:: home
:: mobile
:: rss feed
:: twitter
:: archive
:: donate
:: about
:: bend blogs
:: cheap domains
:: welcome to
bend |
|
|
|
|
UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 33-year-old dad, percussionist, sysadmin, Web developer, IT consultant and jack-of-all-trades geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the IT Director and graphic designer at both Sunray and Discover Sunriver. He has LinkedIn and Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him. He will not be posting on Twitter.
Opinions and comments on this site are the opinions of the author, not the author's employer, family, friends or pets.
This site is powered by Movable Type and is hosted by orty.com. Since December 1st, 2002, there have been 6427 entries. Visitors to this blog have posted 20903 comments.
If you're reading this, you have too much time on your hands. |
|
|
|
|
|
Worst Oregon Sports Injustice Ever
You know, I was pretty miffed back in the day when Joey Harrington and his Oregon Ducks were forced by the BCS to play in the Fiesta Bowl instead of the Rose Bowl, despite being ranked #2 in both the polls. But I think what the Oregon women's soccer team just got smacked with is far worse. After the Ducks' emphatic 3-1 victory Sunday over USC - a team that ended the season fifth in the Pacific-10 Conference standings but received a tournament bid Monday - Oregon was so sure of its postseason chances that coaches cautioned the Ducks to take care of homework because they would be traveling Friday to a first-round NCAA Tournament game.
But the team's tournament dreams came crashing down Monday when the brackets were announced and Oregon discovered that it hadn't been picked, putting an abrupt end to the Ducks season and leaving Oregon coaches and players bewildered.
[...]
The team beat No. 24 Arizona 2-1 and No. 3 UCLA 2-1, winning eight out of 10 games to end the season.
It ended the season as the No. 17 team in the Soccer America rankings - the first time an Oregon team had ever been ranked. There are 64 teams in that tournament, the Ducks were 2nd in the conference, and they didn't get a bid.
Worst. Injustice. Ever.
7 Comments
Andy said on 11/07/06 @ 03:25 PM: That isn't even the worst injustice on the Oregan campus this year, just the worst one that has happened to an Oregan team.
-Andy (in Oklahoma)
Shane said on 11/07/06 @ 03:31 PM: As a Brit, I have to say that I find the workings of U.S. college sports very strange indeed!
Jason Carr said on 11/07/06 @ 04:21 PM: It's big news here. The TV stations have been covering it for the last two days, and we (KEZI) even set aside a special sports segment to let people know what happened. The girls were in tears, and so upset that many ended up leaving the Casanova Center in total shock!
UO Athletic Director Bill Moos says he'll do everything he can to find out what happened; but, there's really nothing that can be done to change the circumstances. Our speculation is the whole thing was political and done on purpose, or the selection committee made the biggest mistake of their lives! The former seems to make more sense.
Josh Cordell said on 11/07/06 @ 06:25 PM: unbelievable!
Nathan said on 11/07/06 @ 07:05 PM: Hey All,
Nothing like living in "Oregan" huh? Being the integral state in the western movement of the 1800's you'd think people would at least be able to properly say/spell the name of our great state.
-Andy, you should have paid attention in 6th grade history class, my friend. 'Nuff said.
Andy said on 11/09/06 @ 07:04 PM: I'm dumb
Chelsea said on 10/26/07 @ 09:21 AM: YEH w.e.! you OBBO
Post a comment
|
What are you doing down here? Don't you have something better to do? Like Go Back To The Top of the page, or even see who created this site? This site is © 2001 - 2012 by the Utterly Boring folks at UtterlyBoring.com. Steal my content, as I probably did, too, just link to my site or the original site. Batteries not included. One size fits all. Not for off-road use. Not for internal use. Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
|
|