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NCAA Tournament – Sweet Sixteen Match Times
by All White Kit
posted November 19, 2011 at 6:36pm

(All times listed Eastern) (1) Duke vs Ohio State – 1:00 PM (1) Wake Forest vs (4) Penn State – 1:00 PM (2) Virginia vs Virginia Tech – 1:00 PM (3) North Carolina vs UCF – 1:00 PM (from Gainesville, Florida) (2) Oklahoma State vs Maryland – 2...more

2011 NCAA Cross Country Championships odds and ends
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted November 19, 2011 at 3:48pm

First off, a reminder of the weekend’s schedule of events (all times Eastern). Sunday at noon: Flotrack live “blue carpet” show Monday at 11 AM: Flotrack live race day show (like ESPN’s GameDay, but better because it’s cross country) Monday a...more

NCAA VB: #5 Stanford Drops to #15 Oregon in Five
by Bethany
posted November 19, 2011 at 1:01pm

The match up between the #15 Oregon Ducks and #5 Stanford Cardinal brought a battle to Maples Pavilion with Oregon pulling the upset on Stanford in five sets (23-25, 25-20, 25-14, 22-25, 15-9). To add to the battle, both teams also managed to receive a ye...more

Oklahoma State University Mourns the Loss of Women's Basketball Coaches Killed in Plane Crash
by Pretty Tough
posted November 18, 2011 at 10:18pm

In stunning and tragic news, the Oklahoma State University Cowgirl basketball team has lost two key members of their coaching staff after a plane crash. Head coach Kurt Budke and assistant Miranda Serna both perished in the single engine plane crash Thurs...more

Job Schmob, Let’s Watch Some Women's Hockey
by The First Line
posted November 18, 2011 at 1:40am

Maybe if I had my priorities straight, I would have noticed that Darmouth beat Cornell last week for one of the biggest wins in program history. Can they carry that momentum into a Friday match-up with St. Lawrence and especially a now-rather-important ...more

Acknowledging the price of college athletes
by Sports, Media & Society
posted November 17, 2011 at 2:26pm

ESPN the Magazine recently teamed up with MIT researchers to determine the value of college athletes at Florida University. (The article can also be found here through ESPN’s Insider service.) The results shouldn’t be surprising to anybody who knows ...more

Recommendations for cuts in at Maryland
by Title IX Blog
posted November 16, 2011 at 11:08pm

The recommendations for how many and which teams will be cut from UMD's athletic department came faster than we expected. And it seems like President Wallace Loh will make his decision, based on the committee's recommendations, sooner than he had planned ...more

NACWAA Action Regarding Recent NCAA Division I Legislation
by NACWAA Blog: Inspiring Perspectives
posted November 16, 2011 at 12:13am

Author: NACWAA Dear Members, We would like to make you aware of our recent activity in response to significant reform recommended by the NCAA Division I Presidential Retreat working groups and passed by the NCAA Board of Direct...more

Penn State's Caitlin Lane Recaps Mid-Atlantic Regional Cross Country Meet in a Tumultuous Weekend
by CaitlinLane
posted November 14, 2011 at 4:29pm

We left for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships with heavy hearts, but happy to be escaping the madness. We hopped on the bus after practice and traveled to Princess Anne, Maryland for the second time in two years. The women were on a mission. A missi...more

NCAA Tournament Preview – (2) UCLA vs New Mexico – Who Says You Can’t Win Anything With Kids?
by All White Kit
posted November 13, 2011 at 1:03am

Lockdown Artist - Abby Dahlkemper & Her UCLA Teammates Hope To Shut Down New Mexico on Saturday Night (2) UCLA (15-1-3, 8-1-2, 2nd Pac-12) vs New Mexico (12-4-4, 4-0-2, 1st Mountain West) When – Saturday, November 12, 10:00 PM EST Where – Drake...more

NCAA Div. I South Region XC Championships: link to public photo gallery & results
by Meggan's Running Blog
posted November 13, 2011 at 1:01am

I went to Tuscaloosa today for the NCAA Div I South Region Cross Country Championships. Snapped a good bit of photos from the men's and women's race. The link to the public gallery is below:http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.971461656156.2349168.265...more

