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Swinging for the Fences
    All good things come to an end, and so does this column
    By on April 28, 2010 at 12:06 am • 0 Comments •
    SWINGING FOR THE FENCES By Matt Watson First things first, thank you for reading. Whether you’re delving into the Traveler sports section for the first time today or you’ve been reading Swinging for the Fences for the last four years, I appreciate ...
    Sports best when surprising, unscripted
    By on April 21, 2010 at 12:04 am • 0 Comments •
    SWINGING FOR THE FENCES By Matt Watson You know it’s NFL Draft season when you see ESPN’s Mel Kiper and Todd McShay yelling at the top of their lungs at each other, hurling their conflicting opinions at national television audiences like flaming ...
    Baseball better now that it’s just about the games
    By on April 14, 2010 at 12:06 am • 0 Comments •
    SWINGING FOR THE FENCES By Matt Watson On the 10th day of baseball, the sports gods gave to me, a great start to the MLB season…scandal-free. A week and a half into the 2010 baseball season, the Major Leagues are running smoother than ...
    Injuries can take away a future in an instant
    By on April 7, 2010 at 12:05 am • 0 Comments •
    SWINGING FOR THE FENCES By Matt Watson Razorback first baseman Andy Wilkins has smashed 37 home runs in two and a half years at Arkansas, the fifth-highest total for any Hog slugger ever. Wilkins could easily pass North Little Rock native Brian Kirby ...
    More Major League Madness
    By on April 2, 2010 at 10:59 pm • 0 Comments •
    SWINGING FOR THE FENCES By Matt Watson March Madness is down to its final four teams, college football spring practice began yesterday and the No. 10 Diamond Hogs just finished a sweep of a top 25 SEC team. It’s a good time ...
    Appreciation for the purity of preseason baseball
    By on March 10, 2010 at 12:04 am • 1 Comment •
    SWINGING FOR THE FENCES By Matt Watson Every year about this time, baseball purists always talk about the high hopes every team has during Major League Spring Training. Every club’s official record is unblemished. Every roster is full of (mostly) healthy players. Every organization gauges ...
    A few more suggestions for the Ole Miss Admiral Ackbars
    By on March 3, 2010 at 12:04 am • 0 Comments •
    SWINGING FOR THE FENCES By Matt Watson In case you have been hiding out on Planet Dagobah for the past couple weeks, the University of Mississippi is officially doing away with its controversial “Rebels” moniker for its athletic teams and made the ...
    Reading between the pants
    By on February 17, 2010 at 12:05 am • 0 Comments •
    SWINGING FOR THE FENCES By Matt Watson “We’re playing baseball. Put your pants on.” I can’t say I had ever heard that exact phrase until baseball media day two days ago. It wasn’t a joke either – the players were in the clubhouse ...
    Living with the fickle nature of sports
    By on February 10, 2010 at 12:04 am • 0 Comments •
    SWINING FOR THE FENCES By Matt Watson Something said at the post-game press conference after the hoops Hogs’ big overtime win Saturday over Auburn struck me as a little odd. “Make no mistake about it, there is nothing fun about this.” What does a ...
    Baseball at last is (almost) back
    By on February 3, 2010 at 6:03 am • 0 Comments •
    SWINGING FOR THE FENCES By Matt Watson It’s been a long, cold winter, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to end any time soon, but hot or cold the collegiate baseball season kicks off in just over two weeks either way. I ...
    BTW, acronyms rule the sporting world
    By on January 27, 2010 at 6:04 am • 0 Comments •
    SWINGING FOR THE FENCES By Matt Watson Half of talking about sports is numbers. The other half is interpretation, and the whole of it involves a lot of acronyms and abbreviations. Like what good is an MVP on the DL? A WR without ...