September 2006 NewStand
Oct 11, 2006 | General
Sept. 30, 2006
Long Time Coming
New Orleans Times Picayune
Ask any Tulane football player about the last time he set foot on the team's home field at the Superdome and the question likely will draw a blank stare. "I can't even remember the last time we played in the Dome," junior running back Ray Boudreaux said. "It's been that long. It's been a long time since we last practiced in the Dome...
Tulane finally returns to Superdome
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane plays its first football game in the Superdome in 665 days when it hosts SMU in a Conference USA game at 6:30 p.m. today. The Green Wave (1-2, 0-1 in Conference ) is ending an NCAA-record 14-game road trip that was caused primarily by damage Hurricane Katrina inflicted on the Superdome...
Happy home: SMU is Tulane's first guest
Dallas Morning News
All Chris Scelfo wanted, for the longest time, was to coach a game, drive a short distance home and sleep in his own bed. So simple. But the small comforts of home are what the Tulane coach and his football program missed most after Hurricane Katrina forced them from their Uptown New Orleans campus and on a 14-game odyssey away from what used to be their lives and away from their home stadium, the Louisiana Superdome...
Sept. 29, 2006
Superdome hosts second homecoming as Tulane returns
USA Today
When Tulane plays at the Louisiana Superdome on Saturday for the first time in 665 days, it will be more than just a football game against Southern Methodist. It will be a homecoming in the truest sense...
TU coaches demonstrate staying power
New Orleans Times Picayune
The band of brothers haven't slept well since 2005, but every afternoon they put on their baggy green shorts, gray shirts and coach football for the Tulane Green Wave. There's defensive coordinator Eric Schumann -- he's the one in the funny straw hat -- his nasally voice echoing inside helmets...
Tulane returns to the Superdome for emotional encounter with old friend SMU
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
It's too bad Tulane's return to the Superdome against SMU on Saturday night can't end in a tie. It's a shame college football can't suspend its overtime rules for one night and return to the old days. Because if you could ever find satisfaction in a tie, it would come in New Orleans on Saturday...
Tulane prepares for homecoming
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
After the Saints reopened the Superdome on Monday night with a victory that gave New Orleans a chance to cheer again, Tulane hopes some of that will rub off at Saturday night's homecoming against SMU...
Happy home: SMU is Tulane's first guest
Dallas Morning News
All Chris Scelfo wanted, for the longest time, was to coach a game, drive a short distance home and sleep in his own bed. So simple. But the small comforts of home are what the Tulane coach and his football program missed most after Hurricane Katrina forced them from their Uptown New Orleans campus and on a 14-game odyssey away from what used to be their lives and away from their home stadium, the Louisiana Superdome...
Tulane will be riding wave of emotion vs. SMU
Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette
This weekend, Southern Methodist will try not to become college football's equivalent of the Atlanta Falcons. The Mustangs (2-2) don't want to be the next team that gets swallowed up in the emotion of the reopening of the Louisiana Superdome...
Mustangs take on a city
SMU Daily Campus
SMU will enter a friendly environment when they walk into the Superdome on Saturday, the only problem is, it will be friendly toward Tulane. The Mustangs have everything going for them, a two game winning streak, an offense that has posted 100 points in the last two games and a defense that continues to step it up each week...
Sept. 28, 2006
Tulane sports fight for survival in post-Katrina wave
CBSSportsline.com
You want to know strength? Sit down, put your feet up. They talk a lot about it here at Tulane. The strength of getting through Katrina with your sanity, and family, intact...
Wave wants whooping despite no hooplah
New Orleans Times Picayune
Instead of Green Day and Bono, there'll be a DJ. Instead of former President George Bush conducting the coin toss, President Scott Cowen will do the honors. Instead of Irma Thomas singing the national anthem, the Tulane Marching Band will perform...
Shane Hannabury: Hometwon Hero
East Hampton Newsday
One moment, East Hampton's Shane Hannabury was sharing an air mattress with a 330-pound lineman in a baking gymnasium. The next, he was being consoled by an opponent after a football game. Hannabury, a back-up tight end on Tulane's football team who plays mostly on special teams, experienced a full range of emotions after Hurricane Katrina ransacked New Orleans last August...
