Coastal Carolina baseball coach rips Florida coach Kevin O'Sullivan after reported outburst: 'Absolutely disrespectful'

Coastal Carolina baseball coach rips Florida coach Kevin O'Sullivan after reported outburst: 'Absolutely disrespectful'

Coastal Carolina head coach Kevin Schnall made sure to call out Florida baseball head coach Kevin O'Sullivan on his way out of the Conway Regional on Sunday. Schnall, who led Coastal Carolina to a 1-0 win over East Carolina to advance into the super regional round of the NCAA baseball tournament, called out O'Sullivan for a reported altercation on site earlier in the day. O'Sullivan, according to multiple reports, had "ripped into" tournament staff over a scheduling change. Specifics of that incident aren't known, but Schnall made sure to speak out about it after his team's win. Florida coach Kevin O'Sullivan was very upset with the schedule change for today. He ripped into the NCAA staff here in Conway. He also reportedly had things to say to the Pirates as they crossed the field this morning. Should be interesting! — Brian Bailey (@bbaileywnct)June 1, 2025 "Another coach disrespected our associate AD, who works as hard as anybody in our entire program," Schnall said. "He disrespected our field crew, who are the salt of the earth. These guys would do anything for our program. It's not OK. This needs to be brought up. Absolutely disrespectful. "As a coach, it's our job to mentor young kids and the way he treated the two site reps, the way he treated our associate AD, the way he treated our field crew is absolutely unacceptable. That's what I'm most disappointed about. This is a national champion coach who thinks he can come in here and try to bully people around. "I'm disappointed. Somebody that a lot of coaches look up to, for him to act that way, I'm really disappointed. He disrespected a hall-of-fame coach who's the site rep here. That's all I've got to say." There was an incident that occurred prior to the Florida/ECU game that had people talking.Reportedly Florida HC Kevin O'Sullivan was upset that the game was moved.He was seen ripping into CCU officials & NCAA OfficialsCCU Kevin Schnall made sure to address the matterpic.twitter.com/jQS5vvlJPO — Brandon Dunn (@BDunnsports)June 2, 2025 Schnall didn't call out O'Sullivan by name, but his messaging was clear. O'Sullivan has led the Gators to the College World Series nine times throughout his coaching career, and he won a championship with them in 2017. Regardless, Schnall came out on top. East Carolina beat Florida 11-4 to knock the Gators out of the tournament. Coastal Carolina then beat the Pirates in the final game at the regional. That pushed the Chanticleers, who are the No. 13 seed nationally, into the super regional for the first time since 2016. They'll take on Auburn in the next round.

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June 01, 2025

Coastal Carolina baseball coach rips Florida coach Kevin O'Sullivan after reported outburst: 'Absolutely disrespectful'

Coastal Carolina baseball coach rips Florida coach Kevin O'Sullivan after reported outburst: 'Absolutely disrespectful' Coastal ...

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Wright State eliminates No. 1 overall seed Vanderbilt in stunner

