{"id":3195,"date":"2009-05-15T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3195"},"modified":"2009-05-15T09:36:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T16:36:57","slug":"san-diego-state-on-espn-tonite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3195","title":{"rendered":"San Diego State on ESPN tonite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/grfx.cstv.com\/schools\/sdsu\/graphics\/sdsu-07-sports-hdr-left.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3151\">We wrote previously<\/a> about <strong>former Vista Bomber, former Long Beach Nitehawk Steve Miner<\/strong> coaching the San Diego State University women&#8217;s team.    If you&#8217;re near a TV set tonight at 2pm EDT, 5pm PDT, you can catch them on ESPN, taking on the defending National champions, Arizona State in a NCAA Regional Game.  ASU will be no easy feat, but San Diego&#8217;s coming off a great season, giving UCLA a run for their money in two one run ballgames.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/grfx.cstv.com\/photos\/schools\/sdsu\/sports\/w-softbl\/auto_headshot\/2687540.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(SDSU coach, Steve Miner)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While mentioning ESPN, I guess I have to emphasize that this is not April 1 ! (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3155\">&#8220;Ballparkradio Duo to ESPN Radio&#8221;<\/a><\/em>.  Belated apologies on that one)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the blurb from the <a href=\"http:\/\/goaztecs.cstv.com\/sports\/w-softbl\/spec-rel\/051509aaa.html\"><strong>official team website:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>SDSU Softball&#8217;s Friday NCAA Regional Game at ASU to be Broadcast on ESPN Aztecs&#8217; first NCAA game against defending national champion Arizona State to be shown on ESPN<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>May 14, 2009<\/p>\n<p>TEMPE, Ariz. &#8211; San Diego State softball&#8217;s NCAA tournament game against defending national champion Arizona State on Friday will be broadcast live on ESPN, the network announced Thursday. The game, which is scheduled for 5 p.m. PT, will still be shown on ESPNU as well as ESPNHD and ESPN360.com.<\/p>\n<p>The Aztecs (33-18), who are looking to advance to the NCAA Super Regionals for the first time in program history, and the 10th overall seed Sun Devils (40-16) will follow the LSU (32-16-1)-Cal State Fullerton (29-19) game, which will start at 2:30 p.m. (ESPNU).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Aztecs were <a href=\"http:\/\/maddysphotosblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/womens-fastpitch-at-fullerton.html\"><strong>featured at Maddy&#8217;s Photos<\/strong><\/a> earlier this season, when we had the chance to see them play locally at Cal State Fullerton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote previously about former Vista Bomber, former Long Beach Nitehawk Steve Miner coaching the San Diego State University women&#8217;s team. If you&#8217;re near a TV set tonight at 2pm EDT, 5pm PDT, you can catch them on ESPN, taking on the defending National champions, Arizona State in a NCAA Regional Game. ASU will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}