UCLA baseball is heading back to the College World Series for the first time since 2013.

The Bruins defeated UTSA 7-0 on Sunday in Game 2 of the Los Angeles Super Regional, improving to 5-0 in the NCAA Tournament this season. Starting pitcher Landon Stump pitched four shutout innings with five strikeouts before UCLA relievers Chris Grothues, Cal Randall, August Souza and Easton Hawk combined to blank the Roadrunners through the final five innings.

UCLA beat UTSA 5-2 on Saturday and will meet the winner of the Durham Super Regional in the College World Series. Duke and Murray State are currently tied 1-1 in that regional series.

Here are the highlights from UCLA’s CWS-clinching win on Sunday:

UCLA vs UTSA baseball live score

This section will be updated throughout the game.

UCLA vs UTSA baseball super regional live updates

UCLA heading to CWS

UCLA shuts the door and claims a spot in the College World Series for the first time since 2013. What a run for the Bruins in the NCAA tournament.

Ninth inning: UCLA 7, UTSA 0

UCLA tacks on one more run

After Payton Brennan’s two-run single, UCLA adds another run. With runners on first and third, Toussaint Bythewood grounds out back to the pitcher, allowing Brennan to score from third and put the Bruins up 7-0 after a three-run ninth inning.

UCLA is three outs away from Omaha.

Payton Brennan strikes again, adds to UCLA lead

With the bases loaded and one out, Payton Brennan continues his stellar day for UCLA with a single to left field that brings home two runs and extends the Bruins’ lead to 6-0 in the ninth inning.

Brennan has three hits, two RBIs and two runs for UCLA today.

UTSA goes down in order

UTSA is down to its final three outs, heading into the ninth inning trailing UCLA 4-0. The Roadrunners initially look to have a runner when Andrew Stucky is hit by a pitch, but after a UCLA challenge, it is determined that Stucky leaned into the pitch and is ruled out.

UCLA, UTSA delayed due to umpire injury

During UCLA’s two-run eighth inning, home plate umpire Eric Goshay takes a foul ball from Roch Cholowsky off the chin. After the top half of the eighth finished, Goshay is tended to and as a new home plate umpire gets suited up, leading to a delay in the game before UTSA comes up to the plate in the bottom of the eighth.

Second-base umpire Travis Carlson will take over behind home and the rest of the game will take place with a three-member crew.

Sac fly pushes UCLA lead to 4-0

With runners on second and third in the eighth inning, Phoenix Call pops up to center field with one out, bringing home Brennan from third to extend UCLA’s lead to 4-0.

UCLA adds to its lead

The Bruins are inching closer to a spot in the College World Series, with a 3-0 lead in the top of the eighth inning. The latest UCLA run comes after an unusual sequence. Payton Brennan drills a line drive off the back of UTSA pitcher Braylon Owens, with the ball careening toward the first-base line. Owens chases it down, picks it up and tries to get Brennan out at first, but the throw is awry and late. As the Roadrunners were chasing after the errant throw, AJ Salgado makes it from second to home.

Owens is in visible discomfort after the play and is pulled from the game, earning an ovation from the crowd on his way back to the dugout.

UTSA caught stealing to end seventh inning

Down 2-0 with only seven outs left to save its season, UTSA was looking to manufacture some offense on a day when it has struggled to generate it. Unfortunately, those shortcomings continue. With two outs, Jordan Ballin, the Roadrunners’ lone base-runner, tries stealing second, but is thrown out on an absolute bullet from UCLA catcher Cashel Dugger to end the inning.

UTSA challenges the out call, but it’s upheld after a video review. Entering today, Ballin had six steals on nine attempts this season.

Mason Lytle diving catch saves UTSA in seventh inning

UCLA very nearly adds two more runs to its 2-0 lead, but Mason Lytle has other ideas. The UTSA center fielder makes a spectacular diving catch on a line drive from Roman Martin with two outs and the bases loaded.

Maybe the highlight of what’s been a tough day thus far for the Roadrunners.

Three up, three down for UTSA in sixth inning

A UTSA lineup that hasn’t struggled to get men on base today goes down in order in the sixth inning. UCLA leads 2-0 heading into the seventh.

UCLA shut out in sixth inning

Three up and three down for the Bruins, with two of the UCLA batters striking out.

UTSA still scoreless

After coming into the game, Chris Grothues retires the side, getting Norris McClure to ground into a double play and striking out Mason Lytle looking to keep UTSA without a run through five innings.

UCLA makes pitching change

With a 2-0 lead, UCLA turns to its bullpen, pulling starter Landon Stump in favor of Chris Grothues. Stumps finishes his day with four hits, five strikeouts, one walk and, for now, no earned runs in four innings.

Roch Cholowsky doubles UCLA’s lead

UCLA’s starting to find its rhythm offensively and creates a little bit of a cushion between itself and UTSA. With teammate Phoenix Call on second base, Roch Cholowsky singles to right center, pushing the Bruins’ lead to 2-0 in the fifth inning.