Sept. 27, 2006
Finally, Tulane returns home
SI.com
There will be no eight-hour pregame shows, no performances from U2 or Green Day, no visits from former presidents. But just as Monday night's Falcons-Saints game served as a celebration of New Orleans' recovery from Hurricane Katrina, Tulane's return to the Superdome for Saturday night's game against SMU will showcase a team, athletic department and university whose perseverance over the past 13 months has mirrored that of their city...
Tulane shows lot of pluck in lopsided loss
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane defensive coordinator Eric Schumann was looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack Sunday. After the Green Wave's 49-7 loss to LSU, Schumann badly needed to find some encouragement. There wasn't much, but Schumann found it...
Tulane's long road trip ends
CollegeFootball.com
Last season the Tulane Green Wave played football games in Shreveport, La., Baton Rouge, La., Ruston, La., Lafayette, La., Monroe, La. and Mobile, Ala. And those were the home games...
Scelfo wants large crowd for Tulane's Dome opener
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane has a tough act to follow when it makes its long-awaited return to the Superdome to play SMU on Saturday night. Given the remarkable buildup to the reopening of the Superdome for the Saints' 23-3 victory over Atlanta on Monday night, it might be easy to overlook the Green Wave's return..
SMU faces a tough crowd
Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial Appeal
Somewhere in Dallas, SMU coach Phil Bennett must have been cringing. As Tulane prepares for its own post-Katrina homecoming Saturday at the Superdome, Bennett knows his Mustangs are in a truly unenviable position...
CSTV to broadcast college football's return to New Orleans and the Superdome
CSTV.com
Following Monday night's triumphant return of NFL football to New Orleans, CSTV will broadcast the first post-Hurricane Katrina college football game played in New Orleans and the Superdome. On Saturday, September 30 at 6:30 pm, CSTV will televise SMU at Tulane...
Sept. 26, 2006
Green Wave starters showing signs of wear
New Orleans Times Picayune
When Tulane's season began a little more than three weeks ago, Green Wave Coach Chris Scelfo knew several things had to happen for his team to be successful. Winning one of its first three games certainly was a plus for the Green Wave, but more important was the team's ability to avoid injuries against three physical opponents...
Sept. 25, 2006
Green Wave ends Marshall's C-USA win streak at 14
Huntington (W.Va.) Herad-Dispatch
The color green was right, but unfortunately it was The Green Wave that prevailed over Marshall to win in a close volleyball match at Cam Henderson Center on Sunday evening in a CSTV televised match up between Marshall and Tulane...
Tulane wins close volleyball match with Marshall in fifth set
Huntington (W.Va.) News Network
The color green was right, but unfortunately it was The Green Wave that prevailed over Marshall to win in a close volleyball match at Cam Henderson Center on Sunday evening in a CSTV televised match up between Marshall and Tulane...
Sept. 24, 2006
Tigers trounce Green Wave 49-7
New Orleans Times Picayune
LSU and Tulane celebrated the return of the once-competitive and bitter series Saturday by picking up right where they left off. The Tigers, winners of the past 14 consecutive games in the series, waxed the Green Wave 49-7 on homecoming night at Tiger Stadium before a crowd of 92,135...
Fans on best behavior
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane fan Doug Tranchina of Slidell was decked out in Green Wave garb outside Tiger Stadium on Saturday night along with grandsons Austin Boitnett and Cade Falgout. But a third grandson, Payton Rogers was wearing LSU attire...
Ricard leaves game after aggravating injury
New Orleans Times Picayune
With 1:16 remaining in the second quarter, Lester Ricard's much-awaited return to LSU's Tiger Stadium came to an abrupt ending. On Tulane's final possession of the first half, the Tulane quarterback was knocked from the game when hit by LSU defensive end Tyson Jackson...
