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By Arnie Leshin  Boom, boom, power hitter Brock Wilken kept Wake Forest from upset-minded 8th-ranked Stanford, 3-2, in Game 1 of the NCAA Division I NCAA College Baseball World Series Saturday afternoon,     Prior to that, the Cardinal stayed right in stride with a top of the heap Deamon Deacons …

By Arnie Leshin  Game 2 followed Game 1 in the late Friday afternoon with another 6-5 tight win, this one for No. 2 Florida over No. 5 Virginia in the NCAA Division I National College Baseball World Series played at Charles Schwab in Omaha, Neb.    It put the Gators …

The Gila National Forest developing a new partnership with Forest Service Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers (CCC) in a win-win for students and the forest. Students hail from the Job Corps CCCs at Oconaluftee, North Carolina; Anaconda, Montana; Frenchburg, Kentucky; Harpers Ferry, West Virginia; Nemo, South Dakota, and Timber Lake, …

By Arnie Leshin  They truly love a parade in Denver, for the year after the Colorado Avalanche marched and drove through those streets after winning the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup, it was the Nuggets turn.   But for the top-seeded Nuggets, it certainly took ages, for their NBA title …

By Arnie Leshin  Overall records, brackets mean very little when the NCAA Division I National College Baseball World Series rolls in Friday and Saturday at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Neb.    First take a glance at the overall records. No. 1 Wake Forest leads the way at 52-10, and …

By Arnie Leshin  It was great to meet up with Bobby Meacham again, but I remembered not to mention the late George Steinbrenner again, but he didn’t.     I covered 15 years of Major League baseball, the New York Yankees in fact from 1979 to 1987, and Meacham played all …

By Arnie Leshin  For two teams that battled away in what became a 3-game series to decide who is headed to the NCAA Division I National College Baseball World Series, it certainly ended in an unbelievable way.    After Texas won Game 1, 7-5, at Stanford’s Klein Field in Sunken Diamond, …

By Arnie Leshin  The news broke on Friday. Oklahoma’s All-America softball pitcher Jordy Bahl, so familiar with the short ride from Norman to Oklahoma City for the Women’s College World Series, has decided to transfer to her home state of Nebraska.   The Lincoln campus is an hour’s drive from …

By Arnie Leshin  Unbelievable, down 8-0 before its home crowd in Eugene, scrapy Oregon is now one win away from reaching the College Baseball Division I World Series for the first time since 1954, and all it took was the biggest comeback in NCAA Super Regional history.    Not only …

By Arnie Leshin  The final curtain closed Thursday night on No. 1 Oklahoma’s historic record-breaking softball season. It was after a two-game sweep over 3rd-ranked Florida State University, the clincher at 3-1 at Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City.    And to no one’s surprise, In the circle and …