May 2005 NewsStand
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May 31, 2005
High expectations
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane is not only the No. 1 ranked baseball team in the country, but it might also be the best at hiding its emotions. When the Green Wave was announced as the No. 1 national seed of the NCAA Tournament on Monday, the jubilation was more subdued than when it clinched its fourth Conference USA regular-season title 12 days ago...
Reluctant Rehab
New Orleans Times Picayune
Wednesday, like most days, is a shadow creeping along the hardwood floor -- slow, aimless and in a few hours, faded and forgotten. "Here I sit," M.L. LaGarde said with comedic delivery, proof a recent hospital stay didn't touch his sense of humor. "I don't know when I'm going back to work, but I know I'm going. (Athletic Director) Rick Dickson calls and asks about that. 'Pop, how you doing?' Hey, I'm doing OK. I just need to go do something...
Tulane takes top overall seed in stride
Baton Rouge Advocate
The Tulane baseball team was scattered around its clubhouse, watching the announcement on a big-screen TV on Monday morning when it learned it was the No. 1 national seed in the NCAA baseball tournament...
Southern, ULL headed to N.O.
Baton Rouge Advocate
Southern baseball players Joshua Kirk (front left), and Brandon Revis (front right) react to the announcement that the Jaguars will play top overall seed Tulane in the NCAA regional Friday. Southern's NCAA baseball tournament destination was the first announced Monday morning, with the Jaguars matched with No. 1 national seed Tulane in New Orleans...
SU not necessarily bottom seed
Baton Rouge Advocate
Unlike the NCAA men's basketball tournament, the baseball tournament is based more on placing teams within their geographic region. That being the case, though Southern (29-16) has drawn the No. 1 overall seed in Tulane (50-9), that doesn't necessarily mean the Jaguars are the 64th seed...
New Orleans, Tulane matchup await Tide
The Birmingham News
An asterisk came packaged with Alabama's invitation to the NCAA Baseball Regionals on Monday morning: The disclaimer: Must travel to No. 1 national seed Tulane. "What is it you're supposed to say - we're happy to be here?" Crimson Tide coach Jim Wells said. "We'll play it one pitch at a time?"...
UL bound for Big Easy
Lafayette (La.) Daily Advertiser
They didn't have to wait very long. The first order of wings had barely hit the tables at Buffalo Wild Wings Monday morning, and Louisiana's Ragin' Cajun baseball team already knew its fate in the NCAA Tournament...
Tide must deal with tough draw
Mobile (Ala.) Register
No excitement greeted Alabama's announcement to the NCAA tournament field on the big screen at the team's get-together. Seconds after the selection show opened, Tulane appeared as the national No. 1 seed, and moments later, there was the Crimson Tide as the No. 2 seed in New Orleans, matched against Louisiana-Lafayette (47-17)...
Tide's reward: Tough bracket
Huntsville (Ala.) Times
Bama in regional with No. 1 national seed Tulane: The hope expressed last week by Alabama baseball coach Jim Wells was for a "favorable regional" for the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament. Uh, sorry, Jim...
Tide to play in New Orleans regional as No. 2 seed
Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News
When a team makes the NCAA Baseball Tournament, it looks forward to facing the No. 1 national seed -- as long as it's in Omaha. The University of Alabama Crimson Tide, however, will get a somewhat earlier exposure to No. 1...
May 30, 2005
LSU, Tulane staying home for regionals
New Orleans Times Picayune
The cancellation of Sunday's Conference USA baseball tournament championship game between Tulane and Texas Christian wasn't a total washout for the Green Wave. Although Tulane was unable to complete its sweep as C-USA's regular-season and tournament champion, it received news that it will be an NCAA regional host this weekend...
SEC receives nine berths
ESPN.com
Tulane is heading into the NCAA baseball tournament with the No. 1 national seed and plenty of confidence. The Green Wave (50-9), ranked No. 1 in at least one of the major national polls for all but three weeks this season, were selected as the top seed for the 64-team Division I college baseball tournament Monday...
