Rick Cleveland

3 weeks ago | mississippitoday.org | Rick Cleveland

College baseball legend Ron Polk has told us again and again through the years: “There is no such thing as an upset in baseball.”Polk is right, of course. Baseball contains so many variables: bad hops, sore arms, sudden wind gusts, line drives that find gloves, weakly hit ground balls that find holes, capricious umpiring, etc. All that contributes to the fact that anything can happen on any given day in baseball.

3 weeks ago | mississippitoday.org | Rick Cleveland

Ty Grisham, John’s son, grew up going with his famous dad to the old Dudy Noble Field, sitting in the Left Field Lounge, gorging himself, he says, on “barbecue, crawfish and college baseball.”“I thought that was the way college baseball everywhere,” Ty Grisham says. Years later, Ty Grisham played baseball for Brian O’Connor, the new Mississippi State baseball coach, during O’Connor’s first two seasons at Virginia.

1 month ago | cdispatch.com | Rick Cleveland

The Road to Omaha now has its road map, and we should hear no complaints from Hattiesburg, Starkville or Oxford. As per usual, Mississippi will be well represented in the NCAA Baseball Tournament. Ole Miss and Southern Miss will both host NCAA Regionals and Mississippi State, after a season in which it fired the head coach, is in the tournament as a 3-seed at Florida State. You won’t see that happen often.

1 month ago | mississippitoday.org | Rick Cleveland |Richard Lake |Tyler Cleveland

La Sasso becomes the second Rebel ever to win the NCAA golf title, which qualifies him for the U.S. Open in two weeks and next April’s Masters. Also, the Clevelands discuss how Mississippi’s baseball coaches should address pitching in the upcoming NCAA Regionals. Stream all episodes here.

1 month ago | mississippitoday.org | Rick Cleveland

Ole Miss’ softball team is playing in the College World Series and the baseball team is hosting an NCAA Regional, but the Rebels already have claimed one national championship this spring. Ole Miss junior golfer Michael La Sasso recovered from two double bogeys on his first nine holes to shoot a final round 72 to win the NCAA Golf Tournament’s individual championship Monday at Carlsbad, California.