Beach Volleyball Coming Soon To A School Near You!
by corn blight
on Apr 24, 2007 5:28 PM CDT
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The NDSU series is cancelled due to bad weather. Thunderstorms. Probably really loud thunderstorms. Bah!
Nebraska's Sarah Pavan and Jordan Larson win the Collegiate Nationals Championship - a beach volleyball tournament - by beating Stanford (again).
The marketing potential of a competition featuring a group of elite women's volleyball players in swimwear was obvious. But Kathy DeBoer, the American Volleyball Coaches Association's executive director, sees the event as kicking off a dialogue about the possible integration of beach volleyball into collegiate sports on a full-time basis.
Well, how the hell is Nebraska or Wisconsin do that? As Pavan mentions in the article, we don't have beaches we have cornfields. You can bet if there's money in it and enough interest, we'll be building a new beach volleyball center. Of course, the NCAA is interested in is expanding the opportunities for young women who want to play volleyball.
In swimwear.
EDSBS Live Goes Retro tonight - check out the questions over at Burnt Orange Nation. Amongst the questions:
- Who’s the best pre-1990 college football team of all time?
- Your favorite pre-1990 football player?
As if someone could say anything BUT the 1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers, and Johnny "The Jet" Rodgers. Well, I suppose they could if they were from Texas, USC, Ohio State, or one of those places and completely ignorant of football history.
Oregon blogger Building the Dam provides a PAC-10 Baseball Week in Review while Roll Bama Roll provides the SEC Baseball Week in Review.
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by taflorom on
Apr 25, 2007 1:32 AM CDT
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yeah, I did
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holy cow you guys are young.
1. 1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers. Beat Oklahoma in the 'Game of the Century' - both of those teams were incredible, but Nebraska won the game. You might point out Bud Wilkinson's Sooners and their 57 game winning streak. Or Not. Ha!
2. possibly Nebraska's Johnny 'The Jet' Rodgers - see same '71 game against OU. Earl Campbell is a great choice - watching him run over people, he had thighs like no other human being. Billy Sims was great to watch, even if he played for the Godless Sooners.
Bo Jackson and Herschel Walker were unstoppable.
Who the hell can pick just one of these? I guess you could if ancient history is 1990! Ha!
3. Without any doubt or hesitation, the modern game has been pansified by the 'Roughing the Passer' penalties that are called like it's the NFL. Same with a lot of the contact penalties on passing plays - although not as bad as the NFL - still a lot wimpier.
4. Ann Margret - no contest.
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Apr 25, 2007 6:56 AM CDT
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