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Money And Media Coverage: A Corollary
by Women's Sports Blog
posted May 18, 2009 at 12:02pm

Those who read WSB over at Women Talk Sports may have noticed I've gotten into a comment discussion on my post about cruddy golf media coverage. We are arguing about how the situation might best be remedied. My interlocutor: we need to band together a...more

Obama meets Phillies, What about National Pro Fastpitch?
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted May 18, 2009 at 10:30am

On Friday, President Obama met the Philadelphia Phillies in Washington, DC. As a former resident of the Philadelphia area, I certainly found this intriguing and exciting. However, I couldn’t help myself from asking… when’s the last time a President...more

Let the tournament begin!
by Alan's College Softball Blog
posted May 14, 2009 at 3:44pm

Let the tournament begin! Two of the NCAA regional sites -- Chapel Hill, NC and Columbus, OH -- get underway today. Above is a montage of programs and ticket stubs from regionals I've attended in recent years. By visiting family in Los Angeles or atten...more

Softball Training - F.A.Q. about Core Training
by Softball Performance Blog
posted May 14, 2009 at 12:25am

Core training is currently a hot topic in sports and for a reason - it can really help your game if you train it well or it can really hurt it if it is weak or not trained properly. My good friend Barry Lovelace is known as the "King of Core" because of ...more

Softball’s commitment to youth and peace underlined at IOC forum
by Women's Sports Nation
posted May 13, 2009 at 9:53am

ISF President: “Softball has always been a vehicle for creating sustainable change in society”Re-establishing Olympic Games Programme status will further strengthen softball’s global reputation for building peace through sport in conflict zones, ac...more

Pretty Tough Tuesday: Fastpitch 411
by Pretty Tough
posted May 12, 2009 at 10:34am

Get caught up with the week in fastpitch. 1. The countdown begins for the 2009 College World Series. Find out the tournaments pairings here. 2. Top ten finalists for the 2009 USA Softball Player of the Year Award were announced. Check out the c...more

Coed Softball Rules: Institutionalized Sexism
by Fair Game News
posted May 11, 2009 at 5:33pm

By Laura Pappano The 2009 recreational co-ed softball season is well underway – and so are sexist practices. Why do organizers assume that female players are – by dint of being female – inferior players? Planet Social Sports — which organizes re...more

NCAA Softball: Regional Groupings
by Alan's College Softball Blog
posted May 11, 2009 at 12:19pm

I've just finished (at 3:00 in the morning Central) plotting the NCAA regional groupings geographically. At a glance, you can see how well the NCAA balanced the competing goals of geographic compactness to save money and competitive balance among the reg...more

Softball Training - Improving Speed and Lateral Agility
by Softball Performance Blog
posted May 10, 2009 at 2:15pm

Not long ago, I wrote a post about why running speed doesn't matter in softball. In a nutshell, I was explaining why linear speed (or running fast in a straight line) isn't that important for softball and I made the point that what really matters in our...more

NCAA Softball this Weekend
by Alan's College Softball Blog
posted May 10, 2009 at 12:07pm

Florida, the nation's No. 1-ranked team, has won the SEC tournament by knocking off Alabama.Tomorrow's Big 12 tournament final will feature a clash of the top two seeds, Oklahoma and Missouri. ...more

Cat Osterman - Softball Pitching Tips
by Softball Performance Blog
posted May 8, 2009 at 11:04am

Here is a quick and interesting video where Cat Osterman provide a few softball pitching tips and discusses finger placement on the ball. ...more

Interview with Donna Lopiano
by Women's Sports Nation
posted May 6, 2009 at 5:45pm

Remember that Texas/Texas A&M; softball game I discussed a couple blog posts ago? Well, in the third inning commentators Beth Mowins, Jessica Mendoza, and Michele Smith interviewed Dr. Donna Lopiano who was recently named Chair of the Women's Baseb...more

College Softball: Michigan Ohio Doubleheader
by Alan's College Softball Blog
posted May 6, 2009 at 3:52pm

