August 2004 NewsStand
Sep 3, 2004 | General
Sept. 3, 2004
August 31, 2004
Historic day provides test for Tulane
New Orleans Times-Picayune
For about three hours Saturday night, Tulane will be a part of history when Mississippi State coach Sylvester Croom makes his debut as the first African-American head coach in the Southeastern Conference...
August 30, 2004
This week for Mississippi State
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
The preseason is over, and Mississippi State emerges from its grueling camp with a fresh attitude. Last season's losing ways are rarely mentioned. The Bulldogs are starting new...
Buffington, defense lead TU
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Freshman Brianna Buffington's first-half goal and a strong defense led Tulane to a 1-0 victory over the Ohio Valley Conference regular-season champion Samford 1-0 Sunday at Westfeldt Facility...
August 29, 2004
Micah Owings will enroll at Tulane
Gainesville (Ga.) Times
Former Gainesville High and Georgia Tech standout Micah Owings will enroll at Tulane University next week to continue his collegiate education and baseball career...
TU defense shaky on line
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Huddled just outside the rear entrance to the Wilson Center, the one his football team uses every day as it heads to and from the practice field, Tulane coach Chris Scelfo had positioned himself neatly under the overhang to dodge the rain that had just put an early end to the Green Wave's workout...
C-USA title mission for Tulane
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Three of Tulane's team leaders assembled the Green Wave volleyball team the night before the first practice, and the speeches they gave made for, as Coach Betsy Becker put it, "a defining moment"...
Equity Coming to the Bowl Championship Series
New York Times
Last summer, the presidents of more than 50 Division I-A universities, representing five conferences outside the existing Bowl Championship Series, created the Coalition for Athletics Reform...
August 28, 2004
Pepper no longer camera shy
New Orleans Times Picayune
At Thursday's Tulane football practice, the voice of the perpetually barking offensive coordinator Frank Scelfo stung the ear of kicker Barrett Pepper...
August 27, 2004
Tulane secondary has look of success
New Orleans Times Picayune
When Tulane safeties Joey Dawson and Tra Boger look back at the Green Wave's secondary two seasons ago, they quickly realize that the experience that group had played a key role in their success that season...
Green Wave looks to build on last year's success
New Orleans Times Picayune
The Tulane women's soccer team opens its season tonight looking to prove that it belongs among the elite of Conference USA. The Green Wave plays Louisiana-Monroe at 7 p.m. at the Westfeldt facility...
August 26, 2004
Tulane wants to get away from safety first
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane's linebackers are quite cognizant of the statistical punch line about last year's defense -- a safety led the Green Wave in tackles...
August 25, 2004
Tulane not so green on line
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane assistant coach Don Mahoney knew the time would come when he wouldn't be able to use youth and inexperience as an excuse for the shortcomings of the offensive line. That time, Mahoney said, has arrived...
August 24, 2004
Tulane to rely on defense while offense matures
Baton Rouge Advocate
Each of the last nine seasons, Tulane has had at least one starter in its offensive backfield that was destined to be a high NFL draft choice...
TU's Ricard now in spotlight
New Orleans Times-Picayune
It's Lester Ricard for now and, hopefully for Tulane faithful, the rest of the season and beyond, because that would mean Coach Chris Scelfo made a wise decision on who will quarterback the Green Wave...
Ricard named starter at QB
New Orleans Times-Picayune
The gap might not have been that wide, but Tulane coach Chris Scelfo said it was enough to select Lester Ricard as the Green Wave's No. 1 quarterback...
Backs have big shoes to fill
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Depth can be misleading. Tulane has it this year at running back. Aside from starter Jovon Jackson, three others -- Ray Boudreaux, Matt Forté and perhaps Adeboye Tuyo -- could see action...
August 23, 2004
Wave hopes receivers are glue for offense
New Orleans Times-Picayune
On a day when Tulane's wide receivers were shinning in practice, snagging passes in traffic for short and long gains, there was something else that was more visible to Coach Chris Scelfo...