UCLA gets out of jam with big strikeout

Right after surrendering the lead, UTSA has an excellent opportunity to tie it up or take the lead, with runners on first and third with two outs. For the second time today, though, Jordan Ballin strikes out swinging with a runner in scoring position and the Roadrunners remain scoreless through four innings.

UCLA, Toussaint Bythewood break scoreless deadlock

With two outs and the bases empty, UCLA was looking poised to get shut out of another inning. The Bruins had other ideas. Payton Brennan hits a double to the wall in left center to keep his team alive and, for the first time today, a batter comes through with a runner in scoring position. During the next at-bat, Toussaint Bythewood rips a single to right field to bring Brennan home and give UCLA a 1-0 lead.

UTSA, UCLA scoreless through three innings

It’s still a 0-0 ballgame in Los Angeles. UTSA gets a two-out single in the bottom of the third inning, but fouls out on the next at-bat.

UCLA goes down in order

Three up and three down for the Bruins, who remain scoreless through three innings after two groundouts and a strikeout.

UTSA strands another in scoring position

UTSA’s list of missed opportunities is growing. With a runner on second base and two outs, Jordan Ballin strikes out swinging, keeping it a scoreless game heading into the third inning.

UCLA shut out in second inning

After getting the leadoff runner on base after a hit-by-pitch, the Bruins aren’t able to do anything with it. They go down on a strikeout, a fielder’s choice out at second and a pop-out to center.

UTSA leaves one in scoring position

Like UCLA, UTSA has an excellent opportunity for at least one run in the first inning after a lead-off double from Norris McClure. From there, though, the Bruins get stingy, striking out one batter and forcing another to strike out before Lorenzo Morresi hits a hard grounder along the third-base line, which Roman Martin backhands and makes an excellent throw to first to get Morresi out and end the threat.

UCLA strands two runners

UCLA has a chance to strike early with runners on first and third, but AJ Salgado strikes out swinging to leave the Bruins empty-handed heading into the bottom of the first.

UTSA baseball lineup

Here’s the lineup UTSA will have as it aims to continue its season and a question for a CWS berth against UCLA:

UCLA baseball lineup

Here’s a look at the lineup UCLA will roll out against UTSA as it aims to secure a spot in the CWS:

UCLA baseball radio

UCLA’s super regional game Sunday against UTSA can be heard on the UCLA Bruins Audio Network. Click here to access it.

UCLA baseball stats

Here are UCLA baseball’s player and team stats from the 2025 season.

What time does UTSA vs UCLA baseball start?

Date: June 8
Time: 3 p.m. ET
Where: Jackie Robinson Stadium (Los Angeles)

UTSA and UCLA are scheduled for a 3 p.m. ET first pitch at Jackie Robinson Stadium in Los Angeles for the second game of the Los Angeles Super Regional.

What TV channel is UTSA vs UCLA baseball on today?

TV channel: ESPN2
Streaming options: ESPN app | ESPN+

Game 2 of the Los Angeles Super Regional between UTSA and UCLA on June 8 will air ESPN2. Victor Rojas (play-by-play) and Todd Walker (analyst) will be on the call.

Streaming options for the game include the ESPN app, which requires a valid cable login) and ESPN+, ESPN’s subscription streaming service.

Watch UCLA vs UTSA baseball live with ESPN+

UCLA vs UTSA baseball predictions, picks, odds

Odds from BetMGM

Spread: UCLA, -1.5
Over/under: 12.5 runs
Moneyline: UCLA, -135 | UTSA, +105

Prediction: UCLA 6, UTSA 5

The Roadrunners have had a program-defining run, one made all the more enjoyable by getting the better of an in-state behemoth along the way, but the Bruins are playing their best ball of the season, with nine wins in their past 10 games. They’ll continue to ride that momentum all the way to the CWS.

NCAA baseball schedule

The 2025 NCAA baseball tournament began on May 30 with the regional round of play. The tournament’s now in the super regional round, which began June 6 and will run no later than June 9. The super regionals are eight different best-of-three series, with the winners advancing to the College World Series, which will begin on June 13. The double-elimination tournament will run through June 22 or 23, depending on whether the best-of-three championship series goes two or three games.

Here is more detailed look at the latest college baseball schedule and NCAA Tournament bracket update.

Regional round: May 30-June 2
Super Regional round: June 6-9
College World Series: June 13-22/23
CWS finals: June 21-22/23

WORCESTER, Mass. — No wonder Boston Red Sox fans are clamoring for Roman Anthony to be called up from the minors.

The Red Sox’s No. 1 ranked prospect hammered a grand slam over the right-center field wall at Polar Park to put an exclamation point on Triple-A Worcester’s 10-4 win over the Rochester Red Wings.  

The blast traveled 497 feet and exited his bat at 115.6 miles per hour.

