http://assets.espn.go.com/i/tvlistings/tv_espn_original.gif en-us 10 ESPN Inc. http://espn.go.com/ Copyright 2010 ESPN Inc. Opening Day for baseball coincided with the unofficial start of the 2013 National Pro Fastpitch season. The professional softball league's four teams won't play their first games until June 5, but the college draft starts to bring the rosters into focus.]]> April 01, 2013 16:57:02 PDT Several returning starters and a well-regarded freshman class have Oregon on the trail back to the Women's College World Series.]]> February 06, 2013 06:59:06 PST In its first season in the SEC, Missouri's hopes of reaching the World Series again with All-American pitcher Chelsea Thomas.]]> January 31, 2013 04:48:44 PST Washington has exited the NCAA tourney in the super regionals the past two years, but has an experienced roster and star pitcher ready to take the Huskies back to the World Series.]]> January 30, 2013 07:21:17 PST Whitney Canion's return to Baylor from knee surgery could tilt the balance of power in women's softball in the Big 12.]]> January 28, 2013 05:54:38 PST Keilani Ricketts and Jessica Shults were on the wrong side of Jackie Traina in last month's WCWS championship series, but the trio now finds itself playing for a common cause while wearing the red, white and blue.]]> July 02, 2012 06:29:05 PDT Alabama hasn't been around long, but it's come close to softball's big prize a few times. Wednesday was its breakthrough as the Crimson Tide won the WCWS title over Oklahoma.]]> June 06, 2012 10:40:42 PDT For the first time since 2007, there will be a winner-take-all Game 3. Alabama saw to that with an 8-6 win against Oklahoma.]]> June 05, 2012 14:03:32 PDT It was billed as a duel of pitchers Keilani Ricketts of Oklahoma and Jackie Traina of Alabama. Yet both pitchers batted cleanup, and produced, for their respective teams.]]> June 04, 2012 15:17:57 PDT The Crimson Tide's six seniors don't mind the underclassmen grabbing the headlines. They just want their share of a championship.]]> June 03, 2012 15:26:05 PDT LSU loyalists bring a bit of the Bayou to Oklahoma City to support the Lady Tigers in their bid to win the Women's College World Series.]]> June 02, 2012 10:16:33 PDT Oklahoma's California recruits and Alabama's Southern roots saw to it that no Pac-12 team made the championship series for the first time since 1986.]]> June 01, 2012 08:59:06 PDT Oklahoma's ace has been good for some time. In the postseason, she is 7-0 with a 0.16 ERA and 76 strikeouts in 45 innings.]]> June 01, 2012 08:58:02 PDT ASU's Hillary Bach didn't throw a pitch during the postseason a year ago. But with the season on the line Saturday, she delivered a shutout against LSU.]]> June 01, 2012 08:58:44 PDT It's Cal versus Oklahoma and Alabama versus Arizona State as softball's top powers do battle in a day for the ages at the WCWS.]]> June 01, 2012 02:38:35 PDT