May 29, 2005
Southard comfort
New Orleans Times Picayune
In a matter of eight pitches, Tulane center fielder Nathan Southard ruined Brad Lincoln's morning and turned the Green Wave's third Conference USA tournament game into another walk in Pete Taylor Park...
Tulane's Southard goes deep early, often
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
No. 1 Tulane wasted little time in whipping Houston 10-1 Saturday to advance to the Conference USA championship game. Based on an early upper cut - three home runs - from Nathan Southard, the Cougars never got back up at Pete Taylor Park as the Green Wave rolled to their 50th win of the season...
Tulane cruises into title game
Hattiesburg (Miss.) American
In baseball, the normal function of the leadoff man is to get on base and set the table for the big hitters in the middle part of the batting order. Saturday morning, against the University of Houston, Tulane's Nathan Southard turned that strategy on its ear...
May 28, 2005
Dini getting hot for postseason
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane catcher Greg Dini couldn't escape the fact that so much was expected of him at the start of the season. Dini was coming off of a junior season in which he hit .354 and had a .645 slugging percentage in Conference USA games. It earned him the respect of C-USA's coaches, who selected him to the preseason all-conference team...
Dickson set to make pitch for selections
New Orleans Times Picayune
Last week, Rick Dickson helped bring Tulane and LSU together. Now, the Green Wave athletic director is working to keep them apart. At least that will be Dickson's goal as he takes part in his first NCAA baseball committee selection meeting that starts today in Indianapolis...
Owings the power behind the Wave
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
Micah Owings stands 6-foot-5 and weighs 225 pounds. The gifted Gainesville, Ga., native strikes fear in opponents with a build suited to play tight end on the gridiron...
May 27, 2005
Wave hits sweet 16 versus Pirates
New Orleans Times Picayune
It was just one of those days. That was the only way Tulane coach Rick Jones could explain it. One day after the Green Wave was held to seven hits, it cranked out 16 hits to beat East Carolina 16-3 on Thursday in the second round of the Conference USA tournament at Pete Taylor Park...
Tidal wave
Greenville (N.C.) Daily Reflector
On Wednesday, East Carolina hopped on board the road to the NCAA baseball postseason. On Thursday, they got a not-so-subtle reminder that the road is rocky and there are no rest stops, even for the walking wounded...
Tulane buries East Carolina
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
Tulane coach Rick Jones is looking at the Conference USA Tournament as one last tune-up for the NCAA Tournament. The No. 1-ranked Green Wave had the look of a car off the showroom floor Thursday, rolling to a 16-3 victory over East Carolina in seven innings at Pete Taylor Park...
Tulane pounds ECU; USF, Houston winners
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
Tulane fell behind in its opening-round game of the Conference USA Tournament Wednesday before rallying for a tougher-than-expected victory. The Green Wave had no such difficulties Thursday afternoon at Taylor Park...
LSU faces test in NCAA track regional
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane coach Heather Van Norman, a former LSU standout, also is excited about the Mideast Regional. Although she said she initially favored the old way of qualifying, Van Norman is warming to the regional format...
May 26, 2005
Five-run fifth carries Green Wave past UAB
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane coach Rick Jones should have known the Green Wave's first-round game with Alabama-Birmingham wasn't going to be easy. Beginning with the 2000 Conference USA tournament, Jones' Green Wave has struggled in the tourney, losing its first-round game four times...
Green Wave successfully protecting its bull's-eye
New Orleans Times Picayune
It would not be stretching the truth to say Tulane's baseball uniform has the name of the school written across the front, in green -- and on the back, in red, there is this big bull's-eye. Dealing with the bull's-eye was the topic of discussion in January, the day Coach Rick Jones met with his team shortly before the regular season...
Tulane revs past Blazers
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
Through 4½ innings, Tulane didn't have the look of a top-seed in its Conference USA Tournament opener against Alabama-Birmingham. The final portion of the game, however, showed why the Green Wave is ranked No. 1 in the nation...
