview of the season. Great contributions from Walter Villa, as usual, and also a bit on Alabama’s pitching corps from Alex Scarborough from TideNation (hard to believe he was able to write this column considered he’s still spinning wildly with bliss over the football team’s national title and recruiting bonanza).

Wanna check out the weekend preview? Then just go put your little cursor here, click your mouse and you’ll be given the keys to the kingdom. Long live your reign Stitch-Heads.

The Not-The-Same-Ole-Preview College World Series Preview

Ahhhhh, here it comes again, the endorphin rush of the College World Series. You ready for it? Or better yet, are the eight teams ready for it? This is where the rubber hits the road and we find out. And you don’t need to be reminded that it’s not always the best team that wins it, right?

Yep, you knew that.

The "Big Tiddy" is ready to open her arms to the college baseball world.

Let’s get this thing started.

Twas the Night Before Christmas

As you guys know, this night before the Regionals always brings me back to my childhood, which I’ve never grown out of, of course. This is the night before the round of 64 gets their gloves on, lace up the cleats and start swinging their Easton bats… well, the champion teams will, that is. (Ha, had to throw that in. Sorry.)

Waking up in the Pacific time zone means I’ll wake up as the early games out East are throwing their first pitches of the post-season. So, as you’d imagine, I’m excited as a little girl as to get this started. And that right soon.