2010 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Sacramento region, First round
Seventh seed Gonzaga took on tenth seeded North Carolina. Gonzaga's Tiffanie Shives was scoreless for 31 minutes, but then scored 14 in the next five minutes. Her first basket cut the Tarheels lead to two, and her next basket gave Gonzaga a lead they would not relinquish, although North Carolina cut the lead to one with under four minutes to go, only to fall short 82–76.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Sacramento region, First round
Twelfth seed Tulane stayed with fifth seed Georgia for 32 minutes, in a game with five lead changes and four ties, but then the Bulldogs went on an 18–2 run to take the lead for good. Georgia's Ashley Houts would score 22 points for the winning team, and teammate Angel Robinson had a double-double (18 points, 13 rebounds) to help lead the Bulldogs over the Green Wave 64–59.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Sacramento region, First round
The last time Stanford was a number 1 seed, they became to only top seed in the men's or women's tournament to lose to a sixteen seed. Earlier in the day, the top seeded men's team, Kansas, lost to Northern Iowa, so no one felt safe in the opening match against UC Riverside. Stanford jumped out to an 8–0 lead, and behind Ogwumike's double-double (19 points, 11 rebounds) won easily over the Big West champion 79–47.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Record by conference
Eighteen conferences went 0–1: the Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, Colonial, Conference USA, Ivy League, MAAC, MEAC, MAC, Missouri Valley, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, SWAC and Summit.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Television
ESPN had US television rights to all games during the tournament. For the first and second round, ESPN aired select games nationally on ESPN or ESPNU. All other games were aired regionally on ESPN2 and streamed online via ESPN3. Most of the nation got whip-a-round coverage during this time, which allowed ESPN to rotate between the games and focus the nation on the one that was the closest. The regional semifinals were split between ESPN and ESPN2, and ESPN aired the regional finals, national semifinals, and championship match.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship
The 2010 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship was the 29th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of Division I NCAA women's college lacrosse. The first two rounds of the tournament were played at the home fields of higher-seeded teams from May 15–22, and the semifinal and championship rounds were played at Johnny Unitas Stadium in Towson, Maryland from May 28–30. All NCAA Division I women's lacrosse programs were eligible for this championship, and a total of 16 teams were invited to participate.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship
Maryland defeated Northwestern, 13–11, to win their tenth national championship, and first since 2001. Maryland's win ended Northweastern's streak of five consecutive national titles (2005–09). Nonetheless, this would subsequently become the sixth of the Wildcats' eight consecutive appearances in the championship game (2005–12).


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship
The leading scorer for the tournament was Shannon Smith from Northwestern (20 goals). Caitlyn McFadden from Maryland was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament field
A total of 16 teams were invited to participate. 9 teams qualified automatically by winning their conference tournaments while the remaining 7 teams qualified at-large based on their regular season records.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament field, Seeds
1. Maryland (18-1)2. Northwestern (17-1)3. North Carolina (15-2)4. Georgetown (13-5)5. James Madison (16-2)6. Virginia (13-5)7. Duke (13-5)8. Penn (14-3)


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament
The 2010 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament (also known as the 2010 Women's College Cup) was the 29th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I women's collegiate soccer. The semifinals and championship game were played at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina from December 3–5, 2010 while the preceding rounds were played at various sites across the country from November 12–28.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament
Notre Dame defeated Stanford in the final, 1–0, to win their third national title. The Fighting Irish (21–2–2) were coached by Randy Waldrum.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament
The Most Outstanding Offensive Player was Melissa Henderson from Notre Dame, and the Most Outstanding Defensive Player was Jessica Schuveiller, also from Notre Dame. Henderson and Schuveiller, alongside nine other players, were named to the All-Tournament Team. Henderson was also the tournament's leading scorer, with 3 goals and 4 assists.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, Qualification
All Division I women's soccer programs were eligible to qualify for the tournament. The tournament field remained fixed at 64 teams.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, Format
Just as before, the final two rounds, deemed the Women's College Cup, were played at a pre-determined neutral site. All other rounds were played on campus sites at the home field of the higher-seeded team. The only exceptions were the first two rounds, which were played at regional campus sites. The top sixteen teams hosted four team-regionals on their home fields (with some exceptions, noted below) during the tournament's first weekend.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
The 2010 NCAA Women's Division I Swimming and Diving Championships were contested at the 29th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I women's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
This year's events were hosted by Purdue University at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center in West Lafayette, Indiana.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
For the first time since 1982, Florida topped the team standings, finishing a mere 2.5 points (382–379.5) ahead of Stanford. This was the Gators' second women's team title.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
The 2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament began on December 2, 2010 and ended December 18, when Penn State swept California to win an unprecedented fourth straight NCAA title, making it their fifth overall. Penn State head coach Russ Rose became the first Division I coach to win five NCAA titles.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Austin Regional, Regional recap
The biggest upset of the tournament occurred when Purdue swept top ranked Florida in 3 sets, recording their first win over a #1 team in program history. Despite holding 4 consecutive set points in the 1st set, Florida lost their 24-20 lead and eventually lost  28-26. Florida never seemed to regain their rhythm, as Purdue went up 8-0 in the second set and maintained a 10-point lead throughout the set, winning 25-15. Purdue went up early in the third set as well, and won 25-19, shocking the Gators who had only lost one match all season.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Austin Regional, Regional recap
In the other semifinal, Illinois played Texas hard on their home floor, going up 2-1 in sets. However, Texas stormed back to win the fourth set easily and then took control of the fifth set, winning 15-11.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Austin Regional, Regional recap
In the regional final, Purdue won the first set rather easily but lost their senior starting setter Jaclyn Hart to an apparent leg injury in the late stages of set 1. Hart did not end up returning in the match, as Texas dominated sets 2 and 3. Despite Purdue going up early and showing signs of life in what was the final set, Texas won the fourth set 27-25 to earn their third straight trip to the Final Four and a rematch of the 2009 NCAA Championship final with Penn State in the national semifinals.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, University Park Regional, Regional recap
Having upset the 5th overall seed in the tournament in the 1st round, Missouri advanced to the Sweet 16 to face 12th seeded Duke. Duke won in four sets, and advanced to the Elite Eight, which was the first time that an ACC team made it past the Sweet 16.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, University Park Regional, Regional recap
Penn State downed Oklahoma in 3 sets, as senior All-American Blair Brown had 24 kills. In the regional final against Duke, Penn State won the first two sets rather easily, 25-19, 25-18, but Duke came back to win the third set 25-23. It was the first time since the 2006 tournament that Penn State lost a single set before the Final Four. In the fourth set, Penn State knocked off any chance of an upset, as they separated themselves early from Duke and won 25-17. Big Ten Freshman of the Year Deja McClendon had a career high 20 kills while Blair Brown added 16 kills. Penn State also extended their NCAA-record home court winning streak to 94 matches.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Dayton Regional, Regional recap
Third-seeded Stanford downed Ohio State in four sets, with the help of senior Alix Klineman's 29 kills. Southern California defeated Indiana in straight sets, setting up an All-Pac-10 regional final. In the regular season, Stanford beat Southern Cal both times.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Dayton Regional, Regional recap
Stanford jumped out to an early lead, winning the first set 25–20, however Southern Cal responded by winning the second set 25–17. With 11 tie scores and three lead changes, the third set was competitive but Stanford pulled out the win, 25–22. The fourth set was also a close battle, as it had 10 tie scores and three lead changes, but Southern Cal narrowly defeated Stanford, 26–24, and forced a fifth set. Despite having a 10–7 advantage in the decisive fifth set, Southern Cal responded to tie the set up at 11.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Dayton Regional, Regional recap
Stanford held a match point at 14–13, but Southern Cal's freshman Falyn Fonoimoana, who was the top recruit in the 2010 class, recorded a kill to tie it up at 14. A Stanford hitting error gave Southern Cal match point, before a block by Fonoimoana and fellow freshman Alexis Olgard won the set, 16–14, and the match, 3–2.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Dayton Regional, Regional recap
It was the first time since the 2007 season that Southern Cal defeated Stanford. Alix Klineman finished her career with 2,008 kills, and joined former Stanford great Ogonna Nnamani as the only two players to have more than 2,000 career kills.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Seattle Regional, Regional recap
Seventh seeded California swept Minnesota in 3 close sets, 26-24, 25-23, 25-23 to advance to the program's fourth straight NCAA Regional Final.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Seattle Regional, Regional recap
In the other Regional Semifinal, unseeded Washington stunned overall #2 seeded Nebraska in four sets (25-16, 20-25, 25-21, 29-27). The fourth set of the match was considered controversial. Washington held a set point on which they hit a shot which might have been touched by the Nebraska block, but was ruled out, allowing Nebraska to tie up the set. Then Nebraska held a set point on which a kill attempt by Washington landed near the back line and was called in by the line judge, allowing Washington to tie up the set.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Seattle Regional, Regional recap
Nebraska players and coaches were visibly upset as they thought they had won the point and started to celebrate. Washington then scored the next two points and won the match. When Nebraska head coach John Cook shook hands with Washington head coach Jim McLaughlin, he allegedly said "The ball was out. Nice Match" to which McLaughlin allegedly responded with foul language and had to be restrained. Both the controversial call and the coach incident were hot topics on the news outlets.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Seattle Regional, Regional recap
California, which had already beaten Washington twice in the regular season, then swept the Huskies in the regional final (25-21, 25-20, 25-14).


