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Everything in the 2024 college baseball season leads up to the next 3 weeks. The Beavers fell short of the Pac-12 title but will have an opportunity to make that a footnote in this season’s storyline starting with a regional in front of Beaver Nation at a ballpark in which they have gone 24-2 this season. There is plenty of potential for offense, with all four teams bringing offensive firepower, and the weather for the first two days should...
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And they are INCREDIBLE. It’s not often you see an athletics department able to respond to criticism in a 48 hour timeline. It’s practically unheard of with jersey reveals. But that’s what Baylor did with the reveal of their anthracite alternate uniforms:
Long awaited, highly anticipated #SicEm pic.twitter.com/3lpPxaEiaw — Baylor Football (@BUFootball) May 30, 2024
While some fans are upset with the base uniforms lacking elements unique to ...
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Baylor reveals three new football uniforms for the 2024 season, with a fourth teased from the shadows! The new Baylor Football uniforms for the 2024 season have been revealed after a week of hype which began with this ominous post:
5.28.24 #SicEm pic.twitter.com/shV0PVxQFi — Baylor Football (@BUFootball) May 21, 2024
Eagle-eyed fans noted that it seemed like Baylor was wearing new uniforms in the recent trailer for the ...
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The Oregon State Baseball team got off to a slow start at the Pac-12 tournament, dropping the opener to freshman Joey Volchko and a Stanford club that got hot in pool play. That was enough to put the Beavers on the back foot of tiebreaker math and led to an early flight back to Corvallis.
Fortunately, the regular season resume was enough for OSU to earn the #15 overall national seed in the tournament that truly matters, and the Beavers wi...
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ASU finally has its AD after over 170 days The future of Arizona State athletics gained a little more clarity with the promotion of Graham Rossini, who was promoted to Athletic Director.
Rossini, an alumni of Arizona State, was currently serving as the Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director and Chief Business Officer in the program. In that role, he oversaw departments like ticket sales, philanthropy, NIL, partnerships, fan experie...
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Arizona State couldn’t overcome the big inning in one-run loss SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.— In the final Pac-12 baseball tournament in the conference’s history, Arizona State (32-24, 17-13 Pac-12) looked to capture the opener against a Stanford (20-32, 11-19 Pac-12) a team whom they swept just two weeks ago for the first time at Sunken Diamond since 2016.
Winners of 16 of their last 20 games, head coach Willie Bloomquist had the Devils trend...
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The regular season title passed over Brady Kasper’s head in the desert night on Sunday, but the Beavers have a chance to take home a title and potentially a top 8 national seed in the NCAA Tournament that would keep them in Corvallis for the first two rounds. That opportunity starts for OSU at 10:00 AM PT on Wednesday as they start pool play in the third and final iteration of the Pac-12 Baseball Tournament.
The games are kicking off as we speak thi...
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As you’re reading Off the Bench Baseball, I surely don’t need to tell you who or what Shohei Ohtani is. Yet, for clarifications sake, let’s take a moment to be sure we’re all starting the following discussion on the same page: Coming into the 2024 season, the 29-year-old Ohtani has a Rookie of the Year […]
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Series Recap
Thursday & Friday - The Beavers did everything they needed to do in the first two games, blowing out the Wildcats to the tune of 25-3 over Friday and Saturday to secure the series. You can read write ups of Thursday’s game here , and Friday’s game here . Those results set up the series finale as a winner-take-all matchup for the Pac-12 regular season title.
Saturday - That matchup lived up to the billing on Saturday. Arizona struck first...
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Oregon State’s hitting and pitching both put in dominant games in one of the Beavers biggest wins of the season. Thursday’s 9-2 win over the Wildcats was a good way for Oregon State , but no one would have been surprised if Arizona bounced back in game 2 to make the series interesting. That didn’t happen Friday night, as Oregon State exploited an error prone Arizona team for one of their biggest blowouts of the season. The 16-1 win moves the Beavers 4...
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ASU became only the fifth program to fail to reach the NCAA Championships after earning no.1 seed RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. — The hottest team in college golf saw its season come to a close early.
Having won three of their last four regular season tournaments, including the Cabo Collegiate , the Thunderbird Collegiate and the last-ever Pac-12 Championship , which was the program’s first since 2008, Arizona State men’s golf seemed poised ...
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On May 16, 2024, Diamond Sports, LLC, doing business as Rimas Sports, initiated a federal lawsuit against the Major League Baseball Players Association in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. A Verified Complaint and Motion for Temporary Restraining Order (TRO)/Preliminary Injunction were filed. One day later, the Court denied the request […]
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Oregon State needs to sweep the Wildcats to win the conference, and they got off to a great start. Headed into the final series of the regular season, the 14th ranked Arizona Wildcats led the 6th ranked Oregon State Beavers by a game and a half in the Pac-12 Standings. That lead is now down to just half a game as the Beavers crushed Arizona 9-2 to move to 40-12 overall and 18-9 in the conference.
