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This is the first of a series of exciting weekends that are coming up over the next month or so. This past weekend was Yale Cup, which is basically a rehearsal for NE Regionals, Florida Sectionals, Desert Sectionals, and East Penn Sectionals. Next weekend also has it's fair share of action with the Bay Area, Carolina, and SoCal sectionals. Here are some thoughts.

Below you will find the National Ultimate Media Panels Mens College Rankings for the weeks beginning March 17. Wisconsin, for the 4th consecutive ballot, has received each first place vote and retains the #1 spot by a mile. Florida jumped two spots to the #2 spot. Stanford jumped up 8 spots to 3. Carleton hangs in the top 4.

Teams want the chance to showcase their strengths as well expose their weaknesses before they make their Sarasota run. However, I would not be surprised if the winner this weekend was playing late in Florida.

One of the biggest ultimate tournaments this summer is also the smallest. Only 7 teams are set to descend on Monroe, WA this weekend but the results will have far reaching implications for Worlds and the UPA series.

The main slate of Sectionals tourneys takes place this weekend. Here are a few select tourneys that are worth paying attention to.
Round two of the Sectionals previews by Frankie Rho.

Breakdowns of the upcoming mens and womens Sectionals this weekend.

With the weight of this international and national news, two tiny events were picked up by our small community: Saturday's live webcast of the World Ultimate Championships and the 2008 Youth Club Championships in Blaine, Minn. I, intrepid and curious newsphile that I am, was on top of all of these events, but I'll talk only about the last two.

Check out this score by the Washington women vs Messiah College at Vegas 08. [link] The 6 minute download of this game is now playing on UVtv. [link] There will be new COTDs all weekend. Rob

This weekend is the God Father 2 of ultimate tournaments, Centex. There was talk of power pools and what not but I am glad to see that the TD's have gone back to the original 4 pools of 6 format that we have all come to love and hate. There are a lot of ways I could potentially put together a preview and I thought I would go with what games I am actually going to watch and why.