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Countdown to Senior Night: The Sportscenter Generation

6 March, 2009 /

sportscenterThis year’s graduating class from the Boston University men’s hockey team is quite familiar with ESPN’s Sportscenter, because members of the class have been featured on it four times so far in their four years. College hockey does not get a lot of Sportscenter love (even when John Buccigross is involved), so for members of a single graduating class to appear on the iconic show multiple times is quite a feat.

As I mentioned last month, Sportscenter doesn’t have a great online video archive, so I am without video for all of one of these appearances. I have found alternative video where available.

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Countdown to Senior Night: The Battle of the BUs – A Senior Day in Every Sense

3 March, 2009 /

This week at …On Being a Sports Girl, we have a series that I am hastily trying to put together called, “Countdown to Senior Night.”  (And when I mean hastily put together, I mean it came to me as I was down in the Food Court getting lunch 45 minutes ago.) Originally hatched to be a review and reflection upon this year’s Boston University hockey senior class, I decided to open it up to posts about senior days or nights in every winter sport, since we are in the midst of a whole host of them.  Of course, we’ll have a post or six about this year’s Terrier senior class, which have cemented their places in BU hockey lore for years to come.

To kick off our series, I am reposting an oldie-but-a-goodie I wrote about Senior Day for the Binghamton University men’s basketball team in 2004. I was a senior about to head off to Boston University for graduate work, and the Bearcats’ opponent that day was the Terriers.  The original post – edited to take out the non-basketball stuff that followed the original post – is after the jump.

If you are interested in contributing a piece to the series – be it about senior days for your team or about this year’s Terrier seniors, email me at sportsgirlkat@gmail.com.

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Finding Their Identity: What the America East Championship Means to Binghamton University

1 March, 2009 /

The artsy, older girlfriend of the emo guitarist I had a crush on who lived on the second floor of my residence hall and I got into an argument one day back my senior year of college at Binghamton University.  We were in a friend’s car, and we were all about to go our separate ways after a Sunday afternoon brunch; I, to a Bearcats men’s basketball game, artsy girlfriend to a poetry reading, and the rest of the group to study – which meant watch cable TV with books open on their laps, the number one symptom of senioritis.

As the car prepared to turn into the gym parking lot, artsy girlfriend said to us all, filled with self-importance, “I wish people wouldn’t go to the basketball games. Binghamton doesn’t need sports.”

I took the bait. “Oh, of course we do. It puts the university on the map to the general public.”

“I didn’t hear of Binghamton through sports, ” huffed artsy girlfriend.

“Well, neither did I, but we also live in New York State. What about those in other parts of the country? They don’t know Bingo from Adam.”

“Well,” she pointed to me. “I don’t want those people, people that only find out about colleges because of their basketball teams, to come to my university. They don’t contribute anything.”

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Thank you for reading my missive on Colin Wilson. You’re the better for it.

25 February, 2009 /

As I’m about to be published on KuklasKorner’s On The Forecheck blog regarding BU Terrier and future Nashville Predator Colin Wilson, I thought I would post a special welcome to those of you checking out my site after reading that piece. Thanks for taking a chance on me.

A little bit about me: I write primarily about college hockey, professional hockey, and lacrosse.  I have recoccuring series on NCAA compliance (Better Know a Compliance Rule), my teenage addiction to the sport of figure skating (Revisiting My Teenage Geeky Figure Skating Lovin’ Self) and an interview series (Five Questions with…)

Here are some recent blog pieces that might be of interest to you, the educated hockey fan that you are (yes, I’m sucking up to you. I have no shame.)

First off, here’s a piece I wrote about Colin Wilson being drafted last summer, and the eligibility rules that allowed him to be drafted by the Predators but still play college hockey.

Better Know a Compliance Rule #2: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Other hockey related pieces of particular note:

The 2009 …On Being a Sports Girl Unofficial Beanpot All-Tournament Team

My Live Tweeting of Night One and Night Two of the Beanpot

At that Rate, I’m Surprised They Didn’t Give the Arena Away

If You Want the Bills and Sabres So Much, Why Don’t You Take All of Us?

The Everyone’s Favorite Goalie Watch: Dany Gets Benched, Curry Gets Chance

More Last Name Fun and Lerg Love from the Icebreaker

As the Forechecker mentioned, I also write for the HLOG – Hockey’s Ladies of Greatness – and these two pieces I wrote  for them you might particularly enjoy.

The Mono Award

Dear Hockey East, Thanks for the Goalies. Love, The NHL

And what gained me the invite to guest post was my interview with the College Hockey Blog (reposted on my own):

Did I Answer Questions About the Beanpot? Did I Ever.

If you like what you read, please feel free to drop me a line at sportsgirlkat@gmail.com or add me to your RSS reader. Thanks again!

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