EXCUSE ME FOR USING ALL CAPS HERE BUT I JUST HEARD TWO MORE TALKING HEADS IN CABLE SPORTS MISTAKENLY CLAIM THAT A PLAYOFF IN 1A FOOTBALL WOULD TAKE THE TOP 8 TEAMS IN THE RANKINGS!!! TO SAVE MY CYBER-BREATH HERE’S A LINK TO MY BIT WHERE I DEBUNK THAT AND OTHER MISCONCEPTIONS: https://glitternight.com/2010/11/23/i-love-having-playoffs-in-the-divisions-i-cover-but-1a-playoff-advocates-need-to-learn-a-few-things/
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TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM: GOLDEN WEST COLLEGE
GOLDEN WEST COLLEGE RUSTLERS
Location: Huntington Beach, CA
Conference Affiliation: Orange Empire Conference
Major sports: football, baseball, soccer, volleyball, softball
Site: http://www.gwcathletics.com/
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HASTINGS BRONCOS MEN, LEE FLAMES WOMEN,WIN IT ALL ON THE SOCCER FIELD
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. – (box score) No. 3-seed Hastings (Neb.) continued its offensive fireworks, this time plowing past No. 4 Notre Dame (Ohio), 5-3 to win its first-ever NAIA Men’s Soccer National Championship. Continue reading
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DECEMBER 4TH’S COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS
NAIA SEMIFINALS
The football gods love drama, as evidenced by the fact that the NAIA National Championship Game will get one final round of the Sioux Falls Cougars taking on the CC Fighting Saints before USF heads off for D2. In 2007 the Fighting Saints beat the Cougars 17-9. The following year USF defeated CC in a filthy, rainy, muddy, beauty of a game by a final score of 23-7. 
Saturday, December 18th will see the rubber game between these two NAIA football dynasties of recent years. The Cougars also won titles in 1996, 2006 and just last December and are hoping for a Threepeat. The Fighting Saints won the title four years in a row earlier this decade. At least one of these teams has played in every National Championship game since 2002. It’s very appropriate to see them square off against each other one Continue reading
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A WINTER WONDERLAND OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS AND BOWLS – DEC 4TH
Get ready for some more early Christmas presents in the form of college football playoff games and bowl games.
NAIA Playoffs – Semifinals
The featured game of the day will be the Victory Sports Network presentation of the NAIA semifinal game with the Sioux Falls Cougars hosting the MNU Pioneers. USF is continuing its quest to threepeat as Continue reading
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ONE WORD: PAVANAPALOOZA!
LEBANON, Tenn. – Wilson Central’s Jenna Pavan became the latest addition to the Cumberland University volleyball team, inking with the Bulldogs recently, head coach Dwayne Deering announced.
The setter and defensive specialist was named All-District her senior year, playing for coach Tammy Serbin at WCHS, where she played two seasons after transferring from Parkersburg High School in Continue reading
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TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM: GETTYSBURG COLLEGE
GETTYSBURG COLLEGE BULLETS
Location: Iwo Jima. No, Gettysburg, PA
Division: NCAA Division 3
Conference Affiliation: Centennial Conference
Major sports: football, basketball, baseball, soccer, volleyball
Site: http://www.gettysburgsports.com/
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SOCCER ARMAGEDDON IN ORANGE BEACH CONTINUES
Chad Waller, NAIA Director of Sports Information & Media Services, cwaller@naia.org
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. – (box score) No. 3-seed Hastings (Neb.) scored four goals in the first-half and dominated Holy Names (Calif.), 5-0 in the Quarterfinals of the NAIA Men’s Soccer National Championship final site from the Orange Beach Sportsplex. The shutout was the Broncos sixth-straight and 17th this season in 23 games. Hastings will play in the Semifinals on Friday at 6 p.m. CST against the winner of No. 7 William Jewell (Mo.) and No. 15 Science & Arts (Okla.). Continue reading
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LEAVE IT TO REIVERS
Football – The # 6 Reiver Football team (9-1) will take on # 13 Snow College (9-2) in Sandy, Utah in the 6th annual Zion’s Bank Top of The Mountains Bowl at Rio Tinto Stadium on Saturday, Dec. 4th game time is 12 Noon Mountain time and 1:00 p.m. Central time. The game can be heard on 89.7 The River. The web-site for the bowl game is http://www.topofthemountainsbowl.com/
Women’s Basketball – The Lady Reivers dropped their first game of the year on Sunday to Cloud County (KS), the team is now 8-1 overall. The women will travel to Continue reading
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