September 2005 NewsStand
Nov 3, 2005 | General
Oct. 3 2005
September 30, 2005
Students should get green shirts and support Tulane
Texas A&M Battalion
This weekend is huge for Aggie athletics and events here on campus. I want to remind you to not only support our fightin' Texas Aggie teams but also Tulane athletics. It is as simple as going to your closet, picking out a green shirt and commuting to Tulane's games to support the Green Wave...
Dome's status won't hinder LSU-Tulane resumption
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane's return to Tiger Stadium was moved up a year to this Saturday as a result of the damage Hurricane Katrina did to New Orleans. The Green Wave, which resumes its series against LSU next September in Tiger Stadium, moved Saturday's Homecoming game against Southeastern Louisiana to the LSU campus because it couldn't be played as scheduled at Tad Gormley Stadium...
Bills QB sad game not in New Orleans
The Associated Press
Buffalo quarterback J.P. Losman had the date circled on his calendar the moment the NFL schedule came out. The date -- Oct. 2 -- was once a source of eager anticipation for Losman. But now, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it serves only as a reminder of hardship and pain. Losman, who played in New Orleans at Tulane, and the Bills won't be playing the Saints in the Superdome on Sunday...
September 29, 2005
Tulane to play in Aillet
Monroe News Star
Tulane's football team calls Louisiana Tech and Ruston home and now they will play a home football game there as well. The Green Wave's Conference-USA game Friday, Oct. 14 against Texas-El Paso will be played at Joe Aillet Stadium before a nationally televised broadcast on ESPN. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m...
Tulane finalizes Saturday ticket plans
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane has finalized ticket and game-day plans for Saturday's game at Tiger Stadium, scheduled a brief return by the football team to New Orleans, and added a fourth leg to its tour of Louisiana football stadiums...
Tulane will play UTEP in Ruston
Times Picayune
Tulane's Oct. 14 home game will actually be at the Green Wave's home. The football team, based in Ruston this semester, will host UTEP at Louisiana Tech's Joe Aillet Stadium that Friday at 7 p.m...
Tulane's McGee puts hurricane behind him
Times Picayune
Last Friday night, Tulane offensive line coach Don Mahoney peeked into the room of his left tackle. "How's everything at home?" Mahoney asked Chris McGee, a native of Beaumont, Texas. McGee looked up and calmly said, "I'll be fine, Coach...
Bills made huge investment in Losman
Times Picayune
To a man, Buffalo Bills officials say they do not expect former Tulane quarterback J.P. Losman to lead the franchise back to glory. And they say it with a straight face, too...
September 28, 2005
Tulane defense makes remarkable turnaround
Baton Rouge Advocate
Two games into its season, Tulane has the top-ranked defense in all of Division I-A, allowing an average of just 176 total yards per game. That statistic is even more remarkable because last season the Green Wave finished the season ranked 93rd in total defense after allowing an average of 422 yards per game. In fact in two games, Tulane has allowed a combined 70 fewer yards than it gave up on a per-game average last season...
Tulane defense pledges '225' goal
Monroe News Star
Tulane carved its football reputation around an explosive offense. But there is the Green Wave sitting atop the NCAA statistics in total defense after two games, allowing just 176 yards per game...
Tulane freshman making a splash
Times Picayune
Brian King is the latest Tulane freshman to make an impact before his first mid-term. In recent years, numerous freshmen have seen the field, notably linebacker Anthony Cannon - who led the team in tackles in 2002 - and running back Matt Forte - who earned the starting job late last year...
September 27, 2005
Tulane athletes displaced but not defeated
Seattle Times
The players knew the drill. They had been evacuated from Tulane the year before when Hurricane Ivan was bearing down on their campus. So, in late August when the school heard Katrina was building into a Category 5 hurricane, Leah Peterson, a junior from Seattle, Megan Morey, a senior from Port Orchard, and their Tulane soccer teammates packed a few of their belongings and headed for safety...
Two games in, Wave is defensive
Times Picayune
Tulane coach Chris Scelfo isn't a bit surprised the Green Wave's defense has played so well the first two games of the season. But he can't say he hasn't been taken aback by his defense being ranked No. 1 in the nation. But in this case, Scelfo says, two games do not make a season...
Tulane gets defensive
Gannett News Services
They have played just two games in their 2005 college football season, but the Tulane Green Wave has already reached the top of the NCAA Division I-A statistics in one category -- total defense. The Green Wave (1-1) is allowing just 176 yards offense per game. The total is 31 yards better than the nation's No. 2-ranked defense, Connecticut...
September 26, 2005
Grading the Green Wave
Times Picayune
Winning on the road has been really difficult for Tulane during Chris Scelfo's first six seasons. His teams have won just eight times on the road. With Tulane's 31-10 victory at Southern Methodist on Saturday, the Green Wave accomplished a first under Scelfo: It recorded consecutive wins in Conference USA road games, having beaten Texas Christian in the final road game last season...
Moore again runs past Saints
Times Picayune
Mewelde Moore didn't give die-hard Saints fans much to cheer about in the Vikings' 33-16 victory Sunday at the Metrodome. But there were likely some smiles in pockets of Louisiana after the former Tulane standout and Baton Rouge native played a big role for Minnesota...
September 25, 2005
Vikings look for spark from Moore
Baton Rouge Advocate
Nearly a year ago, former Tulane University standout and current Minnesota Vikings running back Mewelde Moore had his first 100-yard rushing game as a professional...
Finally: One normal day
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Football coaches are control freaks. Their favorite joke: "Knock knock. ... Now, you say, 'Who's there?'" Coaches want to control everything and anything they can. Some want their practices to be regimented to the minute. Others want to stay in the same hotels every year, with a timed-route to the stadium. Others demand pats of butter vs. butter dishes at the pregame meal...
