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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

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South Carolina is going for three straight national titles and Florida is the No. 1 seed. Yet all the talk at the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., is about Stony Brook and Kent State. Now that these upstarts have crashed the party, what will they do? The Seawolves of Stony Brook have received rock-star treatment since their super-regional victory at LSU and undoubtedly will be the fan favorites when they open today ( 2 p.m. on ESPN2) against No. 2 national seed UCLA (47-14). “People just want to hang out with us for some reason,” center fielder Travis Jankowski said Thursday. “I don’t know why. They just love us.” – AP