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Do I dare tempt fate?

Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, School Sports, tagged , , on 27 March 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Do I dare tempt fate? I have managed to clear a space in the laundry room – no small feat – and want to bring in from storage the boxes with spring/summer clothing in them and swap out the winter items. What happens when I do this? Unfortunately, history has proven that I end up [...]

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Live Blog – NCAA Tourney

Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, School Sports, tagged , , , , , on 16 March 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Okay, so I am not “the man” in the bar watching four games at a time but it is almost time for the 7:10 pm tip offs and our favorite team is set to go…Go Purple Eagles!! Unfortunately, I don’t have bar patrons to comment on but comment I will on the games. I am [...]

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Thank you, U of Dayton

Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, School Sports, tagged , , , , , , on 15 March 2007 | Leave a Comment »

While the Niagara University Purple Eagle men’s basketball team was unhappy to be playing in the play-in game for the NCAA tournament, they did meet up with an unexpected acquaintance. The University of Dayton pep band – who had played for Niagara at NIT events at HSBC Arena several years ago – met up with [...]

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Mountaineers & Orange Make History

Posted in Just my Thoughts, School Sports, tagged , , , , , on 12 March 2007 | Leave a Comment »

MSNsportsNET.com – the official site for WVU Mountaineer sports – has the following quote in an article about WVU being on the bubble to go dancing. According to West Virginia SID Bryan Messerly, only twice in the existence of the Big East Conference has a 20-win team not made the tournament: 20-8 UConn in 1980 [...]

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Dancing but is it really?

Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, School Sports, tagged , , , , on 12 March 2007 | Leave a Comment »

My daughter was all excited. First, her sister’s women’s soccer team won their conference championship at the end of October last year. The team and university members were gathered in the lower level of the Gallagher Center to watch the selection show. The team – which plays in a small Division 1 conference – was [...]

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March Madness Arrives

Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, School Sports, tagged , , , , on 11 March 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Several blog titles of mine deal with March Madness, though not all refer to NCAA basketball. This one does and this year, in particular, it will be special. This year March Madness has a special slant to it. My daughter’s college team won their conference championship so will be heading to the dance. It happens [...]

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March Madness is coming ….

Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, School Sports, tagged , on 9 March 2007 | Leave a Comment »

… and this time I do mean college basketball. Tomorrow, I leave for the four hour one-way trip to pick up my daughter from college. Her university’s men’s basketball team won their conference championship on Tuesday night – or was it Wednesday night – of this week. They are going dancing. So, while my daughter [...]

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“A Matter of Class”

Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, School Sports, tagged , , on 7 March 2007 | 2 Comments »

You all should read Mike Jarvis’s article on student-athletes in college basketball’s Big Dance. While Coach Jarvis focuses on the basketball end of this, it is the same for most college student-athletes. I had a mother ask me about my daughter’s experience at a Division 1 school who happened to make it to the NCAA [...]

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Mountaineer Basketball

Posted in Just my Thoughts, School Sports on 10 February 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I have to admit I do not like watching basketball on television. I am not even sure I like watching basketball in person but if I have to, college ball is the way to go. So it is a cold February Saturday and I am flipping around – anything to not watch another episode of [...]

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National Signing Day

Posted in Just my Thoughts, School Sports, tagged , on 7 February 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I am sure you all are saying what does a mother of six from upstate New York know about National Signing day for college football recruits. What I know is it is a high stress time for college coaches and for incoming college freshmen or high school seniors. I also know that it is not [...]

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