August 22, 2004
TU starting job still up for grabs
New Orleans Times-Picayune
With less than two weeks to the start of the college football season, Tulane offensive coordinator Frank Scelfo still is waiting to see who will emerge from a three-man race as the Green Wave's starting quarterback...
Scelfo warming up to defense
New Orleans Times-Picayune
There were some glimpses Saturday of what Tulane's defense can do -- that is, when it's healthy, and when it's mentally sound. A year ago, injuries decimated the defense, the worst in Conference USA...
Tulane shifting its line
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane's defensive line hasn't returned to complete health, but it's in better shape than it was at the end of last season...
Tulane broadcaster talks some football
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Sean Kelley enters his third season as the voice of Tulane football, men's basketball and baseball. Before his work at Tulane, he was a broadcaster for the University of Missouri radio network, doing play-by-play for baseball and helping out with football and men's basketball...
August 21, 2004
Thunderstorms, lightning cancel Tulane's practice
New Orleans Times-Picayune
The day before Tulane's biggest scrimmage of fall camp, Green Wave coach Chris Scelfo canceled Friday's evening practice...
Tight situations
New Orleans Times-Picayune
The rehabilitation of Bobby Hoover had Tulane coaches giddy. A knee injury kept their talented tight end out of 2003, but it also gave tight end Jerome Landry 12 Saturdays worth of experience...
August 20, 2004
Chat with Chris Scelfo
ESPN.com
Welcome to ESPN.com's moderated chat roon. On Friday, August 20, Tulane head football coach Chris Scelfo will drop by to take your questions on the upcoming season and more...
Wave happy to get a little assistance
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Three years after Central Florida smacked around Chris Scelfo's Green Wave in the Superdome, the coach still remembers how fundamentally sound his opponent's defense was that day...
August 19, 2004
Tulane's Scelfo wants starting QB to step forward
Baton Rouge Advocate
The most critical four-day stretch of Tulane's fall camp got under way with a scrimmage Wednesday afternoon, shortly after the Green Wave held their Media Day...
Coach patiently waits for QB to take charge
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Before you start to question why offensive coordinator Frank Scelfo sees Tulane's quarterback situation as a bed of roses instead of a briar patch, consider that he has had a little experience in the field he's addressing. At least a couple of times, similar scenarios have stared him in the face...
Jackson is undaunted by his task
New Orleans Times-Picayune
As Jovon Jackson stands off to the side of the Tulane practice field in his soaking-wet T-shirt, water and sweat running down both sides of his face, he hardly blinks as he talks about the challenge he's facing...
Wave's Spincer is sizing up a new position
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Brandon Spincer is on a diet. His once insatiable appetite for meaty ball carriers has been suppressed. Now, he gets smaller helpings of bony receivers. He's even slimmed down from about 212 pounds to about 200...
Scholar-athlete Moore seeks a less hectic lifestyle
St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer-Press
Vikings running backs coach Dean Dalton had to have some fun with his poised rookie...
August 18, 2004
Wave's Spincer is sizing up a new position
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Brandon Spincer is on a diet. His once insatiable appetite for meaty ball carriers has been suppressed. Now, he gets smaller helpings of bony receivers. He's even slimmed down from about 212 pounds to about 200...
August 17, 2004
Dawson has an in
New York Post
That JaJuan Dawson knows so much about Eli Manning and his family will not necessarily help his chances to land a roster spot with the Giants. But it doesn't hurt...
Special teams hope for return to form
New Orleans Times-Picayune
For Tulane coach Chris Scelfo, the memories of the 2002 season and return specialist Lynaris Elpheage are still vivid...
Losman debut surprisingly strong
NFL.com
Rookie quarterbacks are supposed to hit the ground stumbling. Even for the most promising among them, the first preseason game is usually a cross between a bad day at the office and a bad case of indigestion...
August 14, 2004
Fledgling ripples making Waves
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane defensive coordinator Eric Schumann knows how valuable freshmen can be. He also knows the disadvantage to playing freshmen...
August 13, 2004
THE BIG QUESTION MARK
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Who will be Tulane's next starting quarterback? The answer to that question isn't as complicated as coming up with the winning numbers to the lottery. But for Green Wave offensive coordinator Frank Scelfo, it might as well be. The question is certainly one to which Scelfo wishes he knew the answer...
