November 2005 NewsStand
Dec 9, 2005 | General
Dec. 1, 2005
November 30, 2005
Wave's stormy season one for the ages
Times Picayune
It was Sunday morning, Aug. 28, when two buses showed up at Tulane to take the football team to the Superdome, a 10-minute trip down Claiborne Avenue. Chris Scelfo's Greenies were preparing for their season opener against Southern Miss, trying to keep their minds on football, not what was stirring in the Gulf of Mexico...
TU regroups after getting swamped
Times Picayune
If winning its first game by overcoming a 10-point deficit was a confidence builder for Tulane and first-year coach Dave Dickerson, losing the second game by 26 points proved to be an early wake-up call. Dickerson went into the season believing scoring could be a problem, as it was Saturday in the Green Wave's 83-57 loss to Texas A&M...
Wave's Cannon selected first-team All C-USA
Times Picayune
If winning its first game by overcoming a 10-point deficit was a confidence builder for Tulane and first-year coach Dave Dickerson, losing the second game by 26 points proved to be an early wake-up call. Dickerson went into the season believing scoring could be a problem, as it was Saturday in the Green Wave's 83-57 loss to Texas A&M...
November 29, 2005
Coach defends Tulane overturnes
Times Picayune
Ed Orgeron insists Mississippi did nothing wrong by asking a Tulane assistant coach about the possibility of players transferring to Ole Miss if the Green Wave's football team was dissolved in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath...
November 28, 2005
Tulane Baseball: Lesson Learned
RosenblattReport.com
When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast Region and the City of New Orleans, many people were displaced from their homes - some temporarily and others permanently. Like most universities in the region, Tulane was greatly affected by this weather event, and in response, sent its baseball program to Lubbock, Texas, Home of Texas Tech University...
Wave persevered, but was error-prone
Times Picayune
Tulane's 2005 season is in the books, and its game against Southern Mississippi on Saturday provided one last glimpse of a team that refused to give up...
November 27, 2005
Green Wave find closure for their autumn odyssey
ESPN.com
Less than a minute remained in the Season From Hell. A metaphorically apt rain splattered on the Tulane Green Wave. Another loss was locked up, this one against Southern Mississippi, 26-7. The Wave and the Golden Eagles were playing out the final snaps of a game that was supposed to be played Sept. 4, until everything changed on the Gulf Coast...
Green Wave's long season hits ebb
Times Picayune
At 4:56 Saturday evening, the curtain fell on Tulane's hurricane ravaged season. And just like the Green Wave's previous seven games, this one ended in a loss, a 26-7 defeat to Southern Mississippi at Roberts Stadiums in the Battle for the Bell game...
Forté flourishes, finds old form against USM
Times Picayune
For much of Tulane's season, watching running back Matt Forté was like watching a has-been comedian. You knew he once had it, but each rushing attempt floundered like a joke gone awry, each bump into the right guard's back was like a desperate tap on the microphone...
Punter Pepper passes
Times Picayune
It was perhaps the most peculiar pass completion in Tulane history. Barrett Pepper, Tulane's backup kicker serving as a punter, threw a completed, 28-yard pass to linebacker Anthony Cannon...
Southern Mississippi 26, Tulane 7
Baton Rouge Advocate (AP)
Southern Mississippi had one final chance to qualify for a bowl game and Tulane could do little to stop the Golden Eagles on Saturday. Dustin Almond threw for 276 yards and a touchdown and Darren McCaleb kicked four field goals to help Southern Miss become bowl eligible in a 26-7 victory over the Green Wave in a game pushed back by Hurricane Katrina...
Tulane's long year ends with defeat
Tulane's long year ends with defeat (AP)
Southern Mississippi had one final chance to qualify for a bowl game and Tulane could do little to stop the Golden Eagles on Saturday. Dustin Almond threw for 276 yards and a touchdown and Darren McCaleb kicked four field goals to help Southern Miss become bowl eligible in a 26-7 victory over the Green Wave in a game pushed back by Hurricane Katrina...
Maroon-clad Aggies topple Tulane, 83-57
Bryan-College Station (Texas) Eagle
The Aggies wore different-colored jerseys, but they still looked at home. With Tulane playing the role of the "home" team, Texas A&M used its home-court advantage to beat the Green Wave, 83-57, in nonconference men's basketball action Saturday at Reed Arena...
A&M merciless host to Tulane
San Antonio (Texas) Express-News
Texas A&M opened its doors to Tulane in September in the devastating wake of Hurricane Katrina. Since then, members of the Green Wave's six teams relocated from New Orleans to College Station have lauded the Aggies for their hospitality...
Eagles notch 6th victory, cross fingers
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
Southern Miss coach Jeff Bower strode into the postgame interview room, took a seat at the table in front of the room and succinctly summed up the feelings of Golden Eagles players and fans alike...
