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Junior guard Julia Finlay leaves UNCW basketball team
by HoopFeed.com
posted October 19, 2010 at 4:42pm

Julia Finlay is no longer on the University of North Carolina-Wilmington women’s basketball team. Interim director of athletics Pat Howey announced that she left the team for personal reasons. The 5-7 junior guard from Hicksville, N.Y. suffered harsh p...more

College athletes and domestic violence, revisited
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted October 18, 2010 at 10:04pm

Bravo to ESPN.com’s Dana O’Neil for this well-reported piece on the complicated backdrop of college athletes and domestic violence and how some universities are trying to address the problem. In particular, she was careful to point out that the case ...more

First Day Of Practice
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted October 17, 2010 at 10:15pm

So, C and R couldn’t be at the first Stanford Women’s Basketball practice, but our Number one Fan (N1F) was. Let’s have her give you the scoop…N1FI'm getting really excited about the upcoming SWB season. Didn’t you have a countdown clock on ...more

NCAA Soccer – 16 Matches That Matter for 10/17/10
by All White Kit
posted October 17, 2010 at 2:12pm

Oregon State Ace Chelsea Buckland Will Be Looking to Outrun UCLA on Sunday All Times Listed Are Eastern Oregon State vs UCLA (4:00) Two great strikers will take the field in Corvalis on Sunday afternoon, one you’ve undoubtedly heard of and one wh...more

NCAA Soccer – 2 Matches That Matter for 10/16/10
by All White Kit
posted October 16, 2010 at 5:22pm

New Mexico's Jennifer Williams Will Try To Fire The Lobos To The Top of The Table Against BYU (All times listed are Eastern.) New Mexico vs BYU (7:00) The key to the future of these sides’ seasons may ultimately lie in each other’s hands. For ...more

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the top choice of them all?
by They're Playing Basketball
posted October 16, 2010 at 4:52pm

Oregon State news:This piece headlines the fact that the squad will practice against men, but that's probably the least interesting piece of info there. More juicy is that the new team will be short, and Coach Scott Rueck still needs one more assistant.Wa...more

5 Tips for Contacting College Softball Coaches
by Softball Performance Blog
posted October 16, 2010 at 3:51pm

Now that my daughter is in high school, it's time to start doing some research on colleges so that she can figure out what type of school she wants to go to. It's also a great time to begin communicating with college coaches as well. After all, you ...more

Pac-10 preview: Washington State University
by They're Playing Basketball
posted October 16, 2010 at 12:57pm

This is the second of a 10-part series previewing the Pac-10 basketball teamsWhen former University of Washington coach June Daugherty took over at Washington State University in 2007, many felt that this would prove once and for all whether or not she co...more

SDSU picked second in the Mountain West
by Left Coast Hoops
posted October 14, 2010 at 6:21pm

San Diego State might have reached the Sweet 16, but the Aztecs are not the favorite in the Mountain West Conference. TCU was picked to win the MWC in the preseason poll, released Wednesday afternoon. SDSU finished second in the voting with three first-pl...more

One day closer.....to college season
by They're Playing Basketball
posted October 14, 2010 at 5:11pm

Bring it on! Department:If it's Midnight Madness, that means it's almost college season.Six conferences have joined to create the Super Six Series women's basketball challenge this year.General college:The UNCW team and their new coach, Cynthia Cooper-Dyk...more

Highlights from Tara VanDerveer’s Tuesday press conference
by Left Coast Hoops
posted October 14, 2010 at 3:29pm

Tara VanDerveer met with the media for the first time this season on Tuesday. She talked about her team’s versatility, lofty goals and injuries as the first few practices are in the books. On the injury front… Junior guard Lindy LaRocque has a foot ...more

College Recruiting Updates from Kenny Kallina: October Visits and Notes
by HoopFeed.com
posted October 14, 2010 at 1:57pm

This coming weekend is when all the fireworks kick off for the new season and many schools try to corral the best young talent to see the production known as midnight madness. Midnight madness is somewhat ironic this year with the changing of women’s pr...more

Student-athletes and anti-bullying efforts
by After Atalanta
posted October 13, 2010 at 5:09pm

Given the homophobia that has--historically--swirled around sport, as well as the recent spate of high-profile anti-gay bullying incidents around the country, this article was very welcome.At University of Michigan student-athletes have stepped up to supp...more

