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What: www.collegesportsnews.com

For those surfing the Web in search of college sports information on more than football and basketball, there is www.collegesportsnews.com.

Golf, softball, soccer, baseball and volleyball each have their own sections in this Web site. And within each section is plenty of information--coaching changes, updated results, previews and any news impacting that sport.

There are also features, recruiting news, links and polls for each sport.

Of course, football isn’t ignored. With the season starting in a couple months, this Web site is in the midst of previews. Done by conferences, the Pacific 10 is currently being previewed, one school a day. USC is being previewed today and UCLA on Tuesday. Past previews are archived

Also on the site is coverage of the U.S. national baseball team in Japan, the recently-completed major league baseball draft and all Division I-A football recruit signings.

Started by one man in his garage a few years ago, www.collegesportsnews.com has come a long way, going so far as to be the only site to have a writer at the Women’s College World Series in May.

It’s that devotion to the “other sports” that makes it a definite bookmark for the college sports enthusiast.