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Game Day: Tulsa at Seattle takes WNBA center stage
by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
posted September 7, 2012 at 7:21am

The Storm (11-14) had a week to prepare for a key home-and-home set against Tulsa (6-20). But Seattle coach Brian Agler said most of the work was on team chemistry. Despite most of the players outside of rookies Shekinna Stricklen and Alysha Clark having...more

NCAA Soccer – The Big Review – Week Three (08/31-09/04)
by All White Kit
posted September 7, 2012 at 7:19am

  (Note: Time constraints are probably going to keep me to just a single review column per week. They should be detailed analyses of most of the big teams that played big games though. This review covers last Friday’s games through this past T...more

Game Day: Tulsa at Seattle takes WNBA center stage
by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
posted September 6, 2012 at 10:29pm

The Storm (11-14) had a week to prepare for a key home-and-home set against Tulsa (6-20). But Seattle coach Brian Agler said most of the work was on team chemistry. Despite most of the players outside of rookies Shekinna Stricklen and Alysha Clark having...more

Trackcenter Top Ten
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 6, 2012 at 10:27pm

Your top ten news links of the afternoon… The House of Run’s morning news links: start lists from the Diamond League final, Jamaicans arguing for multiple World Championships wild cards, and Oscar Pistorius’s rant. Germany’s Bj&...more

The haunting legacy of Art Modell
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted September 6, 2012 at 10:25pm

Tweet Art Modell wasn’t the first owner to relocate a storied professional sports team, and he won’t be the last. When he packed up the Cleveland Browns for Baltimore in 1995, he was moving them to a city that had had its Colts dispatched to...more

Lori Lindsey: Out and Proud
by Sarah Hallett
posted September 6, 2012 at 9:37pm

Lori Lindsey follows in the footsteps of her teammate Megan Rapinoe and comes out as a gay woman....more

VIDEO | NPF: Catching up with Jessica Mendoza
by Jessica Mendoza's Blog
posted September 6, 2012 at 1:36pm

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:8295997 ...more

Liberty Dominate Mercury
by Swish Appeal
posted September 6, 2012 at 1:32pm

Just the Facts, Ma'am: The New York Liberty opened the game on an 11-0 run and never looked back in a 87-59win over the Phoenix Mercury. All eleven Liberty players played at least fourteen minutes and scored at least three points, with Plenette Pierson l...more

Harding Leads Dream over Fever with Season High Performance
by Swish Appeal
posted September 6, 2012 at 1:27pm

(ATLANTA) – With off-the-court drama taking center stage and the status of their star player questionable, Atlanta Dream fans had reason to worry about a three game stretch of games against the best teams in the East and West. But it looks like A...more

NCAA Soccer – The First XI for September 6, 2012 – Tigers, Tide Try To Stay Perfect
by All White Kit
posted September 6, 2012 at 1:24pm

  Jessica Greer and Missouri Will Try To Stay Perfect on Thursday Ohio State vs Missouri – 7:00 PM The heat will be on the home side, despite coming in with a three game winning streak after a disastrous start to the new year. While none ...more

Liberty romps over Phoenix
by Swish Appeal
posted September 6, 2012 at 8:35am

NEWARK, NJ - It started with the New York Liberty scoring the game's first eleven points. After that, things really became unraveled. For the Phoenix Mercury it was a night to forget. Nothing went right. The Liberty got out of the gate fast and kept the ...more

Tamika Catchings, Kristi Toliver Win WNBA Player of the Month Awards
by Swish Appeal
posted September 6, 2012 at 8:30am

Tamika Catchings, Kristi Toliver Win WNBA Player of the Month Awards   From the release: Tamika Catchings of the Indiana Fever and Kristi Toliver of the Los Angeles Sparks were named the WNBA’s Eastern and Western Conference Players of ...more

WNBA Remains Tops For Balanced Hiring Practices
by Swish Appeal
posted September 6, 2012 at 8:24am

WNBA Remains Tops For Balanced Hiring Practices   The University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport has given the WNBA an A+ for its hiring practices. It is the first time any sports league has been given an A+ b...more

