October 2004 NewsStand
Nov 1, 2004 | General
Nov. 1, 2004
October 31, 2004
Turning the corner
New Orleans Times Picayune
After four years of trying to develop stability and get Tulane back to being a postseason tournament team, Shawn Finney said he can finally see it all coming together...
Something to prove
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane guard D'Aundra Henry didn't cry. While many of her teammates were left with teary eyes and drooping heads, Henry played it tough, refusing to shed a tear after a disappointing basketball season, fighting back all the emotions that come with being the first Green Wave women's basketball team to miss the postseason in 10 years...
Wave follows explosion with resounding thud
New Orleans Times Picayune
It took exactly seven days and 90 minutes for the Tulane of old to show up. A week removed from a 114-point shootout with Alabama-Birmingham, the Green Wave offense went back to shooting itself in the foot in a 24-3 loss to Houston at Robertson Stadium on Saturday...
Scelfo punishes Jackson, Forte
New Orleans Times Picayune
If there was one thing Tulane needed to do effectively against Houston, it was to open Saturday's game by showing the Cougars it was going to run the ball. The Green Wave didn't because it didn't have its top two running backs...
Houston treats Tulane to taste of home
Houston Chronicle
Well, it seems as if these Cougars still have some teeth after all. Saturday, the schedule served up Tulane, one of the worst defensive teams in the nation and -- for one half, anyway -- Houston shrugged off a season of disappointments and happily feasted on the Green Wave...
Finally, a happy homecoming for Navy
Annapolis (Md.) Capital
At long last, a happy homecoming for Navy football fans and academy alumni.Navy used a powerful rushing attack and survived an all-out aerial assault by Delaware to celebrate its first homecoming victory since 1998...
October 30, 2004
Wave defense bracing for worst vs. Houston
New Orleans Times Picayune
One week after watching his defense give up 55 points and more than 600 yards, Tulane defensive coordinator Eric Schumann could use a week off. That much, Schumann knows, won't happen today when the Green Wave visits Houston...
October 30, 2004
Inside the game - Tulane
New Orleans Times Picayune
The running game will be crucial, as neither team has been able to stop the run this season. The Green Wave ranks 96th in the nation, and the Cougars are 108th in rushing defense...
October 29, 2004
Tulane vs. Houston Preview
The Sports Network
A couple of teams searching for their second league win of the year meet at Robertson Stadium this Saturday, as the Tulane Green Wave take aim at the Houston Cougars in Conference USA action. The Green Wave enter the game on a high note, as they pulled off the upset of UAB last weekend, winning a wild 59-55 decision...
The basement: Bowl hopes renewed with huge win
The Hullabaloo
Unthinkable. That's the only way to describe Tulane's thrilling victory over UAB last Saturday...
Football at UH tomorrow
The Hullabaloo
After a thrilling homecoming win over UAB, the Green Wave will look to win its second straight game tomorrow (4 p.m.) in Houston against the Cougars...
Sports Spotlight: Betsy Anderson
The Hullabaloo
With tournament aspirations and 21 players in the 3.0 club, Green Wave soccer continues to improve both on the field and in the classroom under the guidance of Head Coach Betsy Anderson...
Soccer must win to make C-USA tournament
The Hullabaloo
The Tulane women's soccer team split games this past weekend. Tulane defeated Mobile Oct. 22 3-0, but the team lost Oct. 24 to Conference USA opponent Marquette, 1-0...
Cougars failing to 'kick it up a notch'
New Orleans Times Picayune
Maybe it's the sophomore jinx. In 2003, under first-year coach Art Briles and freshman quarterback Kevin Kolb, Houston reversed course from its recent past and sported one of the nation's top offenses, finishing the season 7-6 with a 55-48 triple-overtime bowl loss to Hawaii...
October 28, 2004
TU's Beucher provides boost
New Orleans Times Picayune
Nick Beucher isn't too disappointed that he missed tying a Tulane record by a yard. Beucher kicked a 53-yard field goal Saturday with two seconds left in the first half of the game against Alabama-Birmingham...
October 27, 2004
Moore gives Vikings quick boost
USA Today
His full name means, "He who gets his wisdom, knowledge and strength from God." Mewelde Jaem Cadere Moore is more than a mouthful. He's a handful...