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Final Four - Sprint Center, Kansas City, Missouri, Semifinals recap, Penn State vs. Texas
In the rematch of the 2009 finals, Penn State defeated Texas in straight sets, 25-13, 25-13, 25-22. Led by AVCA National Freshman of the Year Deja McClendon, who had 11 kills on 15 errorless attempts, Penn State held Texas to just .131 hitting as a team in the sweep. Penn State's freshmen had 24 of the team's 54 kills in the match, as Katie Slay and Ariel Scott also made big contributions.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Final Four - Sprint Center, Kansas City, Missouri, Semifinals recap, Penn State vs. Texas
On Texas's side, senior All-American and Big 12 Player of the Year Juliann Faucette led all players with 14 kills, and she was the only Texas player with double-digit kills. Penn State improved its all-time program record to 11-6 over Texas, and became the first team in NCAA history to advance to four straight NCAA Championship finals.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Final Four - Sprint Center, Kansas City, Missouri, Semifinals recap, California vs. Southern California
Despite USC defeating California in both Pac-10 matchups earlier in the season, California took control of the match from the start, going up 11-2 in set 1 and eventually defeating USC easily in a sweep, 25-14, 25-17, 25-20. Cal Junior All-American Tarah Murrey had 23 kills and hit .413, while Adrienne Gehan, a freshman, was second on the team with 14 kills. Cal setter Carli Lloyd, who was named the National Player of the Year the day after the match, had 39 assists and 16 digs in the match.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Final Four - Sprint Center, Kansas City, Missouri, Semifinals recap, California vs. Southern California
USC hit just .101 as a team and only 1 player hit higher than .200, as Katie Fuller was USC's only offensive spark in the match as she had 7 kills and hit .400. California advanced to the programs first ever final match to face the same team who ended their seasons in the NCAA tournament the previous three years.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Final Four - Sprint Center, Kansas City, Missouri, National Championship recap: Penn State vs. California
Playing each other for the fourth consecutive year in the tournament, Penn State defeated California once again in a sweep by the scores of 25-20, 27-25, 25-20. Deja McClendon, who had 16 kills in the final, was named the Final Four Most Outstanding Player and became only the second player in NCAA history (the other being Kerri Walsh from 1996) to win the award as a freshman. Senior Blair Brown had 18 kills against the Bears, while Cal hitter Tarah Murrey led her team with 16 kills.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Final Four - Sprint Center, Kansas City, Missouri, National Championship recap: Penn State vs. California
In set 1, Penn State held a slim 12-11 lead but kills by McClendon and Brown and a service ace from Alyssa D'Errico made the score 16-12. Cal fought back to cut the lead to 16-15, but Penn State pulled away again to lead 21-17. Two Brown kills and a kill from freshman Ariel Scott sealed the first set, 25-20. It was the first set Cal lost in the entire tournament.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Final Four - Sprint Center, Kansas City, Missouri, National Championship recap: Penn State vs. California
Set 2 was a battle throughout, and Cal took a 3-point lead at 17-14. However Penn State fought back to tie it at 17. Two Penn State blocks put them up 19-17, but Cal responded with kills and a block to make the score dead even at 20-20. Two straight Cal kills gave them set point 24-23, however Penn State tied it up at 24. 2010 National Player of the Year Carli Lloyd gave the Bears another set point at 25-24 with a kill, but Penn State used another crucial block to tie it up at 25. Two Brown kills won set 2 for the Nittany Lions, 27-25.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Final Four - Sprint Center, Kansas City, Missouri, National Championship recap: Penn State vs. California
Cal stepped up its blocking in what was the final set, taking a 10-6 lead. However Penn State clawed its way back after a timeout and took a 13-12 lead. Freshman Ali Longo for Penn State ended up serving 8 straight points which included 3 service aces and Penn State went up 18-13. Cal came within 3 at 18-15 but another Penn State run put them up 23-16 and only 2 points away from the title.


2010 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Final Four - Sprint Center, Kansas City, Missouri, National Championship recap: Penn State vs. California
Cal outscored Penn State 4-2 in the final points, but a kill by freshman Katie Slay on an overpass sealed the set, 25-20, as Penn State went on to win their fourth straight NCAA title. Penn State seniors Brown, D'Errico, and Arielle Wilson went 24-0 in NCAA play their entire careers, and had a four-year overall record of 142-7. Wilson also graduated as the NCAA career hitting percentage leader.


2010 NCAA Division I baseball rankings
The following human polls make up the 2010 NCAA Division I men's baseball rankings. The USAToday/ESPN poll is voted on by a panel of 31 Division I baseball coaches. The Baseball America poll is voted on by staff members of the Baseball America magazine.


2010 NCAA Division I baseball season
The 2010 NCAA Division I baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level, began on February 19, 2010. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 2010 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament and 2010 College World Series. The College World Series, which consisted of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament, was held in its annual location of Omaha, Nebraska.


2010 NCAA Division I baseball season
It was the final College World Series held at Omaha's Rosenblatt Stadium, which closed following the event. It concluded on June 30, 2010, with the final game of the best of three championship series. South Carolina defeated UCLA two games to none to claim their first championship, which was also South Carolina's first national championship in any men's sport.


2010 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment, New programs
Seattle added a varsity intercollegiate baseball program for the 2010 season.


2010 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment, Dropped programs
Both Northern Iowa and Vermont dropped their varsity intercollegiate baseball programs following the 2009 season.


2010 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment, Conference changes
Eight former Division I independents formed the new Great West Conference, whose champion would not qualify for the NCAA Tournament until the conference completed the transition period to Division I in 2020. The eight schools that formed the conference were Chicago State, Houston Baptist, NJIT, North Dakota, Northern Colorado, NYIT, Texas–Pan American, and Utah Valley.


2010 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment, Conference changes
The Northeast Conference added Bryant, a former Division II member that had been an independent in 2009.


2010 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment, Conference changes
The Missouri Valley Conference, which lost Northern Iowa when it dropped its program, and the America East Conference, which lost Vermont when it dropped its program, each lost one member.


2010 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment, Conference formats
The Southland Conference eliminated the divisional format it had used from 2008–2009.


2010 NCAA Division I baseball season, Preseason
The Texas Longhorns, defeated by LSU in the 2009 CWS championship series, entered the season ranked #1 in the major polls. Defending national champions LSU received a #2 ranking in the preseason.


2010 NCAA Division I baseball season, Rankings
The Pac-10 Conference champion Arizona State Sun Devils (47–8) ended the regular season ranked #1 in the USAToday/ESPN poll while the Virginia Cavaliers (47–11) finished #1 in the Baseball America poll. Preseason #1 Texas stumbled to an 0–3 Big 12 Tournament record to drop to #3 in both final polls. South Carolina finished the season as a unanimous #1 after winning its first College World Series.


2010 NCAA Division I baseball season, Postseason
The 2010 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament began on June 4, 2010. 64 teams qualified for the tournament. The following teams earned Top 8 National Seeds:


2010 NCAA Division I baseball season, Postseason
Atlantic Sun Conference champions Mercer earned their first appearance in the NCAA Tournament while New Mexico earned their first appearance since 1962.


2010 NCAA Division I baseball season, College World Series
The 2010 season marked the sixty fourth NCAA Baseball Tournament, which culminated with the eight team College World Series. The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska, and for the last time was played at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium. The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with South Carolina claiming their first championship with a two games to none series win over UCLA in the final.


2010 NCAA Division I softball season
The 2010 NCAA Division I softball season, play of college softball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level, began in February 2010. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 2010 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament and 2010 Women's College World Series. The Women's College World Series, consisting of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and held in Oklahoma City at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium, ended on June 7, 2010.


2010 NCAA Division I softball season, Women's College World Series
The 2010 NCAA Women's College World Series took place from June 3 to June 7, 2010 in Oklahoma City.


2010 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
NCAA Division I season SEASON slugging percentage:1.270% – Jen Yee, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets


2010 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
NCAA Division I season intentional walks:31 – Jen Yee, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets


2010 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
Sophomore class single game home runs:4 – Rebecca Magett, Hampton Lady Pirates; April 2, 2010


2010 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
Freshman class home runs:30 – Kelly Majam, Hawaii Rainbow Wahine


2010 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2010 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college basketball as a culmination of the 2009–10 basketball season. It began on March 13, 2010. The tournament was won by the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) men's basketball team, which defeated Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 65–53, in the title game. The championship was the first in the Broncos' history after ending runner-up in 2009.


2010 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2010 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament was the 29th annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division II women's  collegiate basketball in the United States.


2010 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
Emporia State defeated Fort Lewis in the championship game, 65–53, to claim the Lady Hornets' first NCAA Division II national title.


2010 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
The championship rounds were contested at the St. Joseph Civic Arena in St. Joseph, Missouri.


2010 NCAA Division II football rankings
The 2010 NCAA Division II football rankings are from the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA). This is for the 2010 season.


2010 NCAA Division II football season
The 2010 NCAA Division II football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division II level, began on September 4, 2010, and concluded with the NCAA Division II Football Championship on December 18, 2010 at Braly Municipal Stadium in Florence, Alabama, hosted by the University of North Alabama. The Minnesota–Duluth Bulldogs defeated the Delta State Statesmen, 20–17, to win their second Division II national title.


2010 NCAA Division II football season
The Harlon Hill Trophy was awarded to Eric Czerniewski, quarterback from Central Missouri.


2010 NCAA Division II football season, Conference and program changes
Lincoln (PA) and Urbana completed their transitions to Division II and became eligible for the postseason.


