• MBB: 2018 NIT Tournament
    I frequently tried to invoke something like that when it came to divulging my grades to my parents.
  • New woman’s sport
    I think that rowing is like cross country. Pick a spot and sit, the action comes racing by, and you're done....Not even like the Tour de France where idiots run out onto the course waving flags and almost knocking the cyclists down. As I recall the few times I have seen rowing in the Olympics there are often bike lanes on the shore and you can see cyclists following the boats.
  • MBB: 2018 NIT Tournament
    (HIPPA, or to be an attorney, er, jerk, about it, HIPAA, has to do with privacy of medical information. Not sure if medical issues ever came up, but there are probably some rules or regulations providing for confidentiality of student disciplinary matters.)

    Didn't Chima graduate at the end of the winter quarter? If he has graduated, does that put an unceremonious, and unresolved end to the matter?
  • WBB: 2018 WNIT Tournament
    WNIT Final: Indiana 65-Va Tech 57 in front of 13,000 (!!) in Bloomington.
  • MBB: 2018 NIT Tournament
    Penn State defeated Utah for NIT championship.
  • WBB: 2018 WNIT Tournament
    Indiana continues it's roll through the WNIT, defeating TCU by 13, 71-58, in front of 7,800 fans in Bloomington. They will host Virginia Tech in Saturday's final.

    Just as in the men's NIT, the Ags lost to a finalist, and played them as well as any other team has in the tournament(s).
  • Utah State MBB HC Vacancy
    Utah State hired Craig Smith from the University of South Dakota as their new head coach.
    http://www.utahstateaggies.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/032618aad.html
  • MBB: 2018 NIT Tournament
    They will be playing Penn State.
  • WBB: 2018 WNIT Tournament
    Well if you go by the Big Ten rule it might be Flagstaff.
  • WBB: 2018 WNIT Tournament
    Maybe the Big West could be like the 14 teams in the Big Ten and have their tournament in Madison Square Garden, smack dab in the geographic center of the conference? Or like the "faith-based" schools of the West Coast Conference and have the tournament in Las Vegas.
  • No support from the sac bee for Aggie Woamns Basketball sweet 16
    To twist an old journalism adage, "it's woman bites dog" news.
  • WBB: 2018 WNIT Tournament
    I grew up in Iowa City, IA. I think Iowa City and Bloomington could pass for twin cities. Basketball is not quite the event in Iowa that it is in Indiana; substitute football and wrestling. I swore I was watching Iowa City when I saw "Breaking Away." College sports are a whole different thing in that area. Think Big Game...that's the atmosphere when a Big Ten school plays their season opener against some patsy directional school from a smaller conference. By the time you get to the conference schedule the whole state shuts down for the game. It's a different world. I am here to stay, but have great memories of growing up in Big Ten country.
  • Name your favorite Sac eatery / place
    Not sure if it was the same event, but I remember some event where a whole lot of historic old trains were brought together in Sacramento,....kind of a tall ships on rails event. Lot of train buffs came to town, many of them gathering in the mountains or other scenic vistas to take photos of the old trains. One of the coolest things was to hear the steam whistles as the trains came to town. Much better than whatever kind of horns they use now, though for the sake of a full nights sleep, I suppose the old whistles had to go.
  • WBB: 2018 WNIT Tournament
    Big crowd, tradition, name....Bloomington newspaper covers local college sports.

    https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/sports/college/iu/
  • No support from the sac bee for Aggie Woamns Basketball sweet 16
    And NOW they run a story.

    http://www.sacbee.com/sports/college/article206792114.html

    First round home win: nothing.

    Second round road win: nothing.

    Third round nail-biting win at "power conference" school: nothing.

    Fourth round loss at Indiana: they write something.
  • No support from the sac bee for Aggie Woamns Basketball sweet 16
    I get the idea that Bee subcription rates are like airline tickets. You may be paying something significantly different than the person in the seat next to you for the same ride.

    Had a friend cancel the print subscription recently, and - shh!!! - they still get the online subscription for free. Have another friend who says he cancelled the print subscription and has not paid for the online subscrition for years.

    I also had problems with the Bee's online registration. I arranged for a subscription for a very senior relative, all to be billed through me. I used my e-mail address. That person died. I tried to set up an online account for my own subscription and it took more work than necessary to tie that account to my e-mail. Now it won't let me read more than a few issues on an iPad, even though I have a subscription.

    Trying to contact them about subscription or delivery issues is difficult.

    I understand print papers are having a rough time in the age of the internet, but the Bee is not adapting to the cyber-age very well.
  • WBB: 2018 WNIT Tournament
    Indiana is on a roll. This is the closest anyone has come to them in the WNIT.
  • No support from the sac bee for Aggie Woamns Basketball sweet 16
    Another frustrating thing is that it's difficult to figure out just who the editors are. You can write to individual reporters, but identifying people higher up in the management chain is difficult.

    There is nothing in either the print edition or the online edition about the women's team. I think the last thing they had at all was following the men's loss.