Weary Wave ready for its homecoming
New Orleans Times Picayune
Finally, mercifully, Tulane is going home. Next time the Green Wave lines up, they'll do it at the Superdome, a home facility that has become as foreign to them as the road has become familiar. Sept. 30, against SMU, Tulane gets to dress in its own locker room, gets to enjoy the creature comforts of its own house instead of making the best of wherever it was allowed to lay its helmet the past 13 months, en route to completing what probably is the longest road trip in football history...
Tigers KO Ricard, Green Wave
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane quarterback Lester Ricard may not have received the full effect of his first game in his return to face his old team in Tiger Stadium. But he got more than he wanted to cope with from the Tigers. Ricard, a former LSU player who transferred to Tulane before the 2003 season, didn't make it through the first half of Saturday's game...
Early and often: Tigers dance their way past Green Wave
Baton Rouge Advocate
The rough outline for another LSU blowout victory at home was the same: Strike quickly and repeatedly. Many of the details, however, looked fresh...
Scott, LSU run past Tulane
Gannett News Services
It was just a Tulane highway, but LSU may have found a tailback ready for major interstate travel in the coming weeks. True freshman Charles Scott of Jonesboro showed some much needed acceleration in gaining 101 yards on 15 carries...
Notes from Tulane/LSU game
Gannett News Services
Wide receiver Early Doucet of St. Martinville became the first LSU receiver to score touchdowns rushing and receiving in the same game since Michael Clayton in 2001 against Ole Miss...
Like old times for LSU in Tulane series
Shreveport Times
It wasn't a contest in a rivalry renewed, sort of like the Ryder Cup. Just as Europe seems to beat the U.S. every two years in golf, LSU revived memories of its dominance of Tulane in an ancient college football rivalry renewed for the first time since 2001 on Saturday night...
Sept. 23, 2006
Scelfo's Green Wave taking giant step up
New Orleans Times Picayune
Again, David is about to toe the line. "We're gonna try to throw some rocks," Coach Chris Scelfo said, laughing. Sure, he knows that today, when his Tulane Green Wave travels to Baton Rouge to play LSU, it'll be no laughing matter...
Ricard to face former team at Tiger Stadium
New Orleans Times Picayune
Playing in Tiger Stadium was all Lester Ricard could dream about growing up in Denham Springs. As he became one of the most sought-after high school quarterbacks in the country in 2001 at Amite High, later signing with LSU, the dream seemed more and more like reality...
Sept. 22, 2006
Long road almost over for Tulane football team
USA Today
Parts of Tulane University in once-plush uptown still look like a construction site. There are damaged and empty buildings up and down Claiborne Avenue more than a year after Hurricane Katrina. But for the Tulane football program, the odyssey will soon be over...
Tulane Women Play Role In Rebuilt New Orleans Sports Scene
CSTV.com
It was over a year ago that we first saw those disturbing New Orleans' images caused by Hurricane Katrina and, especially those of the Louisiana Superdome. The newly-renovated and galvanized dome is bringing world-wide media attention once again. And media ranging from Sky Sports to Al-Jazeera is slated to cover the New Orleans Saints' official reopening of the Superdome Sept. 25 in their regular season home opener against the Atlanta Falcons. Tulane's football team will follow suit Sept. 30, with its home opener against SMU...
Former Wave standout Micah Owings named Arizona Minor League Pitcher of the Year
MLB.com
The Arizona Diamondbacks announced today that infielder Alberto Callaspo and righthanded pitcher Micah Owings were selected as the organization's Minor League Player and Pitcher-of-the-Year...
Fans reveling in the rebirth of tradition
New Orleans Times Picayune
Jim Mestayer of New Iberia remembers the good old days of the LSU-Tulane series. "When I was a junior (in 1955), some Tulane students came up here and put fertilizer or something on the field to mess it up," Mestayer said. "So the next year, a bunch of us in architectural engineering got some purple and gold paint and were going to go down there and do something to their place...
