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Big East busts the bracket, Cheney's Hermann moment
What happened to the bracket?
At least the statue of Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium still gazed out over the rural Pennsylvania landscape when the bus carrying West Virginia made its way out of town Saturday afternoon. Luckily for the locals, it turned out the visitors were only interested in reducing the NCAA Tournament bracket to rubble.
In a weekend uprising as swift as it was surprising, the Big East seized control of this year's NCAA Tournament when three of its teams upset No. 1 seeds and advanced to next weekend's quarterfinals. In a matter of 17 hours stretching from Friday night through Saturday afternoon, West Virginia, Notre Dame and Connecticut brought the bracket to heel in an unprecedented manner.
First rounds full of upsets, rivalries and show-stopping performances
Which team made the biggest statement?
The enemy within did in Texas A&M's dreams of winning a national championship.
The enemy within the state of Texas, that is.
With this year's College Cup set for Aggie Soccer Stadium on the campus of Texas A&M, the hosts had a golden opportunity to play at home during the season's final weekend and win the Big 12's first national championship. Coming off a quarterfinal loss last season against North Carolina in which they pushed the Tar Heels as much as either UCLA or Notre Dame subsequently did in the College Cup, the Aggies spent much of this fall ranked No. 1 in the nation and cruised to a Big 12 regular-season title.
Taking Their Swede Time, U.S. Picks Sundhage as Coach
For the first time in its history, the U.S. women's national soccer team will be guided by a coach from overseas. And for only the second time, the team will be led by a woman.
Pia Sundhage, a former Swedish star who coached in the U.S. pro league and most recently was an assistant on the Chinese staff, was named yesterday to replace Greg Ryan, whose contract was not renewed after the Americans' lackluster performance at this fall's World Cup in China.
Soccer takes 18th ACC title
The No. 4 North Carolina women's soccer team has grown accustomed to close games this season.
And sophomore Nikki Washington had one clear reaction immediately after she scored the lone goal in the ACC Championship game against No. 14 Florida State on Sunday - "Thank God."
The 1-0 decision was the Tar Heels' sixth straight victory in games decided by a single goal, and this most recent win gave UNC its 18th ACC Tournament title in 19 years.
Charles leaves legacy of adaptation to injured Pilots
Budget willing, a statue of Clive Charles should soon stand in the small plaza that fronts the soccer complex bearing the late coach's name on the campus of the University of Portland. And while it's fitting that future generations will be ushered in by a likeness of the man who built national powers out of the men's and women's soccer programs at a tiny Catholic school in the shadow of Pac-10 behemoths, this year's women's team is sculpting a fitting tribute of its own through the mediums of grass and goals.
Ellis up for national coach spot
After Greg Ryan was unable to guide the heavily favored U.S. women’s national team to a World Cup title in China a month ago, U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati decided not to extend his contract beyond Dec. 31, 2007.
That move by Gulati has put UCLA women’s soccer coach Jill Ellis in the spotlight as one of the leading candidates for the job.
“It is a tremendous honor to be considered for the top position, essentially, in the women’s game in our country,” Ellis said.
Distracted by fires, Toreros drop important game at Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Unlike more than a million residents of Southern California who were displaced this week by raging wildfires that incinerated buildings and choked the air with ash and smoke, the roughly two dozen members of the University of San Diego women's soccer team knew ahead of time they weren't going to be in their homes this weekend.
Search is on for a new U.S. women's coach
Greg Ryan had always seemed curiously bulletproof, generally dodging the larger munitions in terms of media scrutiny. His highly favored team looked plodding in the Women's World Cup, but Ryan seemed to get a pass as all heads swiveled toward the Hope Solo fiasco.
Hope Solo Back with USA
Goalkeeper Hope Solo, who was kicked off the U.S. team during the Women's World Cup, has been invited back by Coach Greg Ryan for the team's three-game series with Mexico, which kicks off Saturday in St. Louis.
Boston College, UCLA benefitting from DiMartino sisters' backyard ball
BOSTON -- The streets of Sao Paulo and the beaches of Copacabana spawned a new generation of women's soccer players whose technical skill and artistic showmanship helped Brazil dispatch the United States in the recent Women's World Cup.
An American answer might depend on places like the backyard of the DiMartino family home in Massapequa, N.Y., a Long Island suburb of New York City.
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