The AWK Contrarian NCAA Top 56 Poll v6.0 – Who is hanging their hat on a win they shouldn’t be?
by All White Kit
posted October 13, 2010 at 11:52am

I’ve added an extra thing to look at in this version of the poll, the best uRPI ranked team a team has beaten in 2010. The question of the day is, “Who hasn’t beaten a Top 50 uRPI team?”. Seven teams in the latest ranking in fact. The Unlucky 7...more

College Coach Win-Loss Numbers and Yet Another Metric
by Swish Appeal
posted October 9, 2010 at 9:33pm

If you haven't guessed by now, I love metrics. Linear metrics, multiplicative metrics, any kind of metric there is. I've always hated the kind of argument that goes "well, player X was better than player Y because she had more heart". How am I suppo...more

NCAA Soccer Review – 10/09/10 – Dunn downs Virginia in extra time
by All White Kit
posted October 9, 2010 at 9:19pm

Crystal Dunn Came Through In The Clutch Again for UNC Against Virginia Virginia 0 – 1 (Dunn 99′) North Carolina [aet] [Attendance: 1983] Still just a freshman, Crystal Dunn showed why she’s one of the best players in the country after her dramat...more

Student-athletes and domestic violence
by After Atalanta
posted October 9, 2010 at 3:47pm

Saw a very good article today by Jerome Solomon in the Houston Chronicle about the spate of alleged and actual violence perpetrated by male student-athletes against women. It was inspired by the allegations against Baylor student and basketball player Lac...more

NCAA Soccer – 13 Matches That Matter for 10/08/10
by All White Kit
posted October 8, 2010 at 3:23pm

< p> Don't Worry, Roughly the Same Number of People Show Up At McAlister for the Trojans (All times listed are Eastern.) USC vs Stanford (10:00 at the Los Angeles Coliseum) Quibble with their style of play if you must, but you certainly can’t f...more

Big 12 coaches select Baylor as preseason favorite, Texas A&M;second
by HoopFeed.com
posted October 7, 2010 at 2:18pm

Baylor takes the top spot in preseason voting as the favorite to win the 2010-11 Big 12 women’s basketball regular season title. A vote of the league’s head coaches put the Lady Bears in first for the third time in conference history. Baylor receive...more

NCAA Soccer – Four matches that matter for 10/07/10
by All White Kit
posted October 7, 2010 at 1:11pm

Maryland's Ashley Grove Has Been A Revelation For The Terps in 2010 Boston College vs Maryland (7:00) The war for the ACC rages on in earnest in Chestnut Hill for a pair of squads who tasted defeat for the first time on Sunday. The Eagles will no dou...more

Ogwumike, Pedersen on the Wooden list
by Left Coast Hoops
posted October 6, 2010 at 6:34pm

The women’s Wooden Award released their first watch list of the preseason Tuesday and it includes four West Coast players, including Stanford’s Nneka Ogwumike and Kayla Pedersen, UCLA’s Jasmine Dixon and Gonzaga’s Courtney Vandersloot. Stanford...more

Strike IX profiles the 1999 Providence College Baseball Team
by Title IX Blog
posted October 6, 2010 at 2:35pm

When author Paul Lonardo contacted me about his new book Strike IX, I worried I might be in for another misplaced Title-IX-is-the-enemy screed from an advocate for men's sports. But after reading a copy of the book, which Paul kindly sent me, I learned t...more

NCAA Soccer Review 10/02-10/03 – Stanford Undisputed At The Top
by All White Kit
posted October 5, 2010 at 4:22pm

Two Teams Entered...One Team Tried to Win (Thanks for the pic Julie!) Stanford 2 (Press 78′, Taylor 79′) – 0 Santa Clara [Attendance: 1201] Santa Clara needn’t have shown up to their traditional local derby with Stanford such was the differenc...more

What and who counts: Another defense of Title IX
by After Atalanta
posted October 5, 2010 at 12:23pm

I have not been surprised by the renewed calls to abolish/reform Title IX in the wake of University of California Berkeley's announcement that it is cutting five intercollegiate sports.Yes, it's lousy that this happened. But California is not in good fina...more

Georgia Tech Women's Basketball: An Introduction
by Swish Appeal
posted October 4, 2010 at 3:46pm

Georgia Tech women's basketball is probably the best kept secret in Atlanta. Sports loyalties in Georgia seem to be divided between Georgia Tech in Atlanta and Georgia in the rest of the state. Even so the real rivalry centers around football, the "Cl...more

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