August 12, 2004
Twins helping to solidify TU line
New Orleans Times-Picayune
The first scouting tape of offensive linemen Joe and Matt Traina was seen at South Miami Hospital, Labor Day weekend of 1982. There they were, side-by-side, identical in their looks and in their stances...
August 11, 2004
Wave finally recovering from injuries
New Orleans Times-Picayune
He wasn't trying to make it a sappy moment, it just happened that way. Tulane's Bamm Mateen, a gritty yet gregarious defensive tackle, missed the final nine games last year and all of spring practice because of a foot injury...
TU's Kogan C-USA Athlete of the Year
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane tennis star Michael Kogan was selected the Conference USA Male Athlete of the Year on Tuesday. Kogan, who graduated from Tulane in May, was the runner-up in the 2004 NCAA Singles championship...
August 10, 2004
Ricard wants Tulane QB job
Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate
Lester Ricard reported to fall camp Monday for the third time since he left Amite High School. As one of 103 Tulane players checking in at the Wilson Center at midafternoon, he arrived this time expecting to make his long-awaited college debut in just a few weeks...
Green Wave seeking strength in numbers
New Orleans Times-Picayune
After getting word last week that starting wide receiver Tristan Smith has been ruled academically ineligible for the 2004 football season, this week got off to a much better start for Tulane coach Chris Scelfo...
Wave's Williams ready to lead
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Roydell Williams was Tulane's leading receiver last season. With running back Mewelde Moore and quarterback J.P. Losman gone, Williams returns as the Green Wave's biggest offensive threat. Last season Williams surpassed 1,000 receiving yards for the first time, catching 66 passes for 1,006 yards...
August 9, 2004
Tulane's hulking presence
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Here comes Anthony Cannon, Tulane's hulking linebacker, reporting to preseason training camp today, along with his teammates...
August 9, 2004
Tulane's hulking presence
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Here comes Anthony Cannon, Tulane's hulking linebacker, reporting to preseason training camp today, along with his teammates...
August 8, 2004
Tulane swimmer proud to compete
New Orleans Times-Picayune
As Linda McEachrane leapt into the pool, she left the recent past on the deck -- the failure to make her country's Olympic team in her best event, the 50-meter freestyle, and then faltering in her first chance to do so in the 100-meter free...
August 7, 2004
Green Wave in QB quandary
Memphis Commercial-Appeal
At the Conference USA Media Day this week, each coach had his own table. On those tables were centerpieces, decorations of sorts to help identify each school. They were footballs with the teams' logos on them. But for some reason, Tulane's was flat...
August 6, 2004
Athletic director issues appeal to MSU fans: Buy more tickets
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Larry Templeton knows a huge media contingent will show up for Mississippi State University's opening game, but the school's athletic director said he hopes more season ticket holders make the trip...
August 4, 2004
Parity likely to rule in C-USA
New Orleans Times-Picayune
If Alabama-Birmingham's Watson Brown and Texas Christian's Gary Patterson are right, this Conference USA football season will be remembered for a lot more than being the league's last before a dramatic realignment...
Losses expected to weigh on Tulane
New Orleans Times-Picayune
It's safe to say that Tulane junior cornerback Sean Lucas doesn't agree with the Conference USA coaches...
August 2, 2004
Tulane AD Dickson: She's a problem solver
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson is at the "hola/adios" stage of learning Spanish, so he probably hasn't learned how to translate the phrase "breath of fresh air." But he does know the phrase's Spanish synonym -- Maria Ochoa...
Tulane looking for next QB star
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun Herald
For Tulane coach Chris Scelfo, Conference USA Media Days is the final chance to compare notes with opposing coaches before the Green Wave opens the season at Mississippi State on Sept. 4...
August 1, 2004
Coming ... Going; Who's in? Who's out?
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
Tulane President Scott Cowan knows something of contentious meetings, having taken the fight for expanded entry into college football's Bowl Championship Series all the way to the halls of Congress...