Tulane-LSU series takes Scelfo way back
New Orleans Times Picayune
It was big brother Sam who created the fuss. "If you were from New Iberia," said Chris Scelfo, "they sort of expected you to go to LSU." Scelfo, Tulane's football coach, was a year short of grade school and had not put on his first pair of shoulder pads, when his oldest brother, horror of horrors, chose to play football for Coach Jim Pittman on Willow Street, not for Charley McClendon in Baton Rouge...
An upset for the ages: Tulane ends LSU's 24-game series streak
New Orleans Times Picayune
It had been 25 years since Tulane last defeated LSU. The Tigers' string of 24 consecutive victories was the longest of the rivalry. In 1973, LSU was 9-1 and coming off its only loss of the season (to No. 1-ranked Alabama) and already had accepted a bid to the Orange Bowl to play Penn State. The Tigers also were ranked No. 8 in the country...
Seeing green, purple and gold
New Orleans Times Picayune
Whenever Tulane played LSU in Baton Rouge, a Wave fan amused himself by scaring the Tiger fans he would see walking down the side of the road in their beloved purple and gold colors...
Tigers sympathize with 2005 Tulane road warriors
Shreveport Times
And LSU football players thought they had it rough last season during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. They lost one home game & with lost meaning they did not get to play the game at home. That was the Arizona State game, which LSU won 35-31 in Tempe, Ariz. Tulane, meanwhile, lost all six of its home games, meaning it had to play them all on the road, because of damage to the Louisiana Superdome by Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 29, 2005...
Former LSU player returns to Tiger Stadium
LSU Daily Reveille
Based on the compared accomplishments of the Tulane and LSU football programs, who would transfer from the Tigers to the Green Wave? The answer is Lester Ricard. When the Denham Springs native came out of high school in 2002, Rivals.com rated him as the nation's No. 5 quarterback...
Sept. 21, 2006
Passing game opens lanes for Forté
New Orleans Times Picayune
Going into the season opener at Houston, the one thing Tulane's offensive coaches wanted to see was running back Matt Forté crashing though the line of scrimmage for big yards. It didn't happened. Forté, a junior from Slidell, finished with 20 yards on 12 carries, but neither Forté nor the coaches looked at it as a failure...
Sugar is sweet...and so is Tulane
New Orleans Times Picayune
While the LSU-Tulane game has been big throughout its history, perhaps the most meaningful meeting involving the schools was Dec. 1, 1934, at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge. Not only was the championship of the fledgling Southeastern Conference on the line, but also -- for Tulane, anyway -- a berth in the inaugural Sugar Bowl...
Sept. 20, 2006
Forward Progress
New Orleans Times Picayune
They had the "want-to, " but the "how-to" was another matter. That didn't stop Tulane Athletic Director Rick Dickson and then-LSU senior associate athletic director Dan Radakovich, who combined to formulate a plan that pits the Green Wave against the Tigers in football for at least 10 consecutive seasons, starting Saturday night at LSU...
Green Wave given rude sendoff from SEC
New Orleans Times Picayune
In 1965, Tulane was in its last season as a member of the Southeastern Conference, which it had been a part of since the conference's inception in 1933. In the Green Wave's final game of the 1965 season, LSU ensured Tulane would have an unforgettable exit...
Wave special teams strugle
New Orleans Times Picayune
Coaches are never satisfied, even after a victory. Tulane's Chris Scelfo looked at his team's 32-29 win at Mississippi State last Saturday and said there still is much for the Green Wave to correct as it works on its game plan for LSU...
Green Wave to welcome LSU back to Fogelman
New Orleans Times Picayune
The 2006-07 Tulane women's basketball schedule released Tuesday features seven 2006 postseason participants, including three NCAA Tournament teams, and three Southeastern Conference schools...
Roll out the barrows
New Orleans Times Picayune
The end of the rivalry did in a great tradition: the Tulane-LSU wheelbarrow clubs who met the day after the annual football game, with the losers pushing the winners, all dressed in their school's colors, amid lots of good-natured teasing and even more beer consumption...
