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I don't know if anyone caught the first game of the final CWS but the announcers said about UF and I quote "Never has a college program accomplished so little to have such a large ego." I thought it was funny

http://www.gatorzone.com/story.php?id=8855&sport=softb&html=softball/news/20050621032300.html Gainesville, FL Tim Walton, one of softball's top young coaching talents, will be the new head softball coach at the University of Florida, Athletics Director Jeremy Foley announced Tuesday. Walton comes to Florida from Wichita State University in Wichita, Kan., where he has been the head coach for the past three seasons. In 2005, Walton led the Shockers to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 16 years as they earned the first at-large bid in school history. Wichita State finished the 2005 season with a school record 46-18 record and broke 30 school records in the process. "It was evident in my conversations with Tim that he would be a top candidate for the head softball coach position at Florida," Foley said. "He is a young talent with solid credentials who quickly turned around the program at Wichita State. I was impressed with his knowledge about our program at Florida and the enthusiasm he showed for coaching here. He has won national championships as a player and a coach and his knowledge should help lead Florida softball to national prominence. We are proud to welcome him and his family into the Gator family." Walton, 32, began his tenure at Wichita State with a bang in 2003. The team put together one of the best turnarounds in the nation that year, improving its 2002 record by 18 wins to a 39-20 overall record. The Shockers 39 wins was a school record to that point. Under Walton's watch, Wichita State ranked among the top 30 in the nation for earned run average and fielding percentage, including the fifth-best fielding percentage in 2005 (.977). Walton has been a part of national championship teams as an assistant softball coach and as a baseball player, both for the University of Oklahoma. Before heading to Wichita, Walton served as an assistant softball coach at national powerhouse Oklahoma, as the hitting coach and outfielders coach. In his four seasons at OU, the Sooners won three Big XII titles and made three consecutive College World Series appearances, including winning the 2000 NCAA title. Walton played baseball for two years at Cerritos Junior College in his home town of Cerritos, Calif., before transferring to Oklahoma. Walton made two trips to the College World Series as part of the Sooners pitching staff, earning the win in the 1994 national title game in a 13-5 victory over Georgia Tech. Walton stresses academics and community involvement with his teams, as well as on-field performance. In 2004 Wichita State earned an NFCA Academic Top 10 Award for having one of the top 10 cumulative GPAs in the nation. His teams also have been involved in Habitat for Humanity, Toys for Tots, the Kansas Food Bank and reading programs at elementary schools. "I am excited for the opportunity to coach at the University of Florida. There are three things that make Florida a great place to coach and to play," Walton said. "It is a university with a complete package in a college town with an athletic department that has achieved so much success." "First and foremost, my goal is going to be to achieve success at the Southeastern Conference level. From the first day of meetings we are going to be geared toward working hard to win that conference title. The SEC is one of the top three conferences in the country, so if we take care of that goal we can work on regional and national success." After graduating from Oklahoma in 1996 with a degree in history, Walton played with the Philadelphia Phillies minor league organization for two seasons. He began his coaching career as an assistant coach in 1997 with the Oral Roberts University baseball team under coach Sunny Galloway. Walton is married to the former Samantha Rhoten, who was a basketball player at Oral Roberts. The couple has a son, Brooks, who is five years old and has been rooting for the Gator baseball team while watching the College World Series this week, and a daughter, Camden, who is three years old. Florida returns 17 of its 21 team members from 2005 for the 2006 season, including starters at every position. In addition, Florida adds a talented freshmen class including two pitchers, Lindsay Littlejohn and Stacey Nelson, infielders Brooke Johnson and Kim Waleszonia, and utility player Alicia Spack. Tim Walton's Record with Wichita State Softball Year Overall Missouri Valley/Regular season finish NCAA 2003 39-20 (.661) 16-9/3rd (.640) 2004 38-26 (.594) 15-12/5th (.556) 2005 46-18 (.719) 22-4/2nd (.846) NCAA Regional Tim Walton: 123-64 (.658)/overall; 53-25 (.679)/MVC