Tulane corrals first win by beating SMU
Gannett New Services
Tulane's Conference USA opener with Southern Methodist had deeper significance for the teams than its effect on the conference standings. Tulane shook off a rusty effort last week as the defense bottled up the Mustangs and the offense rolled in a 31-10 win over SMU at Gerald J. Ford Stadium on Saturday...
Mild horses: Mustangs flat in 31-10 loss to Tulane
Dallas Morning News
The SMU football season continues to be one of shoddy performances. SMU players and coaches cited a lack of desire and execution as the reasons for a 31-10 loss to Tulane in the Conference USA opener Saturday at Ford Stadium...
Facing SMU tugs at Tulane's emotions
Dallas Morning News
After enduring long bus rides, sleeping on gym floors and coming to grips with losing its university and homes for the time being, Tulane finally had something to smile about Saturday. The Green Wave won its first football game since being displaced by Hurricane Katrina...
Tulane takes down SMU, 31-10
Baton Rouge Advocate
The Tulane football team's sanctuary in the days after Hurricane Katrina became the site of its first victory Saturday. Lester Ricard completed 22 of 34 passes for 213 yards and two touchdowns as the Green Wave returned to the SMU campus and beat the Mustangs 31-10...
Tulane enjoys SMU homecoming, 31-10
Times Picayune
The Tulane Green Wave wasn't very polite to host Southern Methodist on Saturday afternoon. In fact, the Wave was downright rude. Tulane, which spent time as SMU's guest three weeks ago after being displaced by Hurricane Katrina, used a dominating defense and an opportunistic offense in getting its first win of the season, 31-10, over the Mustangs at Gerald J. Ford Stadium in its opening Conference USA game...
Tulane's defensive line has its way with SMU
Times Picayune
Often on Saturday, they waltzed past offensive linemen like celebs would past a dance club bouncer. One by one, they slipped into a defensive player's equivalent to the V.I.P. room - the quarterback pocket. Sacks were on the house...
Tulane-SMU Notebook
Times Picayune
Tulane safety and punt returner Sean Lucas bruised his left quadriceps in the third quarter, which forced the senior out of the lineup for most of the second half...
September 24, 2005
Tulane, SMU share unique bond
Gannett News Service
For two weeks, the Tulane and Southern Methodist football players were spiritual teammates -- a band of brothers brought together by a natural disaster. Southern Methodist was there for Tulane, which had to endure grueling conditions while escaping Hurricane Katrina...
This might be Scelfo's best coaching job
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane was right there at the end. That's the amazing thing. Against a team (Mississippi State) that had played two games and was pretty well oiled, and in spite of displaying enough rust and kinks to have warranted a need for WD-40 more than for Gatorade, Tulane was right there at the end, a snafu or two away from upsetting the Bulldogs, a moment short of claiming what would have been the most impressive victory in school history...
Tulane football team dealing with another hurricane
Times-Picayune
Just when Tulane was beginning to put one hurricane behind it, Rita comes along. It's exactly what Tulane coach Chris Scelfo and his Green Wave didn't need. The Green Wave, which had its Sept. 4 season opener postponed by Hurricane Katrina, now finds itself trying to stay focused for Saturday's game with Southern Methodist as Hurricane Rita bears down on the Texas/Louisiana border, about 300 miles from Dallas...
Tulane vs. Southern Methodist: The Vitals
Times-Picayune
Four receivers saw the field for the first time last week, including Preston Brown, who led the team with nine catches for 117 yards. But Tulane wasn't too successful going deep. In fact, punter Chris Beckman threw the longest reception against Mississippi State, a 27-yarder to Brown on a fake punt. It will be interesting to see which receivers emerge on Saturdays in the next few weeks, while quarterback Lester Ricard seeks comfort with some sure-handed teammates...
Tulane faces SMU in C-USA opener today in Dallas
Shreveport Times
Tulane coach Chris Scelfo didn't get the outcome he wanted in the Green Wave's season-opening 21-14 loss to Mississippi State last week. But Tulane's performance did encourage him as the Green Wave prepared for its Conference USA opener against SMU (1-2) at 1 p.m. today in Dallas. Kickoff was moved up from the original 7 p.m. start because of the threat from Hurricane Rita...
Tulane, SMU share unique bond
Shreveport Times
For two weeks, the Tulane and Southern Methodist football players were spiritual teammates -- a band of brothers brought together by a natural disaster. Southern Methodist was there for Tulane, which had to endure grueling conditions while escaping Hurricane Katrina...
Foes but friends: SMU, Tulane will remain close
Dallas Morning News
The Conference USA opener between SMU and Tulane today at Ford Stadium is about brotherhood. When Green Wave coaches needed help in their darkest hour, the Mustangs' coaches responded...
Preview: Tulane at SMU
Dallas Morning News
WHAT'S ON THE LINE Tulane - A chance to win its first game of the season after leaving its New Orleans home because of Hurricane Katrina. Last week, the Green Wave lost to Mississippi State, 21-14, in Shreveport, La. SMU - The Mustangs can clinch their first winning September since 1992, when it finished 3-1. Under coach Phil Bennett, the Mustangs have never finished above .500 in the month and are 2-11 in his four seasons as coach...
September 23, 2005
Tulane managing to weather storm
Philadelphia Inquirer
Tulane finally played a football game on Saturday, 13 days after the regularly scheduled opener at Southern Mississippi was KO'd by Hurricane Katrina. The Green Wave lost, 21-14, to Mississippi State, at Independence Stadium in Shreveport, La., which is some 300 miles northwest of their New Orleans campus...
September 22, 2005
Tulane managing to weather storm
Philadelphia Inquirer
Tulane finally played a football game on Saturday, 13 days after the regularly scheduled opener at Southern Mississippi was KO'd by Hurricane Katrina. The Green Wave lost, 21-14, to Mississippi State, at Independence Stadium in Shreveport, La., which is some 300 miles northwest of their New Orleans campus...