6 Beavers finished with 2 hits Thur...
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The season couldn’t be farther off, but we’re always thinking about hoops. 1. UCONN Huskies
Someone is going to have to knock UCONN off their perch before the Huskies hand over the title as college basketball’s best program. Dan Hurley’s crew was decimated by departures, but incoming transfer Aidan Mahaney (Saint Mary’s) and five-star recruit Liam McNeeley should cushion the blow. Some players will just have to make a huge leap for a potential th...
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It’s a SoCal showdown for the title of Pacific Division Champion.
The Ontario Reign are taking on the best team in the Pacific Division as they continue their quest for the Calder Cup. This will be their toughest test yet as they take on a team that always plays them close and was the regular season division winner. The Coachella Valley Firebirds are stacked with talent and are backstopped by a former NHL veteran who has made a lot of clutch saves in key situations. The Reign swept t...
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Homegrown talent is staying in the valley Kenny Dillingham has hit big at home once again, landing the commitment of Saguaro high school (Scottsdale) defensive back Dajon Hinton.
The three-star defensive back is the fourth highest-ranked recruit in the Sun Devils’ 2025 class. Hinton is the sixth-ranked player in Arizona and the third ranked corner in the state for his class. Nationally, he’s the 67th ranked in the position group.
Hinton’...
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Orange Lutheran high school products to join ASU The class of 2025 has been off to a roaring start with head coach Kenny Dillingham, despite facing some adversity in the portal. ASU recently landed tight end AJ la and linebacker Benjamin Alefaio, both hailing from Orange Lutheran High School in Orange, California.
Ia committed to Arizona State after his visit on April 26, announcing his decision on social media. A three-star recruit out of Orange Luthera...
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The five-star center will join Hurley and ASU in the Big 12 Sun Devil fans woke up to a “Woj bomb” on Monday morning.
ESPN’s senior NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski announced that five-star center Jayden Quaintance committed to Arizona State. The post on X, formerly Twitter, has received over three million impressions, making it perhaps the biggest news break for ASU in recent memory — and rightfully so.
Quaintance is the highest-...
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ASU captured its 13th conference title CAREFREE, Ariz. — Arizona State men’s golf made the last-ever Pac-12 Conference Championship one to remember.
The Sun Devils captured the program’s 13th team title in convincing fashion, winning by 16 strokes and shooting a 27-over (368-365-362-352/1447) at Desert Forest Golf Club. ASU was the only team to shoot under par in the final round (3-under). ASU now holds five more Pac-10/12 conference titles than the next closest U...
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The Tucson Roadrunners season ended earlier than many of us anticipated. After falling to the Calgary Wranglers in a best-of-three first-round series in the Calder Cup Playoffs, much of the teams’ future remains shrouded in mystery.
Back when reports were first emerging about the Arizona Coyotes’ pending move to Salt Lake City, additional reports were coming out about the future of the club’s AHL franchise. Then, a source reached out to me and said the plan, internally, was indeed to move...
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No Mi Casita this time This morning it was reported that Baylor’s co-associate head coach Alvin Brooks III would be leaving to become the associate head coach on Mark Pope’s staff at Kentucky. This news comes after Kentucky tried and failed to hire Scott Drew for their head coaching vacancy and after other members of Drew’s staff left including the other co-associate head coach, John Jakus, who is now the head coach at Florida Atlantic.
Vacancies lef...
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Mid-April has arrived, and the whiteout returns to Arizona! That’s right, playoff hockey is back. Today, the Tucson Roadrunners begin their journey to win the AHL’s coveted Calder Cup Championship. They are set to start this postseason campaign against the Calgary Wranglers.
To get you Arizona hockey fans up to date here is everything you need to know about this year’s AHL Playoffs.
Guaranteed Whiteout
The Tucson Roadrunners finished second in the Pacific Division this year, jus...
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Roach may be the #1 PG available this offseason. Scott Drew and the Baylor Bears made a big splash on the Transfer Portal market a few minutes ago, landing the commitment of Duke PG Jeremy Roach per an announcement on his Instagram page. From Twitter (because I can’t embed Instagram posts the same way):
BREAKING: Duke transfer guard Jeremy Roach has committed to Baylor, he tells @On3sports . https://t.co/x1N98JCxHq pic.twitter.com/054cQf9T6r — Jo...
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New year, same story, still hoping for a different ending.
Deeply concerning defensive lapses aside to the second worst team in the NHL this year and nearly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, the Los Angeles Kings, with the help of the Vegas Golden Knights not showing up to their game against the Anaheim Ducks, managed to solidify their standing of 3rd place in the Pacific Division, giving them, for the third straight year, the Edmonton Oilers as their playoff opponent.
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