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Here's your guide to get you ready for all the action in Omaha. Our staff takes a look at all eight teams with scouting reports, top players and an Omaha outlook, while John Manuel travels back in time to show how Rosenblatt Stadium defines college baseball. You can also take a look at the top college baseball stories of 2007, and we have the complete bracket with the broadcast schedule.

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SAN DIEGO (TICKER) The on Tuesday designated pitcher Wil Ledezma for assignment and recalled fellow lefthander Joe Thatcher from Class AAA Portland of the Pacific Coast League. Ledezma, 27, is 0-2 with a 5.04 ERA and 38 strikeouts in 14 games - six

SAN DIEGO (AP) pitcher Jake Peavy will come off the disabled list and face the on Thursday. Peavy reacted well to his four-inning simulated start Saturday with no physical setbacks to his strained right elbow. We didnt feel there was any need to either

SAN DIEGO (AP)All it took was one start this season for San Diegos Randy Wolf to know he was back. Wolf, who signed with the Padres as a free agent, has rebounded nicely from offseason shoulder surgery and has become a stabilizing force for the Padres.

SAN DIEGO (TICKER) Reigning National League Cy Young Award winner Jake Peavy will be activated from the disabled list in time to start Thursday afternoons game against the . Peavy has been sidelined for the past month by a strained right elbow, an injury

CHICAGO (AP) - Just as the Chicago Cubs are on a roll, when all facets of their game are clicking and they have one of the best records in the majors, they are confronted with a staggering loss. Star leadoff hitter Alfonso Soriano could miss six weeks

OK, so now do you believe in curses? Just when it looked like it was safe to feel good, if not cocky, about the Chicago Cubs' World Series hopes, along comes the latest curse to slap the Cubs silly. Left fielder Alfonso Soriano, who had just begun to

CLEVELAND (AP)Catcher Victor Martinez left the Cleveland Indians game against Minnesota after one inning Wednesday night with what the team announced as an inflamed right elbow. Martinez was scheduled to have an MRI exam on his elbow Thursday, manager