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The College World Series or CWS is an annual baseball tournament held in Omaha, Nebraska that is the culmination of the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship, which determines the NCAA Division I college baseball champion. The eight teams are split into two, four-team, double-elimination brackets, with the winner of each bracket playing in the best-of-three championship series. The tournament takes place in June of each year. - Source: Wikipedia
The use of video replay will be expanded at next month's College World Series to give umpires the ability to take a second look at a ball hit down an outfield line to determine if it's fair or foul.
Attention on the red-brick campus of Wichita State this time of year has usually shifted from round ball to hardball _ as in, to the Shockers' venerable baseball program.
Dominic Ficociello sat in bed one night during his senior year of high school and couldn't help but feel drawn to a place 1,500 miles from home.
In nearly four decades of coaching hockey, Dean Blais never had to make a game plan while taking the position of the sun into account.
Ron Fraser coached the national teams from two different countries, is a member of 10 different Halls of Fame, won two NCAA baseball championships and never had a losing record in a 30-year career with the Miami Hurricanes.
On May 25, 2007, Jordan Zimmermann took the mound for Wisconsin-Stevens Point to open the NCAA Division III College World Series in Appleton, Wis. Zimmermann dominated Emory with a complete-game, one-hit shutout and went 3-for-3 at the plate, driving in one of his team's runs in a 2-0 victory.
Arizona came to the College World Series as one of the hottest teams in the nation and swept three straight games to reach the championship round.
Arizona came to the College World Series as one of the hottest teams in the nation and swept three straight games to reach the championship round.
Stony Brook University is hoping to build on the attention its baseball team is getting with its first-ever appearance in the College World Series by producing a television commercial that will air during the team's first-round game Friday against UCLA.
South Carolina is going for three straight national titles and Florida is the No. 1 seed.
South Carolina is going for three straight national titles and Florida is the No. 1 seed.
Matt Senk remembers looking out at his players during his first practice as Stony Brook's baseball coach 22 years ago and thinking he had made a huge mistake.
For now, only an umpire's call on whether a home run really is a home run will be subject to video review at the College World Series.
Their motto is "shock the world." So far, so good for the Stony Brook Seawolves.
Stony Brook University, which began playing a Division I schedule only in 2000, is headed to the College World Series after pulling off a stunning upset of perennial baseball powerhouse LSU before 10,000 Tigers supporters in Baton Rouge, La.