Special game for Tulane's Ricard
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane quarterback Lester Ricard finally gets to play under the lights in Tiger Stadium when the Green Wave plays LSU on Saturday night. Ricard, who's from Denham Springs and played at Amite High School, grew up dreaming of being the Tigers' quarterback on Saturday nights in Tiger Stadium...
Sept. 19, 2006
Tucson's Owings quickly finds his stride
MLB.com
Usually when a two-way star comes out of high school or college and is asked to focus on one skill, it takes a while for him to develop. Organizations are generally patient, knowing it's the first time the player has concentrated on just pitching or hitting, but not both. For Micah Owings...
Tulane's line responds to challenge
New Orleans Times Picayune
At this time last week, Tulane offensive line coach Don Mahoney was issuing the challenge to his position players. It was get better or get replaced. "I knew that performance (against Houston) wasn't characteristic of these guys," Mahoney said. "Their first game was very disappointing...
LSU-Tulane rivalry loses some steam these days
New Orleans Times Picayune
Who says today's players don't have a sense of history when LSU and Tulane play in football. LSU junior safety Craig Steltz knows about the teams playing for the "Rag," a purple, green and gold cloth reward that goes to the school that wins the game...
Twice as nice for Green Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
When does a team finish with a 4-7 record and count that as a successful season? Just ask Tulane's team from 1982. The Green Wave (3-7) faced No. 7 LSU (8-1-1) on Nov. 27, 1982, at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge. The game had the makings of another LSU blowout in the series, with the Tigers 24-point favorites -- but Tulane didn't follow the script...
Sept. 18, 2006
Great Games From Yesteryear: Tulane/LSU 1987
New Orleans Times Picayune
No. 9 LSU might have squeaked by Tulane 41-36 at a packed Superdome on Nov. 21, 1987, but the Green Wave weren't looked at as losers. In a game that took LSU until the last minute to win and a game Times-Picayune columnist Peter Finney described as a "tennis match played on a 100-yard court," Tulane almost pulled off the ultimate upset...
Before and after Katrina, Alario bleeds Tulane green
Bridgewater (N.J.) Courier News
Kathryn Alario thought the worst was over. The devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the hurried relocation 850 miles west, the nomadic season -- it was more than any college freshman should have to bear. The only saving grace was the team...
Sept. 17, 2006
Green Wave claims first road win over SEC since 1989
ESPN.com
The Tulane football program is still trying to regain its footing following Hurricane Katrina. The Green Wave's 32-29 victory Saturday over Mississippi State should help. It was Tulane's first victory over a Southeastern Conference opponent on the road since 1989 and comes a week after the team was embarrassed 45-7 by Houston...
Tulane ends losing streak by stunning Mississippi State
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane quarterback Lester Ricard threw for four touchdowns and running back Matt Forté rushed for 170 yards to lead the Green Wave to a 32-29 upset of Mississippi State on Saturday night at Davis Wade Stadium...
Dogs' rally comes up just short
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
For months now, Mississippi State coach Sylvester Croom has preached the team he has this season - the program he's running in his third year - is in much better shape than the one he inherited three seasons ago...
State scores by Wave wins, 32-29
Dawgs' Bite
It took ten quarters and 140 offensive snaps for Mississippi State to finally find an end zone. The Bulldogs liked it so much they did it again, and again, and again. But getting into the win column? Sadly that is going to require at least another week. Tulane staggered host Mississippi State by building a 32-7 lead through three quarters, then held off a desperate Dog rally to earn a 32-29 victory...
Conner returns to QB, but MSU falls to 0-3
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
On a small note, Mississippi State did finally score. But in the grand scheme of things, it was just one more chapter of disappointment in a book that's starting to rival War and Peace in length...
NCAA Game Summary - Tulane at Mississippi State
Hillsboro (Miss.) Free Press
Lester Ricard went 16-of-23 for 298 yards and four touchdowns to lead the Tulane Green Wave to a hard fought 32-29 victory over the Mississippi State Bulldogs in a non-conference affair at Davis Wade Stadium...
