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USA Today
11 hours ago
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- USA Today
Watch a softball pitcher obliterate a dirt clump mid-strike
Watch a softball pitcher obliterate a dirt clump mid-strike An Oregon softball pitcher completely destroyed a poor, unsuspecting dirt clump mid-strike during the Women's College World Series. On Friday, Ducks softball pitcher Lyndsey Grein pulled out a pitch during a 6-5 walkoff win over the Ole Miss Rebels that probably only happens in the movies. Everything was seemingly status quo for postseason softball until a rare sequence of events. In the top of the ninth inning, Oregon catcher Emma Cox appeared to react after a pitch from Grein just as the umpire called a strike following a 3-0 count, immediately grabbing for her eye. Cox came out of her stance and bent over on the ground, visibly shaken up. A slow-motion replay showed that Grein blasted a dirt clump (mid-air!) and the particles went flying, hitting Cox in the eye. Apparently, during her delivery, Grein caught some dirt from the field in her cleat, and when she went airborne to deliver the strike, she nailed the piece of dirt. It happened so fast that the only way to see it happening was via instant replay. Thankfully, Cox was okay and was able to finish the game. "I thought it was dirt from my glove that must have hit me," Cox explained the day after the win. "And I was like, OK, whatever. And then the umpire was like, 'No, it was a bug that flew into it, and then the ball hit you, or the bug hit you in the face.'" "I didn't believe it until I saw the video," she a world.
USA Today
5 days ago
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- USA Today
4-star DL Deuce Geralds sets official visit to Oregon Ducks
4-star DL Deuce Geralds sets official visit to Oregon Ducks The Oregon Ducks have done a great job of recruiting nationally over the past decade, and it's showcased in a roster that features players from the northeast, south, midwest, and west coast. On Wednesday, it came out that Oregon is in a good spot to land another player from far away — 4-star DL Deuce Geralds, an elite player from Suwanee, Georgia. Geralds stands at 6-foot-3, 265 pounds, and is rated by the 247Sports Composite as the No. 73 player in the 2026 class, and No. 9 DL. He announced his official visit schedule on Wednesday and will be heading out to Eugene on June 13. Geralds will also take official visits to the LSU Tigers, Ole Miss Rebels, and Ohio State Buckeyes. That will be a massive weekend for Dan Lanning and his team, with elite players like 5-star QB Ryder Lyons, 5-star S Jett Washington, and 5-star CB Elbert Hill all in town as well. Contact/Follow @Ducks_Wire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Oregon Ducks news, notes, and opinions.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Major College Football Program Lands Third Transfer Portal QB
The transfer portal continues to be an evolving aspect of college football, with many programs using it as an extremely valuable option when trying to put together a roster of talented players. One team that's been especially active is the Ole Miss Rebels, led by a head coach who has received a total of 32 commitments this offseason for a group that ranks No. 2 in the SEC and No. 3 in the nation, per On3. Advertisement Despite much of the movement surrounding the portal starting to cool down, they made another addition on Wednesday in the form of quarterback Shawqi Itraish, who has been with the Rice Owls since 2022. As Pete Nakos of On3 also reports, this marks the third quarterback that Ole Miss has added through the portal during the spring cycle, joining Maealiuaki Smith and Trinidad Chambliss. During his time with Rice, Itraish's role has been extremely limited, appearing in just eight games and completing 24-of-45 passes for 216 yards, zero touchdowns, six interceptions and a 67 passing efficiency rating. Advertisement Coming out of high school in the 2022 recruiting class, he didn't receive much attention from top programs as On3 Industry Rankings placed him as a three-star recruit, the No. 105 quarterback and the No. 1,580 player in the nation. Former Rice Owls quarterback Shawqi Itraish, now with the Ole Miss Rebels. Sean Thomas-Imagn Images However, based on his past performance and lack of experience, it's not expected that Itraish will be joining Ole Miss with the idea of seeing much playing time and will rather fill in as a backup. That's especially true considering that former four-star recruit in the class of 2023, Austin Simmons, is expected to be the Rebels' starter to open the season. Related: Georgia, Kirby Smart Receive Big Update on Nation's No. 1 Recruit
USA Today
20-05-2025
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- USA Today
Re-ranking the 16 teams to make the NCAA Softball Tournament Super Regionals
