Author: Mikesportz

The Tennessee Volunteers have one of the best college baseball coaches in the country in Tony Vitello. He has done well since taking over the Tennessee Volunteers program in 2018, as he currently has a 292-111 record (.725 winning percentage). However, people are wondering how his contract looks for the results of the team. According to WBIR, Tony Vitello is earning a minimum of $1,612,000 this season and an extra $28,000 if the Vols can defeat the Texas A&M Aggies in the 2024 College World Series. The contract has a few different kickers, but it is simple to understand once…

Tony Vitello on Saturday will lead No. 1 national seed Tennessee against Jim Schlossnagle and No. 3 Texas A&M in the College World Series best-of-three-game series. Both programs will be gunning for their first-ever national college baseball championship. But, 14 years ago, Schlossnagle and Vitello weren’t coaches vying against the other for a college baseball national championship: They were aligned and coaching in the same dugout, after Schlossnagle hired Vitello as his recruiting coordinator for the TCU baseball program. Schlossnagle, the former TCU baseball coach — who left the program to take over at Texas A&M beginning with the 2022…

Tony Vitello on Saturday will lead No. 1 national seed Tennessee against Jim Schlossnagle and No. 3 Texas A&M in the College World Series best-of-three-game series. Both programs will be gunning for their first-ever national college baseball championship. But, 14 years ago, Schlossnagle and Vitello weren’t coaches vying against the other for a college baseball national championship: They were aligned and coaching in the same dugout, after Schlossnagle hired Vitello as his recruiting coordinator for the TCU baseball program. Schlossnagle, the former TCU baseball coach — who left the program to take over at Texas A&M beginning with the 2022…

In 2011 – after eight years on staff at his alma mater, Missouri – Tony Vitello headed to TCU as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. He spent three seasons in Fort Worth under Jim Schlossnagle before leaving to Arkansas and, eventually, becoming the head coach at Tennessee. Now in his sixth year with the Vols, Vitello did something no coach has done on Rocky Top since 1951 by taking the program to the College World Series final. Texas A&M awaits starting Saturday night in the third year of Schlossnagle’s tenure, and it means Vitello will go up against his…

Either Tennessee or Texas A&M will leave the 2024 College World Series with its first national championship. The losing side will walk away from Omaha with a bitter taste in its mouth. Either way, there will be no bad blood between the two head coaches. Tennessee’s Tony Vitello and Texas A&M’s Jim Schlossnagle have a longstanding relationship, with Schlossnagle taking on the role of elder statesman between the two. Yet while Schlossnagle, 53, has been a head coach longer than Vitello has, it’s Vitello, 45, who has built a powerhouse. Tennessee was the No. 1 overall seed in 2022 and…

Tennessee Vols head coach Josh Heupel leaving for another job isn’t a concern that many UT fans have. Heupel seems incredibly happy at Tennessee and he has the football program on a roll. In a sport where it can be difficult to create a positive culture (due to the large number of players and staff involved in a program), Heupel has managed to quickly build a family-oriented culture that is generating plenty of excitement among recruits and current players. There’s zero reason for him to consider leaving.

Ceddanne Rafaela, who signed long-term with Boston earlier this season, is slowly becoming one of the most versatile and fun-to-watch young players in the entire MLB. After signing with the Red Sox as an international free agent in 2017, Rafaela quickly surged up the club’s farm system and MLB’s prospect rankings. In 116 games in 2022, splitting time between AA and A+, he slashed .299/.342/.538 with 63 extra-base hits (21 HR) and 28 stolen bases. After posting similarly impressive numbers in AAA through the beginning of 2023, Rafela was called up and made his long-awaited major league debut. In 28…

United States athlete Gil Roberts has been handed an eight-year suspension after testing positive for banned substances for a second time. An out-of-competition test taken by Roberts in September detected multiple banned substances including ostarine, which boosts muscle growth. In 2022, Roberts, 35, was given a 16-month ban after testing positive for ostarine and andarine. He avoided suspension in 2017 after he was found to have ingested probenecid – a banned diuretic and masking agent – by kissing his girlfriend, who was taking medication containing the drug for a sinus infection. The US Anti-Doping Agency’s chief executive officer Travis Tygart…

The Yankees are ready to leave Thursday’s embarrassing loss against the Orioles behind them and will now take on the Braves in a three-game series. As you probably might remember, the 2023 Braves were simply awesome. They won the most games in MLB with 104, and their offense tied the 2019 Twinssingle-season record for most home runs for a team, with 307. Another NLDS loss to the Phillies stung, but there was no reason to think that Atlanta would falter in 2024 with so much young talent under contract. These Braves, however, aren’t nearly as productive at the plate. For…

The Boston Red Sox finished up a three-game sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday as they continued their much improved play on the diamond. They have won seven of their last eight games and five in a row. Boston’s renaissance started when they took two of three games against the best team in the National League, the Philadelphia Phillies. They then took two of three against their fierce rival, the New York Yankees. The Phillies and Yankees have the two best records in Major League Baseball. Boston’s offense has been the driving force behind them playing some of…