Eric Olson

OMAHA, Neb. -- For now, only an umpire's call on whether a home run really is a home run will be subject to video review at the College World Series.

NCAA vice president for football and baseball Dennis Poppe said Tuesday that officials would have to think long and hard about adding other situations that could be reviewed.

OMAHA, Neb. -- College baseball coaches have looked nearly everywhere for players.

Now, they can try somewhere else -- cyberspace.

OMAHA, Neb. -- At Creighton, Doug McDermott is no longer overshadowed by another star.

Before he showed up in Omaha last year, McDermott was the wingman for superstar Harrison Barnes at Ames High School in Iowa.

McDermott is his own man nowadays — and the man to fans of 19th-ranked Creighton.

Other than the Chicago Bulls’ Kyle Korver, the Bluejays’ sharpshooter from 1999-2003, McDermott is the most celebrated Creighton player athletic director Bruce Rasmussen can remember in his 32 years at the 6,000-student Jesuit school.

After the sophomore forward scored 25 points and went over 1,000 for his career in Sunday night’s 90-71 win over Southern Illinois, McDermott and some teammates walked into a sports bar for dinner.

A smattering of claps grew into a standing ovation.

McDermott’s 24.3-point average is second nationally to Damian Lillard’s 25.5 for Weber State, and no sophomore in the nation has scored more points so early in his career.

OMAHA, Neb. -- In a move praised by coaches, the NCAA plans to use instant replay on an experimental basis to review certain calls at the College World Series next year.

Reviewable plays would be limited to deciding if an apparent home run is fair or foul, whether a batted ball left the playing field for a home run or a ground-rule double, or whether there is fan interference on apparent home runs.

OMAHA, Neb. -- Offensive numbers are down in college baseball because of new bat standards that went into effect this season.

According to NCAA Division I statistics through the end of the regular season May 22, the overall team batting average dropped from .305 last season to .282. Home runs were nearly cut in half, from 0.93 a game to 0.52, and scoring was down from 7.01 runs a game to 5.62. Sacrifice bunts were up from 0.58 a game to 0.75.

OMAHA, Neb. -- Speedskating great Apolo Anton Ohno will decide by the end of the year or early 2012 whether he'll train for the next Winter Olympics.

Ohno turns 29 this month and would be 31 when the Winter Olympics are held in Sochi, Russia.

He said Monday some people thought he was too old to succeed in the Vancouver Games, where he won three medals. His eight medals over three Games is a record for an American Winter Olympian.