Conference USA Tournament Roundup
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
By the midpoint of Wednesday's game against UAB, top-ranked Tulane had watched the Blazers put up five runs to take a three-run lead, knocking out starting pitcher J.R. Crowel along the way...
Pirates win on homer in 9th
New Orleans Times Picayune
East Carolina leadoff hitter Brian Cavanaugh had seen just about every pitch Houston reliever Gene Flores could throw. On the ninth pitch of his at-bat in the bottom of the ninth inning, Cavanaugh, waiting and guessing, drove a changeup from Flores over the right-field fence for a walk-off home run to give the fourth-seeded Pirates a 6-5 victory over fifth-seeded Houston...
May 25, 2005
A blessing or a curse?
mlb.com
If nothing else, Rick Ankiel has proven that a modicum of versatility can salvage a career. Ankiel's inability to throw strikes caused him to give up on his dreams of pitching and move to the outfield, where is currently playing in the Cardinals organization...
Wave of joy
New Orleans Times Picayune
When the news broke last week about Louisiana State University and Tulane resuming in 2006 the football rivalry that began in 1893 and ended with the 1994 season, I can't even remember what I thought about first because so many memories poured through the floodgates...
Inaction only problem for Tulane's relievers
New Orleans Times Picayune
Just before the baseball season, Tulane pitching coach Chad Sutter sat in his office smiling and talking about the Green Wave's pitching depth. "We're so deep that there aren't enough innings to go around," Sutter said nearly four months ago...
Green Wave rakes in C-USA awards
New Orleans Times Picayune
Jumping from Georgia Tech and the Atlantic Coast Conference to Tulane and Conference USA didn't slow down Micah Owings one bit. Owings, a potential first-round selection in next month's major league baseball draft, was selected C-USA Player of the Year as the Green Wave collected three of the league's top four postseason awards...
C-USA tourney begins
Hattiesburg (Miss.) American
University of Southern Mississippi fans might have expected Marc Maddox and Brad Willcutt to earn all-conference USA honors this season even before a game had been played. But back in the fall no one expected Daniel Best or Trey Sutton to be on the lists announced Tuesday...
Green Wave ready for UAB
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
Tulane entered the 2005 season ranked No. 1 in most of the college baseball polls. Through 56 games, the Green Wave still stand atop the Collegiate Baseball poll. With the Conference USA regular season title in hand, Tulane embarks on another step in an amazing season. The Green Wave loom as the odds-on favorite for the Conference USA Tournament, which starts today in Hattiesburg...
Blazers face stiff task in No.1 Green Wave
Birmingham (Ala.) News
The wakeup call came well before the UAB baseball team began practice at 7 Tuesday morning. Blazers head coach Larry Giangrosso, whose team is the eighth seed in the eight-team Conference USA Tournament that begins today at Pete Taylor Park on the campus of Southern Mississippi, had no complaints about starting his morning early...
Tournament time begins
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
Southern Miss coach Corky Palmer rolls out the adjectives in describing his baseball team for the 2005 season. Words like tough. Dedicated. Gutsy. And overachieving...
Dickerson: 'We have to set bar high
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
New Tulane basketball coach Dave Dickerson was saying all the right things Tuesday evening in a meet-and-greet with alumni at the Pass Christian Yacht Club...
Dunham's Koch, University High's Peters named Athletes of Year
Baton Rouge Advocate
Cary Koch of The Dunham School admitted he didn't know much about The Advocate's Athlete of the Year award. It was a different story for University High's Faith Peters, who was a finalist in 2004 and had watched her older sister win a Star of Stars award several years earlier...
May 24, 2005
Tulane sits atop 'pretty even' field
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
There's an old adage that says there is no such thing as a silly question. That, of course, is patently false, and all one has to do for proof is ask a Conference USA baseball coach who the favorite is in this week's 2005 Conference USA Tournament...
Eagles' nest cozy
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
Corky Palmer may not click his cleats together three times today, but the Southern Miss baseball coach will no doubt be hoping there's no place like home for the Golden Eagles this week...
