Cacker Guy

5-1 end of 5

End of 4. 3-1 Furd.

Middle of the 3rd. Stanford up 2-0. Stanford scored after 2 batters. Grein relived Sokolski in the circle after 1 1/3 innings.

Can someone tell me why Coach Lombardi started her dominant ace pitcher Lindsey Grein against lowly Weber State -- and starts a good but not dominant (and not as mentally tough) #2 pitcher against Stanford? I really don't understand it. Didn't start well today.

7 of the top 8 seeds were from the SEC. If all 7 win their regionals, 7 of 8 superregionals will be at SEC sites. Is the SEC really that much better than everyone else? Why am I so skeptical?

Ducks softball team has the best record -- best winning percentage -- in all of Division 1! Go Ducks!!

Great question, cartm. I agree that the answer may be yes and yes. And I agree that Lanning has done a terrific job as a head coach. He has exceeded my expectations. However I've always suspected that Smart got insufficient credit for that Georgia defense, and maybe Lanning got a bit too much. Impossible to tell from my vantage point, but my guess is Smart is the real genius. And oh my did he have the players!

Still tough for me to swallow that in a four team playoff this year we likely would be national champs. Sigh...

And Allard is intercepted with 33 seconds left. Called it.

Was Allard this bad against OBD?

Penn State coming out overconfident in second half after pushing ND around in the first half. PSU had their opportunities in the first half and they squandered almost all of them, and I won't be surprised if ND blows them out in the second half. We'll see. I was hoping for an all-B1G championship game...

Penn State dominating everywhere but the scoreboard. Allard has been horribly inaccurate, otherwise they would have 21 plus points. They also could have shut out ND if their all-American DE would have recovered that fumble. His shoulder must really be bothering him.

Right. They controversially slid past TCU into the first CFP playoffs in 2014 at the last minute if I remember correctly. After we destroyed Florida State in the Rose Bowl I was very confident we would beat Alabama for the first CFP championship -- but Ohio State beat Alabama in the semifinal, and then ... yeah.

Former Florida State and Alabama wide receiver Malik Benson, who has an extra year thanks to the recent NCAA ruling on junior college players, told ESPN that he has committed to play at Oregon next year. WR Malik Benson, intrigued by QB Dante Moore, commits to Oregon - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM Wide receiver Malik Benson commits to Oregon.

A few thoughts now that I've calmed down a bit: 1. Before the season I thought osu2 had scary talent, but they didn't get close to their potential until last week against Tennessee. They are tremendously talented. Howard was terrific yesterday, and QB may be one of their weaker positions. I think they steamroll anyone if they play like they did yesterday. 2. So far all three teams with a bye last week came out flat and got behind 14-0 right away. Georgia's first two possessions are not going well. I think the long layoff was an issue, though we all hate to make excuses. 3. Too bad the playoff expanded this year so osu2 got in. I think we win a four team playoff against Georgia, Texas and PSU. 4. Yeah we played poorly and got hammered and it sucks, and I am very disappointed. But I am old enough to remember when just beating the Beavers made for a successful season. Thankfully expectations have become higher. Go Ducks!