05-24-2026, 02:54 PM
For the first time ever, Mississippi State is in the WCWS. For the first time since 2018 (exception for 2020, of course), Oklahoma will not play in the championship game, and for the first time since 2015, a team from the state of Oklahoma will not play in the WCWS.
And here's a really difficult trivia question: Which now-defunct school won the initial, pre-NCAA WCWS in 1969?
And here's a really difficult trivia question: Which now-defunct school won the initial, pre-NCAA WCWS in 1969?
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)