According to Statcast, that was the longest home run in affiliated baseball this season and would have been longer than all but four home runs in the major leagues since Statcast started tracking in 2015.

‘That ball was murdered,’ WooSox manager Chad Tracy said. 

‘Got it and didn’t really miss it,’ Anthony said. ‘So it felt great.’

A day after baseball’s No. 1 overall prospect got a rare day off (he had started 33 consecutive games for the WooSox dating back to April 27), Anthony was a bit snake-bitten at the plate Saturday. 

Following a walk and a strikeout in his first two plate appearances, Anthony ripped a 105 mph line-out to first base and a 104 mph line-out to left field.

‘I swung it well today,’ said Anthony, who is hitting .290 with 10 home runs and 29 RBIs in 57 games with Worcester.  

‘His at-bats were great all night,’ Tracy said.  

Yet, in his final at-bat, Anthony made sure nobody could catch it. 

His near 500-foot homer marked Anthony’s second grand slam of the season. The blast turned Worcester’s one-run lead into a five-run advantage en route to a season-high sixth consecutive win for the Triple-A club.

‘The dugout went crazy,’ Tracy said. ‘When he comes to the plate in those moments, you feel like he’s going to do something special.’

Asked where his latest homer ranked among his top hits with Worcester, the 21-year-old outfielder didn’t hesitate. 

‘That’s probably it right there,’ Anthony said.  

BERKELEY, CA – If you saw Antonio Davis on the court, you remember a fierce power forward and rebounder. As he played, he saw failure as something he couldn’t afford.

“If you would have taken sport away from me, where would I be today?” says Davis who helped lead the Indiana Pacers to four NBA Eastern Conference finals in the 1990s.

“That’s a scary feeling for me, and I don’t know what a 6-9 skinny kid would have been doing, but it wouldn’t have been pretty. Growing up here in Oakland, I could have done a lot of other things.”

We were at March’s Project Play Summit, asking him and two other successful men brought up in their own distinct ways through sports, about why they think the athletic participation rate among boys has crashed.

According to the latest data from Sports & Fitness Industry Association, half of boys aged 6 to 17 participated regularly in sports in 2013. But only 41% did in 2023. The number has been at 41% or lower for eight straight years as the rate for girls (35.6% in 2023) has remained steady.

At the same time, according to Reeves’ research team, sports are the only extracurricular activity boys are more likely to do than girls.

“It’s not like on the average, boys are going to go to theater or math club – maybe they should,’ Reeves tells USA TODAY Sports. ‘Participation in youth sports is a big issue in and of itself, but the stakes are even higher for boys than they are for girls, because they’re less likely to do other stuff and they need to move more.”

How do we get more boys to play sports, and keep the ones who are playing? We spoke with Reeves and sat in on his discussion with Davis and Larry Miller, the chairman of Nike’s Jordan Brand advisory board, to help find answers that could help you and your young athlete.

Another ‘way out’

Miller, who grew up in Philadelphia, says he was the teacher’s pet through elementary school. He was in junior high when he got distracted.

“The cool guys were doing the stuff that was in the street and I got pulled into that,” he told the crowd in Berkeley.

At 16, he killed another teenager he mistakenly believed was a rival, according to ESSENCE.com, and spent years in a juvenile correction center.

He rehabilitated himself first by taking college classes in jail, eventually matriculating at Temple University.

“Of all things, as a criminal I decided to get an accounting degree,” he said.

After revealing his dark background to a hiring manager cost him a job with Arthur Anderson, he kept the story to himself for 40 years. After Miller built his career at Nike, though, his eldest daughter, Laila, suggested it might inspire other people. They collaborated to write, “Jump: My Secret Journey from the Streets to the Boardroom.”

Michael Jordan and Phil Knight, the company’s chairman, supported his decision, and he meet with the family of the young man he shot to ask for their forgiveness. In February, Miller launched the Justice and Upward Mobility Project (JUMP) to provide chances for those affected by the justice system.

“Part of our goal is how can we provide more opportunity for people who have the talent but just don’t have the ability to utilize that talent?” he said.

Why not through sports?

“I think in the Black communities, brown communities, the sense of hope has kind of dissipated,” Miller says. “And I think that’s why boys in particular are saying, ‘Hey, there’s no reason for me to do this, because it’s not going to lead to anything.’

“In our community, people saw sports as a way out. And I think what happens as boys advance, (they) realize that, ‘I’m not gonna be able to play professionally, I’m not gonna to be able to get a college scholarship, so I’m just going to fall off and try to figure out a different way out. I’m gonna go do something else that can allow me to get paid.’ ”

A re-education starts, Davis suggests, with a change in perception of what it means to be a kid, and what it means to be a man.

‘Get back to the basics’: Normalize what success means for kids

Davis’ dad was killed when he was in high school. He remembers being singularly motivated to provide for his family. After he played for 13 years in the NBA and raised a son (A.J.) and daughter (Kaela) who both played high-level college basketball and professionally, he thinks more about the benefits he got from sports.

