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FanHouse Terrific 12: Now It's a Season

Now we've got ourselves a season. Connecticut's 90-game win streak was a great thing for the women's game. It put a spotlight on the game, got people talking (good and bad) and was an impressive demonstration of consistent, unrelenting excellence. But Stanford ending that streak last week was also great for women's...

Baylor Favored to Rule Big 12

This was almost the swan song for the Big 12. There was a point in the summer when the conference that has played the toughest, most bruising women's basketball in the nation faced its end, placed smack in the middle of the "super-conference" scramble that almost resulted in the dissolution of the Big 12. But the Big 12...

Oklahoma's Whitney Hand to Miss Five More Months

Oklahoma was hoping the return of Whitney Hand would help them make a run at a third straight Final Four. But Hand had a setback in her recovery from last year's knee injury and won't be returning to the Sooners' lineup. The school announced that Hand had mircrofracture surgery Tuesday to repair cartilage damage in her...

NCAA Women's Crystal (Basket)ball: Ranking Teams for 2010-11

Connecticut ruled almost every aspect of the 2009-2010 women's basketball season, conversations about win streaks and scoring margins and whether the Huskies' dominance was bad for the game ... that is how the season will be remembered. There were some storylines that managed to punch a hole through the all-Huskies,...

Women's Notebook: Stanford Gets a Break but Not Rest

The football team is headed to a bowl game for the first time since 2001 and boasts a star running back in contention for the Heisman Trophy.The women's soccer team has reached the national semifinals of the NCAA Women's College Cup.The women's volleyball team won its fourth straight Pac-10 title and earned the No. 4 seed...

Background on Whitney Hand

The Whitney Handicap (often referred to as the "Whitney Stakes") is an American Grade 1 handicap race for Thoroughbred racehorses three years of age and older run at a distance of 1⅛ miles.

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