Wave receivers making catches
New Orleans Times Picayune
In the previous two seasons, Tulane's lack of consistency on offense was a direct result of too many dropped passes by its receivers. The Green Wave's coaching staff often pointed to several dropped balls a game as the reason drives stalled...
Petrino setting focus on job at hand
New Orleans Times Picayune
Louisville coach Bobby Petrino must have cringed when he heard Florida had fired coach Ron Zook on Monday. Petrino's name has been dropped as a possible replacement for Zook...
UH needs to find its offense
Houston Chronicle
After seven games, the Cougars are still a team searching for an identity. The Coogs, who are 1-6 heading into Saturday's home game against Tulane, may not quite know who they are, but they certainly must have a firm idea of who they are not -- last year's Cougars...
October 26, 2004
Ricard looking like his predecessors
New Orleans Times Picayune
Six games into his collegiate career, Tulane starting quarterback Lester Ricard, in spite of poor decisions and turnovers during the first couple of games, is holding his own when compared to the Green Wave's past three quarterbacks...
TU's football graduation rate increases
New Orleans Times Picayune
As much as Tulane had to celebrate on the field Saturday after its homecoming 59-55 victory against Alabama-Birmingham at Tad Gormley Stadium, the Green Wave had more to be happy about Monday...
UH wounded by losses, not beaten
Houston Chronicle
Instead of bowling for dollars this holiday season, the Houston Cougars will be home, the victims of the fates, ambitious overscheduling and an avalanche of their own mistakes...
October 25, 2004
Wave puts together complete game
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane's 59-55 win over Alabama-Birmingham on Saturday could not have come at a better time. A three-game losing streak was looking more like four, and one had to wonder if the Wave was going to go the entire season without beating a Division I-A team...
October 24, 2004
Pass Happy
New Orleans Times Picayune
All Tulane offensive coordinator Frank Scelfo could talk about was the growing pains Green Wave quarterback Lester Ricard has gone through this season...
Six-shooter shows he can gun with best
New Orleans Times Picayune
So how's the arm? "It's sort of happy-tired," said Lester Ricard. That was appropriate for someone who had thrown 49 passes, completing 36, six of them for touchdowns, a Tulane record...
'Old' WR looks his real age
New Orleans Times Picayune
Someone once joked that even Roydell Williams' dog walks with a limp. The Tulane receiver, who at 23 "is just old," according to Coach Chris Scelfo, battles overbearing tendinitis in his right knee...
Wave special teams take the Izzy Route
New Orleans Times Picayune
He wasn't even supposed to be on the field. In Tulane's punt coverage, Gerald Brobbey normally is the gunner -- the player who sprints toward the punt returner from the outside -- but he was cramping up...
649 yards not enough against Green Wave
Birmingham News
UAB's Darrell Hackney had a career day throwing and Roddy White had one catching. It still wasn't good enough to lift the Blazers past the Tulane Green Wave...
UH fails to recover from sluggish start
Houston Chronicle
For weeks, the talk was all about why the Houston Cougars couldn't win a game. The competition was rugged. The injuries were too much to overcome. The early schedule had them playing too many games in too few days...
October 23, 2004
Tulane is seeking to go the distance
New Orleans Times Picayune
With Tulane having to face a red-hot Alabama-Birmingham team one week after a 49-24 setback at Memphis, it appears Chris Scelfo's Green Wave is going from the proverbial frying pan to the fire...
Inside Tulane
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane needs to feed off of its homecoming crowd -- for four quarters. Last Saturday, Tulane battled 5-1 Memphis throughout the first half, but failed to keep its intensity and precision in the second half, losing 49-25...
October 22, 2004
UAB at Tulane Preview
The Sports Network
A pair of teams at opposite ends of the Conference USA standings square off at Tad Gormley Stadium this Saturday, as the UAB Blazers pay a visit to the Tulane Green Wave...
Tulane Hall of Fame selections
New Orleans Times Picayune
Barbara Ferris, Glenn Harder, Shaun King, Chad Sutter, Robert Samuelson, Kathy Trosclair...
