The Arizona Wildcats defeated the South Carolina Gamecocks 4-1 last night to complete a sweep and win the program’s fourth NCAA baseball title in school history. Coach Andy Lopez and the Wildcats put on a hell of a show to win his second College World Series in 20 years; in fact, this one comes on the 20th anniversary of his first, when he was the unknown coach of the even more unknown Pepperdine Wave.

But enough about all that awesome, inspirational baseball stuff, there were also morons in Omaha last night. Seven morons, to be precise, and I could even go as far as to call them knuckleheads. That’s the kind of foul mood these no-gooders have put me in. At one point during the game, these Douche-Bagnificent 7 (trademark pending) rushed the field and caused a delay in the game as security had to wrangle them up.

As you can see above, one ambitious girl even got herself a handful of some Wildcat ass. And knowing baseball players as well as I do, I can only hope that he farted on her hand. That would have been the mature thing to do.

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I don’t like to just regurgitate what I see on Deadspin, but this video of Erin Andrews shutting down a heckler by just sort of talking to him needs to be seen by as many people as possible. A spectator (identified as a “12yr old” by the video title, though he doesn’t sound incredibly 12) yells “I’m gonna watch your video tomorrow!” at her. Andrews, who is probably not totally okay yet with the fact that somebody secretly video taped her in her hotel room and posted it on the Internet, asks him what he said. He said “HEY CAN YOU SIGN MY BALL”. No, the part after that. Nothing? And then he learns a short, beautiful lesson about how to talk to people in real life.

I think this would be a great idea for a television show. Find people who talk sh** about celebrities on the Internet, then bring them out on a game show and award them for how much of it they can say to the celebrity’s face. Hopefully the producers can keep it to “I HATE YOUR MOVIES, KATIE HOLMES” and away from “I like you because of what a pervert did to you”.

Oh well, this insulting/insulted kid is still better than those little sea gulls yelling BALL, BALL, BALL at players every time they walk near the dugout.

Thug Life Favre loves to play ceelo

This is older news, but fun news: The 2010 version of whether or not Brett Favre will return to the NFL beings in Biloxi, Mississippi; where Favre recently met with the Southern Mississippi University baseball team. Of course, Favre spoke to the team; he has so much wisdom to give. How else would they learn how to make homoerotic jean commercials? While fielding questions from the players, outfielder Justin Diliberto addressed the elephant in the room.

“Are you playing next season?” Diliberto said. Favre responded that if Southern Miss made it back to the College World Series, he would return to the Vikings. “I was a kid again watching y’all play in the College World Series,” Favre said. ”That was amazing. I don’t know — yet. . . . Let’s make a [fun] bet. If you guys go back to the College World Series this year — I will come back and play. How about that? You go back and I go back.” –PFT

That’s pretty bold of Brett to put the hopes of a franchise on the backs of a college baseball team. The team must be motivated, and probably went to practice with a renewed vigor; knowing that Favre’s career depends on their success. Expect Peter King to bring us lofty coverage of their season.

College World Series – Fresno State captured the school's first baseball national title and (the nation's capacity to BELIEVE *swoon*) became the lowest seeded team to win an NCAA tournament title. The school hadn't appeared in the CWS since 1991 and lost 12 of their first 20 regular season games to open the season. So's you know, Fresno State's only other national championship came in softball in 1998, so way to draw even with the ladies. Steve Detwiler homered twice and drove in all six of the westward Bulldogs' runs in the deciding game of the Finals. Fresno's prolific run will certainly be the talk of the sporting world for as long as a college baseball non-scandal can be (O/U: 18 hours) but the run clearly brought some more interest with the CWS hitting its highest attendance mark ever.

EURO 2008 – Lightning must have hit the transmitter or something. Turkey will never get into the EU with gaffes like this. A break in the feed during the second half of the semifinal match caused the whole world, even the parts of it that care about soccer, to miss a few critical moments of Germany's 3-2 win over the Turks. Lucky for you, FanIQ has the highlights, replete with interspersed footage of raging celebratory bonfires. Hmm. I didn't know Germany was part of College Park.

MLB - Sorry you have to take a backseat to the college game, decidedly undramatic regular season professional baseball. Joba Chamberlain picks up his first decision of the season (New York had been 4-1 in his previous starts) and it's a positive one, as Joba leads the Yankees by striking out 7 in 6 2/3 to a 10-0 win over the Bucs… Jesus Flores saved all his offensive output for his final at-bat, lining the game-winning single into right center to seal a Nats 5-4 win over the Halos…Interleague play continues to be a bizarro world where the Royals are good and they have more wins than any other MLB team. Hamburgers also eat people there, so avoid concession stands. Not like Mike Scioscia hasn't cleaned them out already anyway…The second Cito Gaston era in Toronto is not off to the roaring start that, well, no one predicted. Still, the Blue Jays dropped to 2-3 under him, the latest loss coming courtesy a Jay Bruce sac fly in the top of the 10th to give the Reds a 6-5 win. 

MLB – The forces dictating the Mariners fortunes this year couldn't stand idly by while something as auspicious as King Felix hitting the first grand slam by an AL pitcher in 37 years happened without exacting some proportionately horrible toll upon them. That's why three innings later Hernandez sprained his left ankle taking a slide from Carlos Beltran to the legs while covering home plate, whereupon Felix was forced to leave the game. Seattle still eked out a 5-2 win over the Mets but a stiff price will be paid for that as well. Don't get too attached to your vertebrae, Ichiro… Ben Sheets records his NL-leading third complete game allowing only four hits in a 4-1 Brewers win against the Braves. Good thing too, as Milwaukee's bullpen is surely decimated by the absence of Eric Gagne, which is different than the usual detrimental presence of Eric Gagne…The Nationals are closing in on their desired perfection of the art of losing, dropping their sixth of the last seven with a 3-2 loss to the Angels…The Dbacks Dan Haren picks up his 8th win of the season, but the first onb the road, with seven scoreless innings to outdual Josh Beckett in Fenway…The Royals collect their league-leading 10th win in interleague play with 8-4 win over the Rockies. Not bad for a team that doesn't really belong in either league.

College World Series – Georgia gets a four-run rally in the 8th to overtake Fresno State 7-6 in the first game of the CWS finals.  From the recap: "And while Fresno State's grittiness has been toasted throughout the tournament, Georgia's pluckiness has been almost as memorable." Uh-oh. Grittiness versus Pluckiness? Must not be nary a minority to be found among these squads. An LSU fan's delight, to be sure.

This photo was taken by With Leather reader Handsome Dan at the College World Series this past Sunday (Louisville eliminated Ole Miss MSU 12-4).  For the many, many, many WL readers who are unable to discern the subtle misspellings of this young Mississippi State fan, you may revel in the child's porcine manner.  By which I mean: he's a fatty.

In all fairness to Little Chubs, though, he probably got help with that sign from his dad.  And help with that second chin from mom's bacon-fried chicken.