As a Michigan alum, I'm so excited about tonight's Wolverine doubleheader against Ohio State that I made the logo above! The twin-bill, which starts in Ann Arbor at 5:00 Eastern, will in all likelihood decide the Big 10 championship. Each team is 14-2 in...more

State: a fastpitch feature film
by Pretty Tough
posted May 4, 2009 at 10:14am

If you thought winning a State Championship was hard, try getting a feature film made. The biggest challenge for any movie is to raise the necessary production funds. That’s exactly the challenge facing a group of Louisiana filmmakers. Their dream is...more

College Softball: Weekend Update
by Alan's College Softball Blog
posted May 3, 2009 at 8:34pm

Michigan and Ohio State have one of the greatest rivalries in college football. Though softball will never capture the same attention as the schools' battles on the gridiron, the Buckeye-Wolverine softball rivalry will reach a high point Wednesday, when ...more

College Softball: It doesn't hurt to ask
by Women's Sports Nation
posted May 3, 2009 at 12:11pm

I was watching college softball on Saturday night since that's what I do on Saturday nights. Texas and Texas A&M were scoreless in the fourth inning with Texas at bat. With runners on first and second, a line drive was hit to short stop Marcie Morrow....more

Three Games, Three Lessons
by Softball Performance Blog
posted May 3, 2009 at 12:48am

Today was our first official outing of the season. We went 1-2 for the day. There was a fair bit of nervousness, rust, and lack of cohesion on the field during the first two games. We certainly didn't play up to our potential in the first two games mak...more

Got Hats? Donate your extra hats to the Sandra Olson Memorial Fund today!
by anngaff
posted May 2, 2009 at 12:35pm

If you've played on a softball or baseball team, played any sport in college, or just plain bought hats in your lifetime, you probably have one or two to spare. What about that one in your closet that you used to wear all the time but just don't seem to...more

NCAA Softball: Arizona schools travel to Northern California and Big 10 action coming up
by Alan's College Softball Blog
posted May 1, 2009 at 3:44pm

The Arizona schools travel to play their northern California counterparts this weekend. More specifically, the scheduling gives U-of-A two games with Stanford and one with Cal. A look at the top of the current standings shows the importance of the Wildc...more

First Base...Person
by Women's Sports Blog
posted April 30, 2009 at 11:54am

Pursuit of Harpyness has an interesting discussion about gendered language in baseball.Although the post is semi-confined to the exclusionary nature of that language in male-dominatedfields, if you watch a lot of softball or women's basketball you will no...more

Mental Training Tips - Are Pre-Game Jitters Good or Bad?
by Softball Performance Blog
posted April 30, 2009 at 10:42am

Yesterday, the younger daughter of my assistant coach was playing her first game of the season on a her travel team. He told me she was all excited but nervous at the same time. She had pre-game jitters. The girls on my team are feeling the same way ab...more

Pac-10 Softball Update
by Alan's College Softball Blog
posted April 29, 2009 at 1:53pm

The Pac 10 offers some important midweek games today, as UCLA travels to Washington, and Arizona visits ASU. In Tempe, it will be a double-header of sorts, as the teams will first finish a rain-suspended game from earlier in the season (with U-of-A in th...more

Pretty Tough Tuesday: Fastpitch 411
by Pretty Tough
posted April 28, 2009 at 11:35am

Get caught up with the week in softball every Pretty Tough Tuesday. 1. What major movie star will play a professional softball player in her next movie? Find out here. 2. Florida (46-3) still number one on the ESPN.com/USA Softball Coll...more

Coaching Youth Softball - My Experience Coaching a 16U Team
by Softball Performance Blog
posted April 27, 2009 at 12:44am

Next week, we are officially starting our 2009 summer season with our first tournament. I can tell you I am really excited and the girls are too. It's my first season with this 16U team. Last time I coached at this level was almost 11 years ago. I've s...more

College Softball: Weekend Wrap 4/26/09
by Alan's College Softball Blog
posted April 27, 2009 at 12:25am

With a two-game sweep at Missouri this weekend, Oklahoma has clinched the Big 12 title for this year.UCLA added a Saturday-Sunday sweep over ASU (now 7-6 in the conference), to its Friday night win over U-of-A, to round out its swing through Arizona. The...more

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