Tulane Homecoming
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane will induct six into its athletics Hall of Fame, and present the first Lifetime Achievement Award to William A. "Billy" Slatten...
Hackney is UAB's strength
New Orleans Times Picayune
Alabama-Birmingham quarterback Darrell Hackney is hot. One week ago today, he stole the spotlight against Conference USA rival Texas Christian on ESPN. He passed for five touchdowns -- all in the first half -- in the Blazers' 41-25 win...
Blazers seek revenge, bowl eligibility
Birmingham News
The UAB Blazers would like to leave New Orleans with two feathers in their cap Saturday night - bowl eligibility and revenge. UAB (5-1, 3-0 CUSA) can become bowl eligible for the first time since 2001 if it can overcome Tulane (1-4, 0-3) when the two meet at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in New Orleans at Tad Gormley Stadium...
Home sweet Homecoming?
The Hullabaloo
Tulane will be opening its doors wide tomorrow for the 5-1 University of Alabama at Birmingham Blazers. The Blazers are coming off a 41-25 win against Conference USA foe TCU and sit atop C-USA at 3-0...
The Basement: Make the UAB game personal
The Hullabaloo
Let's get a little personal for a minute. I'll start. I like jazz music, butterscotch pancakes and Pagoda frozen egg rolls. Actually, to say I merely like Pagoda egg rolls might be an understatement. I like going to church on Sunday mornings, playing football with my brothers Jake and Brett and drinking coffee with my girlfriend, Ashley...
Mewelde hits NFL
The Hullabaloo
Mewelde Moore found himself in a familiar position last weekend. Sitting in the Superdome locker room, he was once again fielding questions from the media about another stellar performance and celebrating a victory...
Midnight Madness at Fogelman Arena signals start of basketball season
The Hullabaloo
Last Friday night, Tulane athletics jumpstarted the 2004-2005 basketball season in grand fashion with the resurrection of Midnight Madness...
Swimming, diving make early season splash
The Hullabaloo
One of Tulane's newest sports is also one of its most successful. Last year Tulane fielded a women's swim team for the first time since the 1989-90 season, and this year it was expanded to include diving...
Tulane Volleyball sends Southern, Southern Miss packing
The Hullabaloo
The Green Wave volleyball team improved its in-state winning streak to 13 by sweeping Southern Oct 13. The team won three consecutive games in Seymour Gymnasium to improve its overall record to 10-4...
October 21, 2004
Lucas fails to make the big plays
New Orleans Times Picayune
The football was frozen in the Memphis sky, tantalizing fans in both blue and green. It could have meant six points for Memphis or incalculable momentum for visiting Tulane as the first half was winding down...
Quick-strike Blazers strike fear in defenses
Birmingham News
UAB senior receiver Roddy White could see it on the faces of the Texas Christian Horned Frog defenders in last week's win at Legion Field. Despair...
October 20, 2004
Wave still confident
New Orleans Times Picayune
Every coach knows that success brings confidence, and a team that lacks confidence won't likely succeed. But Tulane coach Chris Scelfo said Tuesday at his weekly press conference he doesn't believe confidence is a problem with the Green Wave...
Ross no longer apologetic
New Orleans Times Picayune
Army coach Bobby Ross hasn't had anything to apologize for in the past three weeks. But then the Cadets' performances haven't been anything like they were in a 40-3 loss at Connecticut on Sept. 25...
Winning credited in attendance boost
Birmingham News
UAB athletics department officials credit winning for an upswing in attendance for Blazer home football games this year, but a two-year-old marketing strategy is paying dividends, as well...
October 19, 2004
TU's Scelfo wants to see improvement, but tasks getting tougher
New Orleans Times Picayune
Coach Chris Scelfo knew in preseason camp that Tulane needed quick development in a couple of key areas for positive results. Instead, he got slow development and a 1-4 start for the Green Wave...
Green Wave's Fowler has matured on and off the court
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane senior middle blocker Deva Fowler is relishing her final year with the Green Wave. "I really want to rise to the occasion," she said. "I just hope that I play well and just keep getting better"...
Tulane Men's basketball Preview
SI.com
From the 2000-01 season when coach Shawn Finney took control of Tulane's program, the Green Wave's progress has been steady, if not methodical...
