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Doug Flutie
January 02, 2012
Football (BCS)
While driving down to Florida for the Capital One Bowl, I began to think about how truly special bowl week in Orlando has been for me and my...
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Brandi Chastain
December 05, 2011
Women's Soccer
Championship weekend started off with lots of excitement and emotion. I had the opportunity to attend the NCAA Women's Soccer banquet where...
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Clark Kellogg
December 05, 2011
Men's Basketball
The college basketball season is officially underway and fans couldn't be more excited about what's to come. Here's a rundown of what I expect...
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Doug Flutie
December 05, 2011
Capital One Cup
Each academic year, Capital One awards the Capital One Cup to one men's and one women's athletic program in Division I.Points are earned based...
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Capital One Cup
October 20, 2011
Capital One Cup
Capital One would like to congratulate Robin Ventura on being named the new manager of the Chicago White Sox. Ventura, who served on the Capital...
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Zack Smith
September 01, 2011
Capital One Cup
With college football starting this week, Capital One has announced the kickoff to the second year of the Capital One Cup, which awards the...
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Bates Grainger
July 25, 2011
Capital One Cup
The star-studded ESPY Awards got off to a dazzling start Wednesday night with the Red Carpet walk into the Nokia Theater. Featured among the...
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Josh Martin
July 14, 2011
Football (BCS)
Rece Davis has become something of a fixture at ESPN and in the world of college sports as a whole.An alumnus of the University of Alabama,...
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Josh Martin
July 13, 2011
Capital One Cup
Each year, the ESPYs serve as a celebration the biggest stars, moments and stories in the world of sports from the past year, and the 2011 edition...
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Amanda Staver
July 13, 2011
Capital One Cup
I got 15 minutes on the phone recently with the 4X Olympic Gold Medal Winner and retired WNBA Superstar, Lisa Leslie. Besides being a 4X Gold...
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Brian Foley
July 06, 2011
Baseball
South Carolina won the 2010 College World Series at Rosenblatt Stadium and they opened the new TD Ameritrade Park in similar fashion, knocking...
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Kevin Liao
June 14, 2011
Men's Outdoor Track & Field
The pre-meet hype about sprint powers Texas A&M, Florida State and Florida contending for the title turned out to be true as the top three squads...
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Kevin Liao
June 14, 2011
Women's Outdoor Track & Field
The 2011 NCAA Women’s Track and Field Championships was a meet about overcoming adversity for two-time defending champion Texas A&M. The Aggies...
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Ann Gaffigan
June 14, 2011
Softball
As had become standard for the Florida senior class, the Gators stormed into the Women’s College World Series and wreaked havoc on their opponents....
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Ben Rothenberg
June 08, 2011
Women's Tennis
Even with the French Open in full swing an ocean away, the heads of the tennis community quickly turned to Northern California upon hearing...
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Asher Wildman
June 08, 2011
Women's Golf
The UCLA Bruins are the queens of the college golf world. With a four-stroke victory over defending champion Purdue, the Bruins won the national...
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Ben Rothenberg
June 08, 2011
Men's Tennis
Though it takes four points to clinch a victory in team tennis competition, for the 2011 University of Southern California Trojans men's tennis...
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Finnian Durkan
June 08, 2011
Women's Rowing
In a sport that takes months and months of practice, hours of tireless effort, and repeated punishing journeys to the absolute limits of physiology,...
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Asher Wildman
June 08, 2011
Men's Golf
For the second consecutive season, the Augusta State Jaguars have shocked the college golf world and won the national championship.This year,...
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Connor Wilson
June 03, 2011
Men's Lacrosse
The Virginia Cavaliers are your 2011 NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse Champions, and while this team was talked about with very high hopes early...
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Terry Foy
June 03, 2011
Women's Lacrosse
The Northwestern women's lacrosse team (21-2) and coach Kelly Amonte Hiller are once again NCAA champions, but this title came with a little...
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Kevin Liao
May 11, 2011
Women's Outdoor Track & Field
Halfway into the outdoor track and field season, the competition for the women’s NCAA team title is starting to heat up. Most teams have passed...
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Kevin Liao
May 11, 2011
Men's Outdoor Track & Field
The battle for the NCAA men’s track and field championship appears to be coming down to three contenders. Two-time defending champion Texas...
