February 2005 NewsStand
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February 28, 2005
Freshman's slam lifts Green Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
Freshman third baseman Brad Emaus hit a grand slam -- his first college homer -- in the sixth inning as top-ranked Tulane beat Pepperdine 7-6 on Sunday in Malibu, Calif. Pepperdine (6-6) jumped to an early 5-0 lead with a pair of runs in the first and three in the third...
February 27, 2005
Wave finishes season strong
New Orleans Times Picayune
It has been a while, but on Saturday the Tulane women's basketball players wore smiles again. After so many of its recent games had ended in disappointment, the Green Wave came away with its most convincing victory of the season, routing Southern Mississippi 79-49 in their season finale...
Turnovers again bedevil Tulane
New Orleans Times Picayune
When a team commits 20-plus turnovers on a regular basis as Tulane has this season, sometimes it's hard to pinpoint the critical turnovers. Such could have been the case Saturday night when the Green Wave committed a season-high 29 in its 87-58 Conference USA loss to Alabama-Birmingham at Bartow Arena...
Blazers flatten Green Wave
Birmingham News
Demario Eddins was streaking down court Saturday night with the basketball in his hands and the hoop in his sights when Tulane freshman guard Taylor Rochestie reached in and tried to tie Eddins up rather than give up an easy basket...
February 26, 2005
TU hopes to end on good note
New Orleans Times Picayune
After all they have been through this season, the Tulane women's basketball players and coaches were hoping for an ending to its regular season similar to the one they had a year ago. But that is no longer possible...
Green Wave freshmen make strides
New Orleans Times Picayune
For three Tulane freshmen, this basketball season has been a dream come true. They went from being the stars of their high school team last season to being members of the starting lineup on their college team this season...
February 25, 2005
Tulane to open football season with televised game
New Orleans Times Picayune
When Tulane kicks off its 2005 football season in Conference USA's new two-division realignment, its schedule will feature a lot of new faces...
Hitting is in 'eye' of the beholder
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane's Mark Hamilton knows that in order to be the hitter pitchers hate to face, he can't just swing at any pitch; he has to have "a good eye." The way Hamilton is seeing the ball these days, you could say he has two "good eyes," literally...
Blazers turn to youth as injuries stack up
Birmingham News
There was one play freshman guard Paul Delaney made in UAB's 64-62 win over Saint Louis that stood out in head coach Mike Anderson's mind. The Billikens had numbers and were streaking down the court for a sure layup when Delaney came from behind and knocked the ball out of the hands of the ballhandler and out of bounds. The play stopped a sure SLU score and made an impression on Delaney's coach and his teammates...
February 24, 2005
Miscues, fouls sink Tulane against TCU
New Orleans Times Picayune
Victories have not come easy for Tulane in Conference USA this season, and Wednesday night the Green Wave allowed a golden opportunity get away. Against Texas Christian, a team that had won once on the road in conference play, the Green Wave did everything possible to make the Horned Frogs feel at home...
Santee clued in to lead Frogs' 2nd-half surge
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Late in the first half, TCU coach Neil Dougherty pulled point guard Corey Santee aside and delivered a heavy dose of trash talk. Dougherty usually reserves such smack for the locker room, but Santee said his coach ripped into him and chastised his decisions after his lackluster play to that point...
February 23, 2005
Wave on bubble for league tourney
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane didn't go into the season thinking it was going to be in this predicament. But for the second consecutive season, qualifying for the Conference USA tournament has turned into a struggle for Shawn Finney's Green Wave...
Frogs need help for an at-large bid
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
While TCU's chances of receiving an NCAA Tournament at-large invitation have become about as probable as receiving an invitation to this weekend's Academy Awards, the Horned Frogs still have a glimmer of hope of sneaking into the postseason field...
One-on-one with Micah Owings
SouthernCollegeSports.com
Tulane pitcher / infielder Micah Owings recently took time to answer a few questions from SCS.com. Owings is one of the top players in Conference USA and will be a junior in New Orleans. After earning All-ACC honors for two seasons at Georgia Tech, the native of Georgia transfered to Tulane and was recently named a Second Team All-American by both Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball...
