Wake Forest continued to dominate the first round of the MLB Draft. Demon Deacons were taken with back-to-back picks in the 2025 draft, marking the third straight year that multiple Wake players have been selected […]
Major League Baseball reached out to its next generation of players with the 20-round MLB Draft, last week in Texas. As we reported last week, Wake Forest took center stage in the first round, with […]
The Cowtown Coliseum is normally home to rodeo events as the premiere attraction of the Fort Worth Stockyards, but, as host of the 2024 MLB Draft, it became Winston-Salem West. Wake Forest was the consensus […]
A total of 51 players from the state of North Carolina were selected in the three-day MLB Draft last week. Thirty nine players for colleges in the state were selected, along with 12 players who […]
Members of the Campbell baseball team fancy themselves as “a bunch of nobodies from nowhere” because of their remote location in Buies Creek and the considerable shadow cast by their nationally recognized neighbors at UNC, […]
The MLB Draft took some unexpected twists and turns in the first round over the weekend, and no one benefited more than the Miami Marlins. With teams reaching and prospects sliding, Wake Forest High School […]
Five years ago, just as college baseball’s postseason was about to begin, NC State head coach Elliott Avent suffered a freak accident. While walking his 10-week old rescue puppy, Avent and the dog were confronted […]
CARY — Major League Baseball and the U.S. Baseball Federation will hold a showcase for prospects ahead of the amateur draft, which has been pushed back to July 11-13 and will hold its first night […]
Commenting on the competition his team had to beat to win its NCAA regional last spring, a tournament that also included NC State and Campbell, East Carolina coach Cliff Godwin assessed the quality of college […]
College basketball has its one-and-dones. In baseball, many of the top prospects don’t even make it onto campus before leaving to cash their first professional paycheck. It’s a none-and-done system that has been in place […]
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