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    Bleeding Purple

    3 Texas teams reach College World Series, but only TCU is out for redemption

    Matthew Postins
    Jun 13, 2014 | 2:00 pm

    In the long, distinguished history of the College World Series, the state of Texas has never sent three schools to the Final 8 in Omaha. That changes this weekend when TCU, Texas and Tech Tech join the party.

     

    Besides Texas, only the states of Florida and California have accomplished the feat. It certainly improves the state’s odds of winning the championship.

     

    For the University of Texas, it’s old hat. This is the Longhorns’ 35th appearance in Omaha, and they’re out for their seventh championship. For Texas Tech, it’s a whole new thing. The Red Raiders have never been to the College World Series.

     

     

      “The guys that were here last year really felt like they let this program down,” TCU coach Jim Schlossnagle said.

     
     

    For TCU, though, it’s a shot at redemption.

     

    The Horned Frogs went to the College World Series for the first time in 2010. In that tournament, the team reached the semifinals but was knocked out by UCLA. In fact, both of TCU’s losses came to the Bruins.

     

    Two years later, the Horned Frogs were poised to return to Omaha. But they ran into those pesky Bruins once again, losing in the Super Regionals.

     

    Eight members of the 2012 team were in the dugout last weekend when TCU exorcised that demon, as they defeated UCLA’s neighbor, Malibu-based Pepperdine. TCU did it with a dramatic final at-bat in game 3 of the best-of-three series, scoring two runs to eke out the win. The Horned Frogs pulled it off using, of all things, a suicide squeeze bunt to score the winning run.

     

    “The guys I’ve been here with, [the CWS is] all we’ve ever talked about,” TCU’s Kevin Cron, one of those eight players, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “I’m proud of my guys for hanging in there and staying tough. It’s a pretty unbelievable feeling.”

     

    Dig a little deeper and you realize reaching Omaha this year isn’t just about avenging those stinging losses to UCLA. Those eight Horned Frogs and their teammates followed up that 2012 Super Regional loss with a lost 2013 season that saw TCU miss the NCAA postseason for the first time in head coach Jim Schlossnagle’s 11 years in Fort Worth.

     

    TCU was highly motivated, and it showed. The Horned Frogs won 27 of their final 30 regular-season games, won their first Big 12 championship and earned a national seed in the NCAA baseball tournament for the first time. The seed guaranteed them home-field advantage throughout their run to Omaha.

     

    Schlossnagle talked about his players’ motivation entering the tournament, saying the bitter taste of last season fueled this amazing roll. “The guys that were here last year really felt like they let this program down,” he said. “I’ve heard them talk about that.”

     

    Now the only letdown concerning these feisty Horned Frogs is in Omaha, where they open the tournament Saturday against Texas Tech. If the team can get past the Red Raiders, TCU will get a second chance at its first College World Series championship.

     

    TCU hopes to celebrate its first College World Series championship this year.

      
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    Basketball News

    Cooper Flagg is the new Maine man for the Dallas Mavericks

    Associated Press
    Jun 26, 2025 | 8:55 am
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    Cooper Flagg, newest Dallas Mavericks pick

    Cooper Flagg is the new Maine man in Dallas. The Mavericks took the Duke forward with the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft on June 25, hoping they have found their next franchise superstar less than five months after trading one away.

    Mavericks fans were furious when Dallas traded Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers on February 1, some immediately threatening to end their support of the team.

    But the ones who stuck around may quickly love Flagg, the college player of the year who averaged 19.2 points and 7.5 rebounds while leading Duke to the Final Four. The Mavericks quickly announced that Flagg would wear No. 32 in Dallas, where fellow Duke products Kyrie Irving and Dereck Lively II are on the roster.

    “I’m really excited. I think I keep saying I’m excited to be a sponge, to get down there and just learn, be surrounded by Hall of Fame-caliber guys and just to be able to learn from them,” Flagg said. “It’s going to be an incredible experience.”

    His selection — considered likely ever since Flagg showed off his considerable game last summer after being invited to the U.S. Olympic team's training camp — was a daylong celebration in his home state for the 18-year-old forward from Newport, Maine.