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Mechelle Voepel
May 02, 2011
Capital One Cup
What's known as the Directors' Cup is one of those things that seems like a great idea, but then really necessarily isn't in practice.The concept...
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Terry Foy
April 27, 2011
Women's Lacrosse
With the NCAA Tournament selection just two weeks away, the cream has started to rise to the top in the women's Division I lacrosse landscape,...
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Kat Cornetta
April 20, 2011
Capital One Cup
As the record holder of the longest hitting streak in college baseball history (58 games, held for nearly 24 years and counting) and a member...
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Connor Wilson
April 19, 2011
Men's Lacrosse
So far, the 2011 Division I Men's College Lacrosse season has looked a little like 2010, as both Notre Dame and Duke are looking tough at the...
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Steve Fetch
April 12, 2011
Men's Ice Hockey
The Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs entered the tournament as a #3 seed, and an unlikely national champion, given that they were in the same region...
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Brian Foley
April 12, 2011
Baseball
As we reach the mid-point of the College Baseball season, both Vanderbilt and Virginia are ranked number 1 and 2 in the country in most national...
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Ann Gaffigan
April 12, 2011
Softball
Will preseason favorite Georgia regain its top ranking this week after #1 Alabama was swept in a three-game series for the first time since...
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Eric Angevine
April 07, 2011
Men's Basketball
Well, we can safely say that nobody saw that coming.The 2011 NCAA tournament offered four semifinal teams that had suffered plenty of losses...
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Nate Parham
April 07, 2011
Women's Basketball
Not too long after Notre Dame’s 72-63 win over the two-time defending champion Connecticut Huskies, coach Muffet McGraw ventured into the stands...
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Finnian Durkan
March 29, 2011
Women's Rowing
With the NCAA Women’s Rowing season getting underway in just over a week there is still a lot up in the air. During the fall racing season,...
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Greg Mescall
March 29, 2011
Men's Swimming & Diving
To say it has been a pretty good week to be an aquatic athlete at the University of California-Berkeley would be an understatement. On the heels...
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Kevin Liao
March 22, 2011
Women's Outdoor Track & Field
A rivalry has developed in the world of collegiate track and field in recent years between the women of Oregon and Texas A&M. Oregon has won...
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Kevin Liao
March 22, 2011
Men's Outdoor Track & Field
The meteoric rise of the Florida track and field program will seek to reach its apex this outdoor season when the Gators look to take over the...
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Willie Saylor
March 22, 2011
Wrestling
In the final salvo of one of the most dramatic and competitive Division I wrestling seasons, the NCAA Championships, held in Philadelphia’s...
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Asher Wildman
March 22, 2011
MENAs the season winds down, all eyes are fixed on the top-ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys, who will host this year’s NCAA Championship on their...
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Greg Mescall
March 22, 2011
Women's Swimming & Diving
Some teams wait years, decades even, to claim their next NCAA Championship--for the California University Golden Bears Women’s Swimming & Diving...
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Kevin Liao
March 16, 2011
Women's Indoor Track & Field
The Oregon Ducks convincingly captured their second consecutive NCAA Indoor Track and Field title in a wide margin over the competition. Despite...
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Kevin Liao
March 16, 2011
Men's Indoor Track & Field
The University of Florida successfully defended its national championship at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships held on March 11...
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Connor Wilson
February 24, 2011
Men's Lacrosse
In 2010, the NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse season finals featured Duke and Notre Dame - neither of which had previously won a National Championship...
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Ben Rothenberg
February 24, 2011
Women's Tennis
Though the NCAA Championships are more than three full months away, the defending champion Stanford Cardinal seems intent on making the 2011...
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Ann Gaffigan
February 24, 2011
Softball
The NCAA softball season is off to an unpredictable start, with top teams getting bested by unranked or at least lesser-ranked opponents in...
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Ben Rothenberg
February 24, 2011
Men's Tennis
For the third consecutive season, the question remains the same in men’s tennis: can the top-ranked University of Virginia Cavaliers translate...
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Terry Foy
February 15, 2011
Women's Lacrosse
Between a long-time champ looking to regain the crown, a newly crowned program trying to maintain it status and a handful of new programs trying...
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Ashley Dunkak
February 15, 2011
Men's Basketball
In this current sports world of polls and previews, expectations for college teams are plentiful. But regarding the Kansas State men’s basketball...
