June 2004 NewsStand
Aug 9, 2004 | General
July 1, 2004
June 26, 2004
Turchin plans hitting a snag
New Orleans Times Picayune
Renovating Tulane's Turchin Stadium is turning out to be a little bit more than just drawing up the plans and pouring concrete...
June 22, 2004
TONY SARDISCO: ONE OF THE WAVE'S GREATEST
New Orleans Times Picayune
Size and athletic ability made two-way standout an All-American for Tulane in the 1950s and carried over to a successful career in professional football...
June 22, 2004
Tulane to play five night home games
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane recently has experimented with different sites and kickoff times for its football games, trying to find what setup maximizes its fan base...
June 20, 2004
Green Wave's Jones only looking forward
New Orleans Times Picayune
The disappointment was something Rick Jones couldn't hide. However, he was quick to point out it had to do with the season ending, not with the way the season went...
June 16, 2004
Tulane duo qualifies 1-2
Rockford Register-Star
Mary Ellen Jacobs was too good for the leaderboard. The leaderboard space for top scores was listed between 72 and 76 on Tuesday at Aldeen Golf Club. Illinois Women's State Amateur officials quickly erased that with Wite-Out after Jacobs came in with a 4-under-par 68...
Tulane ends up fulfilling preseason projections
Baton Rouge Advocate
The Tulane baseball team finished its season about where it was projected to. Preseason polls had the Green Wave 10th and 13th and they made it to the final 16 of the NCAA Tournament, but fell short of the eight-team College World Series field...
June 15, 2004
Tulane puts up fight but falls short
New Orleans Times-Picayune
In the end, Tulane baseball coach Rick Jones easily could have pointed to a series of close calls that went against the Green Wave in the deciding game of the Fullerton Super Regional...
June 14, 2004
It's on to Omaha
Orange County Register
One by one, Cal State Fullerton's baseball team leaped onto the pile Sunday, celebrating the final out in their super regional. Then, as a group, they dashed to the outfield wall to touch a sign that reads in part, "Only 1,544 miles to Omaha."...
June 13, 2004
Windsor puts clamps on Wave
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane coach Rick Jones felt scoring against Cal State Fullerton's starting pitcher Jason Windsor was going to be difficult. He was right...
Goodwin Field is the House of Windsor
Orange County Register
Cal State Fullerton pitcher Jason Windsor wasn't perfect Saturday night. After all, he did allow five hits. But the senior right-hander threw a textbook eight innings of a 9-0 victory against Tulane in the first game of the best-of-3 NCAA super regionals in front of 3,375 at Goodwin Field...
June 12, 2004
Fever Pitch
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Two weeks ago, Tulane's baseball season was on life support. The Green Wave's pitching staff was banged up, its hitters weren't driving in runs, and its defense was making an alarming number of errors...
Hardman throws out theory
Orange County Register
Cal State Fullerton coach George Horton has a theory about homegrown Southern California baseball players. Then there is Clark Hardman...
June 11, 2004
Comic Relief
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane coach Rick Jones' new mellow attitude is starting to have an effect on his players, who are more relaxed -- and confident -- now that they've seen a lighter side of their usually all-business leader...
June 10, 2004
Seeing the job through
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane has invigorated the fan base for its sports programs since the athletic department came under an internal review and the school considered a drop to Division III last year. The early results have been encouraging, but the toughest task is sustaining the fans' interest and developing ways to ensure growth in the future...
Regional MVP Bogusevic does it all for Tulane
Baton Rouge Advocate
In Tulane's sweep through the Oxford Regional last weekend, Brian Bogusevic did pretty much what he's done all season, which is everything...
Dickson's tireless work continuing to pay dividends
New Orleans Times-Picayune
These days, Rick Dickson is getting on the correct airplane. Rewind to last spring when Dickson was traveling continuously across the country, fund-raising -- or begging, depending on which way one looks at it -- to save Tulane's athletic program...
Situation left athletes questioning their future
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Here's a guy, a defensive lineman, whose every football move is scripted, whose every thought and and action is practiced and prepared. But this was not in the playbook...
