Warning: This post deals with women’s college basketball. Just hold your nose through the first paragraph and you’ll be in great shape.

Sure, Danica races with the boys, and the Williams sisters seem to take turns owning the rest of professional women’s tennis, but there’s an argument to be made for Baylor freshman freshperson Brittney Griner as the most badass female athlete in the land. She dunks. She punches people. She probably pees standing up, too. You know, trajectory…or something. But Griner is about to help her Baylor Bears blast open the cartel of women’s college hoops held by Tennessee (who they just beat) and UConn. But guess what…no one cares.

Curtains covering the upper deck helped trim the usual capacity at FedExForum from 18,085 to 9,343, and local organizers had to be happy at least a few in Tennessee orange stuck around with only 29 fans in one end zone.

They wound up with 3,263 in attendance, well below the 6,577 for Saturday’s semifinals. –AP.

Three thousand people for a regional final. Yeah, so let’s not get too excited about Baylor blowing away the old guard here. And I think we can agree that there clearly isn’t enough talent to stock 64 Division I programs. Any 18-year-old that can play and has decent grades can count her options on one hand. That’s not great for any sport, but it’s good for the athletes, because women are terrible at math.

And, apparently, layups. Enjoy the stylings of Xavier’s Dee Dee Jernigan, who blows not one but two game-winning layups after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Baylor and Texas Tech played each other in basketball last night, and obviously we’d be apathetic if Baylor sensation Brittney Griner hadn’t punched some white girl in the face. This gives the coaches of women’s basketball their chance to fire up that little Play Doh machine and push out righteous indignation in shapes of their own choosing.

Lady Bears coach Kim Mulkey said she’ll deal with Griner. But Baylor and the Big 12 Conference likely will consider their own punishments as the team prepares for Sunday’s season finale against Missouri.

“There’s no place for that in sports,” Mulkey said. “It was ugly for women’s basketball. It was ugly that coaches were on the court, that benches cleared, and I will take care of that with my team.” –Rivals, via Sportress of Blogitude.

Whatever. I say let them go at it. If the men’s tournament field expands to 96 teams, they should take the Baylor women’s team. It’s just another part of rough play in the post. Ooh, you like it rough, don’t you? Yeah, I thought so. Read the rest of this entry »

Eric Scnupp, the offensive line/tight ends coach at Baylor, received a citation late Saturday night for urinating on the bar at a public alehouse called Scruffy Murphy's, which is (not surprisingly) frequented primarily by students.

The alleged incident happened around closing time, as employees were getting patrons out of the bar, said bartender Danny Severe, who was working at the time. Severe said an employee witnessed Schnupp urinating on the bar, and a manager told police, who were already at the bar for an unrelated matter.

“While we were kicking everybody out, he apparently thought that nobody was looking and whipped it out and (urinated) on the bar,” Severe said. “He tried to deny it, but there was definitely a puddle and there was no one else around him.”

Soooooo… am I the only one wondering about the logistics of this feat?  Was he standing on a chair?  Is he seven-foot-one?  Or is Scruffy Murphy's a bar for midgets?  I hope it's a bar for midgets.  You can't blame a guy for peeing on a midget bar.  Because what are they gonna do about it?

[Every Day Should Be Saturday]