Wilmington Sports News
Wilmington Hammerheads
The Hammerheads is our USL soccer team, and lately they have been tearing through the US Open Cup. For those of you that don't know - and admittedly, I did not until recently - the US Open Cup brings soccer teams from all levels from all over the country together for huge nation-wide tournement to crown a national champ. Wilmington has made it to Round 4, and next up is the New York Red Bulls from the MLS on Aug 2. On top of that, for some reason the game is here instead of NYC, and I will most definitely be in attendance.
Wilmington Sea Dawgs
It was also announced this week that Wilmington is getting new ABA basketball team, dubbed the Sea Dawgs. I for one didn't even know the ABA was still a viable organization, but it gives me something else to do around here, so I'll be checking that out when it tips off this fall.
UNCW
...does not have a football team. This isn't exactly "news," but I thought this would be an appropriate time and place for a mini-rant. This absolutely blows my mind. UNCW is a decent-sized university, and the 'hawks field fairly competitive D-I baseball and basketball teams each year. And yet they are utterly defficient in the gridiron department. Why would a school do this? And more importantly, why would anyone go to a school without a football team? Don't these kids know what they're missing? Apparently not. Yeah you're near the beach, but unlike, say Miami, around here beach-going whether is gone by mid-October at the latest. And what do normal people do on the weekends in October? Go to football games, stupid. Sure you'd probably be playing some fantastically-crappy teams, but, hell I'd show up. Come on, UNCW, get with it.
Girl reading on the beach, because there are no football games to attend in the fall
The Hammerheads is our USL soccer team, and lately they have been tearing through the US Open Cup. For those of you that don't know - and admittedly, I did not until recently - the US Open Cup brings soccer teams from all levels from all over the country together for huge nation-wide tournement to crown a national champ. Wilmington has made it to Round 4, and next up is the New York Red Bulls from the MLS on Aug 2. On top of that, for some reason the game is here instead of NYC, and I will most definitely be in attendance.
Wilmington Sea Dawgs
It was also announced this week that Wilmington is getting new ABA basketball team, dubbed the Sea Dawgs. I for one didn't even know the ABA was still a viable organization, but it gives me something else to do around here, so I'll be checking that out when it tips off this fall.
UNCW
...does not have a football team. This isn't exactly "news," but I thought this would be an appropriate time and place for a mini-rant. This absolutely blows my mind. UNCW is a decent-sized university, and the 'hawks field fairly competitive D-I baseball and basketball teams each year. And yet they are utterly defficient in the gridiron department. Why would a school do this? And more importantly, why would anyone go to a school without a football team? Don't these kids know what they're missing? Apparently not. Yeah you're near the beach, but unlike, say Miami, around here beach-going whether is gone by mid-October at the latest. And what do normal people do on the weekends in October? Go to football games, stupid. Sure you'd probably be playing some fantastically-crappy teams, but, hell I'd show up. Come on, UNCW, get with it.
Girl reading on the beach, because there are no football games to attend in the fall
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