OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The College World Series has its usual mix of regulars in the eight-team field. It’s a couple relative newcomers that could provide the biggest storylines at the annual two-week party in Omaha, Nebraska. Wake Forest is the first No. 1 national seed since 2018 to reach the CWS. The Demon Deacons haven’t gone this far since their 1955 team won the national championship. Oral Roberts is the lowest seed to make it to Omaha since Stony Brook in 2012. Play begins Friday with TCU matched against Oral Roberts and Florida playing Virginia. On Saturday, it’s Wake Forest-Stanford and LSU against Tennessee or Southern Mississippi.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris saluted more than a thousand U.S. college athletes from championship teams who gathered Monday at the White House South Lawn. She says that sports have a “very special way of bringing people together.” President Joe Biden had been scheduled to greet the athletes, but he had a root canal and was unable to attend the outdoor event on an overcast morning. The first of its kind assembly comes as collegiate sports have increasingly spilled into the political arena.
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