Welcome to The Curse, Courtney Deifel. Get comfortable. If it holds for you the same as it holds for your male diamond sports counterpart coach, you’ll be locked in to a lifetime deal at the University of Arkansas. A lifetime deal with a lifetime of hang-dog looks after your team falls inexplicably.
Deifel’s Razorbacks softball team – you know, the one that was (also inexplicably) ranked No. 1 in the nation a few weeks back – fell in the Fayetteville Super Regional on Sunday to Ole Miss, 7-4. It had lost the best-of-three set opener on Friday after, in true Arkansas-has-the-greatest-luck fashion, its two best pitchers inexplicably got food poisoning despite not eating together.