If you haven't heard from me, it's because I've been curled up in the fetal position and muttering, "Why, gods of sport, why have you forsaken this city?" Bad enough this past Liberty season and the lottery disappointment that followed it, but not even college teams are safe from the wrath of the gods, goddesses, and asexual deities of sport.

I chronicled at Rebkell's the decimation of the team that left them with five healthy bodies to play the second half against a deep, physical, and BIG Iona team (that seems to be getting all the injured teams this year). It isn't getting much better. Per the St. John's game notes (in PDF format, be warned), two players are sitting out the season, Lisa Claxton with a bad knee and Kelly McManmon because of the... ah, confounded... NCAA transfer requirements. Two more are coming off surgery, Monique McLean on her "miniscus" (I'm assuming they mean meniscus here) and Recee Mitchell on her shoulder. Victoria Hodges has a broken foot, and she'll need season-ending surgery. Oh, and Kia Wright, while she's slated to play tomorrow, is coming off a sprained ankle.

All in all, not a good day to read that All-Big East senior forward Angela Clark is leaving the team for personal reasons.

Which means that I'm counting, at MOST, eight bodies to go the entire season, and that's assuming Kia Wright is fine, and that McLean and Mitchell both recover from surgery in time to play effectively this season, and that nothing else goes wrong in the next four months.

Hey, Minnesotans! How about we combine our teams? Between all the injuries in New York and the defections and injuries in Minnesota, we might have a complete roster between us, and now that I think of it, the Golden Storm has a ring to it...