My Wave
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Sitting in a booth at Bruno's Bar, Joe Cali was in his element, surrounded by a consortium of memorabilia that mirrored his life. Hanging to his right were photos of old Tulane athletic greats. Behind him in a transparent case was the old mascot's head, now retired...
Bower perseveres through uncertainty
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Life ain't easy for a coach named Sue. Not when she is trying to recruit for her golf team and the women she has recruited heavily and built relationships with suddenly are heading elsewhere...
Cowen wasn't afraid to take on the big money BCS
New Orleans Times-Picayune
It was just a nugget, buried in Tulane's document announcing it would remain in Division I athletics: "Tulane will aggressively attempt to alter the Bowl Championship Series to minimize, if not eliminate, its adverse impact of Division I-A athletics."...
Greer in the middle of tough choices
New Orleans Times-Picayune
He was thought of as an anonymous puppeteer, pulling the strings, and at times, dangling 109 years of Tulane football tradition. He shunned the media spotlight last spring, worried that personal comments would undermine his neutrality as the chairman of the ad hoc committee, which was analyzing the state of Tulane athletics, notably its football program -- the one that makes the most money and also costs the most...
BCS will play 2 games at title site
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Call it "piggybacking." Call it "double hosting." Call it "five in four." Call it something else, which undoubtedly will happen. But most of all, call it good news for the Nokia Sugar Bowl...
June 9, 2004
Bogusevic has Tulane back making big waves
New Orleans Times-Picayune
With his 2001 Tulane team Omaha-bound, having beaten LSU in a best-of-three series before sellout crowds at Zephyr Stadium, the first thing Rick Jones thought about was the "exposure" a College World Series would give his baseball program...
June 8, 2004
West Coast trip sounds familiar
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Traveling halfway across the country to play in an NCAA super regional might bother some teams. Tulane coach Rick Jones said he doesn't believe it will affect the Green Wave...
June 7, 2004
Bogusevic's play pivotal vs. Huskies
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane's Brian Bogusevic may not have carried the Green Wave the entire weekend, but he shouldered more than his weight...
Tulane rediscovers offense to blast into super regional
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
Tulane coach Rick Jones insisted his team was due to get back on track following its two-and-out performance in last week's Conference USA Tournament...
Baseball gods grinning down on Green Wave
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
Tulane arrived at the NCAA Oxford Regional as a third seed, a team that wanted to put a disastrous performance in the Conference USA Tournament out of its mind...
Tulane rides hot bats to second regional championship
The Daily Mississippian
In what was a pitcher-dominated regional, the Tulane bats ruled Sunday's championship...
Huskies falter in title round of NCAA Oxford Regional
Seattle Times
Brian Bogusevic wielded a big bat. He hurled Tulane to a victory Friday over the Washington Huskies. He made a sensational catch to deny the Huskies again yesterday...
Titans turn two
Orange County (Calif.) Register
When it was over, there was no doubt, no lingering questions and no naysayers regarding Cal State Fullerton's postseason baseball future...
June 6, 2004
Green Wave wins second-ever regional title
ESPN.com
He pitched, he caught, he hit, he ran. Most importantly, Tulane's Brian Bogusevic left no doubt about which player -- or which team -- here this weekend was most dominant...
Crowel regains form, stymies Hilltoppers
New Orleans Times Picayune
If Western Kentucky coach Joel Murrie was hoping to get some early runs and then ride the Hilltoppers' pitching to victory, he should have know Tulane's Rick Jones was thinking along the same lines...
Green Wave motors into title game
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
Tulane left-hander J.R. Crowel stuffed Western Kentucky with a four-hitter on Saturday, beating the Hilltoppers 7-0 to send the Green Wave to the championship round of the NCAA Oxford Regional...
Washington earns second shot at Tulane
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
Benefitting from a couple of dominant pitching performances, Washington battled through the losers bracket on Saturday to line up another shot today against the team that put it there...