Tulane players relieved to see season end
Hattiesburg (Miss.) American
The long march is finally over for Tulane University. After traveling over 8,000 miles on a 96-day road trip to play 11 games in 11 different cities, the Green Wave's tortuous 2005 football season is finally, mercifully, over. Tulane completed its season Saturday with a 26-7 loss to Southern Mississippi, finishing 2-9 overall and 1-7 in Conference USA...
McCaleb helps Eagles boot Wave
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun Herald
Darren McCaleb kicked three first-half field goals as Southern Miss became bowl eligible Saturday with a 26-7 win over Tulane before a rain-soaked M.M. Roberts Stadium crowd of 21,163...
November 26, 2005
Wave hopes to build on victory
Times Picayune
A come-from-behind victory against cross-town rival UNO got Dave Dickerson's Tulane team started in the right direction. But it wasn't the fact the Green Wave overcame a 10-point deficit in the second half, or that Tulane proved it has a strong bench that had Dickerson beaming. For Dickerson, it was all about winning, period...
Tulane to end season at Southern Miss
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane and Southern Mississippi were scheduled to start the season against each other, but instead they'll end it against each other at 2 p.m. today in Hattiesburg, Miss. The threat from Hurricane Katrina postponed the game and ever since little has gone the way either team expected...
Golden Eagles to tangle with weary Tulane
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun Herald
On one hand, you have Southern Miss looking to secure a non-losing season and perhaps a bowl berth. On the other hand, you have Tulane attempting to salvage its season...
Ags take short road trip; Tulane to host
Bryan/College Station (Texas) Eagle
On Tuesday, The Tulane men's basketball team won its season opener at home - 440 miles away from home. On Saturday, the Green Wave will play another home game, this one against the home team. Because of the rare set of circumstances created by Hurricane Katrina and aided by the hospitality of Texas A&M, Tulane will host the Aggies on Saturday at Reed Arena. Tip is set for 7 p.m...
Tulane at end of the road
Dallas (Texas) Morning News
One team saw adversity land on its doorstep. Another lived with it all season. Even though the results have been vastly different for LSU and Tulane, they share the common bond of people whose lives were altered by Hurricane Katrina...
Tulane seals team concept with new uniforms
San Antonio (Texas) Express-News
With all they have been through the past three months, the members of Tulane's men's basketball program have felt like a true team for some time. On Monday, the Green Wave finally looked like a team...
November 25, 2005
Travels, travails test Tulane
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
Imagine a fallow football season with many of the few folk cheering you doing so out of sympathy as you play every week in another stadium that isn't yours. And that's the good part...
Pitchers focus of Wave early signees
Times Picayune
During the early signing period in baseball, Tulane targeted one position across two states. By contrast, LSU targeted every position everywhere...
November 23, 2005
TU coach makes sweet debut
Times Picayune
No matter the circumstances, no matter the setting, it's always sweet to beat your cross-town rival -- particularly when you've lost three consecutive games to them and are playing your first game with a new coach. That's what Tulane did Tuesday, rallying from 10 points down early in the second half to defeat UNO 77-66 in Dave Dickerson's debut as Green Wave coach...
Green Wave hopes to rise up once more
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
The numbers indicate Tulane has struggled this season on the football field. The good news for the Green Wave is their next opponent - Southern Miss - has struggled, as well. Displaced from their New Orleans home since Hurricane Katrina flooded the Big Easy, the Green Wave has lost seven straight games since beating Southeastern Louisiana 28-21 in Baton Rouge on Oct. 1...
Tulane football team honored
Times Picayune
Tulane's football team was honored by the Football Writers Association of America on Tuesday with the 2005 Courage Award. The national award, sponsored by the FedEx Orange Bowl, is given annually to someone in college football who displays extraordinary courage in the face of adversity...
Wave defense has been offensive
Times Picayune
In Tulane's first two games this season, its defense looked like it was going to be a difference-maker. The Green Wave went into its third game leading the nation in defense. As the Wave prepares for its final game of the season Saturday at Southern Miss, Tulane defensive coordinator Eric Schumann is left wondering what has happened...
Cannon, Coley near end
Times Picayune
Coming soon to Conference USA locker rooms: Less wincing during video sessions, shorter lines for training rooms and a rediscovery of swagger by running backs. Yes, linebackers Anthony Cannon of Tulane and Kevis Coley of Southern Mississippi are seniors, playing in their final regular-season games Saturday in Hattiesburg, Miss...
Tulane tops UNO in basketball opener
Baton Rouge Advocate
The surroundings were a little different, the fans had a noticeable Texas drawl and the court featured neither a Green Wave or a Privateer in sight. None of that mattered to Tulane as it opened the Dave Dickerson era with a 77-66 win over crosstown rival University of New Orleans Tuesday afternoon at Reed Arena on the campus of Texas A&M University...
