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"First Night" Events Kick off NCAA Season All Over the Country
by Swish Appeal
posted October 16, 2010 at 12:57pm

"First Night" Events Kick off NCAA Season All Over the Country John Altavilla of the Hartford Courant will be live blogging from Gampel Pavilion as the defending champion Huskies kick off the new season (also available on ESPNU). Many schools in additi...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

Women’s basketball “Super Six Series” includes six conferences
by HoopFeed.com
posted October 13, 2010 at 4:54pm

Six conferences joined forces to create the Super Six Series women’s basketball challenge set to begin this season. Conferences in the series include the Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big 12, Big Ten, Southeastern and Pacific-10. Two teams from each confe...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

NCAA Soccer – 18 Matches That Matter for 10/10/10
by All White Kit
posted October 10, 2010 at 1:16pm

UCLA's Lauren Barnes Will Play A Huge Role if The Bruins Are To Shut Down Stanford on Sunday (All times listed are Eastern.) UCLA vs Stanford (4:00) Stanford survived being thrown to the lions at the Coliseum and now have a likely Pac-10 decider agai...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

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

The West Coast’s Top 5 rankings…
by Left Coast Hoops
posted October 7, 2010 at 3:54pm

It’s that time of year. Teams all over the country — all over the West Coast — have begun practice for the 2010-2011 season and leftcoasthoops.com is ranking the top five players at each position, as well as the freshmen, in our little corner of the...more

Baylor tabbed to win the Big 12
by Swish Appeal
posted October 7, 2010 at 2:59pm

Baylor tabbed to win the Big 12 Baylor basketball and their returning sophomore phenom Brittney Griner have been picked by the coaches to win the Big 12 in the recently released preseason poll. The Bears recieved 11 first-place votes, the maximum allowe...more

Avoiding the potholes on the drive to perfection
by Swish Appeal
posted October 7, 2010 at 2:32pm

Since April 6th, fans of the UConn Women’s basketball team have dreamed and speculated over this moment. Everyone wants to talk about the streak and tying and surpassing the UCLA men’s record of 88 wins in a row. Who would consecutive wins numbers 88 ...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

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

NCAA Soccer – 12 Matches That Matter for 10/03/10
by All White Kit
posted October 3, 2010 at 2:41pm

Santa Clara's Bianca Henninger Will Be Hoping For Better Days Than The One Where Teresa Noyola's Free Kick Found The Back of the Net. Stanford vs Santa Clara (4:00) These two teams just aren’t that into each other. One of the nation’s fiercest lo...more

Oriard: Bringing Academics Back to College Athletes
by Sports, Media & Society
posted October 2, 2010 at 11:10pm

The business of college football has changed dramatically in recent decades, and one scholar believes new changes are needed to re-establish the integrity of the relationship between sport and education. Michael Oriard, former University of Notre Dame sta...more

Midseason Gong Show: Pac-10 Review and Awards
by All White Kit
posted September 30, 2010 at 12:21pm

< p> Stanford's Christen Press is the Frontrunner for the Hermann Trophy (Here’s the latest in my ongoing series of mid-year looks at each of the major conferences. SEC and Mid-Major reviews coming soon.) 3 – Stanford 8 – Arizona State 10 �...more

Reaction: Cuts To Cal Athletics Department - California Golden Blogs
by Swish Appeal
posted September 29, 2010 at 2:50pm

Reaction: Cuts To Cal Athletics Department - California Golden Blogs Norcalnick of SBN's California Golden Blogs weighs in on the University of California's announcement that they will eliminate baseball, men's and women's gymnastics, and women's lacros...more

The AWK Contrarian NCAA Top 55 Poll v4.0 – Impostors In The Midst (Alternate Title: Look Who’s Fraudulent Now)
by All White Kit
posted September 29, 2010 at 12:50pm

I’ve been taking a close look at how teams have been faring against Unadjusted RPI Top 100 Teams (AKA uRPI) thus far in the season and have tacked that on in brackets at the end of each team’s line in this report. I also used what I found to rejigger...more

UC Berkeley Cuts Five Teams
by Title IX Blog
posted September 28, 2010 at 10:29pm

As Kris noted recently, the University of California, Berkeley athletic department has been considering eliminating sports as a cost-reduction measure. So it is sadly no surprise that the Chancellor has announced that baseball, men's and women's gymnasti...more

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