Barking Carnival

Uncredentialed Barking Carnival correspondent Fake Ken Tremendous returns and marks the occasion by getting in his dreamwagon and doing donuts on Bill Little’s lawn. - S.R.

Just when I think I’m going to get a break from my mean-spirited criticism of Bill Little’s cornpone musings, the Longhorns go and lose in heartbreaking fashion [...]

The final game of the best 2-of-3 series for the College World Series Championship may not have been close, but the buildup was good enough to give ESPN three of the four highest-rated CWS games ever.
The three-game series for the National Championship grew in numbers with each game, until it averaged just under 2.8 million [...]

Texas’ two biggest strengths coming into the College World Series were pitching and defense. They had carried a rather anemic offense throughout the year. If you had told me before the series started that Texas would hit fourteen homeruns, I would have told you that we would win it. I never would have guessed that [...]

Huck is going to be late. HenryJames may add some commentary. Please feel free to comment below. - S.R.
I get home form work, cut the tv on and the very first thing I see is a three home run by LSU. Damn.
Green got the first two guys before hitting the 3rd batter and [...]

With only Game Three of the championship series left to play, all games pitting an Eastern team versus a Western team have been decided…

This one’s for all the marbles. It all comes down to this. Winner takes all. To help tide us over until gametime and get through the workday, here are some videos of the runups and the final games of our athletic department’s last three chances to take home a national championship with [...]

Before pitching the deciding game against TCU in the super regional, Taylor Jungmann was asked about his nerves.
“Nerves? I don’t get nervous, man,” he said. Apparently not.
He’s been fantastic the whole series (6 pitches last night excluded), and he was brilliant last night. He stayed down and away against LSU’s lefthanders with his two [...]

It’s raining.
First pitch scheduled for around 7:43 Central as of now.
Ms. Andrews is sporting a more colorful ensemble this evening and the game is still scheduled to go off in around 5 minutes.
As reported, Austin Ross will start for the Tigers. He has nice peripherals but a bad ERA and batting average against. [...]

I am now home and will catch up quickly on DVR. Ms. Andrews reports that LSU fans outnumber Texas fans. We are officially doomed.
My kingdom for a left-handed starter, by the way. LSU is a left-handed hitting team and has struggled, relatively speaking, against lefties this year. I guess we’ll have [...]

After over 8,000 games this season we have now reached the Championship Series of college baseball…

Here we go. LSU obliterated Arkansas to make their way to the championship series. Texas is going with Cole Green and the Sun Devils are going with Mike Leake again. I bet Pat Murphy thinks he’s a genius after saying Leake was hurt. Ooh, we never saw that one coming.
If Leake [...]

Blueshorn sent in this Guest Column. Enjoy. S.R.
ONE VOTE FOR BEST-EVER: THE 1975 LONGHORN NATIONAL CHAMPS
As the 2009 Longhorn baseball team works its way toward a possible championship series in Omaha, it’s always fun to look back on other great teams in our storied past. The ‘49 and ‘50 teams, coached [...]

The NCAA, the defenders of all that is pure and clean about collegiate athletics has decided to get into the ticket-scalping business.
The NCAA has entered into a deal with Ticketmaster to create TicketExchange which competes with online resale sites such as StubHub, Craigslist, eBay and others. Sellers set their own prices on the Ticketmaster-run Web [...]

Okay, I’m now caught up to the game on my DVR. A promising top of the first was killed by a GIDP, Ruffin was pretty sharp in the bottom of the first that was killed by a strike ‘em out throw ‘em out DP. The top of the second saw Leake refuse to [...]

We think Huck will be doing more liveblogging tonight. He may be a bit late starting as he has to work or some shit, but keep an eye out for that.
Also, Bragg let us know that they will be doing an in-game chat, so you can head over there too.
Hook ‘Em!

Texas Burnt Orange continues to have a green tint to it as the Longhorns generated the most football revenue and total athletics revenue in 2007-08.
Texas took in almost $73 million in football revenue during the 2007-08 school year, as well as a total of $120.3 million in total dollars.

Texas was one of only three [...]

College baseball tradition, that is.

As you may have read from me before, college baseball is seriously tilted to the west…

Thoughts here. I’ll keep up as best I can. Bo Davis leads off against Cole Green.
Davis puts a good swing on the first pitch, but it’s a 395-foot out to dead centerfield. Green gets a fairly liberal inside strike call to start out the second batter. Could be good for our [...]

Evidently, there is some controversy in B/CS about the Chancellor’s annual review of the main campus’ president…

Quite a professional operation they’re running there…
However, when the story first broke, there was an interesting tidbit of information.  In the university president’s rebuttal of the poor review, she mentions that the TAMU Athletic Department had borrowed $16 million [...]

The 2009 College World Series features two strong favorites in each bracket along with a handful of capable challengers. Pitching and defense is back in full force in college baseball as this year’s field contains seven teams in the Top 16 in the nation at preventing runs. Meanwhile, five teams made [...]