As Brooks enjoys the sights & sounds of San Antonio (Hubert Davis! Wimp Sanderson!), the sisters were doin’ it for themselves down in Tampa Bay on Sunday, as the women’s NCAA basketball championship is now set.
Tennessee escaped against LSU with a last-second shot, while Stanford stymied Connecticut to advance to the title game. And once again, the Cardinal have corrupted the potentially higher entertainment value of the ladies’ tourney.
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Finally, a Cinderella story to make this year’s March Madness a little more compelling. Thanks, Toreros!
#14 San Diego was able to upend #3 UConn in a 70-69 OT thriller on Friday, giving Huskies coach Jim Calhoun his first-ever first round loss in 15 appearances - and no dobut causing Pepto-Bismol markups at the Storrs Walgreen’s. Read more…
Last week, it was revealed that a little trip to the ESPN studios may have caused a big headache for the University of Connecticut. And now the NCAA has reached a verdict in their investigation.
The HARTFORD COURANT learns that UConn was ruled to have committed a “secondary violation” for arranging a visit to the Bristol studios for basketball recruit Maya Moore. Read more…
A high school recruit’s visit to the ESPN studios may have gotten the University of Connecticut into trouble with the NCAA.
Shelley Smith reports that her employer may have helped the Huskies commit violations when they allowed women’s basketball recruit Maya Moore to take a trip around the Bristol-based buildings. Sources say the UConn-requested tour was considered an “improper benefit” that Moore received during her 2005 visit to the school.
The NCAA apparently began the investigation after receiving a tip from the Huskies’ biggest on-court nemesis. Read more…
The US Department of Education reported that the NCAA’s 333 Division I women’s basketball programs that competed in the 2005-2006 season lost a cumulative amount of ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-NINE MMMILLION DOLLARS!
THE SPORTS ECONOMIST, via the ST. PETERSBURG TIMES reported that the figure might even be conservative, indicating that 80 programs matched revenues to expenses, down to the last dollar. There was no word on what percentage of the deficit was spent on high heels, tanning memberships, or hair appointments.
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DC SPORTS BOG phones in news that those cranksters who livened up Tuesday’s SEC women’s teleconference have struck again - this time hitting the Big East.
Thursday’s call-in was met with some lewd comments from perverted pranksters posing as reporters. Apparently the questions was even worse than those asked to the southern belles a few days before, since the CHICAGO TRIBUNE claimed that “most are not suitable for print.”
Like the SEC, Big East officials aren’t sure how the callers got hold of the conference’s number. But as the dirty questions went on, many callers were refused access to the coaches - even those that may have been actual reporters. So, what were they asking?
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