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.
Ahhhh, UCLA-vs-USC for the title… what a great rivalry!
Before this best-of-three starts, can we at least check to make sure Pete Carroll is using eligible players this time?
The quirky Bruin ace was on again, holding TCU to four hits and striking out 13. Yikes.
Okay, okay, enough B.S. aside… it’s good to see the Bruins and Troja… (sorry, habit) Gamecocks will now be set to square off for the national title starting on Monday night.
On a day more befitting of an entry in the owner’s manual of a convection oven, the Bruins and the Gamecocks both survived the heat and earned their way to the championship round with wins over TCU and Clemson respectively. The temps inside of scorching-hot Rosenblatt Stadium was so bad that these two sessions saw their lowest paid attendance for a game since 1991.
So yeah, it’s not as sexy as LSU-Texas or as dynamic as Miami-Fullerton or as turnstyle-reliable as North Carolina-Arizona State, but like it or not marketing moguls, we’ve got the Bruins and the Chickens going claw-to-beak for the big brass ring.
Recent Comments:
June 27, 2010 at 4:49 pmGuy says:
Tiki, I lean toward #3 as the reason. Hopefully this "let's make it as hard as p
June 27, 2010 at 3:07 pmBulldog says:
Hey Stitch....I am sitting in a hotel room in Kansas City getting ready to atten
CWS – Day 7 in pictures
Double header elimination games day at Rosenblatt, and strangely there wasn’t much excitement to go along with it…
Coach Schlossnagle (foreground) and the Frogs break out of their huddle
A rather bland day in Rosenblatt, but a thing of beauty to TCU and SC.
Even with over 20,000 fans coming through the turnstyles for each of today’s games, the one thing the ushers and security people forgot to let into the stadium today was a sense of excitement. But that wasn’t a problem for TCU or South Carolina, who squashed any form of excitement with dominating mound work.
Michael Roth was a study in resplendency for Carolina, giving the Cocks just what they needed.
For the first time since 1988, the first year of bracket play at the College World Series, both brackets will go to a seventh “if necessary” game on Saturday. That’s because both TCU and South Carolina were able to avoid elimination in a pair of games that had as much intrigue and mystery as a box factory.
Matt Purke and Michael Roth both put on surprising performances, for different reasons, as the Horned Frogs and Gamecocks took all the mystery out of these games today, and that being in quick fashion.
Welcome to the Easton Invitational
Jackie Bradley Jr. strikes a halleluia pose after scoring the winning run in the 12th inning tonight.
Okay, first, that was a huge, clutch, cocksure performance by South Carolina to beat OU 3-2 in 12 innings. Man, those elimination games are a panic! Wow. Just, wow.
But here’s the other thing, guys. This site is sponsored by Easton. So please excuse me if I quickly point out that all four of the remaining schools at the College World Series are Easton schools. I’m not gonna mince words here, they all play with best technology in their bats and in their equipment they use. That’s the common thread between them all, assuring us for the third year in a row, an Easton-sponsored team will hoist the trophy over their shoulders.
And before you start calling me a company shill, I thought I’d go ahead and remind you all at this time that Easton also seems to care about college baseball more than just about any corporate entity in the world. Hey, that’s why I’m here and why you’re reading this right now on this outlet.
Now, that being said, let’s take a quick look at Carolina’s remarkable win tonight in Rosenblatt.
CWS – Days 4 and 5 in pictures
I skipped a day, so here you go people, enjoy…
One of the TCU assistant coaches gives his kid a free ride after the win over Florida State.
Well, I asked for some excitement. Then things went Frog wild.
All hail Matt Curry, the conquerer of empires!
Oh come on… are you REALLY gonna go watch a three-day tennis match? Or suffer arduously through 90+ minutes of a scoreless soccer game? Gah! Get me out of that misery.
And leave it to TCU.
A few days ago, the Frogs forged one of the more exciting moments of the CWS so far when they scored some late runs on a bases loaded triple against Gerrit Cole of UCLA back in round two. Tonight the Frogs faced another bases-juiced situation in front of one of the louder crowds I’d ever heard in all my years of games at Rosenblatt.
This time, Matt Curry delivered. Dare I say… big-freakin-time!
10 reasons why this has been the worst CWS.
As I alluded to at the end of my Day 4 entry, as CWS years go, this has been one of the more frustrating ones ever. And as Guy, one of my faithful readers, pointed out, I know that’s like looking a gift horse in the mouth because a lot of you out there ARE sitting at work all day instead of being here in Omaha for the last go-round at Rosenblatt. But when you go to this event year after year, I’m of the mindset that it’s okay to make some observations and report the bad side too.
Make it stop. Please.
And this year more than ever, the bad side deserves to be reported.
Can I get a Palmetto “hell yeah”?
It was high times for the state of South Carolina today in Omaha.
Sam Dyson was giving ASU the evil eye all day long with his solid start.
The Gamecocks sent some small shockwaves through the college baseball community with the afternoon elimination of top-seeded Arizona State, a team that just about EVERY national writer had pegged for the title round, if not the national championship.
Then, in the nightcap, Clemson raced out to a 6-1 lead over Oklahoma in the winner’s bracket game before Mother Nature turned into a queeny bitch and did the lightning and sideways rain trick on the entire Omaha area, pushing the conclusion of the game to Wednesday afternoon.
CWS – Day 3 in pictures
Remember, the College World Series is a marathon, not a sprint. And believe me, Day 3 REALLY felt like a marathon. Three games in one day and temps in the 90s to boot. Not an easy day at the ballpark. But here are some images from it anyway.
Gerrit Cole's performance against TCU was so good, I had to start this photo montage with another shot of him.
Frogs succumb to King Cole, but the ACC rules.
UCLA's Gerrit Cole proved why more 1st round draft picks should go to college instead of hopping on buses in the minors.
After his tour de force performance for the Bruins tonight, ace Gerrit Cole puts the rest of the CWS field on full notice that these Bruins can pitch their butts off. And strike your butt out.
Eric Sorenson says:
Thanks for the comment TikiOwl. Sorry you guys didn't make it to the O this year