BOWLING GREEN — One after another, the storm clouds rolled in last week, each portentous headline giving way to another.
Mid-American Conference to eliminate eight postseason tournaments. Owens suspends fall and winter sports. MAC slims down football expenses.
You could sense what may be next.
And yet the news dump that came Friday afternoon packed no less of an emotional wallop.
The Bowling Green State University baseball program — led by beloved longtime coach Danny Schmitz — was no more.
If the move was understandable, so is the anger and sadness.
There is no way to spin the elimination of a sport as anything other than cold business, and this downsizing was especially painful — and personal.