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Madness at Oregon
by Mitzi Ing
posted October 16, 2011 at 7:46pm

The University of Oregon took the common pep rally for the kickoff of basketball team practices to another level and had its first ever “Matt Knight Madness” at the Matthew Knight Arena on Friday, October 14, 2011. I was excited to check out the Wom...more

Friday Night Highlights in NCAA Women’s Volleyball: Oct. 14
by Bethany
posted October 15, 2011 at 3:03pm

A quick recap of the top 5 teams who competed on Friday evening...more

Comparing male and female athletes
by One Sport Voice
posted October 10, 2011 at 9:48pm

While talking with a reporter today about WNBA Champions the Minnesota Lynx, I had a realization…it most likely isn’t new, but I’d never thought about selective comparisons between male and female athletes in quite this way before. Comparisons bet...more

Pac-12 basketball preview: The University of California, Berkeley
by They're Playing Basketball
posted October 10, 2011 at 9:49am

This is the first of a 12-part series previewing the Pac-12 teams.It might seem odd to say that a team returning seven players is going to have an exquisitely fresh start this year. But Cal's five freshmen were one of the highest-ranked recruiting classes...more

Kansas City Sports Commission Pens an Open Letter To University of Missouri Chancellor Brady Deaton
by anngaff
posted October 7, 2011 at 11:26am

The following letter was printed in the Kansas City Star this morning, urging the University of Missouri to stay in the Big XII Conference. The Kansas City Sports Commission and Visitors Association, who penned the letter, implores Missouri chancellor Bra...more

Game-Changer: Let Athletes Major in Sports
by Mariah Burton Nelson: BEYOND WORKOUTS - Think of Yourself as an Athlete
posted October 7, 2011 at 12:51am

I sometimes joke that at Stanford University, I “majored in basketball.” Truth is, I spent hours each day immersed in a highly educational experience involving leadership and team-building lessons that were far more hands-on than anything I might hav...more

Brittney Griner headlines Big 12 preseason awards
by Swish Appeal
posted October 5, 2011 at 6:19pm

Brittney Griner headlines Big 12 preseason awards In unsurprising fashion, Brittney Griner was tapped to repeat as Big 12 player of the year. Griner was 2010 all-American, Big 12 player of the year and defensive player of the year as the Bears made it t...more

Weekly Big Ten Women’s Track & Field Report Oct, 5, 2011
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted October 5, 2011 at 2:54pm

This week’s roundup of action in the Big Ten… Rankings Big Ten teams in the USTFCCCA’s week 4 poll are as follows. 15. Michigan State (19th last week) 18. Michigan (13th last week) 20. Penn State (28th last week) 21. Minnesota (21st last week) 23...more

Weekend Round-Up: NCAA Hockey’s Year Has Officially Begun
by The First Line
posted October 3, 2011 at 7:09pm

They may have realized it when they only lost by one goal to Syracuse in their opener, a situation I referred to as a potential moral victory in my preview. They certainly knew when they took an early lead and scored three more times en route to a defea...more

NCAA Soccer – Non-Conference Snapshot – Patriot League
by All White Kit
posted October 3, 2011 at 12:30am

Patriot 83 – Army (W – Seton Hall) 95 – Navy 104 – Colgate 191 – Lehigh (D – @Seton Hall) 199 – Lafayette 253 – Holy Cross 256 – Bucknell 263 – American It’s been a pretty fruitful non-conference season at the top of one of the g...more

NCAA Soccer – Bubble Watch v1.0
by All White Kit
posted September 30, 2011 at 1:28am

With the release of the first set of official RPI rankings, it’s a good time for this year’s first edition of Bubble Watch to help try and sort out who’ll be dancing come November and who’ll be home early for the holidays. As was the case last ...more

2011 NCAA Soccer Preview – Pac-12 (Yes, Really!) – Subtraction By Addition?
by All White Kit
posted September 29, 2011 at 2:15pm

The Pac-10 swells from ten to twelve members and morphs into the Pac-12 this season, leaving many to wonder about the effects that the league’s new members will have in both the short-term and in the long-term on one of the elite soccer conferences in...more

Weekly Big Ten Women’s Track & Field Report Sept. 28, 2011
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 28, 2011 at 2:42pm

