ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON SOFTBALLONSI Texas Tech's NiJaree Canady (24) celebrates in the first inning of the Women's College World Series softball game between the Texas Tech Raiders and the Oklahoma Sooners at Devon Park in Oklahoma City, Monday, June, 2, 2025. | SARAH PHIPPS/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The Texas Tech Red Raiders certainly shocked the nation when they pulled some of the biggest names in the game out of the transfer portal this offseason

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON SOFTBALLONSI ESPN personality Pat McAfee talks during College GameDay as Nick Saban looks on. | Nathan Giese/Avalanche-Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images When NiJaree Canady entered the transfer portal after leading Stanford to back-to-back Women’s College World Series (WCWS) appearances, it was inevitable that her phone was going to blow up. The 2024 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, who owned a 0.67 ERA with 555 strikeouts across

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON SOFTBALLONSI The AUSL Bandits will play in Chicago, according to a social media post from GM Jenny Dalton-Hill. | AUSL Bandits After the inaugural season of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League (AUSL) concluded with 24 games touring 10 different cities, the major question has been, where will the four current teams, the Bandits, Blaze, Talons, and Volts, stay permanently? In an Instagram post recapping the historic summer, the general manager of the