February 22, 2005
Wave staff will keep close eye on Ricard's wrist
New Orleans Times Picayune
A little more than three months after ending his season with a broken wrist, Tulane quarterback Lester Ricard will see how it responds today when the Green Wave hits the field for the first of its 15 spring football practices...
February 21, 2005
Tulane dominates Sun Devils again
New Orleans Times Picayune
Two swings, both toward center field, were the bookends of Tulane's 9-3 win against Arizona State on Sunday. One was a majestic whack, which shot the baseball onto the maintenance shed behind the fence...
February 20, 2005
Owings freezes Sun Devils
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tommy Manzella has been there. He'd be at shortstop, sure-handed with his Rawlings, confident he can field any baseball smacked his way. And then, suddenly, a white blur will shoot toward him, and it will end up in the left field. Micah Owings, during practice, often is the culprit...
TU's weekend woes continue
New Orleans Times Picayune
Saturdays have been one miserable day for Tulane since it began Conference USA play. The Green Wave failed to win in league playin Saturday games, and has been all but blown out in six of those games...
49ers get their 5th win in a row
New Orleans Times Picayune
In Bobby Lutz's eyes, this was unacceptable. His 23rd-ranked Charlotte men's basketball team was letting Tulane stick around in the early going Saturday night. Six minutes into the game, score 12-12, Lutz rose from his seat on the bench, crossed his arms and furled his brow...
February 19, 2005
Green Wave looking to Davis
New Orleans Times Picayune
Shortly before the start of the basketball season, Tulane point guard Marcus Kinzer said he was going to have a leadership role to play on this year's Green Wave team. After all, that is what's expected of seniors. But Kinzer pointed out that the team's "leader" wasn't going to be him. That honor, he said, was going to go to junior center Quincy Davis...
Wave rises over Devils
New Orleans Times Picayune
A week after opening the season throwing his best stuff, Tulane's Brian Bogusevic struggled a bit Friday night. But even though he didn't have his best stuff, he still was too much for Arizona State...
February 18, 2005
Tulane steps up big time
New Orleans Times Picayune
When top-ranked Tulane opens its three-game series with Arizona State tonight, it could be the Green Wave's biggest weekend home series in quite a while -- maybe ever. It will be the first time Arizona State's storied baseball program visits Tulane...
Family, formidable foe await Sun Devils
The Arizona Republic
Charlie Bordes is a native of New Orleans, starred in baseball at De La Salle High School and hit .352 in a Hall of Fame career at Louisiana Lafayette, where his teammates included Ron Guidry. His three sons were born in New Orleans, and two return this weekend with Arizona State for a series against Tulane and a Bordes homecoming...
February 17, 2005
Tulane's two of a kind spark Green Wave excitement
USA Today
With Tulane University closed for the Mardi Gras holiday Feb. 8, students emptied the campus to join thousands of other costumed revelers in New Orleans for the final day of the annual pre-Lent blowout. But at Turchin Stadium, Tulane players and coaches tossed baseballs instead of beads. With work to do before last weekend's opener, Fat Tuesday was just an ordinary day for a team promising extraordinary things this season...
New Wave in Buffalo
New Orleans Times Picayune
When Buffalo drafted former Tulane quarterback J.P. Losman last spring, General Manager Tom Donahoe said that when Bills starter Drew Bledsoe "decides that he has had enough football, we'd like to have someone ready to step in"...
Offensive mobilization prompts QB switch
Buffalo News
The desire for a more potent offense and the potential for a more mobile, playmaking quarterback prompted the Buffalo Bills to hand their quarterbacking job to J.P. Losman...
Young, inexperienced Losman takes over helm
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
The Buffalo Bills picked J.P. Losman in the first round of the 2004 NFL draft to be their quarterback of the future, and the future is now upon them...
February 16, 2005
Percentages work in Tulane's favor
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane coach Rick Jones said he knows his team's hitting has to get better. In the meantime, he'll take the timely hitting the Green Wave has managed in the late innings...