This week’s roundup of action in the Big Ten… Rankings Big Ten teams in the USTFCCCA’s week 3 poll are as follows. 13. Michigan (12th last week) 19. Michigan State (26th last week) 21. Minnesota (21st last week) 27. Iowa (28th last week) 28. Penn...more

The NCAA's position of power
by Sports, Media & Society
posted September 25, 2011 at 2:51pm

In the college sports landscape, the NCAA typically positions itself as a judicious, morally sanctified, student-athlete protection system. But many have questioned this position for the non-profit organization that generates millions of dollars of revenu...more

2011 NCAA Soccer Preview – Big Ten – Noisy Newcomers
by All White Kit
posted September 20, 2011 at 1:22am

New Kid In Town - Nebraska's Morgan Marlborough Will Look To Make A Big Impact In The Huskers' New Home For the 2011 season, the Big Ten’s getting a decidedly most un-Big Ten like twelfth member. The conference, known in recent years for its staun...more

September 19th- Stanford Women’s Soccer V Santa Clara
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted September 20, 2011 at 12:52am

With Stanford Women’s Basketball still a world away, C and R have been enjoying other women’s college sports, most notably volleyball and soccer. So when C saw that number one ranked Stanford soccer team was playing number 18th ranked Santa Clara at S...more

AWK: An interview with Virginia Tech midfielder Kelly Conheeney
by All White Kit
posted September 19, 2011 at 12:25am

Now entrenched as a perennial NCAA Tournament team, Virginia Tech will look to take the next step towards an ACC title this year with new coach Charles “Chugger” Adair. One thing that hasn’t changed in Blacksburg is the outstanding play of junior ...more

NCAA Soccer – Non-Conference Snapshots – ACC & Big East
by All White Kit
posted September 16, 2011 at 12:51am

Ahead of each league starting conference play, I’m going to be including some RPI data on each club to just give a little glimpse of where everyone stands as far as NCAA Tournament at-large bid hopes are concerned. I’ve also included a list of sign...more

Speaking of shame: The Scandal Bowl
by After Atalanta
posted September 16, 2011 at 12:45am

So I've been thinking and discoursing a lot about this Atlantic article about the "shame" of college sports. And I have a lot more to say--it's forthcoming (I think). Since it seems like the corporatization of college sports isn't going anywhere and given...more

NCAA Soccer – Ohio State v Dayton: An Upsetting Night In Big Ten Country
by All White Kit
posted September 15, 2011 at 6:24pm

Ohio State 0 – 1 (Loo 36′) Dayton Dayton got a longstanding monkey off their back with victory over Ohio State in Columbus thanks to Estonian international Katrin Loo’s snap header off a corner kick late in the second half. The visitors took adv...more

Stanford Women’s Sports News
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted September 15, 2011 at 2:06am

Stanford Women’s Basketball Coach Tara VanDerveer, who was recently inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, received the Phyllis Bailey Career Achievement Award from Ohio State's Varsity "O" Women's Alumnae Society, as reported by Stanford’s Offici...more

College Conference Realignments From a Track & Field Viewpoint
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 15, 2011 at 1:46am

Yesterday, SI’s Andy Staples wrote about the realignment threats in college sports and where we stand right now. Of course, in the general sports media the talk is all about football (and maybe sometimes basketball) in terms of what everyone might br...more

Another season of college sports scandals--and now what?
by After Atalanta
posted September 14, 2011 at 3:41pm

Intercollegiate sports are played all year round--except for a couple of those "summer" months where there are no official contests--but it's always around September, or probably more accurately, mid-August, that the talk of misdeeds among college athleti...more

NCAA Adopts Trans-Inclusive Policy
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted September 14, 2011 at 3:32pm

The NCAA announced a policy yesterday that clarifies their position on the participation of transgender student-athletes in sex-separated sports. The policy is largely based on recommendations included in On The Team: Equal Opportunities for Transgender ...more

NCAA Soccer – The First XI for September 14, 2011
by All White Kit
posted September 14, 2011 at 1:04pm

High Flyer - Dayton's Colleen Williams Hopes To Lead Her Team To Victory Over Ohio State on Wednesday “Oh hell yeah, we want to beat Ohio State, definitely…You know, those are our rivals and they’ve beat us the past few times and they’ve been...more

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