Tulane to play Houston in Lafayette
Times Picayune
Tulane's Oct. 8 home football game against Houston will be played in Lafayette at UL-Lafayette's Cajun Field. The game, originally scheduled for the Superdome, will kickoff at 5 p.m...
Tulane Notes: Houston contest moved to ULL
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane's third "home" football game of the season, a Conference USA West Division contest against Houston on Oct. 8, will be played at Cajun Field in Lafayette, Green Wave Athletic Director Rick Dickson announced Wednesday...
Tulane still searching for home stadium
Monroe News Star
Tulane's football team has settled into life in Ruston and Louisiana Tech, but whether it plays a home game at Joe Aillet Stadium is still an open question. The only thing Tulane officials know for sure is that the Green Wave will play SMU in Dallas on Saturday and play Southeastern Louisiana in a home game at LSU's Tiger Stadium. Tulane is still working to find stadium sites for its remaining four home games -- Oct. 8 vs. Houston, Oct. 14 vs. UTEP, Oct. 29 vs. Marshall and Nov. 19 vs. Tulsa...
September 21, 2005
Tulane's Terranova growing up
Times Picayune
While the final minute scampered off the game clock, Tulane was 64 yards and a few dramatic catches away from tying Mississippi State. And Tulane's oldest receiver was on the sideline. Bubba Terranova seethed. The senior found Tulane receivers coach Darryl Mason. He told the coach that he wanted to play - and that he wanted the football...
'SMU's going to be ready for us'
Times Picayune
After spending a week at Southern Methodist University in Dallas prior to relocating in Ruston, Tulane's football team is headed back to some familiar surroundings this week in Texas. The Green Wave will begin Conference USA play against the Mustangs. Although Wave players got to mingle with some of SMU's players during their brief stay in Dallas, Tulane coach Chris Scelfo said the familiarity with the area will not be an advantage for his team...
Brown giving Tulane big target at receiver
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane searched throughout preseason camp for the wide receivers that will collectively replace the significant production that seniors Roydell Williams and Chris Bush provided last season...
'SMU's going to be ready for us'
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane searched throughout preseason camp for the wide receivers that will collectively replace the significant production that seniors Roydell Williams and Chris Bush provided last season...
It's 'old home' week for Tulane
Monroe News Start
Tulane will travel to one of its "homes" this Saturday when it takes on SMU. The Green Wave spent two weeks in Dallas and practiced at SMU after fleeing Hurricane Katrina, before finally settling in at Louisiana Tech. Although the Tulane players didn't have a lot of interaction with the SMU players, they did get to know them a little bit. Tulane coach Chris Scelfo likened the situation to a high school game where friends play against each other...
September 20, 2005
Tulane eager to hit court
San Antonio Express-News
Practice typically isn't an aspect of sport that athletes relish. But that wasn't the case last week for the Tulane volleyball team, which now calls the Texas A&M campus in College Station home after being displaced by Hurricane Katrina almost a month ago...
Tulane analysis: Loss to Mississippi State not all bad
Times Picayune
Tulane coach Chris Scelfo knows there are some positive things to build on from the Green Wave's 21-14 loss to Mississippi State on Saturday night. Playing the way the Wave did after three weeks of uncertainty, coming back after being down 14-0 and forcing the Bulldogs to come up with a huge defensive series at the end of the game were all positives for Scelfo's team...
Tulane to battle caretakers Saturday
Gannett News Services
Tulane and SMU have acted more like roommates than competing private universities for the past three weeks. They've shared dorms, athletic fields and even normally confidential football recruiting lists in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. That will likely change Saturday when the schools' football teams clash in Dallas, but only for about three hours...
Local woman shows persistence in purchasing Tulane tickets
Shreveport Times
Madeline Holder is nothing if not persistent about purchasing her athletic game tickets. Holder, unlike the average Shreveport or Bossier City sports fan, supports almost any athletic event that comes along. Our community should be embarrassed about the lack of estimated 5,000-7,000 people at the Tulane-Mississippi State football game on Saturday night at Independence Stadium...
September 19, 2005
Tulane volleyball hits court
Texas A&M Battalion
For the first time in over two weeks, the Tulane volleyball team set foot on a court so that it could participate in the Nokia Sugar Bowl Classic...
Tulane to play SLU at Tiger Stadium
Gannett News Services
Tulane University opened its 2005 football season Saturday night in Shreveport's Independence Stadium with a 21-14 loss to Mississippi State. The Green Wave won't be returning to Shreveport for its second home game of the season. Instead, Tulane and Southeastern Louisiana University will meet on Oct. 1 at LSU's Tiger Stadium, the school announced on Sunday...
September 18, 2005
Pressing on
Houston Chronicle
The road back began in a tunnel leading from the northwest corner of Independence Stadium. It was there that the Tulane Green Wave faced a future that for the first time in nearly three weeks was finally in their own hands...
Tulane falls short in opener
The Associated Press
Tulane was poised for a feel-good ending to its hurricane-delayed season opener until Mississippi State and Jerious Norwood played the role of spoiler. Norwood's 17-yard touchdown run one play after Tulane fumbled a punt deep in its own territory lifted the Bulldogs to a 21-14 win over the Green Wave on Saturday night in a game full of reminders of Katrina...
Tulane disappointed by opening loss
Times Picayune
The Green Wave, playing its first game of the season after being forced to relocate in north Louisiana because of Hurricane Katrina, battled back from a 14-point deficit before a critical mistake aided Mississippi State in its 21-14 victory over Tulane at Independence Bowl Stadium...