Today, youth coaches seem to link their self-worth with winning a game more than providing kids with an experience.

 “All the pressure that’s being put on them by their team and their parents, I just think they’re opting to do all the other stuff that’s kind of pulling and tugging on them, whether it’s playing video games or just hanging out or doing other things,” Davis says. “I think they’re just being kind of turned off. And I feel we just have to get back to the basics of the importance of all the other life lessons that you’re going to learn from just playing sport. I’m a big advocate of just give kids space to move around and move their bodies and learn how to be in shape and to be healthy.

“And then as we go on, as I did with my kids, introduce all kinds of sport and whatever they gravitate towards, because that’ll be something that’ll be tugging at their heart and not forced into.”

Coach Steve: American kids get a D- in physical activity. What can we do about it?

Davis, who is also the CEO of the National Basketball Retired Players Association, says the No. 1 thing former players say they miss about the NBA is the camaraderie.

That’s a benefit from sports we all get.

“I’ve played almost every sport you can think of really badly, but I had a great time,” says Reeves, the British author, who played rugby at the University of Oxford. “The great thing about sport is that someone has to lose. I think one thing that should be zero-sum in sport is you have to lose. And by God, you can lose brutally sometimes. Some of my strongest memories were playing in subzero temperatures (against) these massive kids and losing like 67-0. So you lose. …

“And because I moved around from different sports, probably I would lose more. And I think that that sense of you can compete, you can lose, and that’s great, was actually an incredibly important life lesson for me because you lose in life all the time.”

Coach Steve: Have we lost the sportsmanship in high school sports?

What do we ‘call a man’? Boys need male role models

Reeves, who raised three boys who are now in their 20s, writes in “Of Boys and Men” about how girls consistently outperform boys in school, and about how men are struggling to fit into society and the workforce.

He founded the American Institute For Boys and Men (AIBM), which shares in its brief that while we don’t have definitive answers as to why boys might be playing sports less often, one hypothesis behind it is the decline in male teachers who serve as coaches, particularly at the high school level.

Meanwhile, according to AIMB research, men account for 23% of U.S. elementary and secondary school teachers, down from about 30% in 1988. 

“Coaches of boys sports are mental health professionals in disguise, and part of it is because they do it shoulder to shoulder, which is a much more male friendly way of doing it,” Reeves tells USA TODAY Sports, “but the coach sitting next to the young man or the boy on the bench saying, ‘How you doing? You seem off today. How are things at home?’ … that may be one of the most important men in that boy’s life. That’s very interesting to me, coming from a different culture and raising my kids here, is the almost iconic position of coach in American culture.”

Davis was raised in Oakland by his mom. He says his grandmother told him what to avoid, and he had influential men around him who gave him sports opportunities and a safe space. Being a professional athlete, he says, doesn’t make you a role model. What does is taking accountability for yourself and what you make out of your life.

“I hate that if we play sport and we don’t make it, we feel like a failure,” Davis says. “Whether you are a young man or a growing man, we have to learn how to take this stance, that no matter what society says, no matter the outcome, I’m doing the things that I’m supposed to do: Being a contributor to my community, taking responsibility if I have kids,” Davis says. “And we have to find ways to let our kids know that it’s OK to hopefully graduate from high school, go off to college if he or she is lucky, and then go on to get a job.

“It’s not bad to just say, ‘Hey, I got a job. I’m making good money, I’m taking care of my kids, I got a ride that can get me from A to B.’ We don’t have to have the best car and the biggest house and a pocket full of money in order to be what we call a man.”

Ask your kids about what they get out of sports, and always be there to support them

Our life in sports doesn’t have to end when our career does. Reeves plays squash and tennis, “and I can still beat my kids at badminton,” he says.

Working for Jordan Brand, Miller has gotten to travel the world, where, he says, he can attend any sporting event he wants.

“I never even came close to being a professional athlete,” he says. “There are all these other incredible benefits that come from playing sports and I think we’ve gotten away from teaching that: The teamwork you learn, the working with others, the being able to be part of something that’s bigger than yourself.”

Basketball remains perhaps the most popular sports for boys and girls to play. According to the Aspen Institute’s State of Play 2024 report, more than 7 million kids between the ages of 6 and 17 played it regularly in 2023. However, the percentage of kids who play it has declined or remained the same since 2013.

“As I kind of move around and watch a lot of youth basketball, and coach youth basketball, I feel that there’s just kind of this pressure: If you’re not the best, if you’re not going to succeed, then why even try?” says Davis, 56. “And I think there’s a lot of layers to why that happens: Parents, the way that it is today with social media and I think a lot of our young men are getting turned off very early by I guess the system.”

He has a grandson who plays football.

