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NCAA Soccer: First Round Results and Predictions
by Pretty Tough
posted November 16, 2009 at 11:47am
The NCAA Division 1 women’s soccer tournament is in full swing as the first round was played, with all of the top seeds getting through to the next round with no problems. And here are the results of the 32 matches played on Friday (Stanford played on T...more
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Chiney Ogwumike
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted November 13, 2009 at 7:32pm
That popping sound you just heard was champagne corks flying off in Palo Alto and in the houses of fans of Stanford Women’s Basketball everywhere. Stanford just landed the number one recruit for next year. Not just any recruit, but THE top recruit in th...more
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The Lambert wrap-up
by After Atalanta
posted November 13, 2009 at 4:15pm
I have to say that I, despite my deeply entrenched cynicism, am surprised at just how viral this whole Elizabeth Lambert thing went. It's everywhere I turn. I feel--and this is just a feeling not backed up at all by evidence--that this situation has gotte...more
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Elizabeth Lambert, Part 2
by The Glowing Edge
posted November 13, 2009 at 12:20pm
The Elizabeth Lambert story has captured tremendous mainstream attention and generated some good conversation (and some garbage, of course).
After posting my own response, reading widely and talking intently about the video, I believe that there are t...more
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DII field hockey team in NC cut
by Title IX Blog
posted November 13, 2009 at 12:12pm
It's never good news when I pull out my calculator and head to the Department of Education's Equity in Athletics Data Analysis Cutting Tool. And this time it's bad news for Catawba College in North Carolina. According to a very brief piece in USA Today, t...more
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Washington signs three prep standouts
by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
posted November 12, 2009 at 11:13pm
Washington coach Tia Jackson officially announced the signing of three prep standouts today. Snohomish F Marjorie Heard, Auburn Riverside PG Mercedes Wetmore and (Calif.) G Ashley Moore have all signed letters of intent,
"We couldn't be more excited abo...more
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Chiney Ogwumike picks Stanford
by Left Coast Hoops
posted November 12, 2009 at 1:14pm
Chiney Ogwumike, the 6-foot-3 forward from Cy-Fair High in Texas, confirmed Wednesday morning to ESPN Hoop Gurlz that she has chosen Stanford over Connecticut and Notre Dame. Ogwumike, the No. 1 prep recruit in the nation, will join her older sister Nn...more
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Soccer's bad girls
by Athletic Women Blog
posted November 12, 2009 at 11:49am
Badly behaved or just bad, or both? You decide. First it was the lately infamous Elizabeth Lambert:
Then a brawl in Rhode Island:
To cheer or to boo? A question that invites a farrago of answers . But something Mike Lopresti says hits what I think ...more
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2009 D-I Field Hockey bracket released
by Pretty Tough
posted November 11, 2009 at 2:53pm
Defending champ Maryland hasn’t lost this year, going 20-0 en route to an ACC title. Tonight, the Terps and 15 others learned their fates in the D-I Selection Show.
Five conferences were awarded automatic qualification. In addition, six conferences com...more
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College Basketball: Our Crowning Achievement
by Women's Sports Blog
posted November 11, 2009 at 12:28pm
Every time we reach this part of the year, it seems like the news is better. There is more coverage, more interest, another compelling set of stories. I can't think of another sport played by women that is on that kind of trajectory, and it's also col...more
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Lambert, Part II
by After Atalanta
posted November 10, 2009 at 11:42am
I was going to add a postscript to "10 lesbians walk into a bar" (I have to say I am just dying to see how that phrase affects my hits) based on the recent Graham Hays (of ESPN online) column about Elizabeth Lambert's actions last weekend.But I thought it...more
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Lapchick weighs in on new NCAA president
by Title IX Blog
posted November 10, 2009 at 11:39am
In a recent issue of Sport Business Journal (which, unfortunately, is only available to subscribers), Dr. Richard Lapchick, who is notable for his many reports on gender and racial diversity in sport and the experiences of collegiate student athletes, has...more
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Elizabeth Lambert Spurs Facebook Interest
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted November 10, 2009 at 1:48am
On Friday, we all saw the below video of New Mexico professional soccer player Elizabeth Lambert, who astonishingly displayed unsportsmanlike conduct in a game against Brigham Young University. (She’s since been suspended indefinitely from the league).
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10 lesbians walk into a bar...
by After Atalanta
posted November 9, 2009 at 8:55pm
...and naturally frivolity ensues. (You thought I was going to make a joke, right? Nope; just getting your attention.)And then when we see the sports network covering women's soccer on the plasma televisions scattered around the bar, our heads snap up eag...more
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Baylor Freshman Brittney Griner Dunks [Video]
by anngaff
posted November 9, 2009 at 1:22pm
Baylor Freshman Brittney Griner dunk for the first time in her collegiate career against Incarnate Word on November 7th. See how easy she makes it look in the highlight video below, about 52 seconds in.
From Griner's Wikipedia entry (which seems to have ...more
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Fresno State settles with former assistant track coach
by Title IX Blog
posted November 9, 2009 at 1:19pm
We blogged earlier this year about Ramona Pagel's case against Fresno State, in which she claimed that the athletic department failed to renew her contract and passed her over for promotion to head coach because she advocated for equal treatment for femal...more
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Mailbag: Support Sand Volleyball
by Pretty Tough
posted November 9, 2009 at 12:51pm
Hello Friends and Beach Volleyball Enthusiasts,
Many of you have contacted USA Volleyball with questions as to the status of sand volleyball in the NCAA. On January 15, 2010 there will be an override vote led by universities who are trying to block the...more
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Elizabeth Lambert: Where is the Outrage?
by The Glowing Edge
posted November 7, 2009 at 7:30pm
I’ve watched this video over and over again now, and I still can’t understand why, in any of these egregiously unsporting incidents, none of the women mistreated by Elizabeth Lambert turned around to treat this woman to an elbow in her jaw.
The u...more
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