February 14, 2005
Wave fails to rebound
New Orleans Times Picayune
Despite tinkering with the plays, soul searching and heartfelt words from Coach Lisa Stockton, Tulane still doesn't appear to have it figured out. Just two days after letting a game against South Florida get away in the closing minutes, the Green Wave again squandered an opportunity Sunday afternoon, allowing Alabama-Birmingham to slip out of Fogelman Arena a 61-57 winner...
February 13, 2005
Wave pulls out wins in 8th of both games
New Orleans Times Picayune
After coasting to a victory in its season-opener Friday, top-ranked Tulane found itself tested in both games of a doubleheader with Southeast Missouri State one day later...
Memphis gets big early lead, routs Green Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
With 17 seconds remaining and Memphis' Jeremy Hunt casually dribbling the ball at half court, Tulane's Shawn Finney and Memphis' John Calipari already were shaking hands. The coaches could have saved some time and gotten the post-game hand-shaking over with at halftime...
Great day for the Tigers
Memphis Commercial-Appeal
So much for that daytime jinx. The University of Memphis showed-up for Saturday's high-noon showdown with Tulane and looked like a well-rested, fresh team...
February 12, 2005
Bogusevic 'dazzling' as Tulane defeats Southeastern Missouri
New Orleans Times Picayune
It was a beautiful night for, well, staying indoors. It was frigid, the wind was brisk and it was Happy Hour on a Friday night. But 3,664 people huddled in their coats and cuddled in the stands at Tulane's Turchin Stadium, knowing they would see a good show...
Green Wave misfires late in loss to South Florida
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane continued to hustle. The Green Wave swarmed for loose balls and leaped for rebounds. But Friday night's game ended for the Green Wave just as eight of its previous 10 games had. Tulane was unable to execute down the stretch and came away a 65-61 loser to South Florida at Fogelman Arena...
Sun puts voodoo on Tigers
Memphis Commercial-Appeal
The biggest problem isn't that the University of Memphis is coming off a huge win. Or that a letdown is predictable. Or that Tulane is overwhelming. Instead, the issue is today's tip-off, which is scheduled for ... noon...
TU finds success beyond the arc
New Orleans Times Picayune
What Tulane has done in its past two games hardly qualifies it as a bonafide 3-point shooting team, but it could be pointing the Green Wave in a new direction. Tulane made 11 3-pointers in each of its past two outings, while setting a school record in the Southern Mississippi game with 33 3-point attempts...
February 11, 2005
Armed and dangerous
New Orleans Times Picayune
When Tulane baseball coach Rick Jones looks back at his 2001 College World Series team, he talks with ease about all the qualities that drove that squad into the Green Wave's history book...
Wave falls short on boards
New Orleans Times Picayune
The statistic is a bit dumbfounding to Tulane coach Lisa Stockton. While she didn't expect the Green Wave to dominate on the boards each night, Stockton didn't envision her team being pushed around and out-hustled for rebounds, either...
February 10, 2005
Wave goes long to defeat Eagles
New Orleans Times Picayune
When Tulane lost at Southern Mississippi by one point nearly three weeks ago, Green Wave center Quincy Davis knew he and his teammates had let one get away. On Wednesday night, he said they were not going to let it happen again...
Tulane douses USM's fire 75-72
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
After another night of staying just close enough to consider victory at least a possibility, Southern Miss fell to Tulane by falling into a familiar routine. Three times Wednesday night, USM reeled the Green Wave back from double-digit leads, and the Golden Eagles had chances to take leads on a handful of occasions...
Southern Miss falls to 1-8 in Conference USA action
Hattiesburg (Miss.) American
The University of Southern Mississippi men's basketball team kept climbing up out of the hole, but once they got right to the lip, invariably they fell right back down again. The Golden Eagles had one final burst against Tulane for a chance at the end, but came up short again...
February 9, 2005
Tulane's Finney points to guard play as critical
New Orleans Times Picayune
When Tulane defeated Alabama-Birmingham three weeks ago to get its first Conference USA victory, the Green Wave didn't realize that victory came with a very heavy price tag. During the final minutes of regulation, Tulane point guard Marcus Kinzer left with a sprained right ankle...
