San Diego State University pitcher Stephen Strasburg struck out 17 batters and walked two in a complete game no-hitter on Friday, according to the Associated Press. The junior right-hander has lived up to his preseason All-American expectations, striking out 164 batters this year in 87 and one-third innings while maintaining a 1.24 ERA. Strasburg is favored to be drafted by the Washington Nationals as the overall No. 1 draft pick in the Major League Baseball Draft on June 9. Strasburg will try to lead the Aztecs to a Mountain West Conference tournament championship next week and earn his team an automatic bid to the NCAA College World Series Baseball Tournament. Whether or not San Diego State receives an automatic bid, the Aztecs will most likely receive an at-large bid, and could possibly face Dartmouth in a first-round regional of the NCAA tournament.
Sam Keller, the former standout quarterback from the University of Nebraska, has filed a lawsuit against video-game maker EA Sports for wrongly using the names and likenesses of college athletes in its products, according the to the Associated Press. Keller has also filed suit against the NCAA for sanctioning the company's actions. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in a federal court in San Francisco, is filing suit on behalf of all of the college athletes depicted in EA's gaming products. Although names are not visible on player jerseys in EA's games, the lawsuit contends that company circumvents NCAA prohibitions on the use of athletes' names by allowing players of the game to upload entire rosters into the game. The lawsuit seeks to prevent EA Sports from using the names and likenesses of student-athletes, and to grant compensation for athletes who have been portrayed in video games.
The Atlantic Coast Conference has announced that it will move the 2010 ACC baseball tournament from Boston's Fenway Park to NewBridge Bank Park in Greensboro, N.C., the Associated Press reported. According to ACC commissioner John Swofford, the decision was made because of the economic downturn. "Cost-containment is very much universal at this point, and our conference and our schools are no exception," Swofford said in a statement on the conference's official web site. The ACC will be able to lower travel costs associated with the tournament by moving the event closer to the conference's geographic center, according to the statement. The tournament has changed its venue twice in two years.