Season, careers almost over
Baton Rouge Advocate
Fifteen Tulane seniors will conclude their careers and a season unlike any other when the Green Wave plays its season finale at Southern Miss on Saturday. This game, like the entire season, won't be played as scheduled. It was supposed to be the season opener Sept. 4, but Hurricane Katrina changed that...
Lengthy season for Tulane near end
Monroe News Star
Tulane's long grueling season -- and its stay in Ruston -- are about to come to an end. The Green Wave (2-8) finish their season Saturday at Southern Mississippi (5-5), ending one of the toughest football campaigns in college history. After starting the season 2-1, Tulane has lost seven straight and hopes to end the trying season on a winning note and knock the Golden Eagles from bowl contention...
Tulane defeats New Orleans
Bryan-College Station (Texas) Eagle
The Tulane Green Wave men's basketball team opened the Dave Dickerson era with a 77-66 victory over crosstown rival New Orleans on Tuesday afternoon at Reed Arena before 612. The game between the New Orleans-based schools was originally scheduled at Tulane's Fogelman Arena, but that changed by Hurricane Katrina...
November 22, 2005
Tulane thankful for teammates this holiday
Texas Tech Toreador
Tulane women's basketball coach Lisa Stockton has spent Thanksgiving in Alaska, New Orleans and Puerto Rico. This year she will spend the holiday at the Lubbock Country Club with her team...
Life lessons larger than victories for Dickerson
Baltimore Sun
The Maryland men's basketball team is enjoying a trip to Hawaii this week. The Terps are playing some of the best teams in the country, not far from some of the nicest beaches...
Tulane's Dickerson ready
Times Picayune
When Dave Dickerson was handed the reins to Tulane's men's basketball program in April, he expressed a desire to win right away. He said he didn't want the program to undergo another rebuilding period. Having spent the past three months in College Station, Texas with his team after fleeing Hurricane Katrina, Dickerson still would like to win immediately...
Ole Miss coach contacted Green Wave
Times Picayune
Ole Miss athletic director Pete Boone this past weekend admitted one of his school's assistant football coaches contacted a Tulane assistant regarding Green Wave players possibly transferring after the season. Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson said Monday he would not respond to Boone's explanation for why it happened...
Tulane, UNO renew rivalry away from home
Baton Rouge Advocate
The Tulane and University of New Orleans men's basketball teams resume their crosstown rivalry at 4 p.m. today in College Station, Texas. With both of their campuses shut down because of Hurricane Katrina, the home-standing Green Wave is based at Texas A&M and the Privateers are based at the University of Texas at Tyler...
Tulane looks for sense of normalcy
Dallas (Texas) Morning News
Gary Williams wasn't much help. Dave Dickerson, Williams' longtime assistant at Maryland, expected to turn to his mentor for advice during his first season as a head coach. But coping with one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history? Relocating to another campus to practice and play? Williams couldn't offer any perspective. Nor could anyone else, for that matter...
November 21, 2005
Inconsistent efforts are hurting Tulane
Times Picayune
No one can debate the consistent effort Tulane's players have given this season, but in spite of it, the inconsistency on offense and the breakdowns on defense have led to a seven-game losing streak and 2-8 record. Sitting and watching the Green Wave game after game, you wait for the big production on offense and the gang tackling on defense. With just one game remaining, you're still waiting for it to happen...
November 20, 2005
Beckhman's father takes in the action vs. Tulsa
Times Picayune
Bob Beckman was tiresome or tireless -- depending on one's perspective -- sitting on a chilly afternoon at his son's football game. He normally arrives early, bypassing friends who are tailgating, to watch his son, Chris, punt during warmups. On Saturday, Bob Beckman arrived near kickoff...
Familiar script as TU loses seventh in a row
Times Picayune
Tulane's 38-14 Conference USA loss to Tulsa on Saturday at Malone Stadium was nearly a repeat of the scenario the Green Wave faced a few weeks ago. Tulane's defense gave up some big plays early to the Golden Hurricanes, and its offense wasn't able to sustain drives to keep it in the game...
Tulsa pounds Tulane, 38-14
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulsa used 28 first-half points to jump ahead of Tulane on route to a 38-14 victory Saturday afternoon at Malone Stadium. The Green Wave was playing its 10th game in its 10th different stadium after being displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Tulsa (7-4, 6-2 Conference USA) scored on its first play of the game -- a 48-yard connection between Paul Smith and Ashlan Davis with 14:52 to go...