“I ask him why is he playing,” Davis says. “Regardless of what’s going on outside of my house and all this other stuff that I can’t control, what I can control is his perception: ‘Did you learn something? I saw you get knocked on your butt. How did that feel?’ We have to fight against it by getting into the heads of your kids and the teams that you run.

“We can’t let it take away what we know to be true, which is, if our kids play sports, they’re eventually gonna be better off than not playing.”

His grandson is a 12-year-old lineman. When Davis watched him recently, though, he was allowed to play quarterback. He took the ball, went a couple of steps, and was tackled. Davis acted like he scored a touchdown.

“I’m not sure why I did it,” he said, “but I needed him to understand the fact that he did something should be celebrated: that he was out there and he was engaged and he got up and he was smiling and having fun. Like, make that the normal, not being a champion.”

Reeves said the anecdote reminded him of when he was 12, and he finally managed to break through that rugby line. As he ran to score, he saw someone tagging along with him on the sideline. It was his father.

“He was more excited than I was,” Reeves said.

Steve Borelli, aka Coach Steve, has been an editor and writer with USA TODAY since 1999. He spent 10 years coaching his two sons’ baseball and basketball teams. He and his wife, Colleen, are now sports parents for two high schoolers. His column is posted weekly. For his past columns, click here.

It was last December when former tight end Greg Olsen, an announcer on Fox, said something that has become increasingly popular now about Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell. But then, Olsen was one of the first high-profile people to put it so bluntly and publicly.

“If you’re starting a franchise and you need a great coach, play-caller, quarterback whisperer,’ Olsen said, ‘he might be the guy.”

He probably is the guy. But how did O’Connell get to this point? I’ve been told by several people who’ve been around O’Connell that he does this one thing that is increasingly rare in the NFL (and actually in all of society): He listens. He listens extremely well.

O’Connell prepares and works hard but his listening skills are supposedly what distinguishes him from some other coaches. When it comes to formulating a game plan, he accepts input more than the average coach, it seems. He’s perhaps mastered the trickiest part of doing the job in that he listens while simultaneously leading.

None of this is to say O’Connell is alone at doing this, but he might be the best at it.

Even the way he handled the Aaron Rodgers situation was impressive. More listening. More good communication. It was a tricky one for O’Connell. He had to navigate what is a friendship between the two men and explore (delicately) the possibility of Rodgers joining the Vikings while simultaneously protecting the interests of J.J. McCarthy.

‘When there was an opportunity — when him and I connected this offseason just to kind of talk about what that would look like — we had a lot of great dialogue about it, but it always was centered around what was best not only for the present in the Minnesota Vikings organization, but the future,’ O’Connell said.

‘I was very honest about my feelings towards J.J., my obligation that I felt like we were going to give him the best possible situation to begin and thrive on this NFL journey, and let’s see where it goes. We stayed in touch and had some communication,’ he said. ‘… Out of respect for our friendship and everything, that’s about as much as really kind of happened.’

There’s also the preparation part of O’Connell’s game, and this is where McCarthy, who is taking over the position from Sam Darnold, will also greatly benefit.

“It’s always, like, ‘Hey, we’re going to do this run this way because, later in the game, that’s what they’re going to see, and the way our formations are, they’re going to think it’s this, but it’s really that,’” O’Neill said a few months ago. “It’s keying players into why we’re installing things the way we are, rather than some coaches who call plays and install plays, and the players don’t know why.”

‘If we’re only going to operate the way we want when things are going well, that’s a culture that has nothing to do with what we’re trying to build here. And luckily, because I think we have great players and we have great people in our locker room and our coaching staff, people have adhered to that being our way of doing things, and it has shown up.’

O’Connell was named Coach of the Year in 2024 and in many ways it wasn’t just about the season. It could have easily been a lifetime achievement award as he has worked around many quarterbacks and changed their careers for the better. The latest was of course Darnold.

If O’Connell’s history continues, McCarthy will be another QB success story for him. Just watch … and listen.

UCLA baseball is one win away from the biggest, brightest stage its sport has to offer.

The No. 15 Bruins will take on UTSA on June 8 in the second and potentially final game of the Los Angeles Super Regional at Jackie Robinson Stadium, UCLA’s home ballpark.

With a victory, the Bruins will win the best-of-three series and advance to the College World Series. The CWS appearance would be the sixth in program history and their first since 2013.

The Roadrunners, making their first NCAA tournament appearance in 12 years, are in their first-ever super regional after upsetting No. 2 Texas in the Austin Regional. If they rebound from Saturday’s disappointment with a win Sunday, they’ll force a decisive third game Monday, with the winner advancing to the CWS.

Follow along here for the live score, updates, highlights and information on how to watch UCLA and UTSA baseball’s matchup in the super regionals of the 2025 NCAA tournament:

UCLA vs UTSA baseball live score

This section will be updated throughout the game.

