UNC won the College Cup… again
By: Melissa | December 7th, 2009
I believe this is now the 2ist win for North Carolina. Jessica McDonald scored the lone goal in the 3rd minute (picture above) and then it was a flurry of food poisoning, offsides calls, and an O’Hara double yellow that cost Stanford their perfect record for the season. Perhaps the biggest upset was the flurry of “patting ourselves on the back” & “we’re just happy to be here” quotes the ncaa twitter account posted all weekend long from the losing coaches. It’s times like these when I desperately wish for another Tony DiCiccio “we lost and I’m mad as hell” outburst. I’m glad there was a big ncaa women’s weekend. I’m glad folks like Whitney Engen can get all publicly excited about continuing their careers in WPS, but I think the Women’s Sports Blog says it best with their description of the game:
2009 soccer championship tying goal disallowed on offside, compounded by being forced to endure the obsequiousness sweepstakes that is media coverage of that creep Anson Dorrance and his insufferable, Yankees-like program. Cat Whitehill inexplicably kissed enough UCLA butt that I knew to keep the sound off when she was actually commentating on her own team.
This event came in at #2 of their “Seven Suicidal Sports Moments.” Cool, I’m glad I missed this game.
Next up, the WPS draft where a significant chunk of the College Cup final players will be drafted into various WPS teams and will hopefully NOT migrate into obscurity on the bench or substitution status while the European and Brazilian signings outperform our American so-called post-college stars. Bring it.
Category: WPS News
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UNC’s Program is second to none in the country. They attract the best players and produce the best players. Good for them but I’m anxiously awaiting a team that can take them on and make for a great rivalry or something like that. Till then my Dad lives in North Carolina…so I’m claiming Fanhood!
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I haven’t seen any Camera angle that can show the Stanford player was not in an offside position. I think the Women’s Sports Blog person is being completely unfair in just assuming that the official got it wrong.
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No way, I think the sarcastic comment is referring to Dorrance’s coaching style which takes advantage of how the Cup games are played (substitutions and timeouts) as well as his team’s winning sweep. The blogger is also taking poking at the tv commentating which, after reading the above, thankfully I missed. Could anyone be worse than John Harkes? Seems so.
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John Harkes was commentating? I didn’t see him on the ESPN 360 commentary, it was women only.
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uh, no
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Thanks for the shout-out! For the commenters: I didn’t say the official got it wrong (at least in this post). I simply said the goal was called off, which was what happened. The post was about things that upset me, not only things that were incorrect. Readers will note I gave UNC their due later on in the week. They’re important for women’s sports and they produce some great players. But there’s really no arguing their fans have a serious problem admitting that there’s anyone who is as good as they are (UCLA and Stanford were this year, but had some bad luck). Anson Dorrance seems to me to be kind of a jerk both on and off the field, but folks will forgive anything if it comes with wins.
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Are women allowed to remove their shirts after they score yet? and where is the water fights and small tight uniforms. When these changes that sep blatter recommended take place then womens soccer will be off the chain @Melissa
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