Wave's year gets worse
Monroe News Star
First Katrina. Then Rita and Wilma -- and now, Tulsa. Tulane's football team has had its fill of hurricanes this season, and Saturday was no exception. The Golden Hurricane stormed out early and never looked back as Tulsa downed Tulane 38-14 before an announced crowd of 10,306 at Malone Stadium. Tulsa climbed to 7-4 overall and 6-2 in Conference USA while Tulane fell to 2-8 and 1-6...
Cougars advance to final with victory over Tulane
Houston (Texas) Chronicle
Houston ended Tulane's Cinderella run with a 30-20, 30-22, 30-27 win in a semifinal match at the Conference USA volleyball tournament on Saturday at Autry Court...
November 19, 2005
Wave women win opener
Times Picayune
Freshman forward Kendra Barnes had 18 points and 12 rebounds in her first collegiate game, and sophomore forward Jennifer Sands scored a career-high 24 points as the Tulane women fought off a second-half rally by Howard to win their season opener 84-79 at Lubbock Christian University on Friday...
Tulane to play in 10th different stadium today
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane's long, strange journey is nearing an end, but it still has two of Conference USA's better teams awaiting it. The travel-tested Green Wave (1-5 C-USA, 2-7 overall after losing six in a row) plays Tulsa (5-2, 6-4) at 1 p.m. today at Malone Stadium in Monroe...
Tulane to take on Tulsa
Monroe News Star
The toll this season has taken on New Orleans-based Tulane is obvious. Green Wave coach Chris Scelfo, who played center at what was then Northeast Louisiana, said most of his players have dropped weight as this year has worn on. That happens when you've lost your school, your home, and your town...
November 18, 2005
Indians add former Tulane standout Michael Aubrey to 40-man roster
MLB.com
The Indians added five Minor Leaguers to their 40-man roster Friday when they purchased the contracts of former Tulane first baseman Michael Aubrey, along with outfielder Brad Snyder and pitchers Brian Slocum, Edward Mujica and Rafael Perez...
Braves add former Green Wave infielder James Jurries to 40-man
MLB.com
The Atlanta Braves signed right-handed pitcher Brad Baker as a minor-league free agent and purchased the contracts of right-handed pitcher Jose Ascanio; infielders James Jurries and Martin Prado; and outfielder Josh Burrus. Outfielder Billy McCarthy was sent outright to Richmond (AAA). The Braves now have 38 spots filled on their 40-man roster...
Young Wave feels like they know each other
New Orleans Times-Picayune
The season's getting-to-know-you period was quickly enhanced when the basketball team in green was moved to a campus where the dress code is red. After Hurricane Katrina, the Tulane women's basketball team was stuffed onto a dorm floor at Texas Tech. Free time became an oxymoron. But perhaps that's a good thing for the senior-less team, featuring three new starters...
Tulane wins C-USA tournament opener
Baton Rouge Advocate
Conference USA Freshman of the Year Sara Radosevic had a match-high 26 kills and C-USA All-Freshman team honoree Luna Rebrovic posted a double-double with 56 assists and 12 digs as the Tulane volleyball team upended host and sixth-seeded Rice, 3-2, in the opening round of the 2005 Conference USA Championship Thursday...
Tulane surprises sixth-seeded Rice
Houston (Texas) Chronicle
Coming into Thursday's first-round match of the Conference USA volleyball tournament, 11th-seeded Tulane hadn't won a game against Rice in two tries this season. Tulane won more than just one game against the Owls on Thursday night, upsetting sixth-seeded Rice 31-33, 30-23, 30-27, 18-30, 15-13 to advance to the C-USA quarterfinals at Autry Court...
Former Tulane QB Losman to start against San Diego
NFL.com
J.P. Losman will start for the Buffalo Bills against San Diego after Kelly Holcomb missed his third straight practice since getting a concussion. Coach Mike Mularkey said that he expected Holcomb to be medically cleared for the game, but wasn't sure if he would serve as Losman's backup or be relegated to No. 3 status...
November 16, 2005
Elliott compares favorably to other Tulane standouts
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane redshirt freshman quarterback Scott Elliott arrived with less fanfare than most of his recent predecessors, but when he got his first chance to start he compared favorably with them. Elliott, who began the season as little more than an afterthought behind incumbent Lester Ricard, excelled in his first start Saturday. He completed 22-of-37 for 298 yards and three touchdowns in a 42-34 loss to Rice in Houston...
TU punter's condition improves
Times Picayune
Tulane coach Chris Scelfo had been through hurricane displacement, uncertainty of even having a season and then the longest losing streak of his coaching career. That was nothing. The accidental shooting of Tulane punter Chris Beckman was the latest, and most sobering, of the scares this fall...
TU auditions punters
Times Picayune
When Tulane lost punter Chris Beckman for the final two games of the season because of a hunting-related gunshot wound, the Green Wave lost a special teams maven. Tulane continued preparation for its game against Tulsa on Saturday in Monroe, working several players at punter and trying out holders for field-goal and extra-point attempts...
