Sports and Nattering Nabobs
After reading back through my previous entries, I have been a nattering nabob of negativity. I will attempt to be much more positive for the remainder.
I have failed in my sports reporting duties here. To make up for that, I thought I'd do a quick search of the sports news sites to find the progress of UH during the C-USA tournament. I could find nothing on the major sources I usually depend on -- EPSN, SI, and Yahoo sports. Instead, I had to go to the UH athletics site. Further proof that college baseball gets no respect.
UH had a good run through the C-USA tournament making it to the semifinals, and utlimately brought their season record above .500. But I'm not sure a semifinal appearance in the tournament will be enough to get them into post-season play, but they finished strong.
As for the Big 12, OSU had a great run through the tournament by making it to the finals against an unlikely Missouri team this afternoon. They should be favored, but that hasn't meant much in this tournament. First-year OSU coach Frank Anderson has done a great job bringing back the tradition of OSU baseball. I hope to see it continue.
The Texas losses were surprising, but the team was hurt by conduct suspensions. I was glad to see the coach holding key players accountable for their infractions.
However, the biggest flameout of the Big 12 tournament was OU, who ended up getting run-ruled by 6th-seeded Baylor. I would make a comment about OU coach Larry Cochell's post-game comments, but I'm trying to keep this positive.
But the biggest story out of OU athletics during the past two weeks would have to be the success of the OU softball team, who made it to the Women's College World Series tournament by beating 1st-seeded Arizona at Arizona. Even though the softball team ended up being eliminated from the WCWS, they deserve credit for making it to the tournament.
Posted by David Hamby @ 05/30/04 16:13 | Sports | Technorati
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