Conference USA teams converge on Hattiesburg
Hattiesburg (Miss.) American
Seven college baseball teams are headed to Hattiesburg today in preparation for this week's Conference USA Baseball Tournament at Pete Taylor Park. "We'll get into town and help the local economy by having lunch at a Hattiesburg restaurant," Tulane coach Rick Jones said...
Wave adds assistant from Southeastern
New Orleans Times Picayune
Steve Prohm, who spent the past six seasons as an assistant basketball coach at Southeastern Louisiana, has joined Dave Dickerson's staff at Tulane. Prohm is the second assistant Dickerson has hired since taking over as the Green Wave's coach last month. Benjy Taylor was Dickerson's first hire...
May 22, 2005
Wave has no slack, tops TCU again
New Orleans Times Picayune
After Tulane won its fourth Conference USA title by beating Texas Christian in the first game of its three-game series Friday, the Green Wave could have easily lost focus while finishing the regular season. But Wave coach Rick Jones didn't let that happen...
Tulane breaks TCU's streak
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
TCU's streak of 10 consecutive Conference USA baseball series victories was snapped Saturday when the Horned Frogs dropped the series finale to Tulane 5-1...
May 21, 2005
Wave is C-USA champ after bouncing Frogs
New Orleans Times Picayune
Sometimes it takes making a mistake to get a player going. Such was the case Friday for Tulane pitcher Brian Bogusevic. Just when the Green Wave and Bogusevic seemed to be cruising along, a home run by Texas Christian cut Tulane's lead to two...
TCU, Tulane split
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
TCU pitcher Lance Broadway kept No. 1 ranked Tulane's hitters off balance on his way to a 6-0 victory in second game of a Friday doubleheader. The victory evens the series after Tulane won the opener of the doubleheader 5-2...
May 20, 2005
Rain hits TU-TCU
New Orleans Times Picayune
An afternoon downpour that caught Tulane officials by surprise caused the first game of the Green Wave's Conference USA series against Texas Christian to be postponed Thursday...
May 19, 2005
Pupil to contest teacher for crown
New Orleans Times Picayune
It's the kind of matchup that makes college baseball great stuff. It's Tulane vs. Texas Christian, the two top teams in Conference USA playing in the final week of the regular season with the conference championship and the tournament's No. 1 seed on the line...
Green Wave playing for more than poll positions
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
Tulane, ranked No. 1 in the Collegiate Baseball poll and No. 2 in the Baseball America poll, has turned its sights on the NCAA Tournament...
LSU-Tulane football rivalry renewed
New Orleans Times Picayune
Louisiana's No. 1 rivalry -- the LSU-Tulane football game -- has been rekindled. The schools announced Wednesday that a 10-year agreement has been reached to resume the storied football series on a home-and-home basis, beginning with the 2006 season...
LSU-Tulane football rivalry renewed
Baton Rouge Advocate
The on-again, off-again instate feud between LSU and its oldest football rival is officially alive and well again...
LSU-Tulane has something for everyone
Baton Rouge Advocate
Though football is all about controlled violence and brute force, college football scheduling is often about the art of the deal. That's what LSU and Tulane announced Wednesday, a 10-year home-and-home deal that has something for everyone...
For Wave, it's all about 'team'
New Orleans Times Picayune
They admit it. They're entering one of the biggest matches in the team's history, and they're not -- that's right, they're not -- playing their best. The numbers say the players on the Tulane women's tennis team are peaking: 17 straight wins, No. 16 in the nation and a recent win against Texas Christian to advance to today's round-of-16 match in the NCAA Tournament in Athens, Ga...
May 18, 2005
Buffalo's search for spicy new wing leads to Losman
New Orleans Times Picayune
When Alison Walshe contacted Tulane golf coach Sue Bower about possibly transferring 16 months ago, Bower couldn't help being ecstatic. The reason is now obvious...
May 17, 2005
Walshe writes golf history
USA Today
Nobody appreciates a good hot wing more than the football connoisseurs of Buffalo, who have suffered through too many bland wings since Hall of Fame Bills quarterback Jim Kelly retired in 1996. There was a spell of Doug Flutie magic in the late 1990s after 1995 second-round draft choice Todd Collins failed to live up to expectations...
