The Oral Roberts baseball team embraces its underdog status in a college sports landscape dominated by Power Five money, name, image and likeness deals and the transfer portal. The small, private Christian school that competes in the Summit League lacks the money and facilities of the top programs. The Golden Eagles can show other factors matter when they play in the College World Series, starting Friday against TCU.
Northwood Temple Academy in North Carolina conducted the baptism for a few scheduled students, but the principal said the rest of the kids joined the affair when the ceremony moved them.