NCAA Sports
Heid, Hiatt contribute to WCC champion Bulldogs
West Coach Conference regular-season baseball champion Gonzaga clinched the WCC tournament title and an NCAA tournament berth on Saturday with a 14-3 rout of Loyola Marymount in game two of the conference’s best-of-three series in Spokane. The Bulldogs’ program will be making its fifth appearance in the NCAA field and first since 1981. Former Walla Walla [...]
Lords
The athletic portion of Whitman College’s internet site proudly dubbed the Missionary men’s tennis team as “lords of Northwest Conference men’s tennis” on Saturday night. And with good reason. Whitman overpowered Pacific Lutheran, seven match victories to two, on Saturday morning to successfully cap an undefeated run through the NWC. But that only tells a [...]
Kudos for Summitt
I want to take a moment to applaud University of Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt for the message she sent to her team following its shocking first-round exit from the NCAA tournament on Sunday. Less than 48 hours after a loss to Ball State, Summitt held a practice that stressed fundamentals and scheduled a strength-and-conditioning [...]
What a difference
What a difference a period of 10 days have made for the University of Nevada-Las Vegas men’s basketball team. The Rebels, pre-season favorites to win the Mountain West Conference, suffered an unexpected 71-69 loss at Colorado State on Jan. 14 to fall to 1-2 in league. This after a loss at Texas Christian the previous Saturday. [...]
They belonged
If there was any doubt that the Utah Utes deserved to be in a Bowl Championship Series game, it was laid to rest Friday night in the Louisiana Superdome. Quarterback Brian Johnson riddled the Alabama defense for 336 yards and three touchdowns in Utah’s 31-17 triumph in the Sugar Bowl to close out a 13-0 [...]
Pac-10 Rules
Many of the so-called experts suggested in the latter stages of the college football season and prior to the unfolding of bowl activity that the Pacific-10 Conference was not as strong as it had been in past years. The league’s bowl representatives – Arizona, California, Oregon, Oregon State and USC – proved them wrong. U of [...]
Gritty Owls get it done in Detroit
The 2008 football season at Florida Atlantic University was a roller coaster ride to say the least. FAU dropped five of its first six games. But the Owls responded with a handful of victories in their last half-dozen contests to become bowl eligible. Florida Atlantic carried that late-season momentum to a 24-21 victory over Central Michigan in [...]
No bowling for Notre Dame
I am writing this blog just minutes after Notre Dame ended its regular season with a 38-3 loss to the USC Trojans – a dreadful performance in which the Irish gained just nine yards in the opening half and did not record their initial first down of the game until the last play of the third quarter. [...]
Something to be thankful for
Over the years Thanksgiving Day has provided sports fans with much to be thankful for. But for NFL followers, Thursday served up a trio of turkeys. The day of debacles began in Detroit, where the winless Lions suffered their most lopsided Thanksgiving loss ever – a 47-10 drubbing at the hands of the Tennessee Titans. In Dallas, the [...]