It's officially gone from bad to worse for Bulldogs
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Well, wasn't that just pathetic. If the Maine debacle wasn't the biggest embarrassment of the Sylvester Croom era, Saturday night's stunning loss to Tulane certainly was. Yes. The Bulldogs did indeed lose to the Green Wave, 32-29. Close? No. No, it wasn't...
Sept. 16, 2006
Green Wave feel they have something to prove
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane's football team was so ready to forget last season that it could hardly wait for the Houston game to arrive. Now all it just wants to do is forget about Houston. A week after starting the season with a disappointing 45-7 loss at Houston, the Green Wave is preparing for today's game at Mississippi State, hoping to prove what happened in Game 1 is not an indication of what's in store this season...
Tulane at Mississippi State: The Vitals
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane QB Lester Ricard. He did not have the kind of game he needed to have for the Green Wave to be successful. Ricard completed 56 percent of his passes in the Wave's 45-7 loss to Houston, hitting on 14 of 25 attempts for 156 yards with one interception...
Miss. State seeks first points vs. Tulane
Baton Rouge Advocate
At the very least, Mississippi State should score tonight for the first time this season. The Bulldogs have been shut out in both games -- 15-0 by South Carolina and 34-0 by Auburn -- as they prepare to host Tulane at 6 p.m. in Starkville, Miss...
Look out for Lester Ricard
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
Tulane continues to be a program in transition more than a year after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the region. But if there's one position where there has been stability, it's at quarterback...
MSU anxious to get in win column
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun Herald
Mississippi State is ready to get in the end zone. And Tulane figures to provide the Bulldogs' best chance yet. Mississippi State, shut out in its first two games in losses to South Carolina and third-ranked Auburn, ventures outside the SEC for the first time this season tonight against the Green Wave in Starkville...
Sept. 14, 2006
Change of work habits helps Williams
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane redshirt freshman wide receiver Jeremy Williams is a grandma's boy -- and proud of it. Reared since infancy in Baytown, Texas, by his grandmother, Ella Jones, who also later took in his younger sister Eliana and younger brother Raney, Williams admits to being coddled throughout his life, including requesting back rubs and ear tickles to this day...
Sept. 13, 2006
Tulane hopes to get moving on offense
New Orleans Times Picayune
Much of the focus following Tulane's loss to Houston last weekend was on how the Cougars' offense dominated the Green Wave's defense, scoring 45 points and rolling up 621 yards...
Tulane wants to forget tough day in Houston
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane coach Chris Scelfo has jokingly told redshirt freshman wide receiver Jeremy Williams that Williams' grandmother can't come to practice any more. "My grandma came to practice one day and I dropped three passes, missed a block and I just had a practice like I usually don't have...
Tulane secures Segedin
North Jersey Register
Rob Segedin didn't see any reason to wait because, frankly, Old Tappan's senior third baseman had seen enough. Tulane was too good to be true...
Aubrey, Hulett take different paths in '06
Shreveport Times
For former local high school baseball standouts Michael Aubrey and Tug Hulett, the recently completed 2006 minor league baseball season was business as usual. For Aubrey, that meant another season of dealing with injuries and pulling for his teammates from afar. For Hulett, it was another season spent proving himself to the Texas Rangers' front-office personnel...
Sept. 12, 2006
Wave determined to correct mistakes before playing Miss. State
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane coach Chris Scelfo said in early August that what he wanted most from this season's team was for it to make some improvements each week. Last season's team, he said, went in the wrong direction...
Sept. 10, 2006
Green Wave fall hard to Cougars in opener
New Orleans Times Picayune
If there was one thing Tulane coach Chris Scelfo was hoping he wouldn't see against Houston on Saturday night, it was some of what his team gave him last year. In the Green Wave's season opener at Robertson Stadium, it fell behind early and never had much of a chance, falling to the Cougars 45-7...
UH gets a breather with 45-7 rout of Tulane
Houston (Texas) Chronicle
You could almost feel the tension in the air after last weekend's season-opening victory over Rice. Even though they prevailed, the heavily favored Houston Cougars were forced to rally to pull out a one-point win. So the last thing coach Art Briles needed was another tight game, especially in the home opener at Robertson Stadium...
