Graham Hays

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Graham Hays writes for Page 2 and contributes to ESPN.com's women's basketball, softball and soccer coverage. Hays began with ESPN in 1999. He's now an editor for ESPN.com's SportsNation.

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Jones, not Griner, is beat behind Baylor

Graham Hays, ESPN.com

Heard of Brittney Griner? You bet. But Baylor coach Kim Mulkey says Melissa Jones is the player running the show for the Lady Bears.

Story | Conversation | December 08, 2009

Xavier sits atop mid-major rankings

Graham Hays

Blame the NCAA women's soccer tournament for delaying the biweekly rankings by a day, although that also means the first mid-major rankings submitted ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 07, 2009

UNC seniors come full circle with championship

Graham Hays

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Wrapping up careers during which eight of them played in a national championship game as freshmen, North Carolina's seniors ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 06, 2009

Pressure system earns UNC title again

Graham Hays, ESPN.com

There's no doubt about it: North Carolina women's soccer pressure system still works. It held Stanford scoreless as the Tar Heels won their second straight national championship Sunday. But the Cardinal's fight proves times are changing.

Story | Conversation | December 06, 2009

Bronze's roots come through for Tar Heels

Graham Hays

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- In September, when North Carolina and Notre Dame met for the first time, I asked Tar Heels freshman Lucy Bronze about the bi...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 05, 2009

Mulkey's Bears get best of alma mater

Graham Hays, ESPN.com

History isn't supposed to be something you look up and see passing in front of you. But Saturday, 50 years of women's basketball -- past, present and future -- mingled together in Waco.

Story | Conversation | December 05, 2009

Notre Dame falls at the hands of UNC again

Graham Hays

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Notre Dame reached the College Cup in each of the past four seasons. Four times coach Randy Waldrum looked to follow up on t...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 04, 2009

There are no regrets in the College Cup

Graham Hays, ESPN.com

It was a night of firsts and once-agains as Stanford advanced to its first women's soccer final and UNC's Casey Nogueira came through with a goal in the College Cup. But the common thread of the night was "no regrets."

Story | Conversation | December 04, 2009

Taking nominees for the Kalana Greene All-Stars

Graham Hays

Midway through the second half of Thursday's game between UCLA and Kansas, the cameras caught a little kid behind one of the benches mimicking the sig...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 03, 2009

Bundle up -- this College Cup's a cold one

Graham Hays

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- By the time Notre Dame took the field for the fourth and final practice Thursday at the Aggie Soccer Complex, the wind had c...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 03, 2009

UCLA's Belcher is proof that past is the past

Graham Hays

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Reaching the College Cup has become almost as much a staple of the season for UCLA as turkey and holiday sales. The disappoi...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 03, 2009

Leroux, UCLA ready for finishing touch

Graham Hays, ESPN.com

In six consecutive seasons, the UCLA women's soccer team has made it at least as far as the national semifinals but earned zero titles. Sydney Leroux could help them change the streak this year.

Story | Conversation | December 01, 2009

Swimming in streaming video

Graham Hays

The amount of basketball available online is pretty remarkable (I'm still kicking myself for steering away from the feed of Oklahoma State's and Michi...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 30, 2009

A day in the life of the underdog

Graham Hays, ESPN.com

What's it like to play the team you grew up idolizing? What's it like to be the underdog preparing to face the nation's No. 1 program? Hofstra gave Graham Hays an inside look at the day in the life of prepping for UConn.

Story | Conversation | November 30, 2009

Women's College Cup will be familiar with a twist

Graham Hays

Short only a Sonny and Cher song, it will be "Groundhog Day" in College Station, Texas at the women's College Cup. For the first time since 1986, th...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 29, 2009