Wright State eliminates No. 1 overall seed Vanderbilt in stunner

Griffen Paige twirled an eight-inning gem and Wright State staved off a desperate ninth-inning comeback to upset Vanderbilt 5-4, eliminating the top national seed from the NCAA baseball tournament on Sunday in Nashville, Tenn. Vanderbilt is the first No. 1 overall seed that failed to reach the regional final round since the current tournament format was introduced in 1999. The season also ended for No. 2 national seed Texas, which lost to UTSA in the Austin Regional championship. UTSA beat the host squad 7-4 on Sunday night after dealing the Longhorns a 9-7 defeat on Saturday. Texas (44-14) won an elimination game with Kansas State 15-8 earlier Sunday to earn a rematch with the Roadrunners (47-13), who went 3-0 in Austin after an 0-6 all-time record in the NCAA postseason. The top two seeds getting eliminated in regionals had only happened once before since the current format was implemented, when No. 1 Oregon State and No. 2 Florida were bounced in 2014. Wright State (40-21) advanced to the Nashville Regional final against Louisville. Needing to beat Louisville on both Sunday night and Monday to advance to the super regionals, the Raiders fell 6-0 on Sunday night. Against Vanderbilt, Paige (2-3) tossed eight-plus innings of one-hit ball for Wright State, giving up a home run to Brodie Johnston and allowing two runs and six walks with three strikeouts. It was a wholly different story for Vanderbilt starter Austin Nye (2-1), who gave up four runs on four hits in the first inning and was replaced before the second. Boston Smith hit a two-run homer off Nye and Luke Arnold went yard in the next at-bat. After Paige exited for Wright State after allowing a walk in the top of the ninth, the Commodores (43-18) mounted a comeback against the bullpen with Mike Mancini slicing a 5-1 deficit in half on a two-out, two-run single. Rustan Rigdon followed with an RBI ground-rule double before Warren Hartzell got RJ Austin to fly out to end the game. "We show a lot of toughness," Page said postgame. "There's never a doubt in our minds that we can compete with anybody out there. These guys are a good team, obviously, the No. 1 seed in the country, and we show up and we never had a doubt. We think we can compete with anybody at the end of the day." Vanderbilt won the College World Series in 2014 and 2019 and was runner-up in 2015 and 2021. The Commodores found themselves in an elimination game after falling 3-2 to Louisville on Saturday. --Field Level Media

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June 01, 2025

Wright State eliminates No. 1 overall seed Vanderbilt in stunner

Wright State eliminates No. 1 overall seed Vanderbilt in stunner Griffen Paige twirled an eight-inning gem and Wright State staved off a des...

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Cano, Little Rock beat No. 6 national seed LSU 10-4, force decisive game Monday in Baton Rouge

Cano, Little Rock beat No. 6 national seed LSU 10-4, force decisive game Monday in Baton Rouge

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Angel Cano hit a two-run home run in the second inning and a bases-clearing double in the third to help No. 4 seed Little Rock beat host and top-seeded LSU 10-4 on Saturday night to win avoid elimination at the Baton Rouge Regional on Sunday night. The Trojans (27-33), making their second NCAA Tournament appearance and first since 2014, can clinch a berth in the super regionals with a win Monday over No. 6 national seed LSU. LSU beat Little Rock 7-0 on Friday and followed Saturday with a 12-0 win over Dallas Baptist to advance to the championship round. The Trojans, who lost 13 of 14 to close the regular season before winning five straight to win the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament, exploded for 22 runs Saturday in a win over Rhode Island and beat Dallas Baptist 8-6 in an elimination game earlier Sunday. Steven Milam hit a two-RBI single to cap LSU's three run first inning but Angel Cano hit atwo-run home runin the second for the Trojans. Ryan Geck grounded out to lead off the third before Ty Rhoades, Cade Martin and Cooper Chaplain drew consecutive walks to load the bases. Cano fouled off three consecutive two-strike pitches before he hit a bases-clearing double off Chase Shores (5-3), who was immediately replaced by Cooper Williams after allowing four runs in an inning of relief. Starter Noah Burkey gave up three runs on six hits in 1 2/3 innings before he was replaced by Brenden Katz (1-0), who pitched 1 2/3 scoreless innings. Malcolm Brown threw 5 1/3 innings and gave up a run on three hits to earn his first save of the season. ___ AP sports:https://apnews.com/sports

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June 01, 2025

Cano, Little Rock beat No. 6 national seed LSU 10-4, force decisive game Monday in Baton Rouge

Cano, Little Rock beat No. 6 national seed LSU 10-4, force decisive game Monday in Baton Rouge BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Angel Cano hit a two-...

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What we know about the suspect and victims in the Boulder, Colorado, attack

