Doug Kyle

ARLINGTON, TX – It had all the makings of a NCAA Division I Super Regional or maybe even Days 1-2 of the 2026 NCAA Baseball World Series.   Yes, Friday-Sunday’s part 2 of the Amegy Bank College Baseball Series Feb. 20-22 at Globe Life Field not only featured the Nos. 2 (UCLA), 5 Mississippi State, 18 Texas A&M, and 20 Tennessee ranked teams in this week’s NCBWA poll but included Arizona State and Virginia Tech squads receiving strong consideration and votes among the nation’s Top 25.   The...

Ron Polk recreates live his famous statue pose. March 8 marks the 50th anniversary of his first game at State. (Photo: Mississippi State Athletics By Doug Kyle Ron Polk has been in his “Golden Years” for some time now. The 82-year-old was just 27 when he became a Division 1 head baseball coach at Georgia Southern, 28 when he coached his first game. Four years later, 1976, he was the first full-time head baseball coach at an SEC school, Mississippi State. Hired in Fall 1975, that debut came...

ARLINGTON, TX – It was as good as advertised, and as good as college baseball gets, on Weekend One of 2026 NCAA Division I competition during the Shriners Children’s Hospitals Showdown Feb. 13-15 at Globe Life Field.   With No. 5 nationally Arkansas joining No. 9 TCU and No. 18 Vanderbilt in the six-team field along with traditional powers Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech – all Top 25-30 vote recipients in the USA Today and NCBWA preseason surveys – the three-day meet featured power...