Wave's thoughts elsewhere before focusing on Bulldogs
Times Picayune
Twenty minutes before kickoff in the season opener Saturday, the locker room doors opened, and there sat the Tulane football players, New Orleans resting on their shoulder pads. A few players uneasily cracked jokes. Others lost themselves in headphones, while rap music blared so loud that passersby deciphered the lyrics. Receiver Bubba Terranova, whose parents' home in Slidell was hit hard by Hurricane Katrina, stared at his hands...
Finally, Tulane makes its debut
Dallas Morning News
Bob Beckman, wearing a Tulane jersey emblazoned with No. 45, draped his middle-aged body over the rail separating the Independence Stadium grandstand from the field. Grinning and gesturing, he caught the eye of his son, Green Wave punter Chris Beckman, who was working out the kinks...
Tulane's game Saturday a 'symbol of surviving'
Gannett News Services
After being stripped of so much over the past three weeks, Tulane University football -- family, friends and team members -- was finally rewarded...
Green Wave falls short
Gannett News Services
The Tulane football team has persevered through some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable. Hurricane Katrina uprooted players and coaches from their homes and forced them on the road for 16 days, searching and finding lodging from Jackson State, Southern Methodist University and Louisiana Tech...
Sluggish Tulane, State offenses come alive in second half
Gannett News Services
You'd have to forgive the Tulane, Mississippi State and neutral fans for nodding off in the first half of Saturday night's battle in Independence Stadium...
Normalcy returns for Tulane -- sort of
The Shreveport Times
Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson stood in Shreveport's Independence Stadium on Friday and talked about his football team's need for the return of some sense of normalcy in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. His hope was Saturday night's game against Mississippi State would do just that...
Nothing normal about Dogs' win over Wave
The Clarion-Ledger
The scene outside Independence Stadium Saturday night was part celebratory and part relief. Players stood next to buses, holding box lunches while hugging parents and friends. There were few tears but plenty of smiles...
Dogs survive bumpy ride
The Clarion-Ledger
The Mississippi State players understand what Tulane has been through. Fleeing Hurricane Katrina, relocating, coping with lives changed forever -- it was an emotional roller coaster for the Green Wave. But the Bulldogs vowed their feelings wouldn't alter the outcome...
Dogs hold off Tulane Green Wave in down-to-the-wire second half battle
The Starkville Daily News
Mississippi State head coach Sylvester Croom preached to his players all week that their game with Tulane was unlike any other they had played in, and in order to have any chance they would have to bring "something extra" with them to Independence Bowl Stadium. As it turned out, they brought just enough...
Slow start dooms Tulane in 21-14 loss
Baton Rouge Advocate
Thanks to Hurricane Katrina, Tulane's displaced and travel-weary football team had to wait almost two weeks to start its 2005 season. Unfortunately, the Green Wave waited a little to get things under way officially in Saturday night's game with Mississippi State and wound up falling, 21-14, before an estimated 5,000 fans in Independence Stadium...
Slow start dooms Tulane in 21-14 loss
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
Mississippi State got back in the win column. Tulane finally played a football game. With Hurricane Katrina nearly three weeks in the rear-view mirror, that's progress on both counts...
September 17, 2005
Tulane perseveres, now eager to play
USA Today
As is the case with thousands of people displaced from the New Orleans area by Hurricane Katrina, normalcy is a relative term to members of the Tulane football team and coaching staff...
All for this
CSTV.com
When Tulane takes the field against Mississippi State, a battle will already be won. Tulane head coach Chris Scelfo believes his team's most important victory Saturday will be running out of that tunnel for the opening whistle, in their pieced-together uniforms, and in a stadium far from home...
Sure, Tulane is playing football ... it's part of the healing
Philadelphia Daily News (Biloxi Sun-Herald)
Mississippi State athletics director Larry Templeton sat in a somber Independence Stadium press box on Saturday night, while the marching band from Bossier City's Parkway High did their halftime thing on the field...
Wave to play SLU in Tiger Stadium
Times Picayune
Tulane's Oct. 1 game against Southeastern Louisiana will be played in Baton Rouge at LSU's Tiger Stadium. In the past two days, Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson worked out a plan with LSU athletic director Skip Bertman and his associates for the Green Wave to play Southeastern Louisiana at 2:30 p.m. Otherwise, Dickson was planning to play the game in Shreveport, or in Hattiesburg, Miss...
Tulane, a team of valiant vagabonds
Memphis Commercial Appeal
How exactly Lester Ricard got to the place he stood at noon on Friday, in the ragged bleachers at Louisiana Tech's old football stadium, takes some time to unravel...
Finally playing means more than score to Tulane
The Associated Press
Hundreds of miles from home and preparing for a season like no other, Tulane coach Chris Scelfo wants his team to feel normal again...
Tulane finally ready to roll
Baton Rouge Advocate
It has been 39 days since Tulane started practicing for this football season. The Green Wave finally gets to play a game when it meets Mississippi State at 7 p.m. today at Independence Stadium in Shreveport...
Tulane's season finally is here
Shreveport Times
Football was insignificant for a lot of Tulane players and coaches as they watched the evening news and saw the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. The gravity of the situation struck even closer when they saw their flooded neighborhoods televised on the newscasts...
September 16, 2005
Resurrecting A Team
CSTV.com
Less than two months after taking the Director of Football Operations position at Tulane, Dennis Polian is a model of efficiency. Bus bookings, uniform issues, coaches' ticket requests all go through this 28-year-old maestro, and he takes obvious satisfaction from a job well done...
Tulane perseveres, now eager to play
USA Today
As is the case with thousands of people displaced from the New Orleans area by Hurricane Katrina, normalcy is a relative term to members of the Tulane football team and coaching staff...
Tulane-State big for the area
Shreveport Times
Tulane-Mississippi State. Live at Independence Stadium on Saturday night. Is it that big of a deal? I've heard that mentioned by a few locals. When I hear it, I shudder...
