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Archive for January 2008

January 7th, 2008

Another top team goes down

With only one victory necessary to tie the team record for best start ever, the Georgia Lady Bulldogs were bested by Xavier 65-56.
Georgia falls to 13-1, leaving No. 1 UConn and No. 25 Arkansas as the remaining unbeatens in college basketball.
Amber Harris (screaming above) led Xavier with 19 points.
Obviously, Georgia wasn’t pleased with how they […]

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January 5th, 2008

And because my alma mater will probably get little run anywhere else…

Since there’s no way the Bobcats are getting noticed by the national media unless they make the tournament, here’s you Southland Conference update of your blogger’s school. No. 9 Baylor just slaughtered Texas State 84-57 on Friday.
Rachel Allison (pictured above) finished with 23 points and 13 rebounds as Baylor easily defeated their I-35 counterparts in […]

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January 5th, 2008

So much for Stanford…

Any other top teams have people they’d like me not to do a blog post about? So far, I’ve had Candace Parker and Candice Wiggins and their teams lose shortly thereafter.
The UCLA women knocked off No. 2 Stanford pretty handily 69-56 Friday night.
The Bruins have played well against some top teams only to fall off […]

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January 4th, 2008

A college profile not of Candace Parker

Although most have been good ones, it’s nice to see some other ladies get their run.
Candice Wiggins, Stanford’s stellar shooting guard, had a great profile in the Los Angeles Times.
Ask about her most memorable moment from the Tennessee game and Wiggins doesn’t bring up the game-tying free throws she converted with 1:32 remaining in regulation, […]

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January 4th, 2008

The quiet Storm

Still no coach for the Seattle Storm, but the Seattle Post-Intelligencer eliminated one candidate today.
Linda Hargrove, former coach and general manager of the now-defunct Portland Fire and current Washington Mystics general manager, won’t be leaving the nation’s capital.
“I was never a candidate,” Hargrove said Wednesday. “I have had contact with Karen about a lot of […]

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January 1st, 2008

Hunter Pence, fool!

We’ve got a new addition to the b5media Sports channel starting today. He’s a New Year’s Baby (of sorts), but what infant do you know that can swing a bat the way Hunter Pence does?
Houston Astros OF Hunter Pence joins b5 with his own blog about the life of a professional baseball player at InsideTheBallpark.com.
Pence […]

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