Re-ranking the 16 teams to make the NCAA Softball Tournament Super Regionals After the regional round has come and gone, the field is set for the super regionals, one of the best weekends in the college sports calendar. 16 teams will face off on campus sites across the country. Four teams knocked off host teams, highlighted by Liberty's upset of No. 1 Texas A&M. It's a star-studded field with each of the National Player of the Year finalists, NiJaree Canady, Jordy Bahl, and Bri Ellis, leading their teams to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The field also includes winners of every Women's College World Series national title dating back to 2012. Additionally, every team that has made it to the final in the last five tournaments is still alive on super regional weekend. With 16 teams still standing, here's how Sooners Wire ranks the field. The Georgia Bulldogs earned an upset win, beating the host Duke twice to become regional champions. The Bulldogs are No. 88 in the nation in team batting average and No. 103 in team ERA. Despite the stats, they just get it done. 15. Liberty Flames Liberty made history over the weekend, becoming the first team to knock off a No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament when they beat the Texas A&M Aggies. Liberty will have another tough matchup against Oregon, but when you beat No. 1, you get some love. 14. Oregon Ducks Oregon might have won the regional but their pitching got lit up by Stanford. The Cardinal were one of the best hitting teams in the nation in 2025 and they took it to the Ducks. Next up, they'll take on a Liberty team that outscored the No. 1 overall seed. Oregon is top 10 in the nation in batting average and ERA. 13. Ole Miss Rebels The Ole Miss Rebels took two of three from the host Arizona Wildcats to emerge as regional champions. The Rebels received a huge performance from Aliyah Binford who had eight RBI over the weekend. Alabama swept through the Tuscaloosa regional despite a couple of one-run games against the Virginia Tech Hokies. The Tide rank top 50 in the nation in both ERA and batting average. Can they repeat their performance from the regular season when they took two of three from the Sooners? 11. South Carolina Gamecocks South Carolina allowed just two runs in the Columbia regional, outscoring their opponents 16-2. Sam Gress didn't allow a run over 8.2 innings pitched in South Carolina's final two games. 10. Clemson Tigers The Clemson Tigers are No. 16 in the nation in team ERA and No. 26 in team batting average. They were tested in a 1-0 win over Northwestern in the regional semifinal, but had little trouble elsewhere to advance. 9. Texas Tech Red Raiders If you have NiJaree Canady, you have a shot to go deep in the postseason. Canady is No. 2 in the nation in ERA and a finalist for national player of the year. Can the Red Raiders provide enough run support to make them a threat? 8. Nebraska Cornhuskers Like Canady, Jordy Bahl gives the Cornhuskers a shot to make a deep run in the postseason. She was incredible in the regional round and has the experience in the NCAA Tournament to lead the Cornhuskers to Oklahoma City. Bahl is No. 5 in the nation in batting average, has 20 home runs and 20 wins on the season, and is No. 6 in the nation in ERA. She should be the national player of the year. 7. Florida State Seminoles Florida State was pushed to an elimination game by the Auburn Tigers, but Ashton Danley and Jazzy Francik combined to shutout the Tigers in the decider to advance to a super regional matchup with Texas Tech. 6. UCLA Bruins UCLA is in the top 10 in the nation in both batting average and ERA. They advanced through the Los Angeles regional with ease, outscoring opponents 31-2. Though just the nine seed in the tournament, the Bruins are a blue blood and deserve more respect. 5. Tennessee Volunteers In any other season, Karlyn Pickens might be a finalist for Player of the Year, but that's just how good Canady and Bahl have been. But Pickens is every bit the pitcher, and Tennessee is good enough to go all the way. Just give her a bit of offense and watch her fire away. 4. Texas Longhorns Texas is No. 2 in the nation in team batting average and No. 22 in the nation in team ERA. Is this the year the Longhorns win it all? 3. Florida Gators Floria finished the regular season with a series win over Oklahoma. They built off that performance, mashing their way through the Gainesville regional, outscoring their opponents 30-6. There wasn't a hotter team in the nation than the Arkansas Razorbacks, especially after they took a five-run lead over the Sooners in the SEC Tournament semifinals. Arkansas didn't let the letdown slow them down as Bri Ellis and the Razorbacks swept through the Fayetteville regional by outscoring their opponents 28-5 and the pitching staff threw two shutouts. 1. Oklahoma Sooners Past performance has no bearing on future production, especially when Oklahoma turned over a huge part of the roster that won their fourth-straight national title last year. However, when you've won four straight titles and advanced to 15 consecutive super regional weekends, you get the benefit of the doubt until someone knocks you off. The queens stay the queens. They're relying on a young corps of players, but Gabbie Garcia and Nelly McEnroe-Marinas have proven up to the task in 2025. Contact/Follow us @SoonersWire on X, and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Oklahoma news, notes, and opinions. You can also follow John on X @john9williams.
