Monday, May 28, 2007

Softball College World Series

I have looked in vain on CBSSportsline.com for any news on the softball college world series, which had regionals this past weekend. Not a peep of news about it.

I can't say that they're ignoring it because it's a woman's sport - I caught a glimpse of a men's college baseball world series regional game as well - and CBSsports isn't mentioning that at all. Ditto lacrosse..which I think is also going on.

Actually, with the end of the school year coming up I bet all kinds of sports - gynmastics, swimming, etc,. are also winding down their season - and if I paid more attention to my local paper (Yorktown, Virginia) I'd probably know what was going on with those - but for reasons I won't go into at the moment I haven't had time to read a paper in 2 weeks.

But, that's what I hope the Mudville Megaphone will eventually become - a central clearing house for professional and college sports, treating each with equal weight. The difference between the MM and other sports sites, for example SportsPageMagazine (http://www.spmsportspage.com/) is that we'll deal with personalities, while they deal with scores, recounts of games, etc. SPM features the WNBA and lots of women's college sports, so check them out.

Anyway, CBSSportsline does have a button called WorldSports, under the Other Sports tab, which deals - a bit - with college sports and there are a few headlines there
http://www.sportsline.com/worldsports

But for covering women's college sports I think ESPN is better. Unlike CSB Sportsline, they actually have Womens BB as a tab on their front page, instead of buried as Sportsline has it. They also have a tab called ESPNU - covering University sports, and are covering the various college championships there.

http://espn.go.com/
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/index

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