college baseball: duke @ unc, march ’11

Four. We only made one game of the three in the series that we had tickets for, yesterday’s 11-2 UNC win. Circumstances, and weather. It feels like December here, cold winds and cold temperatures and cold rain, though it’s almost April. I’m sluggish and restless today, but freezing to death watching baseball wasn’t the answer,…

college baseball: miami @ wake forest

Three. One of those rare non-Carolina ACC game for me. Austin Stadler Nuke-LaLooshed it up, Bryan Radziewski and poor eyes at the plate confounded Wake into only four hits, and it was basically not a very good game that Miami won 4-1. It was a beautiful night, though, and Wake Forest offers chili and slaw…

basketball: unc @ duke

shep. and I went to the Carolina/Duke women’s game at Duke on Sunday night, with Ash and Ash’s dad, and it was, as always, fascinating to me. Cameron is always an Experience with a capital e — I have no idea what to make of it, it’s just An Experience. It wasn’t a great game,…

fb: miami @ duke

Football photos taken by amateurs all look like big piles of laundry, but I did get shots of two guys crossing the goal lines; one for each team. And it’s always lovely to sit outside in the sun on a beautiful fall afternoon with good company.

happy football!

It seem that somehow, some way, the rumor that LSU fans smell like corn dogs has swept through the Auburn faithful. Aside from being absolutely hilarious, the accusation makes LSU fans furious. “I’m telling you,” Rowder says, “if you walk up to any LSU fan and you smell them and then step back and say,…

chicks dig the long ball

Dear Nice Person Who Has This Week Repeatedly Googled For The Brand Of Baseball Bat That The UNC Baseball Team Uses: Let me tell you what, after three years of concerted Baseball America podcast listening, I can recite the DeMarini Demo House and Easton buy-a-baseball-bat-from-us jingles along with John Manuel whenever I hear them. The DeMarini…

baseball: va tech @ unc

Twenty six and twenty seven. The Heels sent seniors Ryan Graepel, Mike Cavisinni and Colin Bates (a redshirt junior who graduated in May) off with a resounding series sweep of Virginia Tech this weekend. Bittersweet because we’re still out of the ACC tournament thanks to Georgia Tech failing to get it done in sweeping BC,…

baseball: unc @ duke, game two

baseball: unc @ duke, game two, originally uploaded by minervacat. Twenty five. (Albeit without a new photo, because I went out without a battery in the camera last night, like a complete moron. This one’s from early March.) If you’d told me two years ago that I would get a little vapoury when Matt Harvey…

baseball: wake forest @ unc, game 2

baseball: wake forest @ unc, game 2, originally uploaded by minervacat. Twenty three. A large part of Carolina’s problems this season can be linked to the fact that, before yesterday, they hadn’t won a game on a Saturday since March 20. It’s nice to go into Sunday knowing that you’ve already taken the series, and…

baseball: uva @ duke

baseball: uva @ duke, originally uploaded by minervacat. Twenty one. A rare ACC series in which Carolina was not involved. We got a free pair of Duke tickets based on our Bulls mini-plan purchase, and they got used to see Virginia, since Carolina goes up to C’ville this year instead of having UVa at home….