Miami Herald
09-05-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
Ole Miss Football Preview 2025: Can Lane Kiffin's Rebuilding Rebels Make the College Football Playoff?
Seriously, how good is Lane Kiffin?I went in detail in last year's Ole Miss Preview about how everyone thinks the Rebel program is a historical powerhouse, but it's actually been totally meh over its 119 years of existence with just 64 winning seasons, coming up with ten wins or more ten has three of those ten-win seasons in his five years with the program, and they all came in the last four years. And there but for an odd home loss to Kentucky, or the gajillion interception game from Jaxson Dart in the loss to Florida, and Kiffin's Rebels would've been in the College Football Playoff. How good was last season's team? Two of the three losses were by three points, and the other by seven. Ole Miss rolled by Georgia, stuffed South Carolina, and now it'll be something Ole Miss and it's Lane Kiffin, so the transfer portal once again beefed up the talent, but the star power isn't coming in like normal, and most notably, there wasn't a high-profile talent level isn't quite the same as it was over the last few seasons, but the schedule is about as favorable as it gets for an SEC team, and Kiffin is still in College Football Playoff or bust. Kiffin is due to take the program up another notch. Ole Miss Rebels Preview 2025: Offense X CFN, Fiu | CFN Facebook | Bluesky Fiu, CFN- To keep harping on the same theme, a Lane Kiffin offense is going to be good. It'll go really fast, it'll keep defenses on their toes, and there will be times when it can't be stopped. It might not be as good as the one that finished second in the nation last season, and there are a whole lot of new starters, but it'll produce.- Is Austin Simmons ready to be the main man? The Ole Miss quarterback is a statistical-superstar position, and without and big-time transfers coming in, the mobile 6-4, 215-pounder has to be an instant star - more on him in a moment. - Simmons has a new receiving corps to work with. Cayden Lee was second on the team in receptions, and Dae'Quan Wright should shine as the main tight end, but the top five other options are new. It's a portal-heavy bunch with De'Zhaun Stribling coming in from Oklahoma State along with Harrison Wallace, a dangerous threat from Penn State.- The offensive line is filing in the parts. The depth is really young and really new, but the starting five should be okay around center Brycen Saunders and tackle Jayden Williams. Patrick Kutas (Arkansas) was one of the star gets through the portal - he can play inside or out, and Delano Townsend (UAB) should settle in at one of the guard running backs are thin on experience. Logan Diggs got one carry last year, Dominique Thomas was fifth on the team in rushing, and Kewan Lacy got in a little work last year at Missouri. Ole Miss Rebels Preview 2025: Defense - The offense gets all the attention, but the Ole Miss defense was No. 1 in the nation in sacks and tackles for loss, and 14th in total D. Unfortunately, almost all the stars are gone to the next level including tackles Walter Nolen (Arizona) and JJ Pegues (Las Vegas), linebacker Chris Paul (LA Rams), and corner Trey Amos (Washington). However, the defense has more key returning parts than the offense.- The line can't replace Nolen and Pegues, but 6-7, 320-pound Zxavian Harris is a big body on the inside, and the portal brought in the pass rushing prospects in Princewell Umanmielen (Nebraska) and Da'Shawn Womack (LSU). The problem is that the ends haven't blown up yet - they're more prospects than proven. - The linebacking corps has the star power. Suntarine Perkins and TJ Dottery might not be big, but they can move. The 210-pound Perkins led the team with 14 tackles for loss, and Dottery was second on the Rebels with 76 stops.