On Saturday, Tulane's football team begins to pick up the pieces
Shreveport Times
How does someone begin to piece together a life after one of the greatest natural disasters in U.S. history? Tulane head football coach Chris Scelfo has 95 lives to help heal. A large step toward that goal begins Saturday against Mississippi State at Independence Stadium...
September 15, 2005
Toughest may be over
Chicago Tribune
The toughest part didn't come at 3 a.m., when a generator died and Tulane's football players, lying on air mattresses at the Jackson State gym in Mississippi, smelled leaking gas. The toughest part didn't come two hours later, when the fire alarm went off and the players, many shirtless and in their boxers, shivered through a cold rain for nearly an hour...
Katrina Scatters Tulane Teams, Games Go On
Voice Of America
When Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf of Mexico Coast last month, the academic and sports programs at universities in the region were wiped out. Schools throughout the United States have opened their doors to the displaced students. And several are making sure sports programs survive as well. Athletes from Tulane University in New Orleans have been welcomed at other schools, which are making sure Tulane's "Green Wave" teams, as they are nicknamed, can continue to compete while their hometown rebuilds...
A place to play
St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times
They arrived quietly by bus Monday at their new home in the tiny northern Louisiana town of Ruston, a world away from the familiar life they lived until little more than two weeks ago in New Orleans. On Tuesday morning, they attended their first classes on a college campus most had never laid eyes on, let alone tried to find their way around without getting lost...
Winds of change scatter Tulane's teams
Dallas Morning News
On those rare times when Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson allows himself a moment of reflection, he compares Sept. 2 to stepping out of a dark cave and resuming life from scratch. That was the day, four days after Hurricane Katrina ravaged Tulane's home city of New Orleans, school officials decided to carry on athletically, despite hell and high water...
September 14, 2005
Tulane back in its routine
Shreveport Times
The Tulane football team has lived a nomad's life because of Hurricane Katrina, traveling more than 850 miles to escape its fury. The night before Katrina struck, the team fled New Orleans to Jackson, Miss. After two days in Mississippi, it was on to Dallas before arriving here in Ruston in the late afternoon on Monday...
Tulane finally able to turn attention to game week
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane's football players went to class and had practice at Louisiana Tech University on Tuesday. They followed a relatively normal game-week routine in their new home away from home. After a two-week delay that undoubtedly feels much longer than that, they can finally focus on a football game. They'll play Mississippi State on Saturday at Independence Stadium in Shreveport....
Brother, can you spare a Hullabaloo?
Baton Rouge Advocate
There is no LSU football game Saturday. The Tigers will have a well-deserved rest one week after their exciting 35-31 season-opening victory at Arizona State. A day after LSU's emotional rescue of every Louisiana rolling stone scattered by Hurricane Katrina and in need of something normal to cling to, the New Orleans Saints defeated the Carolina Panthers 23-20 on the road. That's where we are right now in this state. On the road -- back. Tulane will be calling the road home for some time...
Linebacker draws strength from fellow New Orleanians
Times Picayune
The linebacker and the older women met in the laundry room. Brandon Spincer was washing his whites when he started chatting with two fellow New Orleanians. The three wound up in Ruston because Caruthers Hall, on the campus of Louisiana Tech, is housing New Orleans evacuees. ..
Ricard ready to prove himself
Times Picayune
Lester Ricard was primed and ready to go. Since the end of last season, the Tulane quarterback had been preparing to take over as the leader of the Green Wave's offense. He had done his homework and lifted his weights. Then came Hurricane Katrina...
Green Wave enduring makeshift conditions
Times Picayune
On Tuesday, Tulane coach Chris Scelfo was asked if he has seen tape of Mississippi State, his opponent in five days. "That tape is somewhere floating in New Orleans," he said. On the campus of Louisiana Tech, Tulane is trying to piece together its program after Hurricane Katrina rushed the team out of town, and then took a knockout swing at the remaining equipment at the team's headquarters...
Tulane may play SLU game in Hattiesburg
Times Picayune
The Tulane football team's next home game, scheduled for Oct. 1 against Southeastern Louisiana, will either be played in Shreveport or Hattiesburg, Miss., and a decision will be made by Monday...
September 13, 2005
Tulane keeps season in perspective
Shreveport Times
Football season finally arrives for the Tulane University Green Wave football team this week when it plays the Mississippi State Bulldogs on Saturday night at Independence Stadium. This season, though, comes with a bit more perspective than most. Tulane has spent more than two weeks on the road after evacuating New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina...
Green Wave sluggish but enthusiastic in practice
Times Picayune
As Tulane assistant equipment manager John Mendow passed through the gate leading from the practice field, he looked to his right and said, "One down." The Green Wave had just wrapped up its first practice at Louisiana Tech, its home for the 2005 football season. The Tuesday afternoon practice, Tulane's first in five days, was sluggish and filled with mistakes...
September 11, 2005
Tech, Tulane do the right thing
Shreveport Times
Hurricane Katrina has brought plenty of stories -- some good, some bad. Two of the good ones are currently on display here in northwest Louisiana. One of those stories is Louisiana Tech's offering its facilities, a dorm and its educational experience to the Tulane Green Wave football team this fall...
Tulane, season ready to go on
Shreveport Times
They began practicing more than a month ago. They were supposed to be among the first wave of college football teams playing games this season. Instead, the Tulane Green Wave will likely be the last team in college football to begin the season. The Green Wave plays a "home" game against Mississippi State on Saturday at Independence Stadium with a 7 p.m. kickoff...
Tulane fifth-year senior starts anew
Houston Chronicle (Los Angeles Daily News)
Lyneal Strain almost feels like a freshman. He registered for classes at Louisiana Tech on Thursday and was able to check out his new dorm room. He'll have to navigate a new campus without knowing any faculty or students, only his Tulane football teammates...
