PLU women athletes take little time for glory
Say this about the Pacific Lutheran softball team: They play hard and celebrate fast. They came back from Virginia on Tuesday afternoon with the NCAA Division III National Championship trophy in hand, accepted the boisterous cheers and well-wishes of several hundred fans and classmates at the University Center, and then got back to business.
As the powers-that-be ponder the future in smoke-free back rooms - one of the few areas where college football has kept up with the times - maybe we're finally stumbling toward the era of a true champion.
Suspended Virginia Tech placekicker Cody Journell's future with the Hokies is in the hands of athletic director Jim Weaver.
Behind a brilliant run of pitching by senior Stacey Hagensen, the Pacific Lutheran University softball team is NCAA Division III champion.
Former West Virginia football coach Bill Stewart, who was hailed as Rich Rodriguez's successor but wound up leaving the school in a messy split, died Monday of what athletic department officials said was an apparent heart attack. He was 59.
An Alabama fan pleaded not guilty Monday to committing sexual battery on an unconscious LSU fan after the BCS national title game, which was caught on video.
The Washington Huskies are thankful Nikia Williams is infinitely better at hitting home runs than measuring them.
SALEM, Va. – Erin Van Nostrand makes the same crack about her Pacific Lutheran University softball team.
SEATTLE – Kaitlin Inglesby, like all University of Washington softball pitchers, may always pale in comparison to two-time national player of the year Danielle Lawrie.
Amanda Hall knows she has not been the steadiest contributor in her first season at Pacific Lutheran University.
The lawyer for Cody Journell says the Virginia Tech kicker has reached an agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty to a reduced charge stemming from a December incident.
SEATTLE – Washington freshman Kimberlee Souza looked like the calmest person in the ballpark when she blasted the biggest hit of the Huskies’ softball season Friday night, and she looked even calmer when she described it.
There were so many reasons Pacific Lutheran could have come out a tad flat for the NCAA Division III Softball College World Series.
The Lutes business – an 8-0 victory in five innings over Luther College of Iowa.
The Big 12 and the Southeastern conferences have announced a deal that will pit their football regular-season champions against each other in a New Year's Day bowl game for five years beginning in 2014, positioning themselves for the expected switch to a four-team playoff.
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