This week, the College World Series isn't exactly America's pastime. It's more like past-your-bedtime. For the first four nights, the second game of the CWS doubleheader started at about 8:15 p.m. The single games Tuesday and Wednesday night are scheduled to start at 7. Same for the CWS championship games beginning on Sunday.

Replay Monday's chat with World-Herald sports columnist Tom Shatel.

One of my favorite sports interviews didn't take place in a dugout, a football locker room or a musty old gym. To find this Hall of Famer, I had to go to the Kiewit Plaza in midtown Omaha.

Arkansas is in the winners bracket of the College World Series, so here's an interesting question: What if Dave Van Horn makes the championship series? Will Nebraskans root for NU's former baseball coach to win a national championship?

Stony Brook, meet Stony Wall. That’s the UCLA baseball team. The Bruins don’t have the catchy name or the cuddly story. But they have the team, the team that pounded Cinderella 9-1 on Friday, the team that might stay in Omaha long enough to pay property taxes.

What's a rock star to do on his first day in a new town? Go exploring. On Wednesday night, four Stony Brook players headed out, in search of adventure and steak. They left their Embassy Suites hotel and walked up 10th Street, in bright red Stony Brook gear, in search of Cascio's. People in cars honked or waved to them. Some stopped and greeted...

The rope was untied and the statuette was unveiled. And everyone ducked. Not really. But just wait until the life-size statue of Bob Gibson is finished and set outside Werner Park. The statue is a model of Gibson following through after a pitch, his eyes straight ahead. It oozes determination. Mixed with intimidation.

The newly created Omaha chapter of Stony Brook University is taking volunteers. They will hold their first meeting when the Seawolves take the field at the College World Series. But will the Omaha Seawolves have unis?

The other night, as I watched Charles Barkley ride a horse to the Oklahoma City Thunder game, and 18,000 Oklahomans in white shirts celebrate a trip to the NBA Finals, several images came forth. I thought of the former Big Eight football writer who once called Oklahoma City “the world’s largest truck stop.” In the most...