November 15, 2005
Beckman expected to survive gunshot wound
Times Picayune
Tulane punter Chris Beckman remained hospitalized Monday while Lincoln Parish officials continued their investigation into a shooting incident that left Beckman with a gunshot wound to the abdomen...
November 14, 2005
Green Wave missed an opportunity
Times Picayune
Tulane's 42-34 loss to Rice on Saturday wasn't just another loss, it was the ultimate insult to injury for the Green Wave players and coaching staff. It was another week of hard work and preparation to be rewarded with defeat. But this time it was to an opponent that had the longest losing streak in Division I-A (14 games)...
Beckhman hospitalized in critical condition
Times Picayune
Tulane all-conference punter Chris Beckman was in a local hospital Sunday night after suffering a gunshot wound to the stomach in a hunting accident earlier in the day...
November 13, 2005
Backup QB stars in first lead role
Times Picayune
The opening act stepped on the stage and didn't let go of the mike. Tulane quarterback Lester Ricard was expected to get playing time, but Scott Elliott started the game with a scoring drive and continued to play well for most of the afternoon...
Freshman receiver grabs attention
Times Picayune
On a key third-and-seven, Tulane quarterback Scott Elliott lobbed a pass toward Rice cornerback Carl Taylor, and the Green Wave's Cary Koch suddenly popped into the air and snagged the ball for a 31-yard catch at the Owls' 46-yard line. Trailing 21-17, Tulane scored a touchdown five plays later to take the lead going into halftime...
Rice starts cooking against Wave
Times Picayune
Just when it appeared things couldn't get worse for Tulane, it did Saturday against Rice. Rice, which entered with a 14-game losing streak, the longest in Division I-A, took advantage of the Green Wave's inability to stop the run and handed Tulane its sixth consecutive loss, 42-34, at Rice Stadium...
Rice ends nation's longest losing streak at Tulane's expense
Baton Rouge Advocate (AP)
John Wall rushed for 156 yards and three touchdowns as Rice rolled up 392 yards on the ground and ended the nation's longest losing streak at 14 games with a 42-34 victory over Tulane on Saturday...
Owls stop Tulane to snap streak at 14
Houston (Texas) Chronicle
So much time had elapsed between Saturday and the last time Rice enjoyed the sweet taste of success that coach Ken Hatfield was concerned that his team had forgotten the words to The Old Gray Bonnet -- the song the Owls sing following victories...
November 12, 2005
Tulane At Rice
Times Picayune
A proud bunch featuring three six seniors, the defense was embarrassed this past Saturday at Navy, allowing four first-quarter touchdowns against a team it stymied in 2004. Entering that game, opponents had scored a combined 31 first-quarter points all season...
Wave's pride on line vs. Owls
Times Picayune
Long before Tulane hit its current low point, a five-game losing streak, Green Wave coach Chris Scelfo said he was certain the team's character was strong enough to carry it through tough times. Scelfo will find out today how well he knows his team...
Tulane athletics keep student's spirits rallied
Houston (Texas) Chronicle
They came from Atlanta and New York and points in between to party at their home away from home. While Rice University celebrated homecoming Saturday, about 400 people with ties to hurricane-damaged Tulane University reunited beneath a green-and-white tent outside Rice Stadium. Over beers and barbecue, the students, alumni and faculty members talked of overcoming Katrina's wrath...
November 11, 2005
Brown putting on a show
Times Picayune
Melik Brown got the call shortly before kickoff. It was his younger brother, Preston, a Tulane receiver preparing to play Texas El-Paso on ESPN...
Defensive tackle commits to Tulane
Times Picayune
Quencey Patrick hasn't seen the water marks ringing the buildings on Tulane's campus. He hasn't seen the desolate streets in New Orleans that are usually teeming with traffic. If fact, he has never even been to the Crescent City. But that did not dissuade Patrick from making an early commitment to Tulane's football program...
Tulane volleyball team to play Tulsa, SMU
Bryan-College Station (Texas) Eagle
The Tulane University volleyball team will close out the 2005 regular season when the Green Wave plays Conference USA foes Tulsa and SMU on Friday and Sunday, respectively, at G. Rollie White Coliseum. These are the last matches until the Conference USA Tournament, which starts Thursday, at Rice's Autry Court in Houston...
November 10, 2005
Elliott looking forward to possible first start
Victoria (Texas) Advocate
It really is dej vu all over again for Scott Elliott. The Bay City graduate may be getting his first start at quarterback on Saturday when Tulane visits Houston for a 2 p.m. Conference USA game against the Rice Owls at Rice Stadium...
Backup Elliott to get first start
Times Picayune
Asked about becoming Tulane's starting quarterback, Scott Elliott said, "I never wanted to be too confident or cocky about it, but I was always just going to wait my turn and try to learn what I could while I had a chance to prepare." The catch? He was referring to 2007...