NCAA Tournament Preview – Wisconsin-Milwaukee vs Illinois State – Super Striker Showdown on Saturday Night
by All White Kit
posted November 12, 2011 at 5:25pm

Apple Attack - Milwaukee's Sarah Hagen Will Hope To Avoid A Second Defeat To Upstarts Illinois State Wisconsin-Milwaukee (18-2-0, 8-0-0, 1st Horizon) vs Illinois State (13-5-0, 5-1-0, 1st Missouri Valley) When – Saturday, November 12, 8:00 PM EST ...more

More Notes on a Scandal: Cultures of Compliance (the Penn State/Berkeley comparison)
by From A Left Wing
posted November 12, 2011 at 5:06pm

The other week, my university's Chancellor sent out a message encouraging people to respect each other's differences - be they cultural, political, religious, academic, etc. It's the kind of thing administrators generate to look like they are doing the ...more

Penn State's manual for receiving reports of harassment (more notes on a scandal)
by From A Left Wing
posted November 12, 2011 at 4:43pm

College campuses are obliged to have policies regarding sexual harassment/sex discrimination. These very broad overlapping categories include sexual assault and the systemic cover-up of abusive behavior within a department. These kinds of a matters are ha...more

Reflections on Penn State: A Brief Look Back, to Colorado
by From A Left Wing
posted November 12, 2011 at 11:23am

As we read one editorial after another expressing outrage at Penn State's failure to respond to complaints regarding Sandusky, and try to wrap our minds around the consequences of this "scandal," we should step back and remember that U.S. universities hav...more

Game Day: Honoring veterans through women's basketball
by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
posted November 11, 2011 at 7:30pm

Happy Veneran's Day! I'd like to give thanks to all of those who have and continue to serve our country so that we can continue to do things we love...like watch basketball. Tony Orlando didn't originally write this song for you, but it has become a seren...more

NCAA Tournament Preview – Friday Game Preview Index
by All White Kit
posted November 10, 2011 at 8:45pm

For those who may have missed any, here’s an index for every preview for Friday’s matches. And as a bonus, I’ve listed tentative weather forecasts for each game. Weather can play a HUGE role in who lives to play another day in this tournament. ...more

Great Lakes Regional Cross Country Preview: Women’s Teams
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted November 10, 2011 at 8:42pm

On Monday I previewed the men’s teams at the upcoming NCAA Great Lakes Regional cross country championships. Today I look at the women’s teams. To review, this is the qualifying round for the NCAA Championships, to be held in Terre Haute on Monday, ...more

NCAA Tournament Preview – (1) Stanford vs Montana – The Quest Begins Again
by All White Kit
posted November 10, 2011 at 12:53pm

Lindsay Taylor & Stanford Will Hope For No Rainy Days In Palo Alto On The Road To Kennesaw (1) Stanford (19-0-1, 11-0-0, 1st Pac-12) vs Montana (6-11-4, 3-3-1, 4th Big Sky) When – Friday, November 11, 10:00 PM EST Where – Laird Q. Cagan Stadium...more

Maryland athletics cutting teams
by Title IX Blog
posted November 10, 2011 at 9:34am

University of Maryland has some tough decisions to make. The department, which is required to be self-sustaining (no money from the general fund; it does receive student fees) is not. Facing major deficits, it now faces the task of cutting teams--many tea...more

Interesting start to the revelation of the effects of living stipends for athletes
by Title IX Blog
posted November 9, 2011 at 9:43am

Who was going to pull the trigger first, we wondered, when we heard about the NCAA's approval of living stipends for DI student-athletes.Erin noted the Title IX implications. But would schools and leagues realize them? Would a school be bullied into provi...more

Not so surprised by PSU - Rene Portland was sheltered for years
by After Atalanta
posted November 9, 2011 at 9:37am

Of course Penn State was going to cover up the abuse perpetuated by one of its coaches. Of course the institution that sheltered openly homophobic and not-so-openly racist basketball coach Rene Portland for years--years--would cover up for a former assi...more

Conference realignment update: SEC-ya Mizzou! But what does it mean?
by Swish Appeal
posted November 7, 2011 at 12:53am

This summer on a WNBA game thread, there were conversations about what the heck all the conference realignment stuff meant and how it would affect the women's basketball landscape. And since the summer I've been contemplating these wacky moves and w...more

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