    “It means a lot to me to have the support of the whole state. I know how many people showed up today and supported me at some of the draft parties back home,” Flagg said. “It feels amazing knowing I can inspire younger kids. I was in their shoes really not that long ago, so just to know I can give those kids those feelings and have the whole state behind me, it means a lot.”

     Cooper Flagg Basketball up-and-comer Cooper FlaggGetty Images

    The backstory
    Dallas Mavericks CEO Rick Welts wasn't thinking even for a second about Cooper Flagg when he started a staff meeting before the draft lottery by saying the club was entering the most important offseason in franchise history.

    The longtime NBA executive and relatively new leader on the business side of the Mavs was thinking about the lingering fallout of the widely reviled Luka Doncic trade, not the club turning a 1.8% chance into winning the rights to draft the teenaged star from Duke.

    “Never, ever did anybody in our organization ever even say what would happen if we win. That's a waste of time,” Welts told The Associated Press recently. “Like, it's unbelievable. It was hard to even get your head around.”

    The self-inflicted wounds were numerous after general manager Nico Harrison's stunning decision to send Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis in early February.

    Fans were incensed. Season-ticket holders were canceling. Potential new sponsors were telling Welts they'd have to think about it.
    Just like that, the Mavs had a vision to sell of a potential superstar who could someday be the face of the franchise — as Doncic was, and fellow European superstar Dirk Nowitzki before him. Just like that, despair turned to hope for plenty of people, including those under Welts who had spent weeks dealing with the wrath of a spurned fan base.

    Before the Doncic trade, Welts had already made a decision to raise season-ticket prices. He told the AP he had to back off on the size of the increase as he watched the visceral reaction unfold.

    Welts has seen plenty in nearly 50 years with the NBA, including time in the league office and stints with Phoenix and Golden State. That's not to say the Doncic fallout didn't have a profound impact on the 72-year-old Welts, who had come out of retirement to replace Cynt Marshall just a month and a half earlier. It just means he has weathered a few storms.

    And now the Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer isn't so sure he's ever seen the sun come back out so quickly.

    “The thing that I learned through all of this experience was what I knew was like this amazing emotional tie between this team and these fans was even stronger than I think anybody who hadn’t lived here and been a part of it could ever imagine,” Welts said. “Just the outpouring of pure joy and the idea of a generational player that could change our fortunes for the next 15 years would land with us by pure luck.”

    Part of what made the Doncic deal so hard to believe was unloading a 25-year-old superstar in his prime nine months after leading Dallas to the NBA Finals for the first time in 13 years. The Mavs lost to Boston in five games last June.

    Harrison's reasoning was prioritizing defense, and his belief that Davis and Irving were a good enough tandem to keep Dallas as a championship contender. Flagg's potential gave that notion a boost.

    “I feel like I’m a broken record, but the team that we intended to put on the floor, which you guys saw for 2 1/2 quarters, that’s a championship-caliber team,” Harrison said. “And so you might not like it, but that’s the fact, it is.”

    Welts, who believes the Mavs have work to do to bring their basketball and business sides together, will spend plenty of time during the early days of the Flagg era sharing his vision for a new arena.

    It's a big reason Welts took the job, after spending seven years with Golden State on an arena plan that moved the Warriors across the bay to San Francisco from Oakland. He says all the talks are focused on keeping the team in Dallas.

    While the casino-centered Adelson and Dumont families of Las Vegas, in the middle of their second full year as owners of the Mavs, wanted gambling to be part of the formula for a new arena, the political realities in Texas have shifted the focus away from that idea for now.

    There's a new focus for Welts in what seems certain will be the final stop in an eventful NBA career: building everything around another potentially generational star after the Mavs jettisoned the one they had.

    “Don't make this sound like I'm suggesting that everyone is forgiven,” Welts said. “Luka will always be a big part of what this organization is. But for a large number of fans, it is a pathway — it's not a pathway, it's like a four-lane highway into being able to care about the Mavericks the way they cared about the Mavericks before.”

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