Mitch Sherman

5 days ago | nytimes.com | Mitch Sherman

OMAHA, Neb. — LSU reigns supreme. Again. The Tigers completed a two-game sweep in the College World Series finals against Coastal Carolina on Sunday, winning 5-3 to set off a celebration among the sun-baked legion of fans from SEC country at Charles Schwab Field. LSU (53-15) carries back to Baton Rouge its eighth national championship and second in the past three seasons. This title is the sixth in succession for an SEC program, a first for any conference in 75 years of CWS play.

5 days ago | nytimes.com | Mitch Sherman

OMAHA, Neb. — Coastal Carolina coach Kevin Schnall was ejected from Game 2 of the College World Series finals Sunday — and suspended for the remainder of the series, as relayed to the ESPN broadcast by the NCAA — for arguing with home plate umpire Angel Campos in the bottom of the first inning. Campos tossed Schnall after a strike was thrown by LSU pitcher Anthony Eyanson to the Chanticleers’ Walker Mitchell with a runner at second base and two outs.

6 days ago | nytimes.com | Mitch Sherman

OMAHA, Neb. — LSU moved within one victory of its eighth national championship in baseball with a 1-0 victory against Coastal Carolina on Saturday night. Ace pitcher Kade Anderson, No. 3 in Keith Law’s latest MLB mock draft, bettered his previous gem at this College World Series with a complete-game masterpiece on the mound before a purple- and yellow-clad overflow crowd in Game 1 of the best-of-three championship series.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Mitch Sherman

OMAHA, Neb. — Not long after Coastal Carolina won a national championship in 2016, in its first trip to the College World Series, Matt Hogue was standing in line at Disneyland to take a photo of his two daughters with Ariel the mermaid when his phone rang. It was Kevin Schnall, then the Chanticleers’ assistant head coach, whom Hogue, the Coastal athletic director at the time, and coach Gary Gilmore had lured back to his alma mater a year earlier.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Mitch Sherman

LINCOLN, Neb. — A whiteboard covers the east-facing wall in Dana Holgorsen’s office at the Osborne Legacy Complex. On it, scrawled terminology and diagrams of plays mark the signature of an offensive wizard in his comfort zone. “I’m back doing what I love, what I probably know that I’m better at than the CEO-type stuff,” Holgorsen said in the third week of June, his eighth month as the Nebraska offensive coordinator.