2010 NCAA Division II football season, Conference summaries
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association – ShawGreat Lakes Football Conference – Saint Joseph's (IN), Missouri S&T, and UrbanaGreat Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Grand Valley StateGreat Northwest Athletic Conference – Central WashingtonGulf South Conference – Delta State, Henderson State, and Valdosta StateLone Star Conference – Abilene ChristianMid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Northwest Missouri StateNortheast-10 Conference – American International, New Haven, and Southern Connecticut StateNorthern Sun Intercollegiate Conference – Minnesota–DuluthPennsylvania State Athletic Conference – MercyhurstRocky Mountain Athletic Conference – Colorado Mines and Nebraska–KearneySouth Atlantic Conference – WingateSouthern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Albany StateWest Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Shepherd


2010 NCAA Division II football season, Postseason
The 2010 NCAA Division II Football Championship playoffs were the 37th single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college football. The championship game was held at Braly Municipal Stadium in Florence, Alabama for the 23rd time.


2010 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament
The 2010 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 2010 NCAA Division III baseball season to determine the 35th national champion of college baseball at the NCAA Division III level. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing at Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute, Wisconsin for the championship. Eight regional tournaments were held to determine the participants in the World Series.


2010 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament
Regional tournaments were contested in double-elimination format, with four regions consisting of six teams, one consisting of seven, and three consisting of eight, for a total of 55 teams participating in the tournament, up from 54 in 2009. The tournament champion was Illinois Wesleyan, who defeated SUNY Cortland for the championship.


2010 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, New York Regional
Leo Pinckney Field at Falcon Park-Auburn, NY (Host: State University of New York at Cortland)


2010 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, Midwest Regional
Prucha Field at James B. Miller Stadium-Whitewater, WI (Host: University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)


2010 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, West Regional
Roy Helser Field and Jim Wright Stadium-McMinnville, OR (Host: Linfield College)


2010 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, Mid-Atlantic Regional
Samuel J. Plumeri, Sr. Field at Mercer County Waterfront Park-Trenton, NJ (Host: Kean University)


2010 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, Central Regional
Brunner Field in the Duane R. Swanson Stadium-Rock Island, IL (Host: Augustana College)


2010 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, World Series
Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium-Grand Chute, WI (Host: University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh/Lawrence University/Fox Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau)


2010 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2010 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament was a single-elimination tournament to determine the men's collegiate basketball national champion of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III.


2010 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
The tournament began on March 4, 2010 and concluded with the national championship game on March 20, 2010 at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia.


2010 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
The tournament was won by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, which defeated Williams College, 78–73, in the title game. The championship was the third in the Pointers' history and first since 2005.


2010 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2010 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 2009–10 season, the 27th such tournament in NCAA history. It concluded with Norwich defeating St. Norbert in the championship game 2-1 in overtime. All First Round and Quarterfinal matchups were held at home team venues, while all succeeding games were played at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York.


2010 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
The following teams qualified for the tournament. Automatic bids were offered to the conference tournament champion of seven different conferences. Four at-large bids were available for the highest-ranked non-conference tournament champions (overall seed in parentheses). ECAC West, which had fewer than the number of requisite teams (seven) to qualify for an automatic bid for several years, lost its automatic bid.


2010 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured four rounds of play. All rounds were Single-game elimination. The top four teams were arranged so that were they all to reach the national semifinal, the first overall seed would play the fourth seed while the second seed would play the third seed. Because only one western team could have received a bye into the quarterfinals, all western teams played in the first round in order to prevent lower-seeded teams from having to travel long-distances in the first two rounds. The other first round participants were the two lowest-seeded eastern teams.


2010 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The winners of the two western first round matches would play one another in the quarterfinals. The top eastern seed would play the winner of the eastern first round game while the other two quarterfinal matches were played between eastern teams as follows: the second-seeded eastern team played the fifth-seeded team while the third-seed played the fourth-seed. The higher-seeded team served as host for all first round and quarterfinal meetings.


2010 NCAA Division III Men's Lacrosse Championship
The 2010 NCAA Division III Men's Lacrosse Tournament was held from May 12 through May 30, 2010. It was the 31st annual Division III NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament. Sixteen NCAA Division III college men's lacrosse teams met after having played their way through a regular season, and for some, a play-in game to advance to the tournament.


2010 NCAA Division III Men's Lacrosse Championship
The tournament culminated on Memorial Day weekend at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. That venue also hosted the Division I and Division II championships. The Division III championship game took place on May 30, as a doubleheader with the Division II final, and pitted perennial Division III powerhouse Salisbury against final newcomer Tufts University. It was Salisbury's eleventh championship game appearance under head coach Jim Berkman. Tufts controlled the game throughout on its way to upset Salisbury, 9–6. It was Tufts University's first NCAA championship in any sport.


2010 NCAA Division III Men's Lacrosse Championship, Play-in games
The final four rounds of the tournament were preceded by six play-in games on May 12:


2010 NCAA Division III football season
The 2010 NCAA Division III football season, part of the college football season organized by the NCAA at the Division III level in the United States, began in August 2007, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 2007 at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia. The Wisconsin–Whitewater Warhawks won their first Division III championship by defeating the Mount Union Purple Raiders, 31−21. This was the sixth of seven straight championship games between Mount Union (3 wins) and Wisconsin–Whitewater (4 wins).


2010 NCAA Division III football season
The Gagliardi Trophy, given to the most outstanding player in Division III football, was awarded to Eric Watt, quarterback from Trine.


2010 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason
The 2010 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the 38th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division III college football. The championship Stagg Bowl game was held at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia for the 18th time.


2010 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason, Qualification
Twenty-three conferences met the requirements for an automatic ("Pool A") bid to the playoffs. Besides the NESCAC, which does not participate in the playoffs, four conferences had no Pool A bid. The ECFC and UMAC were in the second year of the two-year waiting period, while the ACFC and UAA failed to meet the seven-member requirement.


2010 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason, Qualification
Schools not in Pool A conferences were eligible for Pool B. The number of Pool B bids was determined by calculating the ratio of Pool A conferences to schools in those conferences and applying that ratio to the number of Pool B schools. The 23 Pool A conferences contained 197 schools, an average of 8.6 teams per conference. Twenty-eight schools were in Pool B, enough for three bids.


2010 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason, Qualification
The remaining six playoff spots were at-large ("Pool C") teams.


2010 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
An All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes", or simply "All-Americans". Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889.


2010 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans are honorary lists that include All-American selections from the Associated Press (AP), the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA), the Sporting News (TSN), and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) for the 2009–10 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. All selectors choose at least a first and second 5-man team. The NABC and AP choose third teams, and TSN chooses third, fourth and fifth teams, while AP also lists honorable mention selections.


2010 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The Consensus 2010 College Basketball All-American team is determined by aggregating the results of the four major All-American teams as determined by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Since United Press International was replaced by TSN in 1997, the four major selectors have been the aforementioned ones. AP has been a selector since 1948, NABC since 1957 and USBWA since 1960. To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors based on a point system computed from the four different all-America teams.


2010 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The point system consists of three points for first team, two points for second team and one point for third team. No honorable mention or fourth team or lower are used in the computation. The top five totals plus ties are first team and the next five plus ties are second team. According to this system, Sherron Collins, Wesley Johnson, Scottie Reynolds, Evan Turner and John Wall were first team selections and Cole Aldrich, James Anderson, DeMarcus Cousins, Luke Harangody, Jon Scheyer and Greivis Vasquez were second team selections.


2010 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
Although the aforementioned lists are used to determine consensus honors, there are numerous other All-American lists. The ten finalists for the John Wooden Award are described as Wooden All-Americans. The ten finalists for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award are described as Senior All-Americans. Other All-American lists include those determined by Fox Sports, and Yahoo! Sports. The scholar-athletes selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) are termed Academic All-Americans.


2010 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, 2010 Consensus All-America team
The following players are recognized as the 2010 Consensus All-Americans (including six second team members due to a tie).


2010 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, Individual All-America teams
The table below details the selections for four major 2010 college basketball All-American teams. The number corresponding to the team designation (i.e., whether a player was a first team, second team, etc. selection) appears in the table. The following columns are included in the table:


2010 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, Academic All-Americans
On February 22, 2010, CoSIDA and ESPN The Magazine announced the 2010 Academic All-America team, with Cole Aldrich headlining the University Division as the men's college basketball Academic All-American of the Year. The following is the 2009–10 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Men’s Basketball Team (University Division) as selected by CoSIDA:


2010 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, Wooden All-Americans
The ten finalists (and ties) for the John R. Wooden Award are called Wooden All-Americans. The 10 honorees are as follows:


2010 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, Senior All-Americans
The ten finalists for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award are called Senior All-Americans. The 10 honorees are as follows:


2010 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament
The 2010 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament was the 41st annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA men's collegiate indoor volleyball. The single elimination tournament was played at Maples Pavilion in Stanford, California during May 2010.


2010 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament
Stanford defeated Penn State in the final match, 3–0 (30–25, 30–20, 30–18), to win their second national title. The Cardinal (24–6) were coached by John Kosty.


2010 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament
Stanford's Brad Lawson and Kawika Shoji were named the tournament's Most Outstanding Players. Lawson and Shoji, along with five other players, comprised the All Tournament Team.


2010 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament, Qualification
Until the creation of the NCAA Men's Division III Volleyball Championship in 2012, there was only a single national championship for men's volleyball. As such, all NCAA men's volleyball programs, whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III, were eligible. A total of 4 teams were invited to contest this championship.


2010 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2010 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament involved eight schools in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. The quarterfinals were held at the home sites of the seeded teams and the Frozen Four was hosted by the University of Minnesota at Ridder Arena in Minneapolis, Minnesota.


2010 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament notes
Saara Tuominen and Jaime Rasmussen of Minnesota Duluth were the only players to score two points in the championship game.


2010 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament notes
Two records were set in the championship game: at four hours and twenty-four minutes, the game set an NCAA Frozen Four record for longest game, and Cornell goaltender Amanda Mazzotta set a record for most saves in an NCAA Championship game with 61 saves. The former record holder was Bulldog goaltender Patricia Sautter, who set the previous record in 2003 with 41 saves.


