The FanHouse - Villanova Basketball (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Michelle Smith Filed under: California , Stanford , Pac 10 STANFORD, Calif. -- Jim Harbaugh talked a little bit about hubris early this week, the danger of thinking you are more than you are. Did Stanford think that putting up 106 points in consecutive upset victories over Oregon and USC would guarantee another flurry of points and touchdown celebrations? Did they think that...
NCAA Football FanHouse (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Michelle Smith Filed under: California , Stanford , Pac 10 STANFORD, Calif. -- Jim Harbaugh talked a little bit about hubris early this week, the danger of thinking you are more than you are. Did Stanford think that putting up 106 points in consecutive upset victories over Oregon and USC would guarantee another flurry of points and touchdown celebrations? Did they think that...
The FanHouse - Alabama Basketball (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
by Michelle Smith Filed under: Kings , WNBA The Sacramento Monarchs, one of the WNBA 's original eight franchises folded Friday, leaving the league to scramble to find a new ownership group, possibly in the San Francisco Bay Area, in time for the 2010 season. The league announced Friday that it is in talks to find a Bay Area ownership group prepared to take the team over. WNBA...
The FanHouse - NCAAbasketball (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
by Michelle Smith Filed under: Connecticut , Women's Basketball Tina Charles' stat line in the box score looks just fine by almost any measure: 15 points, 11 rebounds in 18 minutes. Unless the person doing the measuring is UConn Huskies coach Geno Auriemma, who sees the personal fouls that kept her out of the game for much of the first half. Auriemma has a knack for viewing the...
The FanHouse - NCAAbasketball (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
by Michelle Smith Filed under: Women's Basketball SAN ANTONIO -- I should known better. Never leave a Geno Auriemma press conference. At least, not without leaving behind the tape recorder. While this intrepid reporter was dashing down the hall at the AT&T Center to the Texas locker room to get a quote from Longhorns coach Gail Goestenkors -- who had declined to come to the...
The FanHouse - NCAAbasketball (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
by Michelle Smith Filed under: Women's Basketball SAN ANTONIO -- I should have known better. Never leave a Geno Auriemma press conference. At least, not without leaving behind the tape recorder. Geno Auriemma: Tennessee Won't Be Back on UConn's Schedule originally appeared on NCAA Basketball FanHouse on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:45:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink...
The FanHouse - NCAAbasketball (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
by Michelle Smith Filed under: Connecticut , Tennessee , Women's Basketball SAN ANTONIO -- Tennessee and Connecticut in the same gym, but not on the court at the same time. Maybe San Antonio will bring Pat Summitt and Geno Auriemma back together, but not on this night. Instead, the top-ranked Huskies and the Lady Vols combined to behave a little ungraciously to their Texas hosts...
The FanHouse - NCAAbasketball (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
by Michelle Smith Filed under: Women's Basketball What have we learned after one weekend of the college season? Brittney Griner is a freshman. OK ... that's a little obvious. But we might forget that as we are distracted by the dunking. When Griner picked up four fouls early in the second half against Tennessee , it was a needed jolt of reality. Freshmen, well, they have a tendency...
