I'M IN WOMEN'S SLACKS
Check that; I'm at women's lax.
The NCAA Championship. In Musbergerese, "You are looking LIVE at Franklin Field , on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. I'm joined by Phyllis George, but I'm not joined to Phyllis George. That would be entirely inappropriate."
ANYWAY, it's the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship, and we have a good one. Two-time defending champion Northwestern --that's right, Northwestern-- going up against the last school to win the title before the Wildcats, Virginia.
Both of these programs lived a semis charmed life on Friday evening. The Cavaliers (19-3) beat ACC rival Duke (yes, they have a women's team, also; George Smith didn't tell you that?) 14-13 by staging the largest comeback in NCAA Championships history. Duke scored with 20:46 remaining in the second half to take a 13-4 lead. UVA called timeout. Then someone found a can opener and all the Cavs chugged some spinach or something because the proceeded to score ten unanswered goals. During the 10-0 run senior Megan Havrilla , a suburban Philly native, scored three goals as did sophomore Blair Weymouth , who was the 2006 National Rookie of the Year.
Jess Wasilewski, another Philly native, scored the winning goal for the Cavs with 0:09 to play.
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Northwestern's victory was also record-setting, but not for drama; rather, for dominance. The Willdcats, playing Penn on the Quakers' home field, shut out the Ivy League champs for the first 43:31 of the game. That's by far the longest drought to open an NCAA Championships game. No team had even been shut out in the first half of a finals game since 1991. The Wildcats were dominant, winning 12-2.
More on them in the next entry (I can't give you all the info here and hope to get to my 1,000th blog by Christmas). My blogs are becoming like Lay's potato chips. We're keeping the bag the same size, we're just putting less product inside. See if you notice.
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NBCSports.com's John Walters goes into the world of college sports and well beyond. From Notre Dame to the latest in pop culture, JDub tackles it all.
J-Dub's such a streak blogger. Goes like five days without a post, then -- wham! -- he's got like 10 posts, so all my comments are badly dated. The shameless product placement of the Lay's reference is so unsubtle. How about "Man, this blog has so little gunky residue, it's as if I'm using Quaker State."
A streaking blogger, hmm...sounds like you definitely are placed in auxiliary media seating for that...