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SI.com: Kelli Anderson: Stanford spies a national title within its reach

That tongue-in-cheek lament was posted after assistant coach Kate Paye put up signs in the Cardinal locker room commanding guards to love their Bigs and get the ball inside! Rosalyn Gold-Onwude went on to detail the hardship, inconvenience and general second-class citizenship suffered by Stanford's Littles (backcourt players, or "peasants," as she also calls them) on a team built around Bigs (frontcourt players, a.k.a. "the czars, the emperors, the queens"): "The Littles endure harder drills and slow delivery of new gear only to tolerate yet another injustice: the plays aren't for us." A fifth-year senior point guard and a Little at 5' 10", Gold-Onwude is resigned to finishing her college career as a member of the Cardinal proletariat. Led by 6' 4" senior All-America center Jayne Appel, Stanford's front line, which goes 6' 4" and 6' 2" at the starting forward spots, and 6' 3", 6' 3" and 6' 5" off the bench, is bigger, deeper and potentially better than it was last year, when the

SI.com: Ann Killion: Stanford women ready to take on all challengers -- including UConn

The women's basketball season begins this week. And if you were judging on the basis of how last season ended the gap between the top two teams is as wide as the distance between Storrs, Conn., and Palo Alto, Calif.

SI.com: Rivals: All-purpose RB Clay could join former teammate Forcier at Michigan

Last season, quarterback Tate Forcier attracted most of the attention at Scripps Ranch (San Diego, Calif.) High. The attention was well-deserved, but some observers said all-purpose running back Brennan Clay deserved credit for much of the team's great success.

SI.com: Tracy Schultz: Parity has finally entered the women's game, games to watch

We may all know -- or at least we think we know -- what the ultimate outcome will be: UConn hoisting the trophy. But whether or not Connecticut clinches another undefeated season and national championship, the women's NCAA tournament has been well worth watching this year.

SI.com: Kelli Anderson: Stanford heading back to women's Final Four in the Berkeley Region

Underrated: Eleven-seed Mississippi State. Georgia coach Andy Landers considers the Bulldogs the most dangerous team in the SEC, and for good reason. Bolstered by the addition of three jaycee transfers from the Congo, including 6-5 Chanel Mokango, who averages 10.6 points and 3.0 blocks a game, the Bulldogs won eight games in the SEC (just one fewer than No. 5 seed Tennessee), including two over six-seed LSU and one over four-seed Vanderbilt.

SI.com: Kelli Anderson: UConn's run to title hardly an easy march

When the March to the Arch has finally played out a few weeks down the road, it probably won't matter all that much how the brackets in the women's 2009 NCAA championship were shaped. When you have a team as dominant as Connecticut sitting at the top of heap (as an ESPN graphic pointed out, the undefeated Huskies have beaten ranked teams by more than 31 points a game), it may seem like the next few weeks are just an exercise in determining who gets the honor of being crushed by UConn in the championship final.

CNNMoney: Financier charged with $9.2B fraud

The Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday that it has charged financier R. Allen Stanford and three of his companies with orchestrating a $9.2 billion investment and sales fraud.

Cricket banker charged in 'global fraud'

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged businessman Robert Allen Stanford with orchestrating an $8 billion fraudulent investment program.

Video games stimulate men's brain more than women's

Video games activate reward the regions of the brain in men more than women, according to a Stanford University study published online in February 2008 in the Journal of Psychiatric Research.

SI.com: UConn unanimous No. 1 pick in women's poll

LSU's streak of Top 25 appearances is over while Connecticut became a unanimous choice at No. 1.

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