Warped, Here's his proof. I've been a good friend of the source since HS and been to talley on many occations and been out with Henshaw, A.J., Chris Hall, Chris Rix, Drew Weatherford ... I could go on, but that would just be name dropping. You have to understand how things work. Waytt was suspended for being arrested. The cops didn;t roll up on him with guns blaring and sirens roaring. He was taken out quietly and descreatly. You think everything that happens to athletes at universitys are espn news? definitly not. As for the latest event, that happend in the middle of an intersection where te cops were called and there was many witnesses. Bound to be front page news when the fsu starting qb gets maced and calls himself g-d. What more do you need to believe him?

prison can change a man

Sapp really is a ****, if you met him, you would know

Barry Bonds gives the game of baseball a bad name, i hope he never plays again!

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I have! Gabriela Duch, Liz Cruz, Neyssa Etienne, Luisa Obando, Fabiana Taverna

That ND vs. Pitt game is going to be good. Charlie Weis against Dave Wanstedt. Should be a very well coached game. Interested to see it.

That Ron Mexico is a muy fine player

I have a picture of me and a bunch of my friends all painted up and spelling out USF BULLS at the Alabama game. We were all decked out in green and gold with huge letters (some bigger then others on our chests. The outfit was not complete without the horns! That was a fun time. Too bad I sweat off the paint before the second quarter was over. It was brutal there for those of you who remember. It's always nice to have a cool picture like that with your friends on your first football road trip! My mom as it up in her office, she loves it!

We usually wait till times are confirmed for the games. Mike i got your back, just remind me later and i'll take care of it for ya.

Why is it that if someone asks for a high salery it automatically means they are better? You all think the more money we spend the better we will get. Well the Washington Nationals are 1/2 game out of first and the Royals just sweapt the Yankees. I guess all the money spent is paying off. You can say on paper this on paper that. Until they get on the field, chill out, then you can run your mouth and tell everyone how right or wrong you are.

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he's not an SID ... that's a different department

There was some fundraising going on. The trip to the Hawaii tournament was paid for all by fundraising money. Just a tid bit of information.

last time i checked, i don't think Casey is avaiable, but i can make some calls and find out.

Down in South Florida (plam beach miami area) the only way to get usf news is if they play FAU, UF, FSU, even FIU. Otherwise, nothing. it's amazing how USF is the only state school that doesn't get covered. There is even FAMU news and community college scores. Ponder that one.

I can get a good look at a T-Bone by sticking my head up a bulls ass, but i'd rather take the butchers word for it. In other words, Get your head out of the bulls ass and trust the butcher.

whoever says bowling isn't a sport, roll a 300 game and then call me. takes Concentration, Form.. Adjustments, Pressure.

They count, but they are a Club Team not an NCAA team. In order to host, you need people that are familer with the way College hockey works and is run. I'm sure it's not hard to learn, that's why they would have a school outside of here host.