2010 NCAA Rifle Championships
The 2010 NCAA Rifle Championships were contested at the 31st annual NCAA-sanctioned competition to determine the team and individual national champions of co-ed collegiate rifle shooting in the United States.


2010 NCAA Rifle Championships
The championships were again held at the TCU Rifle Range at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.


2010 NCAA Rifle Championships
Hosts TCU won the team championship, the Horned Frogs' first NCAA national title in rifle.


2010 NCAA Rifle Championships, Qualification
With only one national collegiate championship for rifle shooting, all NCAA rifle programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of eight teams contested this championship.


2010 NCAA Women's Basketball All-Americans
The following are the First, Second, and Third Team selections by the Associated Press.


2010 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship
The 2010 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship was held in Gainesville, FL on April 22–24, 2010. UCLA Bruins won the 2010 team competition, earning their sixth national championship. LSU's Susan Jackson scored 39.625 points to capture the individual title.


2010 NCBA Division I World Series
The 2010 National Club Baseball Association (NCBA) Division I World Series was played at City of Palms Park in Fort Myers, FL from May 28 to June 3. The tenth tournament's champion was Colorado State University. This was Colorado State's sixth title in the last seven years and third in a row. The Most Valuable Player was Tommy Johnson of Colorado State University.


2010 NCBA Division I World Series, Format
The format is similar to the NCAA College World Series in that eight teams participate in two four-team double elimination brackets with the only difference being that in the NCBA, there is only one game that decides the national championship rather than a best-of-3 like the NCAA.


2010 NCBA Division II World Series
The 2010 National Club Baseball Association (NCBA) Division II World Series was held at Point Stadium in Johnstown, PA from May 21 to May 25. The third tournament's champion was Northeastern University.


2010 NCBA Division II World Series, Format
The format is similar to the NCAA College World Series in that eight teams participate in two four-team double elimination brackets with a couple differences. One being that in the NCBA, there is only one game that decides the national championship rather than a best-of-3 like the NCAA. Another difference which is between NCBA Division I and II is that Division II games are 7 innings while Division I games are 9 innings.


2010 NECBL All-Star Game
The 2010 NECBL All-Star Game was the 17th exhibition game between all-stars from the NECBL's East and West Divisions. The game was held at Cardines Field in Newport, Rhode Island, the home field of the East Division's Newport Gulls. This was the Gulls' second time hosting the All-Star Game. The Eastern Division All-Stars one-hit the Western Division All-Stars, winning the exhibition game 10-0.


2010 NECBL All-Star Game
The game was broadcast live on the NECBL Broadcast Network by NECBL East All-Star Broadcaster Nicholas Lima, of the Gulls, and NECBL West All-Star Broadcaster Rick Zmudzien, of the North Adams Steeplecats. Each broadcaster was selected following a vote cast by the league's general managers.


2010 NECBL All-Star Game, Rosters
The following is a list of the rosters of both the East and West Division All-Star teams.


2010 NECBL All-Star Game, Game summary
The Eastern Division first got on the board in the bottom of the second inning against Matt Carasiti of the Bristol Collegiate Baseball Club. The leadoff hitter that inning, New Bedford Bay Sox first baseman Matt Chavez, was hit by pitch and advanced to third base when Laconia Muskrat Casey Kalenkosky reached on shortstop Mike LeBel’s fielding error. The Navigators’ Tyler Kuehl then hit into a fielder’s choice that allowed Chavez to score. After Lowell All-American Matt Miller singled to push Kuehl to second base, Kuehl scored on Navigator Matt Avery’s RBI single. Miller then scored on Sanford Mainer Anthony Gomez’s groundout to make the score 3-0.


2010 NECBL All-Star Game, Game summary
Tucker Healy of the Bristol Collegiate Baseball Club came on to pitch the sixth inning for the Western Division and had Mainer Joe Wendle at second base with two outs in the inning. That’s when Jason Banos smashed a two-run home run over the right field fence to put the Eastern Division on top 5-0. “He threw me a changeup,” said Banos. “He threw a good pitch but left it out over the plate.”


2010 NECBL All-Star Game, Game summary
The Eastern Division scored an insurance run in the bottom of the seventh inning against North Adams SteepleCat Cory Vogt to go up 6-0. Leading 6-0 after the top of the ninth inning, the Eastern Division was allowed to hit in the bottom of the inning to allow players one more opportunity to perform in front of the many Major League scouts in attendance. The Eastern Division all-stars took advantage of that opportunity as they sent 11 men to the plate and scored four additional runs against SteepleCat closer Sean Albury to win the game by a final score of 10-0.


2010 NECBL playoffs
The 2010 NECBL playoffs was the postseason tournament of the New England Collegiate Baseball League for the 2010 season. It consisted of eight teams competing in three rounds of best-of-three series. In the championship round, the Eastern Division North Shore Navigators defeated the Western Division Danbury Westerners 2 games to 1.


2010 NECBL playoffs, Format
The 2010 NECBL playoffs consisted of three rounds, a Division Semifinal, Division Final, and Championship Series. Competing teams consisted of the four best-record teams from both the West Division and the East Division. These teams were seeded #1 through #4 according to their regular season record. In each division, the #1 seed played the #4 seed and the #2 seed played the #3 seed in the Division Semifinal round. The two winners of these series advanced to the Division Finals. The winner of the round captured the Division Championship, one for both the East and West divisions.


2010 NECBL playoffs, Format
The two division champions faced each other in the Championship Series to decide the NECBL champion. All rounds consisted of a best-of-three series in which the first game and third game (if necessary) of each series were played at the higher seed's home field and the second game was played at the lower seed's home field. If identically seeded teams from opposite divisions met in the Championship Series the NECBL tiebreaker rules would be utilized.


2010 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals
The Division Semifinals, the first playoff round, consisted of matchups between each division's #1 and #4 seeds and #2 and #3 seeds.


2010 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division
In the West Division, the Division Semifinal matchups were as follows: #1 North Adams versus #4 Keene, #2 Danbury versus #3 Bristol.


2010 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division
In the East Division, the Division Semifinal matchups were as follows: #1 Newport versus #4 Laconia, #2 North Shore versus #3 Sanford.


2010 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals
The Division Finals, the second playoff round, consisted of match-ups between both divisions' No. 1 and No. 2 seeds.


2010 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, West Division
In the West Division, the Division Final match-up was as follows: No. 1 North Adams versus No. 2 Danbury,


2010 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division
In the East Division, the Division Final match-up was as follows: #1 Newport versus #4 North Shore,


2010 NECBL playoffs, Championship Series
The NECBL Championship Series, the final playoff round, consists of a matchup between both division's #2 seeds .


2010 NECBL season
The 2010 NECBL season was the 17th season of the New England Collegiate Baseball League, a wood bat collegiate summer baseball league. Changes for 2010 included the league's Manchester, Connecticut franchise, the Manchester Silkworms, moving to Laconia, New Hampshire to become the Laconia Muskrats  and the Pittsfield, Massachusetts franchise, the Pittsfield American Defenders, moving to Bristol, Connecticut to become the Bristol Collegiate Baseball Club.


2010 NECBL season
In the championship series, the East Division champion North Shore Navigators defeated the West Division champion Danbury Westerners after each team advanced through the playoffs.


2010 NECBL season, All-star game
The NECBL's 2010 All-Star Game was hosted by the East Division's Newport Gulls. The event was held at Cardines Field in Newport, Rhode Island on July 18, 2010 with the East Division All-Stars defeating the West Division All-Stars 10-0


2010 NECBL season, Playoffs
Eight teams qualified for the 2010 NECBL playoffs, which consisted of three rounds of best-of-three series. In the championship series, East Division champion North Shore defeated West Division champion Danbury 2–1.


2010 NERFU College Men's Division III Rugby Tournament
2010 NERFU College Men's Division III Rugby Tournament The 2010 NERFU College Men's Division III Rugby Tournament featured the top 8 Division III college rugby teams out of 32 competitors from the four NERFU sub-conferences (North, South, Central, West). The top 2 teams from each conference were seeded according to the success of their conference in the 2009 Tournament.


2010 NERFU College Men's Division III Rugby Tournament
In the Cup Championship match at the Harrington Memorial Pitch at Babson College in Wellesley, MA, Salve Regina University defeated Springfield College by a score of 53-21. The match was attended by over 300 fans.


2010 NERFU College Men's Division III Rugby Tournament
With its victory, Salve Regina University earned an automatic bid to represent the New England region in the Small College National Championship Final Four sponsored by the National Small College Rugby Organization. This year, the NSCRO Champions Cup will be held at the Virginia Beach Sportsplex in Virginia Beach, VA on April 30 - May 1, 2011.


2010 NERFU College Men's Division III Rugby Tournament
NERFU also sponsored a lower tier Plate Championship for teams seeded 3 & 4 in their subconferences. In that tournament, Plymouth State University defeated UMass Lowell 22-14.


2010 NFL Draft
The 2010 NFL Draft was the 75th annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible football players. The 2010 draft took place over three days, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, New York, with the first round on April 22, 2010. The second and third rounds took place on April 23, while the final four rounds were held on April 24. Television coverage was provided by both NFL Network and ESPN.


2010 NFL Draft
The St. Louis Rams, as the team with the worst record during the 2009 season, selected quarterback Sam Bradford with the first pick. Three of the top four picks were members of the Oklahoma Sooners football team, and five of the top six were from the Big 12 Conference. The prime time broadcast of the first round was watched by 7.29 million viewers making it the most viewed first round ever and making ESPN the second most watched network of the night.


2010 NFL Draft, Overview
Of the 255 players drafted 216 (or 84%) were among the 327 players who participated in the 2010 NFL Scouting Combine. This matches the average percentage of combine participants among draftees over the past ten years. An additional 39 players who did not attend the combine were selected.


