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We’ve got some NCAA rules changes for all you lame sports lovers out there. In swimming there is now a no-recall false start, which means unless there is a blatant false start, the event would continue and the swimmer charged with the false start would be disqualified at the end of the race.

And then the NCAA is also going to start requiring pole vaulters to wear specially-designed helmets starting next year… so nobody misses the mat on the landing and dies like that dude did last year. [via]

These pics give new meaning to the saying, “hate to see you go, but love to see you walk away.” If there’s one thing you should remember about swimmer chicks it’s that:

While they might not be the chestiest girls (I think it comes from years of having that tight one piece pressing down on their boobs), you can always count on them to have great legs and in some cases a nice Jessica Biel heart shaped booty.

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RIP to both men’s and women’s swimming programs at Clemson. The school announced yesterday that the programs will be phased out over two years and be just a memory by the spring of 2012. The school decided that the sport had to go after the decision was made not to waste their money building an olympic sized pool on campus.

The good: they’re keeping womens diving and all the swimmers can keep their scholarships if they decide to stay. The bad: now they might add women’s golf as a sport.

It looks like we might have created a new category with our Taylor Mays girlfriend story. Hot off the presses here goes our newest athlete couple from Vanderbilt, basketball player Jeffery Taylor and swimmer Nicole Woodworth. Both sophomores at Vandy, our source says they have been dating for a about a year now and are in love.

We forgot to mention that Men’s Swimming was having their championship this weekend, but here is our recap: Texas won the championship with 500 points, Cal finished 2nd with 469.5 points, and Arizona 3rd with 387 points. This is Texas’s 10th men’s swimming title, they’re first since winning 3 straight from ’00-02. More info here.

A good finish to a championship that was delayed a day, after 18 swimmers and one coach had to go to the hospital because of a gastrointestinal illness aka the bubble guts.

Horray for Florida! They won their first women’s swimming and diving championship since 1982 today in dramatic fashion. They started the 3rd and final day in 5th place and ended up winning the whole thing by 2.5 points over Stanford, 382 to 379.5…the 2nd closest finish in the history of the competition (the 1st: 2001 UGA beat Stanford by 1.5 points).

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We don’t know who schedules these things, but on the same day as that the Basketball Tournament kicks off the NCAA is also starting both the Swimming & Diving Championships and the Wrestling. No wonder we never hear of either.

The Swim & Dive Championships are going start tomorrow and drag on until Saturday. So if you’re not a basketball fan or if you OD on basketball during the next few days we have the schedule of events as well as where you can watch it online for free below.

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