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Sam Dykstra
February 15, 2011
Men's Ice Hockey
The first year on campus for college freshmen, both those who participate in athletics and otherwise, is meant to be a time for education of...
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Brian Foley
February 15, 2011
Baseball
College baseball kicks off at the end of this week, and concludes in Omaha, Nebraska, for the College World Series. This season will be remembered...
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Eric Angevine
February 09, 2011
Men's Basketball
This is why they play the games, to quote an old cliché. Looking back at my college hoops preview in this space, I see a few guesses about what...
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Kevin Liao
February 09, 2011
Women's Indoor Track & Field
Midway through the 2011 NCAA indoor track campaign, the preseason number one team Oregon remains far atop the standings in the women’s rankings....
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Nate Parham
February 09, 2011
Women's Basketball
The consensus among most knowledgeable basketball observers is that the Baylor Lady Bears, Connecticut Huskies, and Stanford Cardinal have separated...
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Kevin Liao
February 09, 2011
Men's Indoor Track & Field
Florida and LSU have flip-flopped the top spot in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) power rankings in...
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Steve Fetch
February 02, 2011
Men's Ice Hockey
They won the national championship last year, and were a prohibitive favorite coming into this season, but a host of teams have joined Boston...
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Colin McDonough
February 02, 2011
Women's Basketball
Prior to the UConn women’s basketball team’s 2010-2011 campaign, coach Geno Auriemma said that its historic winning streak would end sometime...
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Garrett Ripa
February 02, 2011
Men's Swimming & Diving
It is an exciting time for Virginia Tech’s swimming and diving teams, as they recently moved into their new facility, the Christiansburg Aquatics...
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Kristian Ekenes
February 02, 2011
Men's Indoor Track & Field
In their final season as a member of the Mountain West Conference, the BYU men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams look to finish with...
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Willie Saylor
January 20, 2011
Wrestling
In our Preseason preview in which we speculated who might gain the Capital One Cup points for a Division I wrestling title, we highlighted the...
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John P. Wise
January 14, 2011
Football (FBS)
How fitting it was that the exciting BCS National Championship Game we expected was instead a less-than-memorable bout for 55 minutes before...
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Greg Mescall
January 12, 2011
Men's Swimming & Diving
They are halfway home in Men’s Swimming and Diving and defending champion Texas has looked strong out of the gates. With conference championships...
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Craig Haley
January 12, 2011
Football (FCS)
Bo Levi Mitchell’s worst pass of the night was one of his most satisfying. He fired a wobbly duck deep into the night-time sky and then an open...
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Greg Mescall
January 12, 2011
Women's Swimming & Diving
Excitement builds in the world of women’s swimming and diving as the season reaches the midpoint and heads for home. After making the proverbial...
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Kevin Liao
January 05, 2011
Women's Indoor Track & Field
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Kevin Liao
January 02, 2011
Men's Indoor Track & Field
A rivalry has emerged over the last few years in collegiate track and field between the University of Florida and Texas A&M. The Gators claimed...
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Andrew Roth
December 22, 2010
Wrestling
Lehigh’s wrestling team is taking every practice, bout and match one at a time.The squad could easily focus on the first half of their season;...
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April Chapple
December 22, 2010
Women's Volleyball
Nobody saw this coming! Not even the most avid college volleyball fan predicted that this would be the year that the Penn State women's volleyball...
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Jenna Pel
December 16, 2010
Women's Soccer
Greatness isn’t always obvious from the get-go. Sometimes it takes the right circumstances, the right amount of time and the right moment before...
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Max Sass
December 02, 2010
Women's Soccer
Hofstra women’s soccer head coach Simon Riddiough leads the unlikeliest success story in women’s college soccer. While Boston College, Notre...
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Brad Eilers
November 24, 2010
Women's Volleyball
The No. 12-ranked University of Northern Iowa women’s volleyball team continues to dominate Missouri Valley Conference opponents. The Panthers...
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David Baran
November 24, 2010
Women's Cross Country
After finishing up their post-meet talk with head coach Chris Miltenberg, Georgetown’s women’s cross country team hustled over to the awards...
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Jakob Engelke
November 24, 2010
Field Hockey
Ever since losing in the 2009 national championship to North Carolina off a last second penalty corner, the Terrapin field hockey team made...