2010 NFL Draft, Overview
There was wide speculation that the 2010 NFL Draft would have a very large number of early entrants because of a possible rookie pay scale to be imposed starting with the 2011 NFL Draft. Eligible underclassmen projected as top NFL prospects risked losing millions of contractually-guaranteed dollars if they did not declare for the draft the year before a new CBA could be reached. The early entry deadline was January 15. After the early entry deadline had passed, it was confirmed that the 2010 NFL Draft would have fifty-three non-seniors, tying a draft record for the most non-seniors ever.


2010 NFL Draft, Overview
The draft's first round, in which teams were allowed ten minutes to make each selection, consumed three hours and 28 minutes. The second round (with a maximum of seven minutes per selection) lasted two hours and 25 minutes. After the second round, teams were allotted five minutes per pick. The third round took one hour and 41 minutes. Rounds 4 through 7 each lasted less than two hours. For the second time in draft history, the first two players selected were named Offensive and Defensive Rookies of the Year, respectively.


2010 NFL Draft, Overview
The following is the breakdown of the 255 players selected by position:


2010 NFL Draft, Changes in draft order
At the 2009 annual owners meeting, NFL owners unanimously approved changes to the order for assigning draft picks, starting with the 2010 draft.


2010 NFL Draft, Changes in draft order
The new format took into account the seeding of playoff teams. The two major changes from previous years were:


2010 NFL Draft, Changes in draft order
The new order assigns picks for each round as indicated in the table below. Except the changes noted above, the order will generally follow that used in previous years (i.e., within a given status, teams with worse regular-season records will pick earlier in the first round, and picks will cycle from round to round among teams that are tied).


2010 NFL Draft, Changes in draft order
Three coin tosses were necessary to establish the final selection order: Jacksonville, Tennessee, and Atlanta won their flips over Denver, Carolina, and Houston, respectively.


2010 NFL Draft, Trades
In the explanations below, (D) denotes trades that took place during the draft, while (PD) indicates trades completed pre-draft.


2010 NFL season
The 2010 NFL season was the 91st regular season of the National Football League and the 45th of the Super Bowl era.


2010 NFL season
The regular season began with the NFL Kickoff game on NBC on Thursday, September 9, at the Louisiana Superdome as the New Orleans Saints, the Super Bowl XLIV champions, defeated the Minnesota Vikings 14–9.


2010 NFL season
Tom Brady, quarterback of the New England Patriots, was named NFL MVP for the 2010 season. In Super Bowl XLV, the league's championship game played at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the Green Bay Packers defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 31–25 to win their fourth Super Bowl, spoiling the Steelers' chance for a seventh title. This season also marked the first full-length season in which a team with a losing record made the playoffs, when the Seattle Seahawks won the NFC West with a 7–9 record, after defeating the St. Louis Rams in Week 17 to clinch the division title. One week later, the Seahawks dethroned the defending champion New Orleans Saints in the Wild Card round, to become the first ever sub-.500 playoff team to win a postseason game.


2010 NFL season
This season marked the last time a game was played on a Tuesday night until 2020.


2010 NFL season, Labor issues
NFL owners voted in 2008 to opt out of their collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) as of the end of the 2010 season. (The vote was 23 in favor, 9 against; the extension measure needed 24 to pass, which would have set the CBA to expire after the 2012 season). Since a new CBA was not reached with the NFLPA, 2010 was an uncapped season, meaning that there was no salary cap or salary floor between which teams had to operate.


2010 NFL season, Labor issues
Also, the uncapped season limited unrestricted free agency only to players with at least six years of experience, as opposed to four under a capped season. The final eight teams alive in the 2009–10 NFL playoffs (Arizona, Dallas, Minnesota and New Orleans in the NFC; and Baltimore, Indianapolis, the New York Jets and San Diego in the AFC) were restricted in the free agents they could sign.


2010 NFL season, Labor issues
The issue of a CBA continued into the 2011 NFL season, affecting most of the off-season.


2010 NFL season, Player movement, Trades
The following notable trades were made during the 2010 league year:


2010 NFL season, Draft
The league's 75th annual selection meeting, more commonly known as the NFL Draft, took place at Radio City Music Hall in New York City from April 22–24, the first time that the draft was held over three days instead of the usual two. In the draft with the first overall pick, the St. Louis Rams chose quarterback Sam Bradford from the University of Oklahoma.


2010 NFL season, Officiating changes
Mike Pereira resigned as the league's Vice President of Officiating. He had led the NFL's officiating since 2001. Carl Johnson was named as Pereira's successor.


2010 NFL season, Officiating changes
Clete Blakeman was promoted to referee, and Don Carey returned to his back judge position.


2010 NFL season, Rule changes
The following rule changes were passed at the league's annual owners meeting in March:


2010 NFL season, Rule changes, Crowd noise
The NFL relaxed all rules regarding crowd noise, citing the need to increase the in-stadium experience to lure more fans to attend games. In addition, the league cited the advances in the coach-to-quarterback radio communications, and more visiting teams using silent snap counts as an alternative to overcome crowd noise.


2010 NFL season, Rule changes, Crowd noise
The NFL's rules to "legislate the fans", and help visiting offensive players hear the snap count, have been controversial from the start. In one notorious example, then-Cincinnati Bengals head coach Sam Wyche and then-quarterback Boomer Esiason "protested" the crowd noise rules during a 1989 nationally televised preseason game against the New Orleans Saints by constantly complaining to the referee about the loud crowd noise inside the Superdome.


2010 NFL season, Rule changes, Crowd noise
The league will still allow stadiums to post visual noise meters and other scoreboard messages to incite fans to make noise, but they must cease when the play clock is down to 15 seconds. However, home teams are still prohibited from pumping in artificial crowd noise.


2010 NFL season, Rule changes, Crackdown on illegal hits
After several violent hits throughout the NFL made the news in Week 3, the league announced that it would consider suspending players for illegal hits, such as helmet-to-helmet hits or other blows to the head. (Previously, players could only be fined for such hits.) The league also instructed all officials and referees to have an even higher level of attention toward flagrant hits. Game officials were also instructed to err on the side of safety, and throw flags even when in doubt.


2010 NFL season, Rule changes, Crackdown on illegal hits
The crackdown has been controversial. Many defensive players have complained that the league is being too strict in their interpretation of what constitutes an "illegal hit", and that it forces them to behave significantly differently from how they were taught to play the game. Another concern is the league's instructions to game officials to err on the side of caution, since questionable calls late in close games significantly affect their outcome. However, the medical community has supported the move, believing that it will help reduce concussions and other head injuries.


2010 NFL season, Rule changes, Crackdown on illegal hits
The league did not end up suspending any players for violent or illegal hits, however several players were fined for these types of hits within the first few weeks of the crackdown.


2010 NFL season, Preseason
The Pro Football Hall of Fame Game was held on Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 8:00 pm EDT on NBC, with the Dallas Cowboys defeating the Cincinnati Bengals, 16–7 at Fawcett Stadium in Canton, Ohio. The remainder of the preseason game matchups were announced March 31, 2010. Highlights, among others, include the New York Giants and New York Jets facing off in the first-ever game at New Meadowlands Stadium on ESPN. The preseason game in the Bills Toronto Series featured the host Bills defeating the Indianapolis Colts in Toronto on Thursday, August 19 by a score of 34–21. Exact dates and times for most games were announced in April, shortly after the regular season games were announced.


2010 NFL season, Regular season
The 2010 regular season was the first year that the league used a modified version of the scheduling formula that was first introduced in 2002, in which all teams play each other at least once every four years, and play in every other team's stadium at least once every eight years (notwithstanding the regular season games played overseas as part of the NFL International Series).


2010 NFL season, Regular season
Under the original 2002 formula, since the pairings were strictly based on alphabetical order, those teams scheduled to play the entire AFC West had to travel to both Oakland and San Diego in the same season, while those teams playing the entire NFC West had to make their way to both San Francisco and Seattle. In 2008, the New England Patriots and New York Jets each had to make cross-country trips to all four of the aforementioned West Coast teams.


2010 NFL season, Regular season
In an effort to relieve east coast teams from having to travel to the West Coast multiple times during the same season, teams will only have to visit one West Coast team (AFC West or NFC West), plus one western team from the same division closer to the Midwest, under the 2010 modified formula. Specifically, those teams traveling to Oakland (Las Vegas since 2020) will also play at Denver, while those playing at San Diego (Los Angeles since 2017) will also play at Kansas City. For teams scheduled to play the NFC West, those traveling to San Francisco will also go to Arizona, while those scheduled to play in Seattle will then go to St. Louis (this became moot in 2016 when the Rams returned to Los Angeles).


2010 NFL season, Regular season
For the 2010 season, the intraconference and interconference matchups are:


2010 NFL season, Regular season
The entire 2010 regular-season schedule was unveiled at 7:00 pm EDT on Tuesday, April 20. Additionally, schedule release shows aired on both the NFL Network and as a SportsCenter special on ESPN2.


2010 NFL season, Regular season, Opening weekend
The NFL Kickoff Game, the first game of the season, took place on Thursday, September 9, 2010, starting at 8:35 pm EDT, with the Super Bowl XLIV champion New Orleans Saints hosting the Minnesota Vikings, in a rematch of the 2009 NFC Championship Game. The Saints won 14–9. Like in previous years, the opening week's prime-time games were expected to be announced at the NFL's annual owners meetings in late March, but that wasn't the case this year, with the schedule announced on April 20.