First BCS poll has UAB 24th
Birmingham News
Roddy White had no idea Monday morning the UAB Blazers were ranked No. 24 in the first Bowl Championship Series poll of the season. White didn't find out until he walked into the Green and Gold Room at Bartow Arena for the Blazers' weekly media luncheon...
Bennett could play, but Moore will start
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
The Miami Dolphins would love to have the Vikings' latest so-called problem at running back. Fresh off a 605-yard offensive display that was the second highest in team history, the Vikings are searching for ways to squeeze in a few touches for nearly forgotten former Pro Bowl player Michael Bennett...
October 18, 2004
Wave has yet to play full 60-minute game
New Orleans Times Picayune
Unlike a week ago when Tulane was defeated by an East Carolina team that it should have beaten, the Green Wave's loss to Memphis, a stronger and more experienced team, was to be expected...
Moore puts on a show
St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer-Press
One week and it might be luck. Two weeks in a row and it's got to be more than that. Rookie running back Mewelde Moore had another big game...
October 17, 2004
Mewelde Moore, wise guy
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
She prayed and prayed and prayed. "Really," she said, "I was begging." In the midst of a difficult pregnancy during the spring of 1982, Sandra Moore turned her hands skyward. "And God told me, 'You will have a special child,' " she said...
Memphis gives TU blues
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane was where most didn't expect -- trailing Memphis by four points with less than two minutes remaining in the first half. But the momentum the Green Wave had seized quickly shifted. Instead of keeping the Tigers off balance and puzzled...
Ricard one of few bright spots
New Orleans Times Picayune
Is it progress when badly overthrown balls from early September bounce off fingertips for incompletions in mid-October? Is it progress when a quarterback shows poise in the pocket and in decision-making -- for parts of the game?...
Punting aside, QB Wimprine has efficient day
New Orleans Times Picayune
Memphis quarterback Danny Wimprine also is the punter, and on one forgettable moment in the third quarter, Wimprine's punt smacked the back of teammate David Davis, resulting in a minus-6-yard punt. But when that's your quarterback's worst play of the day, things probably went pretty well...
21-point third quarter helps put U of M over Tulane
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Tulane learned Saturday there is more to the Memphis offense than DeAngelo Williams and Danny Wimprine, although the Tiger stalwarts did their part...
Tigers survive rough start, sink Tulane
Memphis Commercial Appeal
No, it wasn't the off-week. It had nothing to do with the off-week. That's the point University of Memphis coach Tommy West wanted to make after his Tigers started sluggishly...
Blazers set sights on C-USA title
Birmingham News
Darrell Hackney sounded optimistic as he summed up UAB's chances of winning the Conference USA football championship following Friday night's 41-25 win over the TCU Horned Frogs...
October 16, 2004
Green Wave looks to turn back clock
New Orleans Times Picayune
For the past two seasons, no Conference USA team has overwhelmed Tulane the way Memphis has. "I hope (our players) remember it," Wave coach Chris Scelfo said of his team's 41-9 loss a year ago to Memphis. "Last year, physically, they got after us and manhandled us"...
Inside the Game
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane must try to slow Memphis' tempo and make sure the Tigers don't run away with things early, with the home crowd behind them...
Saints to see potent offense, much Moore
New Orleans Times Picayune
Mewelde Moore tried not to look ahead last week, past the Houston Texans to a return to the place where he made his mark in college football. And, when he spouted his reasoning, the Minnesota Vikings' fourth-round draft choice in 2004 offered up a cliché...
Tigers spreading receptions around
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Glance at the leading receivers in Conference USA, and one must wonder if there's a misprint. When the University of Memphis resumes its season today at 1 against Tulane -- after a bye week -- it will bring Conference USA's top-ranked pass offense to Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium...
October 15, 2004
Tigers are talk of the town
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tonight, up to 8,000 people, eager to get their first look at a Memphis basketball team that's on many preseason Top 25 lists, are expected to attend Midnight Madness at the new FedEx Forum...
Tiger trio a winning team
Memphis Commercial-Appeal
If Stephen Gostkowski should find himself summoned to appear before the media at some point this season after, say, booting a game-winning field goal, it's likely he'll follow a precedent set by teammate DeAngelo Williams...