September 10, 2005
Tulane baseball adjusting to life in Texas
Baton Rouge Advocate
In three months, the Tulane baseball team has gone from being the No. 1 team in the country, competing in the College World Series, and breaking ground on a renovated stadium on campus, to being uprooted and relocated to Lubbock, Texas, for the foreseeable future...
Composure key for Bills' Losman in starting debut
SportsIllustrated.com (AP)
If quarterback J.P. Losman has heard it once, he's heard it 1,000 times entering his first season as the Buffalo Bills starter: stay composed. OK, make it 1,001. Houston quarterback David Carr added his two cents this week, when asked to recall the biggest challenge of his first season three years ago...
September 9, 2005
Tulane basketball gets settled in Texas
USA Today
Dave Dickerson, a first-year head basketball coach in Division I, isn't thinking about preseason conditioning or the season opener. The Tulane coach has more pressing concerns in the wake of Hurricane Katrina now that his team has landed at Texas A&M, where the players will spend the first semester taking classes since their New Orleans campus is inoperable...
Wave of Hope
RosenblattReport.com
Forecasters have predicted for several years that if hit by a Category 5 hurricane, the City of New Orleans would be in deep trouble, and nearly two weeks ago, Louisiana's worst fear became a reality, as Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, turning the entertainment haven into a pool of filth in just a matter of days...
Jones talks about Tulane evacuation
SEBaseball.com
Flooding from Hurricane Katrina drowned the Tulane campus canceling classes for the fall. So what does that mean for their athletics programs? Nobody embraces the needy like the folks in the south. Those athletes have been taken in by Louisiana Tech, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Rice and SMU. Head baseball coach Rick Jones, whose team will spend the fall at Texas Tech, visited with the media Friday morning via teleconference to discuss his teams' immediate future...
Green Wave arrives in Ruston
Monroe (La.) News Star
Nobody knows when a sense of normalcy will return for the Tulane football team, but Thursday was a start. The Green Wave football joined the rest of the Louisiana Tech student body -- which was going through registration -- by going through a makeshift orientation, while being treated to a rousing welcome...
Wave to roll into city
Shreveport (La.) Times
Tulane University officials announced Thursday the school would play its home opener against Mississippi State on Sept. 17 at Shreveport's Independence Stadium. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. and the game will be nationally televised by both CSTV and the i Network (formerly PAX)...
Texas A&M welcome overwhelms Tulane athletes
Dallas Morning News
Kristen Tasca needed a good 10 minutes to digest the news. One moment, she was a neuroscience major, business minor set to graduate in May. The next, she's a double major, Class of 2007. Grateful and overwhelmed, drained and relieved, 87 Tulane athletes displaced by Hurricane Katrina relocated to Texas A&M...
When basketball is secondary
Washington Times
Dave Dickerson left Maryland after last season to become the coach at Tulane. Now, however, basketball is the last thing on his mind in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Dickerson, who was Gary Williams' top assistant, is trying to stabilize a program in exile, one of the countless victims of the city's devastation. The school has canceled its fall semester, but sports will go on "to carry the torch, face and name of Tulane University," according to university president Scott Cowen...
Displaced Tulane, Dickerson Take Things 'Day-by-Day'
Washington Post
One of the most difficult aspects of Dave Dickerson 's new reality occurs every day, when his 4-year-old son asks him the same question: "When are we going home?" Dickerson, in his first season as Tulane's head coach of men's basketball, won't be able to answer that question for the foreseeable future...
Hurricane Katrina brings storm of changes
Seattle Times
Imagine some of the athletic teams at the University of Washington being relocated for several months to Washington State. To Gonzaga, to Western Washington, Oregon or Oregon State...
AAI Kicks off Season, Welcomes Tulane Athletes at Fall Luau
AggieAthletics.com
The high exposure of college athletics in today's world elevates young student-athletes, some just 18 or 19 years old, to another level and sometimes holds them to higher standards than the regular college student. That makes it easy to forget that they themselves are just regular college kids too...
September 8, 2005
For Tulane Soccer, Playing Through Grief
The Connection (Va.) Newspapers
Betsy Anderson has been the Tulane University women's soccer coach for five seasons. In each of them, she's been asked to evacuate the New Orleans campus because of a threatening storm approaching the Gulf Coast. "And nobody evacuates, because they're used to it," she said. "There's never been any real damage"... Tulane, UNO start up at adopted homes
ESPN.com
University of New Orleans head coach Monte Towe is only now hearing the stories firsthand as he tries to gather his players at the University of Texas at Tyler, his team's adopted campus hundreds of miles away from home. Tulane's Dave Dickerson is doing the same, but further south in the state of Texas, at Texas A&M in College Station. He's talking to his players face-to-face for the first time since Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast and left the region in ruins...
'All We Have Now Is Football'
Los Angeles Times
Handed a raw deal and a bad game plan, Tulane has decided to play the 2005 football season -- whether you like it or not. Junior quarterback Lester Ricard said he broke down and cried when he heard the thought of canceling the season had been broached. "It shocked me," Ricard said. "I was bawling"...
Tulane tennis teams to enroll at A&M
Bryan-College Station (Texas) Eagle
Two more Tulane athletic programs are going to use Texas A&M University as their host institution, Tulane officials said Wednesday as Green Wave student-athletes began enrolling for classes on campus. The Tulane men's and women's tennis teams, which were originally going to Rice as part of a Hurricane Katrina relief effort, were redirected to A&M on Wednesday...
Tulane to play Mississippi State at Independence Stadium
Shreveport Times
Shreveport's chief administrative officer Ken Antee has been stopped by several people on the street the past few days asking about the possibility of Tulane playing football at Independence Stadium. "We'll go support them just to help them out," Antee has heard from his fellow Shreveport-Bossier City residents...