UCLA vs UTSA baseball super regional live updates

Sixth inning: UCLA 2, UTSA 0

UTSA still scoreless

After coming into the game, Chris Grothues retires the side, getting Norris McClure to ground into a double play and striking out Mason Lytle looking to keep UTSA without a run through five innings.

UCLA makes pitching change

With a 2-0 lead, UCLA turns to its bullpen, pulling starter Landon Stump in favor of Chris Grothues. Stumps finishes his day with four hits, five strikeouts, one walk and, for now, no earned runs in four innings.

Roch Cholowsky doubles UCLA’s lead

UCLA’s starting to find its rhythm offensively and creates a little bit of a cushion between itself and UTSA. With teammate Phoenix Call on second base, Roch Cholowsky singles to right center, pushing the Bruins’ lead to 2-0 in the fifth inning.

UCLA gets out of jam with big strikeout

Right after surrendering the lead, UTSA has an excellent opportunity to tie it up or take the lead, with runners on first and third with two outs. For the second time today, though, Jordan Ballin strikes out swinging with a runner in scoring position and the Roadrunners remain scoreless through four innings.

UCLA, Toussaint Bythewood break scoreless deadlock

With two outs and the bases empty, UCLA was looking poised to get shut out of another inning. The Bruins had other ideas. Payton Brennan hits a double to the wall in left center to keep his team alive and, for the first time today, a batter comes through with a runner in scoring position. During the next at-bat, Toussaint Bythewood rips a single to right field to bring Brennan home and give UCLA a 1-0 lead.

UTSA, UCLA scoreless through three innings

It’s still a 0-0 ballgame in Los Angeles. UTSA gets a two-out single in the bottom of the third inning, but fouls out on the next at-bat.

UCLA goes down in order

Three up and three down for the Bruins, who remain scoreless through three innings after two groundouts and a strikeout.

UTSA strands another in scoring position

UTSA’s list of missed opportunities is growing. With a runner on second base and two outs, Jordan Ballin strikes out swinging, keeping it a scoreless game heading into the third inning.

UCLA shut out in second inning

After getting the leadoff runner on base after a hit-by-pitch, the Bruins aren’t able to do anything with it. They go down on a strikeout, a fielder’s choice out at second and a pop-out to center.

UTSA leaves one in scoring position

Like UCLA, UTSA has an excellent opportunity for at least one run in the first inning after a lead-off double from Norris McClure. From there, though, the Bruins get stingy, striking out one batter and forcing another to strike out before Lorenzo Morresi hits a hard grounder along the third-base line, which Roman Martin backhands and makes an excellent throw to first to get Morresi out and end the threat.

UCLA strands two runners

UCLA has a chance to strike early with runners on first and third, but AJ Salgado strikes out swinging to leave the Bruins empty-handed heading into the bottom of the first.

UTSA baseball lineup

Here’s the lineup UTSA will have as it aims to continue its season and a question for a CWS berth against UCLA:

UCLA baseball lineup

Here’s a look at the lineup UCLA will roll out against UTSA as it aims to secure a spot in the CWS:

UCLA baseball radio

UCLA’s super regional game Sunday against UTSA can be heard on the UCLA Bruins Audio Network. Click here to access it.

UCLA baseball stats

Here are UCLA baseball’s player and team stats from the 2025 season.

What time does UTSA vs UCLA baseball start?

Date: June 8
Time: 3 p.m. ET
Where: Jackie Robinson Stadium (Los Angeles)

UTSA and UCLA are scheduled for a 3 p.m. ET first pitch at Jackie Robinson Stadium in Los Angeles for the second game of the Los Angeles Super Regional.

What TV channel is UTSA vs UCLA baseball on today?

TV channel: ESPN2
Streaming options: ESPN app | ESPN+

Game 2 of the Los Angeles Super Regional between UTSA and UCLA on June 8 will air ESPN2. Victor Rojas (play-by-play) and Todd Walker (analyst) will be on the call.

Streaming options for the game include the ESPN app, which requires a valid cable login) and ESPN+, ESPN’s subscription streaming service.

Watch UCLA vs UTSA baseball live with ESPN+

UCLA vs UTSA baseball predictions, picks, odds

Odds from BetMGM

Spread: UCLA, -1.5
Over/under: 12.5 runs
Moneyline: UCLA, -135 | UTSA, +105

Prediction: UCLA 6, UTSA 5

The Roadrunners have had a program-defining run, one made all the more enjoyable by getting the better of an in-state behemoth along the way, but the Bruins are playing their best ball of the season, with nine wins in their past 10 games. They’ll continue to ride that momentum all the way to the CWS.

NCAA baseball schedule

The 2025 NCAA baseball tournament began on May 30 with the regional round of play. The tournament’s now in the super regional round, which began June 6 and will run no later than June 9. The super regionals are eight different best-of-three series, with the winners advancing to the College World Series, which will begin on June 13. The double-elimination tournament will run through June 22 or 23, depending on whether the best-of-three championship series goes two or three games.

