Balancing both academics and athletics can be a daunting task for the Huskies, and for every other collegiate athlete for that matter. Sophomore Tiffany Hayes did her best today. And she pulled it off in impressive fashion.
With UConn scheduled to practice at 2 p.m. Hayes knew that it would conflict with her statistics (discussion) class [...]

Sacramento State senior forward Charday Hunt led the Hornets to their first ever victory over a Pac-10 tournament with 19 points on Sunday afternoon. Photo via jlindstr.smugmug.com

Generally, pairing the host of a non-conference [...]

Stanford has offered a one hour mini camp for girls in 3rd-8th grades, which happens to be the ages of the girls C and R coach for rec league basketball. Six of the twelve girls are able to go to the camp before the game, and then attend the Gonzaga-Stanford game with us.
We register the [...]

As C and R are driving the day after Thanksgiving to Stanford’s game against Utah, we wonder if this game will be a bust, attendance wise. Everyone traveling to Grandma’s house and such. However, we see a good size crowd coming into Maples Pavilion, maybe it is something for the Bay Area to do the [...]

Lorin Dixon has not practiced or played in a game since suffering a strained left hamstring against Vanguard Nov. 9. Kaili McLaren was forced to miss the season opener against Northeastern Nov. 14 with an injury to her right foot. This week Jacquie Fernandes missed several days of practice and Friday’s game against Hofstra due [...]

Kaili McLaren was tired of listening to a humble Geno Auriemma try to downplay the fact that he had become the fastest Division I basketball coach ever to reach 700 wins Friday night. In his 25th season with the Huskies, Auriemma needed just 822 games to reach the milestone. During his postgame remarks he said [...]

In response to the question, “What does Thanksgiving mean to you?”, University of Washington coach Tia Jackson remembers her high school coach, Barbara McCool, who recently passed away at 71 after fighting cancer.

As [...]

In a poll that appeared in the Nov. 30 issue of ESPN The Magazine, Geno Auriemma was tabbed as the “Last Coach You’d Want To Play for.’’ According to the snippet only 24 players actually answered the question, with Auriemma garnering eight votes and Tennessee’s Pat Summitt receiving four.
However, I know for certain that there [...]

Oh, I forgot to mention when I was at the Pepperdine game WITHOUT R, who was getting her roots done…see that long sentence from the Pepperdine blog….. Maples showed this really funny video of the two freshmen, Joslyn Tinkle and Mikaela Ruef, two players whose names my spell checker hates.
Anyhoo, another word my spell [...]

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Maya Moore and UConn’s quest for another national championship got off to a good start [...]