I know a lot of you don't like to read about tennis, but take a look at this article, it's very interesting. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/sfl-tennis16may16,0,6179966.story?coll=sfla-sports-front When Florida Atlantic set out to improve its tennis teams, it followed a path used by a growing number of schools: looking overseas for players. The result for the women's team has been two conference championships in the past three years and a roster with eight international players. But Friday the Owls faced Miami, which is built primarily with Florida players, and was defeated 4-0 in the first round of the 64-team NCAA tournament. Outcomes like that make Vanderbilt women's coach Geoff Macdonald shake his head. "We're basically selling out U.S. kids so a coach or a school has a better chance to win," said Macdonald, whose fourth-ranked team is the only men's or women's top-10 team without an international player. Macdonald's team also played Friday, winning 4-0 over a Tennessee-Martin team that did not put an American on the court. In Saturday's second round, Vanderbilt won 4-0 over another all-international team, South Alabama. So Vanderbilt moves to this week's round of 16 having not faced an American through the first two rounds of the tournament. After soundly beating second-tier teams with international rosters, Macdonald said he asks himself, "Why didn't those scholarships go to American players?" That question is asked a lot this time of year, as the NCAA men's and women's tennis championships get under way. Since the 1980s, more colleges have turned to international players to build their programs, and now international players dominate the game at the highest level. On the men's side, 68 of the top 100 Division I players in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings are international, as are 50 of the top 100 women. In its latest survey, conducted in 2002, the ITA found that of the nearly 7,000 Division I players -- 30 percent of the men and 29 percent of women -- were international. The percentage of international players who receive scholarships is much higher, probably close to 100 percent, as each men's team is allowed 41/2 scholarships and a women's team can grant as many as eight. "It's a very controversial issue and gets very emotional both ways," said David Benjamin, ITA's executive director. "It's up to each individual school to decide what number they are comfortable with." It is also a factor in Division II, which also offers scholarships, as 30 percent of male players and 17 percent of women are international. Last week, West Florida, with eight international players, won the men's championship, and all-international Armstrong Atlantic State took the women's title. When the trickle of international players turned into a flood, coaches proposed a cap on the number of international players a team could have, but Benjamin said the ITA was told such a limit would be illegal. Baylor is an example of a team going global. Ten years ago both the men's and women's programs were struggling. Then the school started looking overseas. Today, the Baylor men are defending NCAA champions and heavy favorites to repeat, and the women are ranked No. 14. Combined, Baylor's tennis teams have 17 international players and one American, a little-used men's player. Men's coach Matt Knoll makes no apologies for his team, which is 30-0 this season and won its 54th consecutive match Saturday by beating Texas. "The world is becoming smaller. Look at outsourcing, the European Union. I think the NBA and college athletics reflect that," Knoll said. "We are a private, Christian-based college, and our players fit with our mission." Many international players have been developed by tennis federations and played in professional tournaments as amateurs, giving them an edge over American players. Many coaches say there is finite pool of top-level U.S. players and that those players are pursued and won over by the top programs. "I know juniors ranked in the top 50, and they have two dozen coaches after them," said Marcia Frost, editor of College and Junior Tennis. "There is not as much competition for foreign players. You can get a solid player easier and cheaper." That was the case for FAU, which has a limited recruiting budget and is not able to lure players away from Miami, Florida and Florida State. Seven of the nine men's players at FAU and 8 of 11 women were international this season. That means 75 percent of the tennis players are foreign at a university where 98 percent of the 26,000 students are from the United States, and 93 percent of those are from Florida. "There are not enough good players to go around, and the top programs pick them off," said FAU Athletic Director Craig Angelos. "If you go international, you have a much greater pool to draw from, and they are looking for places to play." Clemson men's coach Chuck Kriese has been a vocal opponent of the influx of international players, but even he has succumbed. He has two international players on his roster, but he said he works to keep his team as locally based as possible. "It is my duty as a coach at a state school to recruit South Carolina first, then the South," Kriese said. "I am a teacher first. I have to take that approach." Kriese, who has been coaching for 30 years, said international players are now part of college tennis and fighting it is a waste of energy. Kriese and other coaches are advocating a better distribution of players. "There has to be a balance," Kriese said. "I would be dead set against having more than three or four on my roster. To have six or eight, it would be terrible. It would be wrong." Macdonald said Americans are losing out at mid- and lower-level schools such as FAU, Tennessee-Martin and South Alabama, where international players fill the roster. "A lot of times the international kid isn't any better," Macdonald said. "Coaches seem to think, `Here's a Swede, he or she must be really good.' It takes work to develop players, and a short cut is to go to Slovakia." FAU is searching for coaches for its men's and women's teams, and Angelos said he would like to get more of a balance on his rosters. Angelos said he can reduce that percentage by limiting the amount of money for scholarships, since a scholarship for an out-of-state or international player is double that of one from Florida, $12,500 vs. $25,000. "After I give [the coach] that figure, I would ask them to have a nice balance," Angelos said. "You want to have good players, and you want to win, but you also want to reflect your university." Ted Hutton can be reached at thutton@sun-sentinel.com.

Bowling, Fastest growing NCAA sport! No BS

public perception? acorditing to ticket sales and ratings, nobody in the public saw anyting to perceive. Money in the bank