Here is more detailed look at the latest college baseball schedule and NCAA Tournament bracket update.

Regional round: May 30-June 2
Super Regional round: June 6-9
College World Series: June 13-22/23
CWS finals: June 21-22/23

Aaron Rodgers has never played against the Green Bay Packers during his NFL career. That is set to change during the 2025 NFL season after the 41-year-old quarterback signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The Steelers are scheduled to host the Packers in Week 8 on ‘Sunday Night Football.’ The contest will give Rodgers a chance to become the fifth-ever quarterback to beat all 32 NFL teams.

For that reason, many believe Rodgers will have the game against the Packers circled on his calendar. But he won’t be the only player looking forward to that matchup.

Green Bay quarterback Jordan Love is eagerly anticipating facing his former teammate and mentor for the first time in his five-year NFL career.

‘It’s going to be fun. It’s going to be awesome. I’m excited for it,’ Love told Channel 3000 of facing Rodgers during the 2025 NFL season. ‘I can’t wait to be on different sides, meeting up, and I know we’ll talk pre-game, things like that. And hopefully we can exchange jerseys after.’

Love detailed he has a ‘great relationship’ with Rodgers, who has been ‘supportive’ of him during his five-year career. The 2020 first-round pick credited the veteran for drawing on his own experiences as a backup and eventually taking over for Brett Favre, which helped positively shape their bond.

‘He’d been through the very same situation I was in, and he knew what it feels like to be in that situation,’ Love explained, referencing the path Rodgers faced after being selected in the 2005 NFL Draft as a long-term replacement for Favre.

‘I think that’s just a testament to his character and the way he treats people. He was trying to go about it differently than it was for him. And I was grateful for that.’

As such, Love remains a fan of Rodgers even as they have spent the last two seasons apart. That’s one of the reasons the 26-year-old is glad the veteran decided to sign with the Steelers and play another season after contemplating his future during the offseason.

‘I was excited for him, that he was obviously coming back and going to be playing,’ Love said of Rodgers. ‘There were also some rumors that he might be done, so just knowing he’s going to keep playing, that’s pretty awesome.’

OKLAHOMA CITY — At 7-foot-1, it’s difficult to go unnoticed.

But for the majority of his 23 minutes, 31 seconds in Game 1, Oklahoma City Thunder center Chet Holmgren was invisible, a non-factor in the Indiana Pacers’ stunning 111-110 victory Thursday, June 5.

Holmgren scored a playoffs-low six points on 2-for-9 shooting, including a miss on his only 3-point attempt. It was also his third-fewest minutes on the court in the playoffs. He also had just 28 touches offensively compared to 40 touches in the series clinching Game 5 of the Western Conference finals against Minnesota. He had 47 touches in Game 4 against the Timberwolves.

As Oklahoma City’s third-leading scorer behind NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and All-Star Jalen Williams, Holmgren needs to be more involved and productive offensively in Game 2 against the Pacers on Sunday, June 8 (8 p.m. ET, ABC).

“I feel like I could have slowed down, kind of finished some of those plays at the rim,” Holmgren said. “Obviously it hurts in a one-point loss. One single difference on one single play could have decided the whole game. Puts a magnifying glass on every single instance in the game.”

Of Holmgren’s seven missed shots, six were in the paint, including four that were considered layups in the shot chart.

“Above everything else, just worrying more about impacting the game in all of the facets and just try to let that take care of itself. If you just focus on that, you’re going to start putting a lot more pressure on that and you’re not going to be focused on everything else that’s important, too.”

The Thunder used a different starting lineup in Game 1, inserting guard Cason Wallace in place of center Isaiah Hartenstein. It went away from Oklahoma City’s two-big lineup featuring Holmgren and Hartenstein. Through the first three rounds of the playoffs, the pair averaged 12.6 minutes on the court together. They did not log one minute together in Game 1.

“… our responsibility is to be ready to execute no matter what the coaches ask us to do out there,” Holmgren said. “In Game 1, that was to play more single-big. Whether the coaches ask us to do that or ask the team to go small or ask the team to go double-big, we have to be ready to do that and execute it, and that’s what we have to focus on.”

Thunder coach Mark Daigneault declined to say what he planned for his starting lineup in Game 2.

“I know we started the same lineup in the playoffs, but our rotation night to night in these series has been incredibly variant,” Daigneault said. “We think that’s a strength of our team. I liked how we started the game, and I liked, really, everything we did to build a 15-point lead, and then we didn’t deliver down the stretch collectively.

“But we are always trying to learn from it. … We understand the tradeoffs with every lineup we put on the court. We’ll continue to try to make every decision we can to give ourselves the best chance to win. That’s what we did in Game 1. Didn’t turn out in our favor, but that’s what we’ll do in Game 2 and moving forward.”

