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I've seen rude behavior from UMD students at volleyball games, of all things. Not so much about how many students show up as it is which students show up, I think.

Check your inbox. Pinotbear got me two tickets for Christmas and my plus-one is sick.

Her medical staff and, presumably, coaching staff knew about it. You are neither. You and I and the rest of the people posting here are not entitled to player's private medical information.

It is not the university's decision.

Caroline (at least twice, once in high school), Shea (at least three times, once in her pro career), Kalana Greene, I think Mel Thomas but I'm not sure, Jessica Moore (national championship game, I believe, and she played on the injury in the second half because it just didn't hurt that much and...

Although UConn is certainly capable of also having a bad day on the turnover section of the stat sheet, I think the key here is the juxtaposition of the two numbers. UConn, on the same day that they just couldn't shoot the whole first quarter, also buckled down and only had one turnover for the...

You're right, but you can reduce how much the skull bounces around inside the helmet. If the helmet absorbs more energy, then less is transferred to the skull, and still less is transferred to the brain. You're talking a lot in terms of momentum, which is very intuitive and makes sense, but at...

My understanding is that some of these problems have already been solved, if you can absorb and distribute the force of impact efficiently and not transfer so much energy to the skull directly. The answer, quite simply, is to have padding on the outside of the helmet. Hard-shelled helmets bounce...

Honestly, this is why on the rare occasion (twice?) that I've gone into the city to watch a WNBA game, I just buy a ticket at the door. They're not selling out; I'm not paying online booking fees on top of the metro, which is already adding several dollars. One time a couple of years back...

Yeah, I was looking at the ESPN3 broadcast schedule, but all the early games I saw are owned/whatever on the Longhorn Network. For me personally, I can't watch anything that isn't ESPN3; I don't have access to the SEC and Longhorn stuff that is hosted on the ESPN3 site. If you can watch that, it...

Well, I'll toss in my two cents. At the JV level, most of your players have been playing a while. They all have their style and routine to their basic skills. It may be good, bad, or ugly, but it is how they do it. Unless their form is really, truly, god-awful terrible, it's not worth it to...

In addition to that, I remember hearing a story about what Geno said to them in the huddle that game, I think after Caroline went down hurt. (Was this really all one game, or am I mixing up two memorable anti-Cuse incidents?) Basically, the report was that Geno asked the team how they wanted to...

More than that, I think, is can you call a double unintentional flagrant? I just don't see how it's fair to call a flagrant only on Cable when she didn't initiate contact or even possibly know what was going on. I'm not sure what else the refs were supposed to do given what happened and how fast...

Watching in slow-motion and frame-by-frame completely distorts what happened in real time. People can't assess a situation, react, and change the momentum of their whole body instantly. It happened very fast.

Yeah, my impression was that Cable was backing up to get in position to contest for the rebound, with no idea that Stewie was behind her. There's an instant, when she first feels contact, where her body language looks to me like "I'm boxing whoever this is out", and then about two milliseconds...

No. Heather used up all her eligibility, I just checked the site archive rosters to make sure I'm not making this up. It was especially handy for her because the demands of her degree often result in students needing a fifth year to finish, and she got her fifth year for free.

The only UConn players I can think of who didn't use up their eligibility are Wolff and Kirsten(? I forget her last name, not sure if I got the first name right), who IIRC was the K in the TASSK force with Sue, Swin, Tamika, and Ashja. Both left due to chronic injury problems; K never played...

Best I can do is Rachel Fico, who pitched her very first high school softball game, IIRC - and first no-hitter - against my team. Went on to the (state? national?) high school record for number of no-hitters thrown, a nice career at LSU, and a number 1 pick in the draft for the National...

I don't. "I would bet" means that I'm willing to bet on it. A bet means that you don't know the outcome. But thank you for putting words in my mouth. We know transfers can happen fast. A lot of courses use pretty standard curriculum, because a lot of them use the same textbook. Email is a...

I would bet that, nowadays, you just email in your grades and course syllabi, and ask if there's a spot for you. There probably will be a spot open in a dorm somewhere. Give a couple days for relevant departments to check over syllabi while admissions checks the transcript with the original...

This reminds me of the creative writing class I took my freshman year. Some story we were peer-reviewing included the detail that the main character transferred schools in less than a week, just before the spring semester started. The whole class said that was not believable. Author's turn came...

Got 'em confused with the Avery Point team, obviously. Nearest open water is a half-hour's drive from Storrs; you'd need some engineers and a questionably legal amount of rocket fuel to hit that shot.

I really don't understand why there's all this chatter about the parent's responsibility for the student's tax burden. Scholarships/tuition remission and tuition charged should cancel each other out. Scholarship is income, but tuition is a tax write-off, so net taxable income is zero on a full...

ESPN3 does stream ESPN programming and games, that's pretty much the primary purpose of the site. They also have the replays, so if you can't watch it live you can watch it later. The only issue is getting the right login permissions if it doesn't automatically grant access based on your...

When you are backing out, your visibility is extremely limited, especially if a pedestrian walking by is on the small side. It is the most basic of common sense to avoid stepping in the path of a moving vehicle when the driver may not be able to see you.

Given Kiah's earlier struggles with offense and the staggering scoring talent among other players on the team, I wonder if the team simply didn't develop a habit, from Geno on down and including Kiah, of just not using her much on offense. Gabby, being a freshman, wouldn't have had that habit...

There is so much more than just playing ball at any level. I've been playing with the university club softball team this year, and have (and have played against) quite a few people who could have gone at least D3. At least. We're a club team. Our senior player-captain-manager-coach is a...

You're absolutely correct that she isn't very quick, relative to many of the people she has to defend, and that it can cause some issues. The broadcasters who point out when she gets beat on defense aren't wrong. It's just very tiring for some of us to see, every time this issue comes up...

This x1000. I sometimes refer to KML as "The Brick Wall Who Runs". She has a frame like a big post player. The shoulders, the hips, and the torso between are all just plain bigger than most guards or wings. Frame and body type dictate how a person carries weight and shows (or doesn't show)...

Can you imagine KML on Tulsa? Diggins and Sims are both threats from long range and on the dribble-drive; KML has a knack for getting open even though every team in the country knows to not let that happen. You'd barely even need a frontcourt. Drive, draw double-team, pass, drive, repeat...

I got the distinct impression in the first few whistle-happy minutes that the refs were very much aware of the physical history of the two teams. This crew seemed willing to foul out everybody if they had to. What we got in the end was a hard-fought, physical basketball game that didn't...

UConn basketball is what brings Connecticut together, after all. I believe that the Patriots exist so that Red Sox fans can cheer up during the post season and UConn exists so that people will stop arguing about the Patriots.

I did. Repeatedly. I even went to the original post on Vine. Nothing. Those things work for me maybe one time out of ten.

No idea. Went to the link and I'm getting a still picture, no video at all.

People didn't know the President was going to be there; regular security mostly just cares about smuggling food in to dodge the concession stand prices. I used to carry a pocket knife every day until I lost/forgot it in a backpack pocket (and airport security found it, goodbye little knife)...