2010 NFL season, Regular season, Opening weekend
On March 15, 2010, the NFL announced that both the New York Giants and New York Jets will play at home during the opening weekend to open New Meadowlands Stadium. The Giants played on Sunday with a 1 pm EDT kickoff against the Carolina Panthers and the Jets opened ESPN's Monday Night Football schedule against the Baltimore Ravens the next night.


2010 NFL season, Regular season, Opening weekend
For the nightcap, the San Diego Chargers traveled to play their division rival, the Kansas City Chiefs, marking the first time that a team from outside the Mountain or Pacific Time Zones has played in, or hosted, the "late" (10:15 pm ET) game. The game started at 9:15 pm Kansas City time (Central).


2010 NFL season, Regular season, No undefeated teams after Week Five
While the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints had both started the year before 13–0 (with the Colts even going 14–0), on October 10, the Kansas City Chiefs became the last team to lose, losing to the Colts 19–9. It was the first time that no NFL team reached 4–0 since 1970, when the Detroit Lions, Denver Broncos, and Los Angeles Rams started the season 3–0 but all lost in Week 4.


2010 NFL season, Regular season, International play
The 2010 season featured one International Series game, played at Wembley Stadium in London. The teams for this game were confirmed on January 15, 2010, with the San Francisco 49ers playing host to the Denver Broncos on October 31, 2010, at 1:00 pm EDT (5:00 pm GMT). The 49ers won 24–16, scoring 21 points in the 4th quarter. CBS televised this game on a regional basis, as the Broncos were the "visiting" team. The Kansas City Chiefs and Seattle Seahawks, who had expressed interest in previous games, were a possible matchup for a second NFL game (with the Seahawks as the home team), but league officials dropped a plan for two games in the UK, citing the economy and ongoing labor negotiations.


2010 NFL season, Regular season, International play
The following week, the third regular-season game of the Bills Toronto Series featured the Buffalo Bills hosting the Chicago Bears at Toronto's Rogers Centre on November 7 at 1 pm EST, marking the first time that the regular-season portion of the series has taken place during the Canadian Football League season and the first time an NFC opponent played in the series.


2010 NFL season, Regular season, NFL vs. World Series Game 4
On the same day that the Broncos and 49ers played in London, the Saints hosted the Pittsburgh Steelers on NBC's Sunday Night Football. This game was televised opposite Game Four of the World Series on Fox, a practice the league had traditionally avoided. The Saints won this game 20–10.


2010 NFL season, Regular season, Thanksgiving and Christmas
The Thanksgiving games took place on Thursday, November 25, 2010, with the Detroit Lions falling to the visiting New England Patriots, 45–24. The second game featured the Dallas Cowboys giving up a late lead to the New Orleans Saints. New Orleans won 30–27 when Saints quarterback Drew Brees threw a go-ahead touchdown to Lance Moore with less than two minutes remaining. In the prime-time NFL Network game, the New York Jets defeated the visiting Cincinnati Bengals, 26–10.


2010 NFL season, Regular season, Thanksgiving and Christmas
Both the Saints and Bengals made their first appearance in a Thanksgiving game; in the case of the Bengals, it also marked the first appearance of an AFC North team on Thanksgiving since 1998, when the Pittsburgh Steelers of what was known as the AFC Central played the Detroit Lions.


2010 NFL season, Regular season, Thanksgiving and Christmas
Additionally, since Christmas Day fell on a Saturday in 2010, the NFL scheduled a Christmas game between the Cowboys and the Arizona Cardinals in Glendale, Arizona on December 25 on NFL Network. The Cowboys came back from a 21–3 deficit behind third-string quarterback Stephen McGee to take a 26–24 lead late in the fourth quarter, but kicker David Buehler missed an extra point, allowing the Cardinals to win the game 27–26 on a last-second Jay Feely field goal.


2010 NFL season, Regular season, Week 17: Division games only
The entire Week 17 schedule, played on January 2, 2011, consisted solely of divisional contests, in an attempt to increase competition after several cases over the last few seasons of playoff-bound teams resting their regular starters and playing their reserves. This has continued since then.


2010 NFL season, Postseason
The 2010–11 NFL playoff tournament began January 8–9, 2011 with wild card weekend. Following that, the divisional playoffs set the matchups for the NFC Championship Game, to be played at 3:00 pm EST on January 23, and the AFC Championship Game, to be played at 6:30 pm EST.


2010 NFL season, Postseason
After a backlash from players and critics about the previous season's Pro Bowl being played at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida in the contiguous United States, the 2011 Pro Bowl was played at Aloha Stadium in Halawa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. The date was January 30, 2011, the week before the Super Bowl. An NFL spokesman stated that "Plans for future Pro Bowls are not final." Indianapolis Colts President Bill Polian has stated his objections to the format, and is in favor of returning the game to after the Super Bowl as in previous years.


2010 NFL season, Postseason
The annual Pro Bowl had previously been played in Hawaii for 30 consecutive seasons from 1980 to 2009. However, the NFL and State of Hawaiʻi officials only agreed to a two-year deal to hold the Pro Bowl at Aloha Stadium in 2011 and 2012. This gives the option of playing the Pro Bowl in Hawaiʻi on a rotational basis with the mainland, so it both maintains the traditional ties of holding it on the islands and providing accessibility to fans when played in the contiguous 48 states.


2010 NFL season, Postseason
Super Bowl XLV, was held at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on February 6, 2011, and was the NFL's final event of the 2010 season.


2010 NFL season, Postseason
Within each conference, the four division winners and the two wild card teams (the top two non-division winners with the best overall regular season records) qualified for the playoffs. The four division winners are seeded 1 through 4 based on their overall won-lost-tied record, and the wild card teams are seeded 5 and 6. The NFL does not use a fixed bracket playoff system, and there are no restrictions regarding teams from the same division matching up in any round.


2010 NFL season, Postseason
In the first round, dubbed the wild-card playoffs or wild-card weekend, the third-seeded division winner hosts the sixth seed wild card, and the fourth seed hosts the fifth. The 1 and 2 seeds from each conference then receive a bye in the first round. In the second round, the divisional playoffs, the number 1 seed hosts the worst surviving seed from the first round (seed 4, 5, or 6), while the number 2 seed will play the other team (seed 3, 4, or 5).


2010 NFL season, Postseason
The two surviving teams from each conference's divisional playoff games then meet in the respective AFC and NFC Conference Championship games, hosted by the higher seed. Although the Super Bowl, the fourth and final round of the playoffs, is played at a neutral site, the designated home team is based on an annual rotation by conference.


2010 NFL season, Super Bowl and conference logo, trophy changes
Starting with Super Bowl XLV, the template of all Super Bowl logos will virtually remain the same. The only differences from year to year will be the stadium backdrop and the Roman numerals for the game as well as colors of the area. For Super Bowl XLV, Cowboys Stadium is featured and "XLV" signifying the forty-fifth Super Bowl game.


2010 NFL season, Super Bowl and conference logo, trophy changes
The NFL also introduced new Lamar Hunt and George Halas trophies for the AFC and NFC Championship games. The trophies were changed from a brown base with an 'A' or 'N' on top of it surrounded by players layered on a frieze upon a wall, to silver trophies in the make of a football.


2010 NFL season, Super Bowl and conference logo, trophy changes
Additionally, both the NFC and AFC logos were revamped and recolored to reflect the current shield adopted two years earlier and with four stars running down the inside on both logos top to bottom from left to right instead of the six surrounding the AFC and three down the side of the NFC logo as each conference has four divisions. In addition, all event and playoff logos have undergone a complete makeover in a new logo system.


2010 NFL season, Awards, Players of the Week
The following were the players of the week during the 2010 season:


2010 NFL season, Coaching changes, Pre-season
Gailey, who was last seen in the NFL as the Kansas City Chiefs' offensive coordinator before Todd Haley fired him prior to the 2009 regular season, was named the new Bills coach on January 19; he was recommended to the Bills by former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher.


2010 NFL season, Coaching changes, Pre-season
On January 5, 2010, Shanahan, the former two-time Super Bowl winning coach with the Denver Broncos, was hired as the Redskins' new coach. Zorn was hired January 30, 2010 to be the quarterbacks coach for the Baltimore Ravens.


2010 NFL season, Coaching changes, Pre-season
Carroll had spent the past eight years as the head coach of the USC Trojans, having won a share of the 2003 and the outright 2004 national championships; however, many of Carroll's achievements at USC may be stricken from the record books due to improprieties involving Reggie Bush. He had previously been the head coach of the New York Jets in 1994 and New England Patriots from 1997 to 1999, with a career 33–31 record.


2010 NFL season, Stadiums
New Meadowlands Stadium opened in 2010, replacing Giants Stadium as the home of both the New York Giants and the New York Jets. The new stadium is located a few hundred feet away from the old building in the parking lot of Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Unlike Giants Stadium (in which the Giants were the sole NFL tenant until the 1984 season), the new Meadowlands Stadium will be a 50/50 partnership between both New York teams. The Giants played their first regular season game on September 12 against the Carolina Panthers, while the Jets played the following night against the Baltimore Ravens in the first game of a Monday Night Football doubleheader.


2010 NFL season, Stadiums
Arrowhead Stadium, home of the Kansas City Chiefs since 1972, underwent a two-year $375 million renovation project which was completed and unveiled in July 2010. The stadium hosted the second game of the Monday Night Football opening weekend doubleheader when the Chiefs played the San Diego Chargers.


2010 NFL season, Stadiums
M&T Bank Stadium, home of the Baltimore Ravens, installed FieldTurf prior to the 2010 season. The field had been Sportexe Momentum Turf since 2002 and grass before that.