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Adam Kemp
November 24, 2010
Men's Cross Country
Last season, when the Oklahoma State men’s cross country team took home the national title it was as if they had crept in the middle of the...
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Rachel Dawson
November 24, 2010
Field Hockey
It took only a moment to end it; a moment that ended a series of moments that, on November 21 in College Park, Maryland, had lasted 97 minutes...
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Willie Saylor
November 18, 2010
Wrestling
It’s always met with fraternal respect and admiration when an Ivy Leaguer, or its closest equivalent, transcends the college wrestling competition...
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Greg Mescall
November 18, 2010
Women's Swimming & Diving
Somewhere between the celebration of the last NCAA Championship and the tapering for another run at a title comes the 2010-2011 regular season...
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Chris Coon
November 18, 2010
Men's Soccer
With the return of eight out of 11 starters from a team that matched an NCAA single-season record of 23 consecutive victories, the squad from...
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Eric Angevine
November 18, 2010
Men's Basketball
Take a snapshot, kids, because college basketball is going to look quite different on this date in 2011 and even more so in 2012. Nebraska will...
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Trent Lootens
November 18, 2010
Football (FBS)
Boise State head coach Chris Petersen doesn’t like taking shots at the Bowl Championship Series. This approach toward the heavily criticized...
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Greg Mescall
November 18, 2010
Men's Swimming & Diving
In 2010 they messed with Texas…and they lost. Under the legendary Eddie Reese the Longhorns returned to the winner’s circle for the first time...
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Nate Parham
November 18, 2010
Women's Basketball
The University of Connecticut has pretty much dominated the women’s basketball landscape over the past two years, whether it be winning consecutive...
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April Chapple
November 10, 2010
It's midway through the NCAA® Division I Women's Volleyball Championship season and even the most seasoned fans agree that the volleyball landscape...
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Jahmal Corner
November 10, 2010
Men's Soccer
The Louisville Cardinals are not only the No. 1 men’s soccer team in the nation, they’re also undisputed card carrying members of their school’s...
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Emmanuel Martinez
November 10, 2010
Women's Soccer
It’s been four years since the UC Irvine women’s soccer team posted an overall record of 3-13-1 and failed to win a single game against a conference...
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Craig Haley
November 05, 2010
Football (FCS)
Perhaps the most vivid image of the Football Championship Subdivision season has been James Madison coaches and players celebrating on Virginia...
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Matt McDonough
November 03, 2010
Men's Soccer
On Nov. 2, 2009 the University of Connecticut men's soccer team was well on its way to a memorable season. On Senior Night, at Morrone Stadium...
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Chris Biderman
November 03, 2010
Football (FBS)
It started out as the National Title Game or bust for the 2010 Buckeyes. After a loss at Wisconsin on Oct. 16, Ohio State dropped from No. 1...
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Robert Hussemen
November 03, 2010
Men's Cross Country
A.J. Acosta sees the similarities.The boisterous senior runner for the Oregon Ducks, a vocal presence on a close-knit team, was inspired during...
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Shayan Rakhit
November 03, 2010
Field Hockey
The Princeton Tigers entered the 2010 season with high expectations, coming off a run to the Final Four in the NCAA® tournament in 2009 as the...
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John P. Wise
October 26, 2010
Football (FBS)
It's never easy trying to settle on one top storyline to describe a college football season once Halloween rolls around. Football Bowl Subdivision...
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Kevin Liao
October 26, 2010
Men's Cross Country
The midseason mark of the collegiate cross country season is signified by the running of the Pre-Nationals meet, which took place last Saturday....
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Rachel Dawson
October 26, 2010
Field Hockey
Call it chaos, unpredictability, or volatility – whatever you call it – it has run amuck of the 2010 College Field Hockey season. Like a Hail...
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Jenna Pel
October 26, 2010
Women's Soccer
With just two weeks before Selection Monday, the battle for a berth in the NCAA Women’s Soccer Tournament has probably never been fiercer. Upwards...
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Kevin Liao
October 26, 2010
Women's Cross Country
The big storylines midway into the 2010 NCAA cross country season revolve around the two squads that have dominated the scene, Stanford the...
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Jahmal Corner
February 16, 2010
Men's Soccer
Prior to this season, the University of Akron had never captured a national championship in any sport; but after laying claim to the men’s soccer...