Tough test ahead in Memphis
The Hullabaloo
Green Wave football is struggling. This week, ESPN.com ranked Tulane the second worst team in Division IA behind winless Central Florida. The Wave is also winless in Conference USA...
Women's golf gains national attention
The Hullabaloo
The Green Wave, led by a dominant 1-under-par 212 (70-71-70) performance by sophomore Alison Walshe, finished tied for second at the Mercedes-Benz Collegiate Championship in Knoxville, Tenn., prompting a jump to 11th place in Golf Week Magazine's national rankings...
Sports Spotlight: Linda McEachrane
The Hullabaloo
For most Tulane students, this summer's Athens Olympics entailed nothing more than cheering for their favorite team, watching badminton at 1 a.m. or just being shocked and dismayed when hearing that the United States' basketball team lost to Lithuania, Argentina and Puerto Rico...
Volleyball to host Southern Miss
The Hullabaloo
The Green Wave lost its first home match since the 2003 Conference USA tournament at Fogelman Arena to Memphis 3-0 last Saturday...
October 14, 2004
TU's Spincer in spotlight
New Orleans Times Picayune
As if taking a breath were a sin, Tra Boger talked and talked from his strong safety position, a nonstop combination of check-calling and motivational rah-rah. Tulane's leading tackler from a year ago provided an omnipresent voice from the secondary...
Wimprine maturing into a team leader
New Orleans Times Picayune
People tell Memphis quarterback Danny Wimprine that he looks enough like Brett Favre to be mistaken for his younger brother. In his younger days back home in River Ridge, Wimprine had a poster of Favre on a wall in his room. And since his time at John Curtis, Wimprine has styled his play after that of his idol...
Green Wave still on the rebound
Memphis Commercial-Appeal
University of Memphis fans should take note, and make Tommy West promise not to let the same thing happen to his program...
U of M notebook: These Tigers would have aided Wave
Memphis Commercial-Appeal
They were two highly successful high school football players in the New Orleans area, but tight end John Doucette and quarterback Danny Wimprine decided to play their college football away from the "Big Easy"...
October 13, 2004
Finney says pieces are coming together
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane won't officially begin basketball practice until Saturday, but the late-night pickup games and individual workouts have been more than enough to get seniors Marcus Kinzer and Ivan Pjevcevic on the edge of their seats...
Wave seeks to work, win closely
New Orleans Times Picayune
The Tulane women's basketball team spent the past couple of months building camaraderie off the court. Now Coach Lisa Stockton is eager to see how her returning veterans mesh with five freshmen on the court...
Tulane will continue using two quarterbacks
Baton Rouge Advocate
Lester Ricard will continue to start at quarterback for Tulane, and Richard Irvin will continue to play also. After that, the details get a little sketchy as after four games Green Wave coach Chris Scelfo is still searching for consistency at quarterback...
Memphis's White king of both consistency, comedy
Memphis Commercial Appeal
The phone call came shortly before midnight, forcing University of Memphis receivers coach Clay Helton from a restful sleep. Helton raced downstairs to answer his beeping cell phone. On a rare weekend off -- the Tigers did not play Saturday -- Helton had hoped for few intrusions...
October 11, 2004
Wave faces uphill battle
New Orleans Times Picayune
If it wasn't evident following Tulane's 28-7 season-opening loss to Mississippi State, it ought to be now. The Green Wave is going to be in a dogfight the rest of the season to prove it isn't the worst team in Conference USA...
Mewelde Moore: Stepping in and stepping lively
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Scott Linehan kept a close eye on Mewelde Moore during pregame warmups. Linehan, the Vikings' offensive coordinator, was looking for any hint of anxiety from his rookie running back...
Vikings like more Moore
St. Paul Pioneer-Press
For the first three games of this season, Mewelde Moore barely got his uniform dirty, but that all changed Sunday. With Onterrio Smith serving a four-game NFL suspension, and Michael Bennett and Moe Williams nursing injuries, Moore became the workhorse of the Vikings' offense...
October 10, 2004
Pirates find start, finish bountiful
New Orleans Times Picayune
If Tulane wide receiver Roydell Williams had tried 100 times to explain the Green Wave's 27-25 Conference USA loss to East Carolina at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on Saturday, nothing he said would have seemed to make more sense than his first words...
