Bad news in the Heartland

A little background for those outside the area. Every time the NCAA tells Omaha to bend over and take it or else lose the CWS, the city says "thank you very much and may I have another?" This time around, Omaha is taking it up the rear to the tune of a brand new, $100+ million baseball stadium that will be used for exactly 2 weeks out of the year. The new stadium will sit adjacent to the Qwest Center, which is the reason why the 2 events cannot overlap. As for the question "Who wants to go to Omaha anyway?" the answer is lots of swimming fans, given the success of the trials this summer. If you had asked the question before 2008, I would have said "Who knows?" But there is no question that the 2008 trials were wildly successful. The 2012 Olympic Swim trials would barely be a blip on the radar in a city like Las Vegas or some larger metropolitan community where swimming would be buried in the middle of the sports section behind off-season football transactions and the first of 1000 meaningless regular season baseball games.

A little background for those outside the area. Every time the NCAA tells Omaha to bend over and take it or else lose the CWS, the city says "thank you very much and may I have another?" This time around, Omaha is taking it up the rear to the tune of a brand new, $100+ million baseball stadium that will be used for exactly 2 weeks out of the year. The new stadium will sit adjacent to the Qwest Center, which is the reason why the 2 events cannot overlap. As for the question "Who wants to go to Omaha anyway?" the answer is lots of swimming fans, given the success of the trials this summer. If you had asked the question before 2008, I would have said "Who knows?" But there is no question that the 2008 trials were wildly successful. The 2012 Olympic Swim trials would barely be a blip on the radar in a city like Las Vegas or some larger metropolitan community where swimming would be buried in the middle of the sports section behind off-season football transactions and the first of 1000 meaningless regular season baseball games.