National seed within LSU's reach
Baton Rouge Advocate
LSU's series victory over Tennessee last weekend put the Tigers in position to make a run at a top-eight national seeding in the NCAA tournament and a chance to be the home team in a super regional, Baseball America National Writer Will Kimmey said Monday...
May 16, 2005
Surprises likely in store at Sunriver
Golfweek
Alison Walshe sat in a Gainesville, Fla., Starbucks May 5 pouring over her philosophy notes while sipping a vanilla latte. The Tulane sophomore was making the most of a rained-out opening round at the NCAA Division I Women's East Regional, where the Green Wave aimed to turn their postseason tide...
Tulane clinches share of crown
New Orleans Times Picayune
Brad Emaus went 3-for-4 with a tie-breaking home run and three RBIs, and Greg Dini homered and drove in four runs as Tulane clinched a share of the Conference USA regular-season championship with a 15-4 victory over Saint Louis on Sunday at the Billiken Sports Center...
May 15, 2005
Gritty Wave women win
New Orleans Times Picayune
One Tulane women's tennis player already had overcome a restless night of continuous vomiting. Another had battled through a pulled groin to beat a Texas Christian opponent who was out for revenge...
LSU recovers to beat Tulane
Baton Rouge Advocate
As Dmitriy Koch's crosscourt volley flashed across the sideline, Mark Growcott made what he thought was the right decision. He called the ball in. A moment later, though, a closer inspection showed Koch's ball mark was an inch outside the stripe...
Tulane blanks Billikens
New Orleans Times Picayune
Junior left-hander Brian Bogusevic struck out nine in eight innings and went 2-for-4 as Tulane defeated Conference USA foe Saint Louis 6-0 Saturday afternoon...
May 14, 2005
Rain proves tougher foe as Wave rolls past Lions
New Orleans Times Picayune
It was just a typical five-hour-and-57-minute quick rout. Tulane beat Southeastern Louisiana 4-0 to advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, but not before a three-hour-and-15-minute rain delay, as sheets of rain temporarily turned Goldring Tennis Center into Goldring Lake...
Rain doesn't cool off tennis
Baton Rouge Advocate
A methodical 4-0 LSU victory over Binghamton on Friday morning in the NCAA men's tennis regional was almost forgotten by the end of a long, hot Friday afternoon. That's because Tulane and Louisiana-Lafayette raised the ambient temperature at W.T. "Dub" Robinson Tennis Stadium with a heated 4-2 Green Wave victory...
Tulane advances to play LSU
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane rode a balanced attack into the NCAA Tournament, and that was evident Friday in its first-round match at LSU's W.T. Robinson Tennis Stadium. In a hard-fought match, 20th-ranked Tulane won two matches at the top of its singles lineup and two at the bottom to hold off No. 42 Louisiana-Lafayette 4-2...
May 13, 2005
Tandem keeps Tulane on top
USA Today
Tulane's baseball team is No. 1 largely because of two players, Micah Owings and Brian Bogusevic, who each do two things well. "It's almost a cliché now because everyone says it, but it's like having four guys on the team," says senior catcher Scott Madden, the only holdover from Tulane's team that was in the 2001 College World Series...
Green Wave focused on regaining sharpness
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane is coming off its fourth Conference USA series sweep this season, but the Green Wave knows it wasn't one of its best performances. In the second game of the series, Tulane committed four errors, a season high, and starting pitcher Brian Bogusevic struggled to find the strike zone...
Tulane tennis team depending on Ivanov, depth
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane heads into the women's tennis NCAA Tournament led by its racket-toting Pied Piper, No. 1 player Maria Ivanov, who has a record of . . . 11-19? Yes, it's true. Ivanov has not been a consistently dominant No. 1 player...
Wave nets identity, successful season
New Orleans Times-Picayune
After losing Michael Kogan, the heart and soul of Tulane's men's tennis team the past four seasons and last year's NCAA runner-up in singles, this year was expected to be one in which the Green Wave tried to establish a new identity...