Ambres transforms his game to fill need
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
Mildon Ambres already had left one Division I-A basketball program in search of a new home and fresh start. Suddenly, Ambres was staring at an eviction notice as his game on the court had grown stale in the eyes of Southern Miss coach Larry Eustachy...
Southern Miss seeks 2nd C-USA victory vs. Tulane
Hattiesburg (Miss.) American
Southern Mississippi's Golden Eagles already have one men's basketball win over the Tulane Green Wave this season. Tonight, they'll try for another. Southern Miss stays on the road for the second straight game, playing Tulane at New Orleans at 6:30 tonight...
February 6, 2005
Tulane again doomed by turnovers
New Orleans Times Picayune
Five minutes into Saturday night's game against South Florida, it looked as if Tulane was going to break a four-game losing streak at the Sun Dome. But that was before the Green Wave started making the Bulls look like a contender in Conference USA...
USF Puts On A Show For Former Bulls
Tampa Tribune
After a brief halftime ceremony honoring South Florida's 1990 NCAA team, the current Bulls shook hands at midcourt with the former Bulls before heading into the locker room...
February 5, 2005
Forward thinking as Stith thriving
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane coach Shawn Finney knew this season's freshman class was going to be a good one. He also felt there was one among the five that was going to stand out...
Green Wave keeps shuffling
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Four months into the season, Tulane coach Lisa Stockton still is searching for the right combination. She said she's wrecking her brain trying to put together a lineup that will mesh on the court and produce winning results...
Jesuit QB Scelfo signs with Tulane
New Orleans Times-Picayune
National Signing Day on Wednesday might have been a disappointment for Jesuit quarterback Anthony Scelfo, but it only proved to delay what he's always wanted...
February 3, 2005
Getting up to speed
New Orleans Times-Picayune
A year ago, Tulane concentrated on linemen and size. This year, the story was much different. Wednesday on National Signing Day, Tulane focused on linebackers and wide receivers. Of its 19 football signees, 10 were wideouts and linebackers...
LSU chooses glitz; Wave opts for speed
New Orleans Times-Picayune
LSU and Tulane took radically different routes to arrive at similar recruiting figures on National Signing Day on Wednesday. LSU, which had 11 early commitments, watched that figure dip to eight before an 11th-hour flurry this week...
Green Wave of recruits
New Orleans Times-Picayune
A Green Wave washed up on the northern shore of Lake Pontchartrain on Wednesday when three St. Tammany Parish football players signed grant-in-aids to attend Tulane...
Tulane signees
New Orleans Times-Picayune
RB Christian Ducre, Fontainebleau, 6-0, 200 -- All-Metro and Class 5A All-State for a semifinalist team. Has a smooth, slashing rushing style. Finished with 1,385 yards on 227 carries and scored 16 touchdowns, an average of 6.1 yards per carry...
Irvin headed to Harvard
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane backup quarterback Richard Irvin, who started the final two games of last season, has decided to transfer to Harvard for the 2005 season. Contacted Wednesday night, Irvin said the transfer will take place in the fall. He currently is enrolled at Tulane, taking a three-hour course...
Dunham star Koch relishes Tulane opportunity
Baton Rouge Advocate
Although most fans think of him as a running back, Cary Koch of The Dunham School thinks his hands may be his biggest asset as a football player. Koch used one of those hands to chart his football future as a wide receiver on Wednesday. The 6-foot, 185-pound Koch became one of 19 football signees for Tulane during an afternoon ceremony held at Dunham...
Wave catches Tigers' King
Slidell (La.) Sentry News
Slidell head coach Wayne Grubb shakes his head when asked if Brian King is fast enough to play Division I football. "It drives me crazy when a recruiter says a player's a couple inches too short or a second too slow. I look for guys that make plays. I look for football players, and that's what Brian is"...
National Signing Day off and running - Tyler Rice
Bradenton (Fla.) Herald
As Tyler Rice entered the Lakewood Ranch Athletic Department offices, he wore his Mustangs letterman jacket. But moments after walking in, he pulled off his jacket to reveal a green Tulane University T-shirt...
