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NCAA Softbal weekend update 5/14
by Alan's College Softball Blog
posted May 15, 2011 at 1:33pm

Cal has beaten Arizona, 6-3, this afternoon to take two out of three in the series and finish in second place (15-6) in the Pac 10. Arizona State had clinched the conference title Thursday night.Talking about clinching conference titles, Michigan (18-2)...more

New twist to NCAA track & field season
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted May 13, 2011 at 2:18am

Earlier this week I got a tip that Florida State’s men’s team had a trick up their sleeve this coming weekend at the North Florida Invitational. So I thought I’d go check out the heat sheets tonight and search for Florida State. What I found was v...more

Upcoming NCAA softball selections
by Alan's College Softball Blog
posted May 12, 2011 at 12:24am

With the NCAA selections coming up Sunday night, a recent discussion thread on Ultimate College Softball reminded me of how the tournament seedings don't always match up with the media/coaches' poll rankings. I thus decided to make the following chart, ...more

College Track & Field Weekend Preview: Conference Championships
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted May 11, 2011 at 2:06pm

Most conference championships are held this weekend, including all of the top four – the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-10. It’s the weekend when team competition is the most important item on the menu, a rarity for college track but my favorite thing....more

Who did what in Track & Field : College Weekend Roundup
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted May 10, 2011 at 5:15pm

Below is this week’s compilation of what the top college stars did. Rankings in each event reflect the most recent Track and Field News formcharts. It being the week before most conference championships, the word “idle” comes up a lot. MEN 100 m...more

NCAA Gender Equity: The three-prong breakdown
by Title IX Blog
posted May 5, 2011 at 10:57pm

At the NCAA Gender Equity Forum, which Erin attended earlier this week, there was a discussion about compliance in the area of equitable opportunities. This area is--arguably--the most well-known and, perhaps ironically, the most misunderstood.Schools can...more

Inspecting Pac-12 Network's impact on women's basketball & Big East negotiations
by Swish Appeal
posted May 5, 2011 at 1:20pm

Back in March, Jeff Rabjohns of the Indianapolis Star wrote an article describing not only how the Big Ten Network is "having a cascading effect throughout the college landscape" for women's basketball exposure, but also how television executives are seei...more

NCAA Rules Committee Proposes Moving 3-Point Line & More
by Swish Appeal
posted May 5, 2011 at 2:24am

The NCAA Women's basketball rules committee has come out with some fascinating proposals, all for the better of the game in my opinion, that will be voted on via conference call on June 9th.First, after tracking where three-point shots were actually attem...more

What You Should Know: 2009-10 NCAA Race and Gender Demographics Report
by NACWAA Blog: Inspiring Perspectives
posted May 4, 2011 at 5:57pm

The NCAA recently released its Race and Gender Demographics Report for 2009-10, which measures annually the composition of NCAA member institutions’ administrative and coaching staffs. The report shows significant increases in the number of administrat...more

TV Alert: Watch press conference regarding Pac-10 TV deal
by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
posted May 4, 2011 at 11:42am

What the Pac-10's historic television deal means for women's basketball in the soon-to-be 12-team conference is still being unveiled. If anything like the Big Ten, aside from the Pac-12 owning sole rights, women's basketball fans should rejoice in the fac...more

Title IX Compliance: Why can't we just stop counting football?
by After Atalanta
posted May 3, 2011 at 5:01pm

Because I said so.I know that is the mom response. But it is actually true.Last week's NYT piece about the ways in which schools not-so-subtly manipulate their roster numbers to make it appear that they are closer to providing equitable opportunities than...more

NCAA Gender Equity Issues Forum
by Title IX Blog
posted May 3, 2011 at 3:52pm

Greetings from Bethesda, where I'm attending the NCAA's Gender Equity Issues Conference. This is a great annual event that brings together gender equity experts and athletic department staff from colleges around the country to talk about Title IX and gen...more

Former Washington assistant back in the Pac-, er, 12
by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
posted May 3, 2011 at 9:51am

Former Washington assistant coach Willette White was named to Utah coach Anthony Levrets' staff on Monday. A native of Tacoma, White was with the Huskies from 1986-93. Working on Chris Gobrecht's staff, White helped the UW compile a 181-59 record, win th...more

