What will the World Series tell us about the state of college softball?
For the love of Dot Richardson, a Floridian who starred at UCLA, can we agree here and now that it won’t solve the ongoing feud pitting the Pac-10 against the SEC, with the Big 12 waiting to take a swing at whichever combatant staggers away first? Three Pac-10 teams and three SEC teams are in Oklahoma City. And when the six square off in three different battles Thursday, the results will tell us precisely nothing. Some Pac-10 partisans feel the SEC gets far too much attention and does far too much talking for a league that has yet to win even one NCAA title. Some SEC partisans feel the Pac-10 is a bunch of cranky old-timers whose arrogance about their supposed sporting birthright would make the most insular English soccer supporters blush. [+] EnlargeJesse Beals/Icon SMIWashington is the team to beat in Oklahoma City, thanks in large part to Danielle Lawrie. The majority of fans, hopefully, just roll their eyes when the crazy uncles start ruining Thanksgiving with their bickering. Good
