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Despite financial challenges, National Pro Fastpitch softball league is about to complete its ninth year, a testament to the dedication of its players and owners.

With no Olympics in sight, Stanford's standout shortstop, Ashley Hansen, is opting to walk away from softball and jump into her career at a technology firm in Silicon Valley.

Arizona State senior Lesley Rogers talks about the keys to winning a second national championship, freshman ace Dallas Escobedo and the pride Pac-10 players have in maintaining softball dominance....

For the first time since 1982 at the Women's College World Series, college softball is guaranteed a first-time champion among its final four teams. That's about where any sense of unfamiliarity in Oklahoma City ends. The four remaining team...

Georgia's offense lived up to the advance billing in rallying past Ohio State twice in the Athens super regional with the kind of big innings teams can string together with a lineup that collectively slugs close to .600 with an on-base percentag...

AMHERST, Mass. -- As one of the early hitchhikers on the South Dakota State bandwagon in women's basketball, I'll admit there's a certain allure to the idea of North Dakota State potentially playing on the biggest of softball stages at...

AHMERST, Mass. -- It didn't rain on the first day of the regional in Amherst, Mass. In retrospect, perhaps that should have been the first indication that something was amiss.If not turned upside down, the NCAA tournament bracket was at least sh...

There are no potential bubble wreckers among the teams in action Sunday, so here's one final crack at projecting the bracket before it is announced Sunday night (ESPNU, 10 p.m. ET). With 34 available at-large spots, 24 seem uncontroversial (and ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- As if to remind the two teams atop the softball RPI rankings that nothing is inevitable on the road to Oklahoma City, the remnants of a weather system moving through Tennessee delayed the start of Saturday's SEC championship ...

Following up on Sunday's bracketology, and since my opinion is just that, check out another take with the projections over at Ultimate College Softball. Now on to a quick look at eight intriguing conference tournaments. ACC Host: NC State Top...

Congratulations to BYU, Portland State, Cornell and Mississippi Valley State for earning the first four spots in the NCAA tournament (actually, it's a belated congratulations to Mississippi Valley State, which clinched the SWAC automatic bid las...

In three weeks, every game will matter. For now, here are 10 weekend series with extra heft. Illinois-Chicago at Cleveland State (Three games)The top three seeds in the Horizon League get a pass on the first set of games in the double-elimination c...

Counting down the top 10 places I'd like to camp out in the bleachers this weekend. (You can catch Winthrop-Radford, UCSB-Long Beach State and Texas A&M-Oklahoma on ESPNU this weekend.) Winthrop at Radford -- Sunday on ESPNU, 2 p.m. ET (Th...

Everything is bigger in Texas, even the statements made by the little guy. With a month left in the regular season, we already have an unofficial state champion in the Lone Star State. It's not Texas A&M, which played in the final series of ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- When a team wins 112 games out of 120 in less than two full seasons, odds are its going to win them in just about every conceivable manner. And that includes in dramatic fashion, even if they all seem to be coming at once for the U...

The Big Ten turned in a surprisingly strong run in the NCAA women's basketball tournament. Compared less than favorably to the Mountain West by some (all right, me), the conference sent three teams to the Sweet 16 and watched Purdue come within ...