Two-point conversion tries thwart TU
New Orleans Times Picayune
It was easy to find enough blown points that would have made a huge difference in Tulane's 27-25 loss to East Carolina on Saturday...
Emotional victory inspires Pirate Nation
Greenville (N.C.) Daily Reflector
Clear displays of emotions occurred before, during and after East Carolina's Homecoming football game on Saturday afternoon. Before the opening kickoff, ECU's Patrick Dosh probably couldn't have jumped higher while waiving his arms toward the 29,854 spectators at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium...
One happy Homecoming
Greenville (N.C.) Daily Reflector
It almost had to be ugly, almost deserved to be, and it was. After spending Homecoming day almost exclusively in the lead, the East Carolina football Pirates still managed to play a quick round of Russian roulette Saturday, leaving its potential first victory in a calendar year teetering on the brink of 0-5 disaster...
Late field goal gives Pirates elusive win
Kinston (N.C.) Free Press
The streak is over. For the first time in more than a year, fans left an East Carolina home game smiling and in good spirits after the Pirates rallied for a 27-25 win over Conference-USA foe Tulane on Saturday afternoon before 29,584 fans at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium...
October 9, 2004
Wave's offense grounded this year
New Orleans Times Picayune
For many teams, this would be nothing more than a sign of the times. But for Tulane, a team that has thrived so much on a single phase of its offense, the first three games this season have been a sign that the Green Wave's passing game has fallen on hard times...
TU's Boger, Shives-Sams out for rest of the season
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane strong safety Tra Boger, who led the Green Wave in tackles last season, will miss the remainder of 2004 because of a lateral meniscus tear in his right knee...
Tulane (1-2) at East Carolina (0-4)
The Sports Network
The East Carolina Pirates try to notch their first win of the season this Saturday, when they host the Tulane Green Wave in Conference USA action from Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. The Pirates come into the tilt with losses in all four of their outings this season, including an embarrassing 59-7 setback to nationally-ranked Louisville last week...
Pirates hope to crash Wave
Greenville (N.C.) Daily Reflector
After being dismantled by Louisville last week, East Carolina football coach John Thompson watched every painful minute of the game tape. While gritting his teeth through all 60 minutes, all 188 plays and all 59 Louisville points, ECU's second-year coach extracted eight of the most painful plays to be used this week in preparation for his team's continued quest for its first victory this season...
A victory, no matter how ECU gets it, would change a lot
Greenville (N.C.) Daily Reflector
Losing is a tough thing to live with. In football, you can never truly know what works until you win. How much more valuable is that game tape, how much better are the memories in the minds of the players after one single victory?...
Pirates seek to halt nine-game losing streak
Kinston (N.C.) Free Press
Will the streak be snapped, or will it continue for the East Carolina Pirates? That's the hot topic as the Pirates hope to end their nine-game losing streak today against Conference USA foe Tulane at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium...
October 8, 2004
Tulane looking to force miscues
New Orleans Times Picayune
Reports from last week's East Carolina-Louisville game said that during a pregame fracas, a Pirates' player spit on linebacker Robert McCune, the anchor of the Cardinals' defense. In retrospect, it was like spitting into the wind...
Tulane aims to sink ECU ship
The Hullabaloo
After being grounded by the Flying Eagles of Southern Miss, the Green Wave travel to Kingston, N.C., to face East Carolina tomorrow. ECU comes into the game following a self destructive 52-7 loss to No. 22 Louisville where the hapless Pirates turned the ball over five times...
Fans need to have patience with Ricard
The Hullabaloo
Nearly two weeks ago I saw something that impressed me. A still-developing Tulane football team with a still-developing quarterback was looking to go up 10-7 on a very strong Southern Miss squad in the first quarter...
Mixed results for Green Wave Men's Tennis
The Hullabaloo
The Green Wave men's tennis team, led by a sizzling Jacobo Hernandez, came away with mixed results this past weekend at the Icy Hot ITA All-American Championships in Chattanooga, Tenn...