2010 NFL season, Stadiums
Prior to Week 14, the inflatable roof of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, home of the Minnesota Vikings, buckled and tore as a result of heavy snowfall in Minneapolis, spilling snow onto Mall of America field and rendering the stadium unusable for the remainder of the Vikings' season. The Vikings' scheduled home game against the New York Giants was moved to Detroit's Ford Field and postponed to a 7:20 pm EST kickoff on Monday. Though stadium workers were initially "optimistic" that the roof could be repaired before the Vikings faced the Chicago Bears on December 20, stadium officials determined that such a repair was not possible in that time frame and the game was moved to TCF Bank Stadium.


2010 NFL season, Stadiums
Two stadiums received new naming rights: On January 20, LandShark Stadium, the home field of the Miami Dolphins, was renamed Sun Life Stadium. The Dolphins' home field, originally named Joe Robbie Stadium from 1987–1996, has undergone several name changes in its history, including Pro Player Stadium (1996–2005), Dolphin Stadium (2006–2009), and most recently, LandShark Stadium. On July 27, Jacksonville Municipal Stadium, the home field of the Jacksonville Jaguars, was renamed EverBank Field.


2010 NFL season, Uniforms
In the 2010 season, the Washington Redskins were the only team who made a major change to their main uniforms, wearing gold pants with their burgundy jerseys, and except for a game against the Packers, wore them for home games instead of their white jerseys and red pants. The white pants were not abandoned entirely, and were worn together with the burgundy jerseys for the two away games (and one home game) in which their opponent wore white at home.


2010 NFL season, Uniforms
This was made possible with a sleeve modification, in which the broad yellow and white stripes were severely shrunken on an elastic band (same for white jerseys) so that when wearing the gold pants, the team also wore the retro style socks that had a different stripe pattern matching the sleeves of the day, so there is no longer a stripe design conflict.


2010 NFL season, Uniforms
The Green Bay Packers became the first team to officially unveil a third uniform for 2010, a throwback uniform based on their 1929 uniforms when they won their first NFL championship. The throwbacks are as accurate as possible while complying with current NFL guidelines, with a brown modern-shell helmet in place of the leather helmets of 1929, along with blue jerseys and gold circles with the jersey numbers nested within the circles, and brown pants.


2010 NFL season, Uniforms
Like throwbacks worn in recent seasons by the San Diego Chargers, Dallas Cowboys, Buffalo Bills, New York Jets, and the archrival Minnesota Vikings, these throwbacks will be a permanent addition to the Packers uniforms, unlike throwbacks worn by the Detroit Lions and Pittsburgh Steelers that were intended as one-time deals but made permanent, as well as several one-shot throwbacks in recent years. The new Packers throwbacks replace the previous throwbacks (which comprised the current helmets with the "G" logo and stripes removed, white jerseys with plain green lettering, and tan pants) worn sporadically since the early 2000s (decade).


2010 NFL season, Uniforms
Also going the throwback route were the Chicago Bears, who harkened back to the Sid Luckman era with a 1940s set, replacing the pumpkin orange third jerseys, and the Indianapolis Colts, who will wear 1955 throwbacks as well. Since the Colts only have two colors, they only have previously worn a throwback jersey once in their history, in 2004. The difference between the 2004 throwback and the 2010 throwback is the helmet color, which reverses the 2004 scheme.


2010 NFL season, Uniforms
The Arizona Cardinals, who were the only team to not wear a third jersey in any form since the NFL allowed third jerseys in 2002, unveiled a black third jersey to be worn in 2010.


2010 NFL season, Uniforms
The Philadelphia Eagles have adopted their 1960 championship uniforms that were worn September 12 against the Packers, the team they beat to win their last championship in celebration of the 50th anniversary of that game.


2010 NFL season, Uniforms
The Tennessee Titans returned to using navy blue jerseys as their third jersey, after a one-year hiatus in which they wore light blue Houston Oilers throwback jerseys in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the American Football League, but did not wear them for any game in 2010.


2010 NFL season, Uniforms
The Pittsburgh Steelers wore their throwbacks against the Cleveland Browns on October 17 and against the New England Patriots on November 14.


2010 NFL season, Uniforms
The Seattle Seahawks have retired the neon green uniform worn for one game in 2009 against Chicago, which was in turn an offshoot from an April Fools' Day joke written about by Uni Watch founder Paul Lukas that year.


2010 NFL season, Media
This is the fifth season under the current television contracts with the league's television partners: CBS (all AFC Sunday afternoon away games and one Thanksgiving game), Fox (all NFC Sunday afternoon away games and one Thanksgiving game), NBC (17 Sunday night games and the kickoff game), ESPN (17 Monday night games over sixteen weeks), NFL Network (eight late-season games on Thursday and Saturday nights, including one Thanksgiving game), and DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket package. These contracts run through at least 2013.


2010 NFL season, Media
In national radio, this is the second year on Westwood One's most recent contract extension. The network also agreed to a four-year extension on December 23, 2010.


2010 NFL season, Media
Nielsen Ratings for the fall 2010 television season have shown viewership increases of up to 10 percent for most of the NFL's broadcast partners; eighteen of the twenty most watched television broadcasts of the season have so far been NFL games.


2010 NHK Trophy
The 2010 NHK Trophy was the first event of six in the 2010–11 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Nippon Gaishi Ice Arena in Nagoya on October 22–24. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2010–11 Grand Prix Final.


2010 NHK Trophy
This was the first Grand Prix event with the new ice dancing format of a short dance/free dance rather than a compulsory dance/original dance/free dance.


2010 NHL Entry Draft
The 2010 NHL Entry Draft was the 48th NHL Entry Draft, held on June 25–26, 2010 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, home arena of the Los Angeles Kings. This was the first time Los Angeles hosted the NHL Entry Draft. An unofficial record of 11 American-trained players were selected in the first round, starting with Jack Campbell and ending with Brock Nelson. The record was set in the 2006 and 2007 drafts, where 10 U.S.-trained players were selected in the first round.


2010 NHL Entry Draft, Draft Lottery
The 2010 NHL Entry Draft Lottery was held on April 13, 2010. The lottery saw no change from the overall NHL standings to end the 2009–10 NHL season. For the fourth time in five years, the 30th placed team, this year being the Edmonton Oilers, has kept the first overall draft pick.


2010 NHL Winter Classic
The 2010 NHL Winter Classic (known via corporate sponsorship as the 2010 NHL Winter Classic presented by Bridgestone) was an outdoor regular season National Hockey League (NHL) game, part of the Winter Classic series, played on January 1, 2010, at Fenway Park in Boston. The game, the third Winter Classic, matched the Boston Bruins (the home team) against the Philadelphia Flyers. The Bruins won the game, 2–1, in overtime. With the victory, the Bruins became the first home team to win a Winter Classic. After the game, the roster of the United States men's hockey team for the 2010 Winter Olympics was released, which included Bruins' goaltender Tim Thomas.


2010 NHL Winter Classic
The New York Rangers had previously also been considered as an opponent for the Bruins. The game was telecast on NBC in the United States; in Canada, CBC televised the game in English, and RDS held the French language rights, while ESPN America televised the contest in Europe. Radio rights nationally were held by Sirius XM Radio, while WBZ-FM in Boston and WIP in Philadelphia used their local announcers. Additionally, there was pre-and-post game coverage on the NHL Network in the USA and Canada. The game garnered a 2.6 national rating and 3.7 million viewers, down slightly from the 2009 Classic. In Boston, the game captured a 14.4 rating and a 29 share.


2010 NHL Winter Classic
Since there was no NHL All-Star Game in the 2009–10 season due to the 2010 Winter Olympics, which were held in Vancouver, in February, the Winter Classic served as the league's biggest showcase game of the season. The NHL was in negotiations with the Calgary Flames to host a second outdoor game on New Year's Day at McMahon Stadium, likely against another Canadian opponent. That game was instead played in February 2011.


2010 NHL Winter Classic, Site selection
Early reports indicated six possible venues for the 2010 game: the Las Vegas Strip, Yankee Stadium, the Rose Bowl, either Nationals Park or Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Washington, D.C., Comerica Park in Detroit and Fenway Park. The Rose Bowl stadium was eliminated as they host the Rose Bowl Game and the 2010 BCS National Championship Game. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman visited Yankee Stadium on February 12, 2009, to take a tour of the new facility with New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, where the trio discussed the possibility of having the game in the Bronx.


2010 NHL Winter Classic, Uniforms
For this game, the Flyers wore a reverse of their current home uniform, a white replica of their 1973–74 home jersey, but with a black nameplate with white lettering. The Bruins wore a uniform designed by former great Cam Neely in dark yellow with brown pants with dark yellow socks with brown and white striping and a different "B" in their famous "Hub" logo introduced in 1948–49 on their 1955–57 uniforms; brown and gold were the Bruins' colors when they entered the NHL for its 1924–25 regular season. Both jerseys are on Reebok's NHL Edge Uniform template.


2010 NHL Winter Classic, Pre-game
The ceremonial faceoff was conducted between Hall of Fame members representing the respective teams: Bobby Orr for Boston and Philadelphia's Bobby Clarke. The national anthems were performed by Daniel Powter ("O Canada") and James Taylor ("The Star-Spangled Banner").


2010 NHL Winter Classic, Pre-game
Prior to the entrance of the players, pre-game entertainment was provided by Celtic punk band the Dropkick Murphys, performing "I'm Shipping Up to Boston."


2010 NHL Winter Classic, Game summary
During the scoreless first period, the first fight in a Winter Classic occurred as Shawn Thornton and Daniel Carcillo engaged each other, with Carcillo getting the takedown. At 4:42 in the second period, Danny Syvret scored his first career NHL goal with a shot from the blueline as the distracted Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas shoved Philadelphia's Scott Hartnell from his front. Over the course of the game, especially toward the end of each period, the ice became noticeably choppy, resulting in several odd man rushes.


