The Kansas City Royals have selected Stephen F. Austin shortstop Hunter Dozier with the eighth overall pick of the 2013 MLB draft. Baseball America considered Dozier to be the 38th-ranked player heading into the draft. He hit .395 with 17 homeruns and 52 RBI’s this season for the Lumberjacks in the Southland Conference. MLB lists the slotted signing bonus for the number eight pick as $3,137,800, but the Royals will likely offer less than that to save money to overpay other draft picks. Teams can spend more or less the slotted bonus on specific picks, but they will suffer penalties…
Author: John Kurtz
Pro Football Talk reports that former K-State cornerback Nigel Malone has been signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers. He will take the roster spot that was opened when the Steelers placed cornerback Justin King on injured reserve. Malone originally signed with the Indianapolis Colts after the NFL draft, but was later released. Current NFL rules allow teams to have a 90-man roster during the offseason, but teams must cut the roster down to 53 by the start of the regular season. The first cut comes during the third week of the preseason, when teams must trim their roster to 75 players.…
K-State hitting coach Mike Clement was in studio during hour one of the show to talk about KSU’s regional victory.
The Big 12 has released start times and TV details today for early and special date games in 2013. K-State’s match-up with Louisiana-Lafayette on Saturday, September 7th will kick off at 5:30 and be televised by Fox Sports One. The Wildcats already knew they would play under the lights on Fox Sports One in the season opener against North Dakota State on Friday, August 30th at 7:30. Fox Sports One is a new network that will launch in August that will provide expanded coverage of Big 12 events. The other non-conference game for K-State is a home date with UMass that…
In a historic year for K-State athletics, K-State baseball made more history Sunday night at Tointon Family Stadium. The Wildcats are headed to their first super regional in school history after a 4-3 win over Arkansas to win the Manhattan regional. A wild top of the seventh gave K-State the lead for good at 4-3. With K-State trailing 3-2, Ross Kivett and Tanner Witt led off with back-to-back walks before Shane Conlon moved both runners to second and third on a sacrifice bunt. Arkansas pitcher Jalen Beeks, the team leader in appearances, then attempted to intentionally walk K-State’s Jared King.…
Jared King picked a great time for his first hit of NCAA regional play. King drove in two runs with a sixth inning double to break a 1-1 tie and give K-State the lead for good in a 7-1 win over Bryant. The hit followed a curious decision by Bryant head coach Steve Owens to pull starting pitcher Craig Schlitter out of the game with one out and two runners on base. Schlitter had allowed just one run on four hits with six strikeouts through five and a third innings when King stepped up to the plate. Bryant’s John Healy…
A nine run first inning propelled K-State to a 20-11 win over Wichita State to open up regional play at Tointon Family Stadium. The 20 runs allowed were the most that Wichita State has ever given up in an NCAA tournament game. The Wildcats racked up 19 hits on their way to the 20 run output. Every Wildcat starter except Jared King had a hit, and the Shockers issued nine walks and hit six K-State batters. It didn’t take long for the offensive barrage to get going. The Shockers got two runs in the top of the first, but K-State…
The availability of All-Big 12 shortstop Austin Fisher is still up in the air for K-State’s NCAA Regional match up with Wichita State tomorrow. Fisher hasn’t played since the first game of the Oklahoma series nearly two weeks ago due to a back injury. “Fisher will be a game time decision tomorrow,” K-State head coach Brad Hill said at NCAA Regional media day Thursday. Fisher led the Big 12 with a .412 average in league games this season. Freshman Lance Miles has filled in for Fisher since the Oklahoma series. Starting pitcher Joe Flattery also missed time last week due…
The Kansas City Royals have named George Brett their interim hitting coach after sending Jack Maloof and Andre David down to the minors. Maloof and David were hired this season as co-hitting coaches after Kevin Seitzer was let go. The Royals are in the midst of an eight game losing streak, and the team has lost 19 of it’s last 23 games overall. Kansas City’s offense has been the main problem for the team in it’s recent slide. The Royals have scored just 16 combined runs during their eight game losing skid, and only three teams in the American League…
The guys preview the Arkansas Razorbacks, who are the number two seed in the Manhattan Regional, former Wildcat pitcher AJ Morris joined the show to start hour two and Marshall Henderson reaches out to Amanda Bynes in today’s “You Can’t Be Serious.”