What's hot and what's not : Day two

The medal round is starting to come into focus at the 2007 CIS women's hockey championship and the atmosphere has been fantastic at the Ottawa Sportsplex. Here's my daily take on what's hot and what's not.

HOT: Fashion trends

After her team's big win Saturday night, Pandas star and CIS player of the year Lindsay McAlpine joined us in-studio to talk about the game. Turns out she wears a green hat with a four-leaf clover on it after every game. It's her game-day hat and very fittingly it continued to be lucky on St. Patrick's Day. Meanwhile, on Friday Stuart Bowden's red shirt may have put McGill over the top vs. Manitoba. Whenever Bowden, pictured right during his days as an assistant coach with Ottawa, calls a McGill game AND wears red the top-ranked Martlets seem to win. Coincidence? I'll let the other bloggers decide.

HOT: Webcasting

CIS president Dick White appeared on the SSN Canada set today and said webcasting is an important way for universities to showcase their talent to alumni, fans and the general public. In the interview White said better promoting university sports in the media and beyond was the chief challenge facing his organization.

NOT: Scorers turned analysts

McGill star goalie Charline Labonte joined the parade of high-profile people into our SSN studios today. Labonte offered her insights on the tournament thus far during the first intermission of Manitoba's 4-1 win over Moncton. Tomorrow Carleton goalie Valerie Charbonneau will be back in studio to offer her insights. It's bad enough that these keepers continually shutdown the top scorers in the CIS, but now they're even stopping them from getting any analyst gigs.

HOT: Pizza

The entire press gallery got pizza Saturday night. On Friday the SSN crew ordered in some slices and got nothing but envious looks from other journalists in the press box. Tonight everyone got to share in the goodness that is pizza.

That's all for now. Stay tuned for more blogging and of course log on to the Streaming Sports Network website to watch another doubleheader Sunday starting at 3:30 p.m. with the pre-game show.