Tulane athletes arrive at Tech
Lubbock (Texas) Avalanche-Journal
Dispersed by the wrath of Hurricane Katrina, the Tulane athletic department has spent the last week and a half seeking a return to normalcy. The members of the Green Wave women's basketball and baseball teams who arrived on the Texas Tech campus Wednesday seemed to have found what they were looking for...
Shreveport indicates it will host MSU-Tulane game
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
Ten days to go before the Mississippi State-Tulane game, and the teams still haven't finalized where they'll play on Sept 17. But the likely destination is the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, according to a city official...
Among the displaced, but with a job to do
Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader
John Sudsbury's new office is the lobby of a hotel in Dallas. He is not sure when he'll be able to go back to his apartment in New Orleans and doesn't know what will be left when he does...
September 7, 2005
A wave of goodwill aids Tulane
The Arizona Republic
Move over, Dallas Cowboys. America has a new team: Tulane. Displaced from its New Orleans campus by Hurricane Katrina, the Green Wave football team has finally found a permanent home, at least for this year, at Louisiana Tech University. It's in Ruston, La., about 230 miles north of New Orleans...
Tulane can keep New Orleans in world's consciousness
Dallas Morning News
Just a few years ago, the folks who run New Orleans' most prestigious university, Tulane, wondered aloud whether playing games like big-time college football was still worth it. Their athletic department was sinking deeper into debt. Even after a great football season, it was unlikely to win the rich rewards from a major bowl game because, as a small school, it was all but locked out of those multimillion dollar paydays. And whoever said playing sports was part of its mission statement, anyway?...
Tulane now calls Ruston home
Monroe (La.) News-Star
For the first time in modern NCAA history, two Division I-A football programs will call one campus home. As first reported on Tuesday, the Tulane football team will move its operations to Louisiana Tech as its players will enroll in classes for the fall quarter...
Katrina throws curve to J.R. Crowell
Palm Beach (Fla.) Post
When former Atlantic High School baseball standout J.R. Crowel returned to the Tulane University campus in New Orleans a couple of weeks ago, he was anxious to relive one of the highlights of his collegiate baseball career. After helping the Green Wave's nationally ranked baseball team advance to the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., in June, Crowel, a starting pitcher, wanted to see what kind of reaction the squad would get from fellow Tulane students and New Orleans residents...
A&M taking in 4 Tulane sports teams
Bryan-College Station (Texas) Eagle
Texas A&M University is one of five schools that will serve as host institutions for Tulane's athletic programs this fall in a combined effort to aid the university in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Almost 80 student athletes from Tulane's men's basketball, women's volleyball, women's soccer and women's swimming and diving teams are in the process of enrolling at A&M, Tulane athletics director Rick Dickson said Tuesday...
Tulane moves teams to five universities
Dallas Morning News
The second phase of the relocation of the Tulane athletic department started Tuesday with the movement of 12 teams to five cities in Texas and Louisiana. SMU will host the men's and women's golf teams, Texas A&M will host five teams, and Texas Tech and Rice will host two...
Some Locals On Tulane's Painful Road Trip
Tampa Tribune
Jovon Jackson, Tulane University's senior running back, brought three pair of basketball shorts, two T-shirts, a pair of tank tops, some slippers and his toothbrush. That's all. Ten days ago, he stuffed those belongings into a duffel bag and jumped aboard the caravan of athletic-department buses. Along the way, they stopped a few times to pick up other students, who begged for a ride out of town...
Tulane's Athletes Prepare for Next Move
Washington Post
Tulane Coach Chris Scelfo was standing in the back billiards room of the Doubletree Hotel at Campbell Center here Tuesday afternoon, chalking up a cue stick as he prepared to play a game against his son. "If we're going to talk, we've got to do it while I do this," Scelfo said to a reporter...
September 6, 2005
Team Limbo - Though school has been canceled, the Tulane women's soccer squad plays on
SI.com
All that remains from their lives as Tulane students is in room 343 of a Best Western hotel in Birmingham. Lying on a small desk are Kali Miller's and Jackie Obert's two laptops, a notebook, a pen, a jar of grape jelly and a pair of shorts. The floor is littered with sports bras, T-shirts, underwear, duffel bags and board games. A tattered stuffed panda, which Miller has slept with since she was seven, rests on a nightstand...
Green Wave gets green light
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Sonny Dykes says he hasn't done much what-iffing in the past week. He could have. What if, instead of being wide receivers coach at Texas Tech, he were head coach at Southeastern Louisiana? After Hal Mumme resigned last December to become head coach at New Mexico State, Dykes was one of two finalists to succeed him...
Raiders' assistant views Tulane's hurricane hardship
ESPN.com
Tulane's campus is closed for the fall semester, its non-student-athletes are at other schools around the country and now its athletic teams will operate from five different campus sites in Louisiana and Texas...
Teams to relocate for at least fall semester
ESPN.com
Tulane's campus is closed for the fall semester, its non-student-athletes are at other schools around the country and now its athletic teams will operate from five different campus sites in Louisiana and Texas...
Tulane teams on the move
Dallas Morning News
The Tulane athletic program is on the move again. School officials announced Tuesday morning that its athletic programs would relocate to five universities - four of them in Texas. The Tulane football team, housed at the DoubleTree Hotel in Dallas, is moving later this week to Louisiana Tech in Ruston. The team could play its home games in Shreveport, according to athletic director Rick Dickson...
September 5, 2005
Tulane balances life and football in wake of tragedy
ESPN.com
They laugh because they don't want to stop to cry. The Tulane football team doesn't know where it will play this season. The 88 players, 10 coaches and assorted staff don't know where they will live. The players don't know where they will attend class. They have no money in their pockets. New Orleans bank accounts remain frozen. Many of them don't know what, if anything, in their homes remains dry and not looted...