Holmgren averaged 15.0 points on 49% shooting during the regular season and averaged 16.4 points on 48.9% shooting in the first three rounds of the playoffs.

To a lesser extent but still important to the Thunder’s success, they also require a more efficient game from Williams, who had 17 points on 19 shots.

Daigneault did not want to address their performances specifically. “I don’t think anybody played their best game,” he said. “Certainly, he didn’t play his best game, but I don’t think any of us did. That wasn’t our best game, flat-out, with anybody.”

But Daigneault also reminded NBA media that both players were drafted in 2022 – Holmgren No. 2 and Williams No. 12. They are 23 and 24 years old, respectively, starring on the youngest team to make the NBA Finals since 1954-55. Holmgren, who missed the 2022-23 season, has played in 114 regular-season games and just 27 playoffs games the past two seasons. Despite his role, he has limited experience and is in his first Finals.

“What I will say is like he and Dub, specifically, obviously they have carved out huge roles on our team,” Daigneault said. “They are a huge reason why we’re here. They are in an uncommon position for third-year players. … Usually delivering in the Finals is not on the curriculum for third-year players.”

But, that’s how the Thunder are built, and Holmgren and Williams have earned their roles as the two main scorers after Gilgeous-Alexander. You win – or lose – with what got a team to this point.

“They have thrust themselves into that situation, which is a credit to them,” Daigneault. “And now that they are here, they have to continue to do what they have done all the way through the playoffs, which is go out there, fully compete, learn the lessons, and apply it forward.

“And they have done a great job of that. You’ve seen that over the course of the playoffs. They haven’t always played their best game, but they always get themselves ready to play the next one. The last guy I’m worried about that is Chet.”

Pacers coach Rick Carlisle shared his concern: “Chet is going to be more aggressive.”

That’s definitely part of the Thunder’s plan to even the series. Holmgren needs to make his presence known.

The Miami Dolphins and Jalen Ramsey mutually agreed to seek a trade for the veteran cornerback a couple of weeks ahead of the 2025 NFL Draft.

Ramsey remains on Miami’s roster nearly two months later, but it appears the two parties are still planning to split before the 2025 season.

NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reports Ramsey is not planning to attend the Dolphins’ mandatory minicamp this week as the two parties ‘continue to work towards a trade.’

Miami’s minicamp will run from June 10-12. If Ramsey does not attend, he will be subject to a fine for each day he misses. According to Spotrac, a player fine will be a maximum of $17,462 for the first day absent, $34,925 for the second day and $52,381 for missing a third day.

The NFL’s new CBA only allows fines to be forgiven on rookie deals, so it doesn’t appear Miami will be able to waive any fines assessed to Ramsey.

Ramsey has four years remaining on his contract with the Dolphins, as the three-year, $72.3 million extension he signed with the team on eve of the 2024 NFL season still hasn’t kicked in yet. He is set to have a cap hit of just under $16.7 million this season while taking home $25.1 million in cash, per Spotrac.com.

The Dolphins will be able to split any dead-cap hit – guaranteed money already paid to a player no longer on the team – associated with trading or releasing Ramsey over two seasons because the NFL’s June 1 deadline has passed. Making it palatable for Miami to trade Ramsey, as it would take manageable dead-cap hits of roughly $10.75 million in 2025 and $18.5 million in 2026 while creating $5.9 million in space for the upcoming season.

Releasing Ramsey would be more penal. The Dolphins would take on just under a $31 million dead-cap hit this season – which would cost them $14.3 million in present-day cap space – while still absorbing a dead-cap blow of $18.5 million next season.

It isn’t clear whether the Dolphins are willing to release Ramsey if they can’t find a willing trade partner.

The NBA Finals pick up again Sunday, June 8, after a two-day layoff which has given fans the opportunity to dissect and debate Tyrese Haliburton’s game-winning shot from every angle.

On the heels of the Indiana Pacers’ shocking 111-110 comeback victory in Game 1, the Oklahoma City Thunder play host again in Game 2 (8 p.m. ET, ABC).

Thunder coach Mark Daigenault has said he won’t reveal his plan for the starting lineup after changing his postseason strategy for Game 1, going with extra guard Cason Wallace and one big man in Chet Holmgren, leaving center Isaiah Hartenstein to come off the bench.

Holmgren had a disappointing NBA Finals debut, scoring just six points, but Indiana coach Rick Carlisle has warned he expects the third-year forward/center to be more aggressive this time around.

USA TODAY Sports’ experts make their NBA Finals Game 2 picks for the Indiana Pacers vs. the Oklahoma City Thunder:

NBA Finals Game 2 predictions

Scooby Axson: Pacers 124, Thunder 117
Jordan Mendoza: Thunder 104, Pacers 92
Lorenzo Reyes: Thunder 111, Pacers 102
Heather Tucker: Thunder 117, Pacers 110
James Williams: Thunder 115, Pacers 95
Jeff Zillgitt: Thunder 120, Pacers 109