In an earlier blog post today, John Manuel recapped a wild Tuesday in college baseball. I was on hand for some of Coastal Carolina’s big win at North Carolina, and I’ll have more on the impressive Chanticleers in Friday’s Weekend Preview. One side note: as I walked into USA Baseball’s National Training Center in Cary (temporary home of the Tar Heels), I was stopped by Jim Strasburg, whose son Stephen is San Diego State’s ace righthander and a strong early candidate to go No. 1 overall in the 2009 draft. Naturally, I was slightly befuddled: I was in San Diego last weekend and did not meet Mr. Strasburg, so I certainly wouldn’t have expected to meet him across the country in a game that does not feature the Aztecs. But he explained that he’s in the area on business, and he figured it would be nice to take in some college baseball while he’s out here. Now that’s our kind of guy.

To this week’s mailbag:

When will ESPN give us a look at their baseball coverage for the upcoming season?

Doug Moore
Fountain Valley, CA

Ask, and ye shall receive. Here’s ESPN’s entire regular season schedule. All games are on ESPNU, and all times are Eastern. There will be no games on ESPN or ESPN2 until the postseason, though ESPN2 did show two games last month during the Urban Invitational in Compton, Calif.

Tuesday, April 1 (7 p.m.): Rice at Texas
Sunday, April 6 (2 p.m.): North Carolina A&T at Bethune-Cookman
Friday, April 18 (7 p.m.): Oklahoma State at Texas
Sunday, April 20 (3 p.m.): UNC Asheville at Coastal Carolina
Saturday, April 26 (3:30 p.m.): St. John’s at Notre Dame
Friday, May 9 (6 p.m.): Portland at Pepperdine

That’s all, folks. Makes you long for the days of the NHL work stoppage . . .