The College World Series is the culmination of the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship which determines the NCAA Division I college baseball champion. It takes place in June of each year. Since 1950, the tournament has been held at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska; earlier tournaments were held at Hyames Field in Kalamazoo, Michigan (1947-48) and Wichita, Kansas (1949). The name is derived from that of the Major League Baseball World Series championship.
2007:
The 2007 College World Series was held from June 15-24, with 2006 champion Oregon State defending its title over 2006 runner-up North Carolina, winning 11-4 and 9-3 in the best-of-three series. The last team to repeat as national champions was LSU in 1997. The last repeat of the previous year's finals was in 1973, when USC defeated Arizona State for the second straight year. (USC won five straight titles from 1970-74.)
In 2007 the eight teams that advanced to the CWS started from an initial field of 64 teams, first from the 16 four-team double-elimination regionals. Oregon State began the tournament as a #3 seed in the regionals, in the lower half of the 64 teams.
The 16 winners from regionals advanced to the super regionals, 8 head-to-head matchups in a best-of-three format. The winners of these 8 super regionals advanced to the College World Series in Omaha.
The regional portion of the 2007 NCAA baseball tournament took place on June 1-4 at 16 sites. The eight site super-regional round took place June 8-11 at Rice, Louisville, Mississippi State, North Carolina, Oregon State, Cal State Fullerton, Arizona State, and Wichita State. Wichita State was the only host not to advance, falling to UC Irvine in two games.
Baseball at the Summer Olympics had its unofficial debut at the 1904 Summer Olympics and has been contested in 12 Olympiads (including its centennial in 2004 Athens). Since then, 17 different nations have appeared in Olympic baseball competition, with 3 of those nations, Cuba, Italy and Japan, appearing in all 4 medal editions of the tournament. Baseball has a long history as an exhibition/demonstration sport in the Olympics. However, for 1992 Barcelona the International Olympic Committee (IOC) granted the sport medal status. Olympic baseball is governed by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF).
At the IOC meeting in July 2005, baseball and softball were voted out of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England, becoming the first sport voted out of the Olympics since Polo was eliminated in the 1936 Olympics hosted in Berlin, Germany. The event remains on the docket for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The elimination will excise 16 teams and more than 300 athletes from the 2012 Olympics. The two slots left available by the IOC's elimination were not filled by new sports, so both baseball and softball can reemerge as events in the 2016 Olympics, provided no new sports are adopted into the games and both receive enough votes to be included.
The World Baseball Classic, sometimes abbreviated WBC, is an international baseball tournament, first held in March 2006. It is sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation and created by Major League Baseball, the Major League Baseball Players Association, and other professional baseball leagues and their players associations around the world. The second WBC is scheduled to take place in 2009, with subsequent tournaments held every four years thereafter.
The WBC is the first international baseball tournament for national teams to feature professional players from the major leagues; the Summer Olympics have regularly featured college and minor-league players because the Games conflict with the major league season, and the Baseball World Cup historically has not had major leaguers participate. In addition to providing a format for the best baseball players in the world to compete against one another while representing their home countries, the World Baseball Classic was created in order to further promote the game around the globe.
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