Teams could relocate for at least fall semester
ESPN.com
Tulane's campus is closed for the fall semester, its non-student-athletes are at other schools around the country and now its athletic teams will operate from five different campus sites in Louisiana and Texas, multiple sources close to the situation told ESPN.com on Monday night...
Tulane to examine Louisiana Tech as host for team
ESPN.com
Louisiana Tech University has emerged as a possible home for Tulane football for the 2005 season. A Tulane delegation will be on the Ruston, La., campus Monday afternoon to look at what facilities would be available to the staff and the 88 players, officials at both schools said...
September 4, 2005
For Tulane football, 'it's about healing'
CBS Sportsline
Don't believe all you hear about communications being out due to Hurricane Katrina. Some folks had no problem reaching Tulane coach Chris Scelfo last week. "I got messages in my hotel room, so it tells me people don't understand," he said from the team's new headquarters at a Dallas Doubletree...
Football becomes refuge for exiled Tulane team
USA Today
Sunday was supposed to be game day. The football season opener for Tulane, the school with a New Orleans heart, New Orleans players, New Orleans coaches. Instead, Sunday was a time for an afternoon church service 500 miles from home...
Tulane finds a port in storm
New York Daily News
The Tulane football team had become an orphan in the storm, its players, coaches and support staff living in a hotel in Dallas, an eight-hour bus ride from New Orleans, where Hurricane Katrina slammed into its campus, destroying everything in its path. Then the beleagured players got the news from their university president Friday night that they would have a season, and would open on Sept. 17 against Mississippi State in Starkville...
Tulane's athletes may be headed here
Houston Chronicle
Dave Maggard and Bobby May, athletic directors from the University of Houston and Rice, met with officials from Tulane on Saturday to discuss allowing Green Wave athletes to enroll in school and work out at area sports facilities...
Hurricane gives heavy dose of freshman orientation
The Oregonian
A little more than a week ago, Ashley Bernards' biggest concerns were getting to know her new volleyball teammates and dealing with heat and humidity like she'd never experienced...
September 3, 2005
Tulane duo's world turns upside down
Dallas Morning News
Think your week has been rough? Try being Tulane football players Matt and Joe Traina. They have lived through Hurricane Katrina twice...
September 2, 2005
Fort Myers basketball player lucky to get back
Fort Myers News Press
Former Fort Myers High School basketball player Robinson Louisme barely escaped New Orleans before the city's destruction by Hurricane Katrina...
Tulane fall athletics in jeopardy
Alexandria (La.) Town Talk
Football games are far from the minds of Tulane University's athletes, coaches and officials, who are still trying to locate loved ones and determine whether or not they will have anything to go home to -- whenever that may be...
Athletes 'to carry torch' for Tulane: Football season is on
Houston Chronicle (AP)
Tulane football players now know what they'll be doing this fall -- playing football. University president Scott Cowen announced Friday that the university in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans would field its team as well as other athletic teams even though classes won't be possible on the campus for the fall semester...
Tulane fall athletic seasons in jeopardy
Shreveport Times
College football fans want to know when the revised schedules of Louisiana teams may be released. Meanwhile, football games are far from the minds of Tulane University's athletes, coaches and officials, who are still trying to locate loved ones and determine whether or not they will have anything to go home to -- whenever that may be...
Tulane fights for its season
Dallas Morning News
Tulane's football team, taking temporary refuge in Dallas, continued its workouts Thursday. At the same time, officials from the New Orleans private school made plans to meet today in Houston to discuss the viability of fielding athletic programs this fall...
Tulane facing an uncertain future
Baton Rouge Advocate (AP)
Lester Ricard smiles while he's around his Tulane football teammates as he tries to remain hopeful despite the uncertainty that Hurricane Katrina has brought. Ricard, Tulane's quarterback, isn't sure about the possibilities of attending classes this semester or whether his team will even play this season...
September 1, 2005
New coach tries to keep it in perspective
ESPN.com
Tulane men's basketball team will play this season. That's what first-year coach Dave Dickerson is telling his players and staff, one by one, on the phone from his own refuge point at his sister's house in Charleston, S.C...
Tulane sets up in Dallas
USA Today
Wednesday was supposed to be the first day of classes at Tulane. And a few days later, the Green Wave were to travel to Hattiesburg, Miss., for the football opener Sunday against Southern Mississippi...
Some players unable to contact families
ESPN.com
A few Tulane players who had families in the path of Hurricane Katrina have not been able to reach their relatives. Football players at LSU, Southeast Louisiana and Southern have also been affected...
Team finds refuge in North Texas
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
French fries and burgers never tasted so good. Air conditioning. Fresh sheets. It doesn't get better than this. For the 125 members of the Tulane Green Wave football team -- forced to evacuate New Orleans four days ago by Hurricane Katrina -- a life line has been extended by North Texans...
Tulane in Dallas but thoughts are of home
Dallas Morning News
Anthony Cannon was in his hotel room Wednesday, watching CNN, trying to catch up with the rest of the nation on New Orleans' tragedy when he suddenly saw the street where he lives. Or used to, anyway...
Tulane football sets up in Dallas
Dallas Morning News
The Tulane football program has a new home for at least the next three weeks: Dallas. Officials from the New Orleans school, players and other Tulane students arrived at the Doubletree Hotel at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday morning after a six-hour bus ride from Jackson, Miss., to escape the effects of Hurricane Katrina...
Tulane football team remains in Dallas
Baton Rouge Advocate
After arrving in Dallas at 3 a.m. Wednesday, the Tulane Green Wave practiced at Dallas Jesuit High School in the evening. "This is the home of Tulane football for foreseeable future," said John Sudsbury, associate director of media relations...