Track & FIeld College Power Rankings
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted April 28, 2011 at 12:37pm

This week's college power rankings show no movement at the top, but some shakeups below that. The big winners were the teams that did well at the ACC Championships.The Superfan’s Men’s Power Rankings for April 27, 2011(last week's ranking in parenth...more

NCAA Women's Basketball Coaching: Why Developing Expertise At Mid-Majors Is Best For The Game
by Swish Appeal
posted April 22, 2011 at 1:08am

Brian McCormick, author of Cross Over: The New Model of Youth Basketball Development who writes at Brian McCormick Basketball (developyourbballiq.com), is an experienced coach and development expert whose basketball insights about everything from yout...more

Florida State's Cori Close to coach UCLA
by They're Playing Basketball
posted April 21, 2011 at 9:05pm

ESPN is reporting that UCLA is set to name Cori Close as UCLA's new coach within a half hour.Close has been associate head coach at Florida State for the past seven years. She is characterized as "one of the best offensive minds in the country."Before tha...more

LSU Coach Dennis Shaver on subdividing D-I track
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted April 21, 2011 at 1:34am

Recently I listened to a portion of the audiobook version of Tina Fey's memoir Bossypants. It's just as funny and insightful as you'd expect out of such a brilliant comedy mind.One of the more interesting bits is about the "Rules of Improvisation" that ...more

Who did what in collegiate track & feld this week (Women)
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted April 19, 2011 at 3:16am

Again the weekly roundup of the top collegiate action, this time for the women.Top ten rankings are according to the latest Track and Field News formchart.100 meters 1. Jessica Young (TCU) - 3rd at Tom Jones Memorial (11.23w) behind Scott (UCF) and C...more

Alabama Crimson Tide gymnasts take 5th NCAA title
by Sports Girls Play
posted April 17, 2011 at 7:18pm

Congratulations University of Alabama gymnasts on your 5th NCAA National Championship title!! I watched the NCAA Championship meet online yesterday and without a doubt, that was one of the best Super Six meets I have seen! The level of gymnastics was ahh...more

Woman on men’s college tennis team wins conference rookie-of-the-week honors. Remind me: Why isn’t D3 tennis co-ed?
by Fair Game News
posted April 15, 2011 at 5:11pm

By Laura Pappano Last week after Wheelock College freshman Claire O’Donoghue, a member of the Men’s Tennis Team (yes, you read that correctly), earned a 6-1, 6-0 victory in singles and an 8-6 win in doubles with her male partner (plus narrowly lost a...more

Registration open for NCAA Black Coaches & Administrators ACE Program
by NACWAA Blog: Inspiring Perspectives
posted April 14, 2011 at 7:39pm

Registration is now open for the 2011 NCAA Black Coaches & Administrators Achieving Coaching Excellence Program (ACE), which provides professional development opportunities for current NCAA collegiate men’s and women’s basketball coaches. The 2011...more

One week after the NCAA championship: What's up in women's b-ball
by After Atalanta
posted April 13, 2011 at 8:52pm

Hey, the WNBA draft was on Monday.In an uncharacteristic move, I turned on the television in the middle of the day, and it just it happened to be on ESPN anyway and there it was--the draft. Otherwise, I would have had no idea. I mean, I knew it was coming...more

Kudos, news and new NACWAA members
by NACWAA Blog: Inspiring Perspectives
posted April 13, 2011 at 7:21pm

Dr. Donna C. Heinel has been promoted to Associate Athletic Director/Senior Woman Administrator at the University of Southern California. She currently served as Assistant Athletic Director at USC. Jessica Huntley was named Director of Division III ...more

CollegeTrack & Field Power Rankings: Women
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted April 13, 2011 at 1:27pm

Oregon stays at #1Unlike the men's rankings, the women's saw very little movement from last week. All of the top five spots remain unchanged.In the only major scored-meet action of the weekend, Oregon defended its #1 ranking by winning the Pepsi Team In...more

Monday Morning Decathlete
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted April 11, 2011 at 4:23pm

What did we learn this week?Texas A&M is the best relay squad in the country. At the Texas Relays this weekend, the Aggies won a meet-record six relay events. The only relays the Aggie men didn't win were the 4x1500 and distance medley, and the 4x20...more

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