The Batchelor Pad

Welcome to "The Batchelor pad", a place where we discuss the world of sports from a social, economical and racial stand point. Sponsored by Black Athlete Sports Network, Your Black World and for this week, Manny’s Café, 321 MLK Jr Drive in Greensboro, North Carolina March is Women's history Month and tonight is "Ladies Nite!" Join me along with my co-host Latoya Hardaway, Freelance sports writer for the Dallas Examiner and Diane Grassi, freelance sportswriter for BASN and investigative reporter as we discuss the following topics: With the newspapers folding across the country , what has been some of the reasons so many are shutting down and are scheduled to shut down? NCAA Women’s brackets will be announced next week-Who do the ladies think will be the top seeds in each region? UCONN Women one the regular season and Big East Tournament Championships and finished undefeated for the third time under Geno Auriema. Can they go all the way to the Championship and win a sixth NCAA Championship? Courtney Paris, women’s basketball player for the Lady Sooners of Oklahoma said she would pay back her scholarship is the Lady Sooners fail to win the National Championship-Is she putting too much player on her team and herself? Should the NCAA Women’s basketball selection committee changed the format of selecting college and universities for the tournament? Should the NCAA Women’s basketball selection committee moved the Women’s Final Four to a weekend before or after the men’s Final Four or leave it where it is? Who looks is playing themselves into a major league baseball contract at the WBC and should A-Rod get some of the blame for the failure of the Dominican Republic team? Ladamian Thomlinson re-structures his deal with the Chargers-Do athletes owe it to teams to re-structure their deals to accommodate the team cap? Jay Cutler continues to square off with Josh McDaniels and the Broncos-Who is the blame in this heated disagreement? Plus NB