Sept. 9, 2006
If the Wave aren't battle tested, nobody is
New Orleans Times Picayne
The temptation is to say Tulane should forget last football season. Just wad it up, toss it away and pretend it never happened, because there isn't a whole lot to draw on from a 2-9 record. Except seasons like the last one only can make a program better...
Tulane kicks off season at Houston
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane's season gets off to a belated start when the Green Wave plays at the University of Houston at 6 p.m. today. Tulane and Air Force were the only Division I-A teams not to play last week when the Cougars began their season with a 31-30 victory against Rice...
Sept. 7, 2006
At Tulane, players rewarded for sticking together
The Sporting News
Tulane tight end Jerome Landry saves money by living with his parents on the second floor of a home with a gutted downstairs and no kitchen. Indeed, for a number of Tulane players from the area, the personal struggles to recover from Hurricane Katrina are not yet over...
DE's passion overcomes pain
New Orleans Times Picayne
Michael Purcell's thrice surgically repaired right knee looks like 10 miles of back road in his native Texas hill country. Although he started nine games at defensive end for Tulane last season, Purcell is in such fragile condition that he is listed as third team and will be limited to no more than 20-25 snaps per game...
Sept. 6, 2006
Green Wave preparing for rule change
New Orleans Times Picayne
It seems like a minor NCAA rule change, but Tulane coaches say it could have major implications on games this season. The new rule is the game clock starts on the change of possession...
Tulane players glad to be back on field
Baton Rouge Advocate
The start of Tulane's season at Houston on Saturday has special meaning for several Green Wave seniors. They've overcome serious injuries, not to mention the Hurricane Katrina-induced displacement last season, to finish their careers...
Sept. 5, 2006
Wave seeks ways to corral Cougars
New Orleans Times Picayne
While Tulane's football players were enjoying their first weekend off since fall drills began nearly a month ago, Green Wave coaches weren't as fortunate. Offensive coordinator Frank Scelfo and defensive coordinator Eric Schumann were busy putting together game plans for the season opener against Houston on Saturday...
Sept. 4, 2006
TU keeps hoops coaches in check
New Orleans Times Picayne
A little more than a month ago, Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson was trying to convince the local media that his men's basketball coach, Dave Dickerson, wasn't going to take a job as an assistant at Virginia as was rumored. Dickson now has made certain that Dickerson and women's coach Lisa Stockton will be around a while longer...
Tulane ready to forget dismal 2005 season
Baton Rouge Advocate
While much of New Orleans recognized the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina last Tuesday, Tulane stayed focused on preparing for its season opener Saturday at Houston. Katrina's shadow still lingers over the city and the Green Wave was chased out of town and finished with a 2-9 record...
Sept. 2, 2006
Lonely Road
New Orleans Times Picayne
During Lester Ricard's first two seasons at Tulane, things went pretty much the way he thought they'd go. As he was developing as the Green Wave's quarterback, he was surrounded by what has mattered most in his life -- his family...
Sept. 1, 2006
Dickerson gets five-year deal at Tulane
FoxSports.com
Nearly one year to the day, Tulane coach Dave Dickerson made the decision he wants to stay in New Orleans. Dickerson won't lie. The former Maryland assistant had second thoughts about the decision to take the Tulane job a year ago in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. However, Dickerson is now certain that New Orleans is where he wants to be -- evident by the new five-year deal he inked on Thursday...
Taking Stock: Tulane Baseball
SEBaseball.com
Opened the season in the Minute Maid Classic where they lost to TCU but beat Texas Tech and Texas. The Green Wave took a seven game winning streak into a home series with Pepperdine but dropped two of three games. They took two of three from a Manhattan squad that went on the Lincoln Regional final...
TU lineman weighted by heavy burden
New Orleans Times Picayune
Having players report to fall camp a bit overweight and out of shape is as common as two-a-day practices. But Avery Williams' lack of conditioning was understandable. Shortly after the junior defensive lineman finished exams last spring, his mother died. It has left Williams with a huge void...