TU players contacted about transferring
Times Picayune
Tulane football coach Chris Scelfo, in an article that appeared on CBS SportsLine.com on Wednesday, said some of his players have been contacted about transferring out of the Green Wave's program. Scelfo would not elaborate on the article following the team's practice Wednesday...
For Rice, Tulane, win tops wish list
Houston Chronicle
The benevolence is something members of the Tulane football program won't soon forget. The $50,000 Navy added to the guaranteed money Tulane received for playing at Annapolis, Md., last weekend was a nice touch, as was providing free bus transportation for the Green Wave. The Baltimore Wyndham Hotel also chipped in by providing complimentary rooms for the traveling party...
November 9, 2005
Despite its ugly record, Wave still wary of Rice
Times Picayune
Tulane, struggling mightily and needing a spark, plays Rice on Saturday. Does Micah Owings still have eligibility? The Tulane pitcher dominated Rice in the baseball Super Regional, and the Green Wave football team (2-6, 1-4 in Conference USA) is looking for something, anything, to shut down Rice's offense. Well, how about the fact that it's against 0-8 Rice's offense?...
Wave getting run over
Times Picayune
Last Saturday, Tulane coach Chris Scelfo found out his defense wasn't prepared to stop Navy's option offense. After a 49-21 loss, the Green Wave will get a chance to redeem itself this week when it travels to Houston to play Rice, which also runs the option...
Tulane seeks more quarterback consistency
Baton Rouge Advocate
Quarterback was one of the last positions that figured to be unsettled for Tulane eight games into this season. But unsettled is exactly what it is as the Green Wave (2-6 after losing five games in a row) prepares to play at Rice on Saturday. Junior Lester Ricard, who seemed to have a stranglehold on the position after an outstanding second half of last season, has struggled virtually all of this season...
Tulane moving forward after Navy loss
Monroe News Star
After Saturday's 49-21 drubbing at Navy, Tulane coach Chris Scelfo is hoping to quickly turn the page. The Green Wave (2-6 overall, 1-4 in Conference USA) are in the midst of a five-game losing streak. If the Green Wave are to break that streak against winless Rice (0-8, 0-5), they must forget the meltdown at Navy...
November 8, 2005
Scelfo pondering QB swap
Times Picayune
There seems to be some uncertainty concerning the Tulane starting quarterback position and Lester Ricard. On Monday, Tulane coach Chris Scelfo would not say whether a decision has been made to go with redshirt freshman Scott Elliott in the starting position, but made it known the coaches are contemplating a move for this Saturday's Conference USA game at Rice...
Basketball preview: Conference USA
CBS Sportsline.com
It's hard to say who was the biggest winner of the ACC's predatory attack of the Big East, which sent league dominoes falling all over America. The ACC is better in football. The Big East is better in basketball. Who won? Who knows?...
Tech spirit organizations wearing red and green
The Daily Toreador (Lubbock, Texas)
Texas Tech's spirit organizations will try to make the Tulane women's basketball team feel at home for tonight's game between the Tulane Green Wave and the Houston Jaguars. The Court Jesters, cheerleaders and Fro Bros are a few of Tech's spirit groups that have made adjustments to support Tulane for tonight's game...
November 7, 2005
After Navy loss, it's doubtful Green Wave can right ship
Times Picayune
Until this past Saturday afternoon, Tulane deserved the benefit of the doubt. This team has so much more talent than the 2004 squad that one had to feel that, although it was getting late in the season, the Green Wave would wake up and put it together...
Tulane's Kuehn wins two tennis titles
Bryan-College Station (Texas) Eagle
Tulane senior Jenny Kuehn won the singles title and teamed up with junior Erika Valdes to win the doubles championship in the final day of the Wells Fargo/Hurricane Katrina Fundraiser Tournament on Sunday at the Mitchell Tennis Center...
Memphis volleyball team tops Tulane in 4
Bryan-College Station (Texas) Eagle
Tulane's Sara Radosevic had 20 kills and setter Luna Rebrovic had 53 assists, but it was not enough as Memphis defeated Tulane, 30-32, 30-23, 30-19, 30-21 in Conference USA volleyball action Sunday...
November 6, 2005
Wave offers no resistance to Midshipmen
Times Picayune
Tulane coach Chris Scelfo had no clue as to how much truth could be hidden in a simple statement. When commenting midweek on Navy athletic director Chet Gladchuk's adding $50,000 to the Green Wave's game check, Scelfo said, "Chet just wants to make sure we show up because he knows it's an easy win for (Navy coach) Paul (Johnson)." No kidding...