Louisiana well represented in NCAA tennis regionals
Baton Rouge Advocate
Binghamton alum Tony Kornheiser will pardon the interruption, but his school's men's tennis team has landed a spot in a pretty strong NCAA regional that begins today at LSU...
May 11, 2005
Tulane covering bases for regional
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Since hosting its first NCAA baseball regional in 2001, Tulane has pushed hard to become a regional hot spot. In doing so, Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson has submitted bids to the NCAA with generous guarantees...
Green Wave again will kick off on television
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane football fans will have to record "Saturday Night Live" and schedule weekend dinner dates wisely this fall. The Gren Wave is already booked on several Saturday nights...
May 9, 2005
Early trouble doesn't rattle Crowel
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Last week against South Florida, Tulane pitcher J.R. Crowel didn't make it to the fifth inning in his first loss of the season. On Sunday against Memphis, Crowel appeared headed for a repeat performance after giving up two home runs in the first three innings...
May 7, 2005
Green Wave gives Memphis a rude welcoming
New Orleans Times-Picayune
All it usually takes is a slim lead during the late innings for Tulane baseball coach Rick Jones to start making defensive changes. On Friday night against Memphis, Jones could have started subbing a lot earlier for the Green Wave, which is ranked No. 1 by Collegiate Baseball and No. 2 by Baseball America...
May 6, 2005
Still a hit anyway
New Orleans Times-Picayune
This season hasn't been anything close to the kind of season Tulane's Matt Barket, Greg Dini, Joe Holland and Brian Bogusevic were hoping for statistically. But their individual disappointments are tempered by the team's overall success...
Tigers prepare for No. 1 Tulane
Memphis Commercial Appeal
The University of Memphis baseball team goes somewhere it has rarely gone during the program's history. Tonight in New Orleans it goes against the No. 1 team in the nation. The Tigers (10-32 overall, 4-17 in Conference USA) play at top-ranked Tulane. The Green Wave is 39-8 overall and 16-5 in C-USA...
May 5, 2005
Green Wave women have a new attitude
New Orleans Times-Picayune
During the past three seasons, Tulane's women's golf team was just happy to be in the NCAA regionals. Green Wave coach Sue Bower says her team has outgrown that attitude...
May 4, 2005
Tulane beats UNO, 7-6
New Orleans Times-Picayune
It might not have gone exactly the way Tulane baseball coach Rick Jones wanted it to, but there wasn't any complaining coming from Green Wave shortstop Tommy Manzella. On Tuesday night, Manzella went 4-for-4 and drove in two runs, as the Green Wave defeated UNO 7-6 at Zephyr Field to sweep the three-game series...
May 3, 2005
Conference USA spring recap
ESPN.com
Four senior starters return along the offensive line. For what's always a dynamite offense, that's a good starting point. Don't be deceived by seeing no seniors on the D-line this fall. This is the second straight year that'll happen, and coach Chris Scelfo didn't seem too concerned in the spring...
Can't wait to see these things this fall
ESPN.com
First J.P. Losman, then Lester Ricard. Tulane coach Chris Scelfo and his offensive coordinator/brother Frank have proved they have a knack for developing talented passers...
In Good Time: Wave hitters are at best with two outs
New Orleans Times-Picayune
If there's one point Tulane has driven home time and again this season, it is that its lineup is filled with clutch hitters. Through 46 games this season, the Green Wave has shown its ability to produce lots of runs. It has amassed 12 double-digit scoring games and has won all 12...
Titans WR Williams in good hands
The Tennessean
Titans rookie receiver Roydell Williams won't have to wait until the team's next minicamp to find out what it's like to work against a veteran NFL defensive back. In Williams' case, he's been there, done that...
May 1, 2005
USF Stops No. 1 Tulane
Tampa Tribune
After losing consecutive extra inning heartbreakers to No. 1 ranked Tulane, South Florida took out its frustrations with an 8-4 victory against the Green Wave Saturday night...