- The secondary is undergoing one of the team's biggest overhauls. It's all about the four transfers - corners Ricky Fletcher (South Alabama) and Jaylon Braxton (Arkansas), and safeties Sage Ryan (LSU) and Kapena Gushiken (Washington State) to be terrific right away. Basically, the new guys had better work. Ole Miss Rebels Key to the Season Always score in the red a slight issue with the speedy style of Ole Miss. Inside the 20, the hurry-up factor gets negated. The Rebels scored 5-of-14 times in the red zone in the three losses, and 44-of-47 in the ten Miss had a missed field goal against Kentucky - it lost by three. It went 3-of-6 scoring in the red zone against LSU - and lost by three. And then there was the Florida debacle, coming away empty in all three trips inside the 20. Ole Miss Rebels Key Player Austin Simmons, QB transfer portal quarterbacks have rolled into Oxford under Lane Kiffin. There were a few in this round, but they're backups to the home grown guy. Simmons has to replace New York Giants savior Jaxson Dart, who replaced statistical star Matt Corral. Before the Kiffin era is was Jordan Ta'amu and Shea Patterson. Simmons has the upside to be as good as any of them, but it has to be now. Ole Miss Rebels Top Transfer, Biggest Transfer Loss Top Transfer In: Patrick Kutas, OG Rebels needed guards, and they might have grabbed the best in the transfer portal. The 6-5, 315-pounder from Arkansas has tackle size, and he can move - making him the ideal guard for the Rebel Transfer Out: Micah Pettus, OT Ole Miss line should be okay, but it would've been really, really nice if the 6-7, 350-pounder was still around as an option for one of the tackle gigs. Instead he's blocking at Florida State now. Ole Miss Rebels Key Game at Georgia, Oct. 18Everything else is manageable. However, even with a favorable slate, it's asking a lot to beat Georgia two years in a row, and this one's in Athens. Win, and ten wins could be a must. Lose, and the date at Oklahoma the following week becomes more interesting.- 2025 Ole Miss Rebels Schedule Breakdown Ole Miss Rebels Top 10 Players 1. Suntarine Perkins, LB Jr.2. TJ Dottery, LB Jr.3. Austin Simmons, QB Soph.4. De'Zhaun Stribling, WR Sr.5. Princewill Umanmielen, EDGE Jr.6. Logan Diggs, RB Sr.7. Jayden Williams, OT Sr.8. Patrick Kutas, OG Jr.9. Sage Ryan, S Sr.10. Harrison Wallace, WR Sr. Ole Miss Rebels 2024 Fun Stats - 1st Quarter Scoring: Ole Miss 147, Opponents 37- Sacks: Ole Miss 52 for 340 yards, Opponents 29 for 167 yards- Average Yards Per Play: Ole Miss 7.3, Opponents 4.5 Ole Miss Rebels 2025 Season Prediction, Win Total, What Will Happen The team isn't as good as the 2024 version, but the final result might be one problem is the timing. It would've been great if the Rebels had a few more warm-up games - like, play The Citadel in early September instead of November - because the SEC opener at Kentucky is in Week 2. Everything has to be rocking right the SEC so the Any Given Saturday cliché thing applies, but there's no Alabama or Texas to deal with. There's no Auburn, Missouri, Tennessee, or Texas A&M, either. The road game at Georgia is a problem, the date at Oklahoma is a big deal, and everything else to worry about - LSU, South Carolina, Florida - is in Oxford. If the starting 22 is ready, and there aren't any major injury issues, this is a ten-win schedule. But there will be a misfire - like Kentucky and Florida last year - to be just enough to keep the Rebels out of the playoff The Ole Miss Rebels Win Total At … 9Likely Wins: Citadel, Georgia State, Tulane, Washington State50/50 Games: Arkansas, Florida, at Kentucky, LSU, at Mississippi State, at Oklahoma, South CarolinaLikely Losses: at Georgia © 2025 The Arena Group Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