2010 NHL Winter Classic, Game summary
After Kimmo Timonen took a tripping penalty on Zdeno Chara, the Bruins tied the game on the powerplay with Mark Recchi tipping in a Derek Morris slap-pass with 2:18 left in the game. During overtime, Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas made a flurry of huge saves to keep the Bruins in the game, including stopping a 2 on 1 against Daniel Briere and Mike Richards. On the Bruins' following counter-attack up the ice, Marco Sturm tipped a Patrice Bergeron pass past Flyers goaltender Michael Leighton to win the game.


2010 NHL Winter Classic, Aftermath
Four months later, the Flyers and Bruins would meet in the Stanley Cup playoffs, marking the second-straight year that the two teams that faced each other in the Winter Classic met in the postseason. The Flyers defeated the Bruins in dramatic fashion rallying from a 3–0 deficit to win the series, becoming the third team in NHL history and the fourth in pro sports history to accomplish this feat.


2010 NHL Winter Classic, Aftermath
The other three teams to rally from a 3–0 deficit to win a playoff series were the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1942, the New York Islanders in 1975 and the Boston Red Sox in 2004. The Flyers would eventually advance to the Stanley Cup Final but lost in six games to the Chicago Blackhawks. A year later, those two teams meet in the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs and the Bruins swept the Flyers and eventually advanced to the Stanley Cup Final and won in seven games over the Vancouver Canucks.


2010 NHL Winter Classic, Entertainment
Prior to the game, there was a performance by a colonial marching band. Afterwards, Dropkick Murphys performed their hit song, "I'm Shipping Up To Boston".


2010 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season
The 2010 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Season ran from February 11 to November 14, 2010. A variety of new safety rules were implemented following the conclusion of the investigation of the Scott Kalitta death in 2008. The NHRA had planned on returning Top Fuel and Funny Car classes to 1,320 ft (400 m) distances; however, racing in those classes remained at 1,000 ft (300 m) distance to contain costs with the United States economy still in recession, as well as to address ongoing safety concerns.


2010 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season
There were 23 Top Fuel, Funny Car, and Pro Stock car events, and 17 Pro Stock Motorcycle events.


2010 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season, Schedule
With the closure of the Memphis Motorsports Park as of 30 October 2009, the Full Throttle Series is now slated for 23 events:The Virginia NHRA Nationals has also been eliminated, as Virginia Motorsports Park chose to align with rival Kenneth Feld's International Hot Rod Association instead (many tracks changed sanctioning, owing to their sportsman classes). A second race at zMax Dragway, the Four Wide Nationals, was added.


2010 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season, Schedule
1 Saturday race. As the Arizona Pro Stock eliminations were abandoned after one round, the remaining rounds were conducted during Gainesville on Saturday.


2010 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season, Schedule
2 The rules for the Four Wide Nationals differ from other races:


2010 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season, Notable events
After 47 years as a driver and owner, Don Prudhomme announced his retirement from the series.


2010 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season, Notable events
Funny car driver Mike Neff stepped down as driver to become co-crew chief for John Force, the other crew chief is Austin Coil.


2010 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season, Notable events
In the first round at Arizona, Antron Brown lost a wheel and crashed into the wall. Although Brown was uninjured in the accident, the wheel struck a female spectator who was killed. Because of weather conditions, the Pro Stock event at the same meet was cancelled after one round. The eight first-round winners competed as part of second-round qualifying at the next round.


2010 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season, Notable events
Just two days after John Force won a record 15th Funny Car world championship, his crew chief, NHRA Hall of Fame member Austin Coil, resigned from John Force Racing. In his announcement, Coil stated he wanted to take at least a year off, but left the door open to a return to racing in 2012.


2010 NLL season
The 2010 National Lacrosse League season, the 24th in the history of the NLL, began on January 8, 2010 and ended with the Championship game on May 15.


2010 NLL season, Team movement
After five seasons in San Jose, the Stealth announced shortly after the 2009 season ended that they would be relocating to Everett, Washington, approximately 30 miles north of Seattle. The Washington Stealth will play at the Comcast Arena. In addition it was announced on May 4, 2009 that after four seasons in Portland, the Lumberjax would no longer operate in that city and on July 7, 2009 the NLL held a dispersal draft for the Lumberjax players.


2010 NLL season, Team movement
On August 10, 2009 it was announced that after three seasons in New York City, the Titans franchise will be relocating to Orlando, Florida, where they will become the Orlando Titans. The franchise will play its home games at Amway Arena.


2010 NLL season, Standings
x: Clinched playoff berth; c: Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y: Clinched division; z: Clinched best regular season record; GP: Games PlayedW: Wins; L: Losses; GB: Games back; PCT: Win percentage; Home: Record at Home; Road: Record on the Road; GF: Goals scored; GA: Goals allowedDifferential: Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP: Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP: Average number of goals allowed per game


2010 NLL season, Awards, Weekly awards
The NLL gives out awards weekly for the best overall player, best offensive player, best transition player, best defensive player, and best rookie.


2010 NLL season, Awards, Monthly awards
Awards are also given out monthly for the best overall player and best rookie.


2010 NLL season, Statistics leaders
Bold numbers indicate new single-season records. Italics indicate tied single-season records.


2010 NPF Draft
The 2010 NPF Senior Draft is the seventh annual NPF Draft. It was held February 10, 2010 8:00 PM EST in Kissimmee, FL at the Hermitage Key Resort for the 2010 season. It was streamed live on the Major League Baseball's website MLB.com. The first selection was Alabama's Charlotte Morgan, picked by the USSSA Florida Pride. Athletes are not allowed by the NCAA to sign professional contracts until their collegiate seasons have ended.


2010 NPF Draft, 2010 NPF Draft
Position key: C = Catcher; UT = Utility infielder; INF = Infielder; 1B = First base; 2B =Second base SS = Shortstop; 3B = Third base; OF = Outfielder; RF = Right field; CF = Center field; LF = Left field;  P = Pitcher; RHP = right-handed Pitcher; LHP = left-handed Pitcher; DP =Designated playerPositions are listed as combined for those who can play multiple positions.


2010 NPSL season
The 2010 National Premier Soccer League season is the 8th season of the NPSL. The season began on April 3, 2010, and ended with the NPSL Championship Game in August. The NPSL had planned for form a Winter league that would play from September 2010 to March 2011 but when only three clubs were willing to participate the plans were dropped. Those three clubs eventually ended up forming the SPSL for that Fall, though that league would fold the following Spring.


2010 NPSL season, Playoffs, Northeast Division Playoff
FC Sonic Lehigh Valley beat New York Red Bull NPSL


2010 NPSL season, Playoffs, Northwest Division Playoffs
Sacramento Gold 6-3 Bay Area AmbassadorsSan Diego Boca 4-0 Real San Jose


2010 NPSL season, Playoffs, National Semi-Finals
Sacramento Gold 4-1 FC Sonic Lehigh ValleyChattanooga FC 2-0 Madison 56ers


2010 NPT Review Conference
The 2010 Review Conference for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City from 3 to 28 May 2010. The President of the Review Conference is Ambassador Libran N. Cabactulan of the Philippines. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon used the opening of the conference to note that "sixty five years later, the world still lives under the nuclear shadow".


2010 NPT Review Conference
The Review Conference considered a number of issues, including: universality of the Treaty; nuclear disarmament, including specific practical measures; nuclear non-proliferation, including the promoting and strengthening of safeguards; measures to advance the peaceful use of nuclear energy, safety and security; regional disarmament and non-proliferation; implementation of the 1995 resolution on the Middle East; measures to address withdrawal from the Treaty; measures to further strengthen the review process; and ways to promote engagement with civil society in strengthening NPT norms and in promoting disarmament education.


2010 NPT Review Conference, Background
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), which entered into force in 1970, recognizes five countries as nuclear-weapon states (the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China), who commit to pursue disarmament, and the right of other signatories to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, conditional upon their non-acquisition of nuclear weapons. Its ratification is nearly universal because it is adhered by 189 states, including five nuclear-weapon states, with the exception of Israel, India, and Pakistan. North Korea left the NPT and tested its first nuclear weapon in 2006.


2010 NPT Review Conference, Background
Conferences to review the operation of the Treaty have been held at five-year intervals since the Treaty went into effect in 1970. Each conference has sought to find agreement on a final declaration that would assess the implementation of the Treaty's provisions and make recommendations on measures to further strengthen it.


2010 NPT Review Conference, Background
The treaty's last Review Conference in 2005, ended without a consensus document primarily because of disputes related to the nuclear program of Iran and Egypt's focus on Israel's nuclear program and implementation of the 1995 NPT resolution calling for a Middle East zone free of all weapons of mass destruction. However, with the impact of the review in 2005, Montenegro has successfully joined the treaty in 2006.


2010 NPT Review Conference, The NPT Review Process
NPT Review Conferences have been held every five years, beginning in 1975, and most recently in 2015.


2010 NPT Review Conference, Context
Three major events occurred prior to the 2010 NPT Review Conference:


2010 NPT Review Conference, Context
President Ahmadinejad of Iran was the only head of government participating in the Review Conference. In addition to Secretary Clinton, Foreign Ministers of Austria, Indonesia, and several other countries, as well as Baroness Ashton, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union.


2010 NPT Review Conference, Discussions
On 3 May, the conference began with speeches by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano, both of whom called for promoting the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and technical cooperation, and for greater cooperation on issues of nonproliferation and disarmanent.


2010 NPT Review Conference, Discussions
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened his speech by discussing the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and noted that "sixty five years later, the world still lives under the nuclear shadow". Ban-Ki Moon called for additional steps to be taken by nuclear weapon states towards nuclear disarmament, including steps for the universality of the NPT, a "framework of legal instruments that complement the NPT", and "progress towards a nuclear-weapon-free-zone in the Middle East and on other regional concerns".