Tulane back saves best for last
Times Picayune
Tulane's running game finally produced its first 100-yard rusher this season, but the success on the ground came too late to have an effect on the outcome. Green Wave senior running back Jovon Jackson finished with 101 yards in Saturday's 49-21 loss to Navy. Jackson had 65 yards in the fourth quarter...
Navy cuts Tulane visit short
Baltimore (Md.) Sun
Once the ball was kicked off yesterday, Navy wasn't doing Tulane any favors. With representatives of two bowl games watching, the Midshipmen rolled to a 35-point lead in little more than 19 minutes and made the remainder of the game an exercise in running out the clock as they cruised to a 49-21 homecoming victory before 33,608 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium...
Mids roll to homecoming rout of Tulane
Annapolis (Md.) Capitol
Navy could not have treated the Tulane football team any better during its trip to Annapolis, covering all of Tulane's travel costs. Head coach Paul Johnson said the hospitality would cease for 60 minutes on Saturday. He wasn't kidding...
November 5, 2005
Wave of emotion
Washington (D.C.) Times
It is a season-long road trip thanks to the most expensive natural disaster in American history. The Tulane football team is in the midst of an odyssey in which it will play its 11 games in 11 cities. All the while, the team is based 250 miles from its New Orleans home...
Green Wave not accepting excuses
Times Picayune
Going into its first game this season, Tulane's football team had a built-in excuse if it failed this year: It had been worn down by travel after it was forced to relocate following Hurricane Katrina...
Tulane athletics again under scrutiny
Times Picayune
The emotions, suppressed in 2003, have resurfaced. At Tulane, fright and uncertainty surrounded the athletic program in 2003, while a comprehensive review determined its future. That summer, the Tulane Board of Trustees ultimately voted to keep athletics in Division I-A. But in a post-Katrina New Orleans, Tulane athletics, like most other local organizations, is under analysis...
Ricard, Tulane look to sink Navy again
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane goes into its nonconference game against Navy today in Annapolis, Md., hoping to turn things around the way it did against the Midshipmen last season. The Green Wave had lost four of its last five games when it routed Navy 42-10 last season, starting a three-game winning streak...
Navy plans to end giving
Baltimore (Md.) Sun
Navy is hoping its generosity toward Tulane stops at kickoff time today in its annual homecoming game. After suffering their worst defeat of the season last weekend, the Midshipmen need to rebound against a Tulane team turned into a vagabond by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and playing for the first time this season in a game not altered because of weather...
Tulane coach stays upbeat despite turmoil
Annapolis (Md.) Capitol
Tulane's football team has been displaced from its New Orleans home and forced to play 11 games in 11 different stadiums. Yet head coach Chris Scelfo has maintained his sense of humor despite the difficult circumstances brought on by Hurricane Katrina. Scelfo said this week that Navy head coach Paul Johnson called him in early September to offer support. According to Scelfo, Johnson promised to abandon Navy's vaunted triple-option offense when the teams met in November...
Navy faces road-weary Tulane
Annapolis (Md.) Capitol
There's a Johnny Cash song titled "I've Been Everywhere." Between the chorus, the late country singer rattled off all the cities he's visited during a long career. Tulane football coach Chris Scelfo could sing a similar tune after this season...
Tulane tennis team opens well at tournament
Bryan-College Station (Texas) Eaglel
Senior Jenny Kuehn, junior Erika Valdes and freshman Joyce Ardies advanced to the quarterfinals as the Tulane University women's tennis team enjoyed a solid outing in day one of the Wells Fargo/Hurricane Katrina Fundraiser Tournament Friday at the Mitchell Tennis Center at Texas A&M University...
Green Wave tennis players fall at fund-raiser tourney
Bryan-College Station (Texas) Eaglel
The Green Wave got off to a rocky start, dropping all five singles matches in day one of the Wells Fargo/Hurricane Katrina Fund-raiser Tournament Friday at Pebble Creek Country Club...
November 4, 2005
Young Navy team trying to shape up
Times Picayune
Navy's 2004 was resplendent -- there was the pummeling of archrival Army, a bowl win and a national coaching award. But 2004's exclamation point quickly slumped into a question mark. The 10-2 Navy team lost 36 letter winners, including 17 players who started on offense and defense...
Tulane's moving experience
Baltimore (Md.) Sun
The football player is older than he looks and younger than he feels. He bent down near the sideline and touched the turf at Ladd-Peebles Stadium. He pressed two fingers onto the spongy, plastic grass. So this is what home feels like? For the weekend, it was to be Tulane's home field, 150 miles from the school's water-stained campus...
Navy wary of Tulane's air assault
Annapolis (Md.) Capitol
Navy defender Jeremy McGown does not have fond memories of last year's game against Tulane. That's understandable considering McGown was part of a secondary that got torched by Green Wave quarterback Lester Ricard. Ricard was on fire that night in the Louisiana SuperDome, completing 18 of 19 passes for 323 yards and four touchdowns to key a 42-10 Tulane rout...
