N.C. State's baseball team is declared a 2021 national champion by Yall.com. "The Toccopola Storyteller" Jerry Short weighs in on NCAA's decision to kick the Wolfpack out of the 2021 College World Series in Omaha. SEC members Mississippi State and Vanderbilt now battle for baseball supremacy.  Richard Mentor Johnson (1780–1850), the nation's ninth vice president and a native of Kentucky, is suddenly in the news. Also, leaders in Gulf Shores, Ala., are fighting shark-tooth and nail to keep a giant shark statute from being erected outside Alvin's Island novelty shop.