January 1, 2006
FORGET THE ROSE BOWL:
Chess team wins seventh title (KC Star, 1/01/06)
In basketball it’s UCLA. In hockey it’s Michigan. In baseball it’s Southern Cal.Posted by Orrin Judd at January 1, 2006 9:20 AMAnd now in chess, the dynasty, the champion of champions, is Maryland, Baltimore County.
The Retrievers earned a place in history last week by winning the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship in Miami for a record-breaking seventh time. [...]
Among the tourney highlights for the Retrievers were victories over two-time defending champion University of Texas-Dallas and a sweep of Harvard. UMBC had finished second to Texas-Dallas the previous two years at the Pan-Am tournament after winning the previous five tournaments.
“That always sort of feels good, to beat a school like Harvard,” said Pascal “the Frenchman” Charbonneau, a senior from Montreal.
“For UMBC that’s the thing: We don’t have a football team, but we have a chess team. It’s sort of a pride for the school, and we’re very happy to be a part of that.”
In basketball it's UCLA?????????
Who wrote this?
Go UK Wildcats!
Posted by: Bartman at January 1, 2006 10:57 AMNote that chess is not NCAA-sanctioned....which leads to places like UMBC employing Russian emigres in their mid twenties to early thirties as scholarship players.
Posted by: Bruce Cleaver at January 1, 2006 5:11 PM