NCAA Women's Basketball Attendance: Winners and Losers for 2012
by Swish Appeal
posted September 6, 2012 at 8:21am

Well, it's time again to start thinking about the Top 100 Programs in Women's College Basketball. (I can hear the reader knives sharpening right now.) In order to think about top programs, you have to think about attendance, and my magic spreadsheet n...more

Trackcenter Top Two
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 5, 2012 at 11:02pm

Yes, only two links today, as I’m having Internet issues (I’m writing this on an iPhone). The new House of Run podcast is up. The release: Jason and Kevin discuss the stunning loss by David Rudisha, the strange statements of Oscar Pistoriu...more

Lorna Johnson Talks MMA Debut at Jackson MMA Series
by Wombat Sports
posted September 5, 2012 at 10:58pm

Kickboxer Lorna Johnson is ready to take on her next challenge as a MMA fighter. The Jackson/Winkeljohn striker is making her amateur MMA debut against Alida Gray at Jackson’s MMA Series 9 Saturday at Tingley Coliseum in Albuquerqu...more

40 Years After the Munich Massacre
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted September 5, 2012 at 10:51pm

  The International Olympic Committee earned plenty of scorn — deserved, I think — for its refusal in London this summer to commemorate the 11 Israeli athletes slain during the 1972 Munich Games, not least of all from some of the widows....more

The Phoenix Mercury's Biggest Disappointment: The 2005 WNBA Draft
by Swish Appeal
posted September 5, 2012 at 1:34pm

As we continue on this trek through SB Nation's themes, we embark upon a topic that most of, it not all; true fans can understand and relate to: Biggest Disappointment. When I hear disappointment in regards to teams, I immediately think back - unlike most...more

Track & Field/Road Racing Roundup: Track, Mountain Running Champions & 20K USA Championships
by carabyrd
posted September 5, 2012 at 11:48am

Labor Day weekend did not mean that track and field athletes took the weekend off. There was still plenty of action on the roads and track including USA 20k championships, World Mountain running champions, Zagreb World Challenge and Zurich Diamond League....more

Reachup With Brandi Chastain in Celebrity Soccer Game in San Jose
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted September 5, 2012 at 8:56am

Hey Bay Area Women’s Soccer fans, mark your calendars for September 22, 2012, for Soccer Legend Brandi Chastain’s All-Star Celebrity Soccer match for charity and post game Radio Disney Concert at San Jose Municipal Stadium (home of the minor l...more

Seimone Augustus becomes Minnesota's all-time scoring leader in win over Sparks
by They're Playing Basketball
posted September 5, 2012 at 8:51am

The Lynx upended the Sparks, 88-77. In the process, Minnesota forward Seimone Augustus became the franchise all-time scoring leader, surpassing the old mark of 3,605, set by Katie Smith. This included six three-pointers - a personal record for Augustus. B...more

Florida High School Student is First Female Quarterback
by Pretty Tough
posted September 5, 2012 at 8:50am

Erin DiMeglio is like a lot of teenage girls. She attends high school, babysits in her free time and has to do chores around the house. When it comes to sports though, Erin is a bit different. She recently became the first female quarterback in Flo...more

Trackcenter Top Ten
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 5, 2012 at 8:41am

The House of Run’s morning links package: Pistorius pissed, Jeff Demps on injured reserve, and the ever-popular Paul Ryan Time Calculator. Allyson Felix has been named one of the 14 finalists for The Women’s Sports Foundation’s Sportswo...more

Sara McMann Signs with Strikeforce
by Wombat Sports
posted September 4, 2012 at 10:56pm

It was only a matter of time, but the undefeated Sara McMann has signed with Strikeforce. MMAJunkie broke the news Tuesday. The 2004 Olympic silver medalists in wrestling hasn’t lost an MMA match in her carreer, getting a victory over ranked Shayna...more

Super Fight League Challengers Bolstering WMMA In India
by Wombat Sports
posted September 4, 2012 at 10:55pm

Courtesy The SFL Wrestler Dan Gable once quoted ”Some have wrestled without great skill – none have wrestled without pride.” Same can be said of the female MMA fighters of “The Super Fight League Challengers” reality ...more

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