What we know about the suspect and victims in the Boulder, Colorado, attack

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Six people calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza were injured at an outdoor mall in Boulder, Colorado, by a man who police say used a makeshift flamethrower and hurled an incendiary deviceinto a crowd.The FBI immediately described Sunday's violence as a "targeted terror attack." The suspect, identified by the FBI as 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman, yelled "Free Palestine" during the attack on the group of demonstrators, said Mark Michalek, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Denver field office. Soliman was arrested and taken to the hospital for treatment, but authorities didn't elaborate on his injuries. Here is what we know about the attack: How the attack unfolded Authorities said the attacker targeted demonstrators with a volunteer group called Run for Their Lives, which organizes run and walk events to call for the immediate release of the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza since they were captured by militants during the incursion into southern Israel that started the Israel-Hamas war in 2023. The group had gathered at the Pearl Street pedestrian mall, a four-block area in downtown Boulder frequented by tourists and students. The Israel-Hamas war has inflamed global tensions and contributed to a spike in antisemitic violence in the United States. A week earlier,two Israeli Embassy staffers were shot to death in Washington by a manwho yelled "I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza" as he was being led away by police. Police in Boulder evacuated multiple blocks of the pedestrian mall. The scene shortly after the attack was tense, as law enforcement agents with a police dog walked through the streets looking for threats and instructed the public to stay clear. The violence occurred four years after 10 people were killed a shooting rampage at a grocery store in Boulder, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northwest of Denver. The gunman was sentenced to life in prison for murder after a jury rejected his attempt to avoid prison time by pleadingnot guilty by reason of insanity. Several people hospitalized The people hospitalized for injuries in the Pearl Street attack range in age from 67 to 88. Photos from the scene showed a woman lying on the ground in the fetal position with her hair soaked, and a man helping her and getting water from someone with a water jug. The injuries authorities found were consistent with reports of people being set on fire, Boulder Police Chief Steve Redfearn said, adding that injuries ranged from serious to minor. Redfearn told reporters Sunday evening that it was too early to discuss a motive but that witnesses were being interviewed. "It would be irresponsible for me to speculate on motive this early on," he said. The suspect was arrested at the scene Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, was arrested at the scene. No charges were immediately announced, but officials said they expect to hold him "fully accountable." Video from the scene showed him shirtless and wearing jeans and holding two clear bottles with a transparent liquid in them while shouting at onlookers. Another video shows a witness shouting, "He's right there. He's throwing Molotov cocktails," as a police officer with his gun drawn advanced on the suspect. FBI leaders in Washington said they were treating the Boulder attack as an act of terrorism, and the Justice Department — which leads investigations into acts of violence driven by religious, racial or ethnic motivations — decried the attack as a "needless act of violence, which follows recent attacks against Jewish Americans." "This act of terror is being investigated as an act of ideologically motivated violence based on the early information, the evidence, and witness accounts. We will speak clearly on these incidents when the facts warrant it," FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said in a post on X.

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June 01, 2025

What we know about the suspect and victims in the Boulder, Colorado, attack

What we know about the suspect and victims in the Boulder, Colorado, attack BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Six people calling for the release of Isra...

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China rejects Trump's accusation that it breached Geneva trade deal

China rejects Trump's accusation that it breached Geneva trade deal

(Reuters) -China said on Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump's accusations that Beijing had violated the consensus reached in Geneva trade talks were "groundless", and promised to take forceful measures to safeguard its interests. The comment by the commerce ministry was in response to Trump's remarks on Friday that China had breached a bilateral deal to roll back tariffs. The ministry said China had implemented and actively upheld the agreement reached last month in Geneva, while the U.S. had introduced multiple "discriminatory restrictive" measures against China. Those measures included issuing guidance on AI chip export controls, halting sales of chip design software to China and revoking visas for Chinese students, the ministry added. "The U.S. government has unilaterally and repeatedly provoked new economic and trade frictions, exacerbating uncertainty and instability in bilateral economic and trade relations," the ministry said in a statement. It did not elaborate on what forceful measures it might take in response. Beijing and Washington agreed in mid-May in Geneva to pause triple-digit tariffs for 90 days. In addition, China also promised to lift trade countermeasures that restricted its exports of the critical metals needed for U.S. semiconductor, electronics and defence production. Trump on Friday also announced a doubling of import tariffs on steel and aluminium to 50%. While China is the world's largest steel producer and exporter, it ships very little to the United States after a 25% tariff imposed in 2018 shut most Chinese steel out of the market. China ranks third among aluminium suppliers. (Reporting by Shuyan Wang and Chen Aizhu; Editing by Tom Hogue and Kate Mayberry)

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June 01, 2025

China rejects Trump's accusation that it breached Geneva trade deal

China rejects Trump's accusation that it breached Geneva trade deal (Reuters) -China said on Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump...

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