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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/wires/06/17/2060.ap.bbc.cws.rice.lsu.4th.ld.writethru.0909/ OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -Blake Dean barely arrived at second base when his joyous LSU teammates mobbed him, starting the kind of celebration usually reserved for a national championship game. After the hugging and backslapping were over, Dean showed the old been-there-done-that attitude as he talked about his game-winning, three-run double that kept the Tigers alive at the College World Series. Yes, the LSU has done this before. The Tigers dramatic 6-5 victory over Rice on Tuesday marked the second time in three wins in the national tournament they've come back from a three-run deficit in the ninth inning. In fact, LSU has come from behind in 30 of its wins this season. But this was different. This was Omaha, a place that hasn't been so kind to the Tigers since they won their last national championship in 2000. Dean, however wouldn't let on. It was as if his double off the left-field wall against Cole St. Clair was meant to be. "Believing isn't the issue,'' Dean said. "There's no doubt in our mind that we were going to do it.'' Now LSU (49-18-1) plays Thursday against the loser of Tuesday night's Bracket 2 game between Fresno State and North Carolina. si.com 6/17/08

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/baseball/recap?gameId=2816800611 OMAHA, Neb. -- Georgia has taken control of its bracket at the College World Series. What a relief for the Bulldogs. Actually, what a group of relief pitchers. Georgia's bullpen turned in a second straight dominating performance at the CWS, this time allowing Stanford one single and four other baserunners in six shutout innings in Monday night's 4-3 victory over the Cardinal. Matt Cerione produced the winning run with his two-out, bases-loaded single in the seventh inning. After Stanford scored all its runs in the third inning against starter Nick Montgomery, Stephen Dodson and Alex McRee held things together on the mound while Georgia tried to solve Stanford's Jeffrey Inman and Austin Yount. Once the Bulldogs got the lead, they turned the game over to dependable closer Joshua Fields. "When you stop a team like that and you give us a chance to get our offense going, we have enough weapons in our lineup that we're eventually going to break through and score," Georgia coach David Perno said. "If they [Stanford] only score in one frame, we're going to have a lot of success." McRee (7-1) got the win after striking out two in 1 1/3 innings, and Fields earned his 17th save for working the ninth. Now the Bulldogs (43-23-1) will wait until Friday to play the winner of Wednesday's Miami-Stanford game. A win in that game would send Georgia out of Bracket 1 and into the best-of-three championship round that begins next Monday. The Bulldogs, who fought off elimination five times in the NCAA tournament, have come from behind in the late innings for its CWS wins over Miami and Stanford. ESPN.com 6/17/08

http://www.realgmfootball.com/src_feature/275/20080616/eli_promised_a_seat_at_adult_table_on_thanksgiving/ Little Eli Manning, fresh off a Superbowl victory against the New England Patriots has been promised a seat at the adult table this upcoming Thanksgiving in what promises to be the most heartwarming, gratifying and uplifting story of 2008. There will be an extra chair at the adult table this Thanksgiving at the Manning household. Formerly relegated to the fold-up card table in the living room with the rest of the Manning rejects and riff-raff, young Eli Manning has been tentatively promised room at the dining room table. Sources close to the family say that this has nothing to do with his recent Superbowl victory and subsequent pedantic trip to Disney-whatever. Rather, one of the older family members died of a SARS/Ebola hybrid recently and a slot has opened up. “All I had to do was promise to keep the spork out of my nose and refrain from doing anything else inappropriate,” Eli remarked. “Yes, in my family we use sporks.” RealGMFootball.com 6/16/08