College Sports in America
Following college sports in America thru the Year
2010 College Football Top 5 Prediction
Aug 17th
Below is my prediction for how the 2010 College Football season will end up. I'm looking for Alabama to return to their top spot and go for yet another national championship. The SEC is as dominant as ever and, as you can see, they dominate the top five. 1. Alabama Nick Saban and his crew looks to ...
2010 High School Athletic Rule Changes
Jul 22nd
There are many rule changes every year, but this year may have more of a positive impact than usual. The implementation of the concussion rule will have a profound effect on the health of players as referees can disallow a player from playing and forbid them from coming back into a game if they seem ...
Judge Declares That Cheerleading Isn’t A College Sport
Jul 22nd
After suing their own school, the Quinnipiac Volleyball team may get their sport back and knocked out Cheerleading while doing so. Quinnipiac University announced that they would get rid of the volleyball team because of budgetary reasons. Their replacement? A competitive cheerleading team. The volleyball team went to a different type of court that they're not ...
My Junior Olympics’ Experience
Jul 21st
By: Sarah Steffan Ponte Vedra High School Reaching the Junior Olympics in volleyball is the ultimate goal of the extensive, demanding season. You can only reach this tournament if you have either won a national qualifier or your regional qualifier. In the case of JJVA 17’s, we won a national qualifier! This means that we placed 1st ...
Bill Tierney- Off to the Wild West
Jun 16th
Pretend for a second that you have been coaching for 22 years, have won 14 Ivy league championships, 6 National championships and produced countless All-Americans. What are you thinking about? Retirement...your incoming stacked recruiting class, the beach??? Not Bill Tierney. He decided to move across the country and leave the comforts of Princeton University to ...
No. 7 Texas Tech Stuns No. 1 Texas In Thriller
Nov 5th
By: Dustin Sullivan Saturday night featured an outstanding game between two of the nation's top 10 teams. Both the Texas Longhorns and the Red Raiders of Texas Tech came into the contest with undefeated records. By the end of the evening, one team would no longer be perfect... Coming into the game, many analysts and experts believed ...
After Weekend With Numerous Upsets, New AP Polls Released:
Oct 1st
By Dustin Sullivan This past weekend could arguably be called one of the craziest in regards to college football. Three out of the top five teams in the nation were upset this weekend, causing constant changes to the AP Polls. These changes brought in new colleges who were previously unranked and also knocked ranked teams out ...
THE STUDENT ATHLETE #2
May 27th
Last time we talked a bit about the dilemmas of the student athlete. Well, I heard from a varsity basketball player on the west coast who told me to check out a International Herald Tribune story about Stephanie Campbell, a Villanova field hockey. Stephanie Campbell - Photo: Tim Shaffer, The New York Times Bill Pennington’s story ...
THE STUDENT ATHLETE
May 24th
Student athletes and their families have always known it is not easy balancing the demands of performing at a high level in collegiate sports while keeping up with one’s grades. To begin with, student athletes must meet the following NCAA requirements to participate in sports and/or receive an athletics scholarship during their first year: Graduate from high ...