Huskies win twice to stay alive
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It was a common theme all day Saturday: Washington's pitchers were dominant, while Western Kentucky's hitters were dormant...
June 5, 2004
LOSMAN: My head was spinning inside my helmet
FoxSports.com
The other day at minicamp practice, I became a little confused. I was in such a hurry to get the play called that I guess I mixed in some terminology from my days at Venice (Calif.) High School and Tulane University...
Tulane defeats Washington State in 3-2 victory
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane's Brian Bogusevic was trying to make every pitch count. For 8 2/3 innings Friday, that's exactly what he did, outdueling Washington ace Tim Lincecum and helping the Green Wave to a 3-2 victory over the Huskies in the first game of the NCAA Oxford Regional at Oxford-University Stadium...
Washington pitching phenom sabotages self with 7 walks
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
Washington's Tim Lincecum showed flashes Friday of the dominance that made him the first player in Pac-10 history to win the league's freshman and player of the year honors this season...
Loss pushes Huskies to brink
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Washington coach Ken Knutson sent ace freshman Tim Lincecum to the mound yesterday to do what good pitchers do: limit the number of hits and runs scored, and go deep into the game...
Western Kentucky upsets Ole Miss
New Orleans Times Picayune
Western Kentucky's Grady Hinchman threw a two-hitter to lead the fourth-seeded Hilltoppers to a 1-0 upset of top-seeded Ole Miss on Friday night in the second game of the NCAA Oxford Regional at Oxford-University Stadium...
June 4, 2004
TU sees regional as perfect remedy
New Orleans Times Picayune
For Tulane coach Rick Jones, it's all about getting hot at the right time. For the Green Wave, it's either get hot now or go home...
Tigers, Wave ready to make the most of final chances
New Orleans Times Picayune
A new season. A third season, really. That's how it is for the college basketball coach and the college baseball coach, whose teams go from regular season to conference tournament to a 64- or 65-team scramble for a national championship...
Hosting regional not enough for Rebels
New Orleans Times Picayune
Mississippi baseball coach Mike Bianco was preoccupied, halting his conversation to watch his infield methodically practice fielding a bunt. The play went just as planned...
Host Rebs in prime position
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
Ole Miss players and coaches spent several days this week basking in the spoils that have come with hosting an NCAA regional for the first time in school history...
June 3, 2004
Huskies finally realizes potential
New Orleans Times Picayune
Ken Knutson never had doubts about this season's Washington Huskies team. Not before the season and not during it, when the Huskies ran into some problems...
Tulane trying to move past struggles
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane has had a week to forget the Conference USA Tournament and focus on the NCAA Tournament. The third-seeded Green Wave have left behind the ashes of a two-game crash-and-burn in the C-USA tourney as they prepare to play second-seeded Washington in the Ole Miss Regional at 3 p.m. Friday in Oxford, Miss...
Lincecum named Pac-10 pitcher, freshman of year
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Three weeks ago, Tim Lincecum wasn't satisfied. Washington's freshman pitcher had just earned a pair of victories over No. 1-ranked Stanford and been named national player of the week for the second time. Not good enough. Not even close...
June 2, 2004
Oxford Regional stocked with heavyweights
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
Mike Bianco hasn't had much time to break down each of the 16 NCAA baseball regionals that will take place across the country this weekend...
June 1, 2004
TU's Kogan falls short in title bid
New Orleans Times Picayune
Benjamin Becker of Baylor won a long tiebreaker in the second set and defeated Tulane senior Michael Kogan 6-4, 7-6 to win the NCAA men's tennis championship Monday in Tulsa, Okla...
Kogan's legacy in tact -- title or not
New Orleans Times Picayune
The disappointment was obvious, and understandable. Michael Kogan hasn't made a habit of finishing second, and certainly he harbored no aspirations of topping out as second best at the NCAA men's tennis singles championships in Tulsa, Okla...
Wave welcomes change of scenery
New Orleans Times Picayune
The NCAA Baseball Selection Committee must have been reading the minds of Tulane coach Rick Jones and his players...