C-USA Blitz: Don't count out Tulane
GatorBait.net
Recruiting was thought to be a struggle at best for Tulane after Hurricane Katrina, but the coaching staff is still hard at work and that effort has helped them land their second known commitment of the 2006 class...
November 3, 2005
Tulane, Walshe blown off course
Boston (Mass.) Globe
When you grow up in New England, as Alison Walshe did, it's unfathomable to consider your belongings completely submerged. When she was told to evacuate her off-campus residence at Tulane University because of some hurricane named Katrina, Walshe was unconcerned. She grabbed a couple of her favorite golf clubs, the ones that had helped her become the Conference USA Player of the Year in 2004, and left almost everything else behind...
Green Wave's offensive line has struggled
Times Picayune
For three years, the Tulane faithful prophesized from their barstools or in Green Wave Internet chat rooms: Next year, they always said, the offensive line will thrive.This was supposed to be next year...
Wave to play UNO twice
Times Picayune
Following two months of shifting dates and sites, Tulane released its men's basketball schedule Wednesday, three weeks before its "home" opener. The Green Wave's men's team, which relocated to Texas A&M after Hurricane Katrina, will begin its season in College Station, Texas, against cross-town rival UNO on Nov. 22...
Tulane men's hoops will be in New Orleans
ESPN.com
Tulane will be back in New Orleans for basketball season. The Tulane men will play 10 games, including the entire Conference USA home schedule on campus at Fogelman Arena, located in the center of the school's New Orleans campus. The Green Wave's first home game in New Orleans is scheduled for Dec. 27 against Richmond...
Tulane basketball returning for home games in New Orleans
The Sports Network (AP)
Tulane University announced it will play 10 games at its campus home, Fogelman Arena, located in New Orleans. The school waited until Wednesday to announced the revised schedule after Hurricane Katrina forced a relocation of some of the team's home games...
Tulane basketball team sets four games at A&M
Bryan-College Station (Texas) Eagle
The Tulane men's basketball team will play four games at Reed Arena, the school announced Wednesday. Tulane will open the season Nov. 22 against New Orleans at Reed Arena at 4 p.m...
Navy pays for Tulane's trip to Annapolis
Alexandria Town Talk (AP)
Navy will cover the cost of the Tulane football team's trip to Annapolis this weekend, a gift that should save the financially strapped program up to $200,000. Navy athletic director Chet Gladchuk, who served as Tulane's AD from 1987-90, made the offer to help Tulane cope with the destruction its campus sustained from Hurricane Katrina...
November 2, 2005
Navy helps to bail out Green Wave
Times Picayune
When Tulane travels to Navy this weekend, the Green Wave will get some much-needed financial help from an old friend -- former Tulane athletic director Chet Gladchuk, now Navy's athletic director. Gladchuk, along with academy superintendent Adm. Rodney Rempt, spearheaded a drive that led to Navy's increasing its guarantee to Tulane by $50,000 for its road game...
Scelfo hopes Tulane maintains big-play defense
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane coach Chris Scelfo has been pleading with his defense for weeks to start creating turnovers. Safety Tra Boger and cornerback Bruce Youmans finally delivered for him Saturday as each returned an interception for a touchdown. Boger also made a second interception. The takeaways went for naught as the Green Wave lost to Marshall, 27-26, but the breakthrough was still significant...
Tulane readies for Navy's triple option
Monroe News Star
Tulane's defense will be challenged this Saturday when the Green Wave face Navy in a non-conference game. Navy (4-3) is one of the few teams left in the country that still runs a true triple option. The Midshipmen are averaging 263.3 yards per game on the ground and rank fourth in the country...
Navy to Tulane: It's on the house
Baltimore (Md.) Sun
The Naval Academy has extended a big helping hand to a fellow institution made homeless by Hurricane Katrina. When New Orleans-based Tulane University visits Saturday for the Midshipmen's homecoming game, it will truly be the honored guest, courtesy of the academy...
Navy picks up travel costs for Tulane
Annapolis (Md.) Capitol
Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson hasn't held a staff meeting in months. When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, it essentially shut down the university that has been based there since 1834. With its facilities destroyed or damaged, Tulane's entire athletic department has been forced to pick up and move...
November 1, 2005
Selling Hope
Times Picayune
On most Fridays during football season, Tulane coaches fan out across Louisiana and the region to search for high schools prospects that can make a difference in the Green Wave's program. Today, Tulane is adjusting to tough and different times...
Second-half blues
Times Picayune
Tulane coach Chris Scelfo has reviewed game film, he's analyzed game plans, and still, with only a month left in the season, he can't figure out why the Green Wave is on a four-game losing streak...