Pirates, Green Wave both looking to hit the ground running
Greenville (N.C.) Daily Reflector
There was a time when a Saturday clash between Tulane and East Carolina would be a shootout, a last-team-to-score-wins slugfest. The two teams have pieced together a combined 303 points in their last five meetings...
October 7, 2004
Tulane punter Beckman hitting all the right notes
New Orleans Times Picayune
If you've never heard the song "Enter Sandman," Metallica's heavy metal hit, all you need to know is it's an avalanche of electric guitar, intense bass, pounding drums and piercing vocals that could send chills down a polka fan's spine...
No final decision on status of suspended WR
Kinston (N.C.) Free Press
Still on hold. Contrary to reports, there has been no definite decision on the status of wide receiver Damarcus Fox's suspension from the East Carolina football program...
Perfect Harmon-y
Greenville (N.C.) Daily Reflector
The wind in Oklahoma is pretty fierce at times, but it generally blows to the east, and sometimes it picks things up and brings them this direction. It might not have been the wind, but something -- recruiting or random chance -- brought East Carolina an extra 264-pound tight end, and the Pirates need him now like never before...
Rookie Moore confident
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
As Vikings players gathered on the practice field by position Wednesday, running backs coach Dean Dalton called out a familiar instruction. "Rookies!" Dalton said. "Grab some footballs for ..." Dalton stopped and looked around before finishing...
RBs like chances against Texans
Houston Chronicle
The news out of Minnesota might have warmed the Texans' hearts if not for the fact they were fresh off getting burned by a backup running back last weekend...
October 6, 2004
Tulane in reach of goal
New Orleans Times Picayune
Wyatt Earp held a press conference Tuesday at Tulane's Wilson Center. "I look at us as the OK Corral (lawmen)," said Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson, who has led the Perpetual Wave campaign since the spring of 2003, when the university considered dropping the athletic program...
Scelfo wants Tulane to take more than it's giving
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane coach Chris Scelfo has two messages for his football team: stop committing turnovers on offense and start creating them on defense...
Wave is no big taker
New Orleans Times Picayune
When a team gives more opportunities than it creates for itself, the outcome likely will be unfavorable. That is a reason Tulane is 1-2 this season. The Green Wave, which led Conference USA in turnover margin four times during the past eight seasons, has not continued to take. The Wave ranks last in the conference in turnover margin at minus-2.33 per game this year...
Thompson: `We are in a struggle'
Kinston (N.C.) Free Press
For the last three weeks, East Carolina head coach John Thompson has been telling the media how the program is headed in the right direction and that it's improving...
Pirates will play Tulane without Fox
Greenville (N.C.) Daily Reflector
Just when the dire need for a football win seemed to become a possibility for East Carolina University, the unexpected occurred. Days after their monumental defeat at the hands of Louisville, and days before playing their first game of the season as the favorites against Tulane, the Pirates announced Tuesday that senior wide receiver Damarcus Fox has been suspended indefinitely for violating team rules...
USM happy to find home
New Orleans Times Picayune
Southern Mississippi will find itself playing in a strange place against Houston on Thursday night -- at M.M. Roberts Stadium in Hattiesburg, Miss. The Golden Eagles' home opener against No. 7 California on Sept. 16 was postponed until Dec. 4 by Hurricane Ivan...
October 3, 2004
ECU's skid continues
Greenville (N.C.) Daily Reflector
Members of the East Carolina University football team's defense all got tattoos on Saturday afternoon. Each of the Pirates left Papa John's Cardinal Stadium with the No. 32 of Eric Shelton permanently indented onto different parts of their bodies after the Louisville junior ran roughshod over them in a 59-7 pounding...
October 1, 2004
Women's golf swings into super season
The Hullabaloo
Winning isn't everything, but it's the only thing that the No. 14 ranked Tulane women's golf team has known so far this year...
The Basement: Lack of support killing Tulane football
The Hullabaloo
The least of the Tulane football program's worries should be its 32-14 loss against Southern Miss last Saturday. The problems with Tulane football start with a serious lack of attendance. I was able to count maybe 400 Tulane students at the game...
Bryan leads Cross Country
The Hullabaloo
"The woods are lovely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep," poet Robert Frost penned. These words speak straight to the heart of Rachel Bryan, Tulane's top female cross country runner...
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