March 2006 NewsStand
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March 31, 2006
Wave hopes to measure up to Rice
New Orleans Times-Picayune
During the past few seasons, particularly last year when Tulane spent nearly the entire season as Baseball America's No. 1-ranked team, the Green Wave got to know the feeling of being used as a measuring stick...
March 29, 2006
Tulane, Charlotte land 2 of Mississippi's best hoopsters
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
Two of the state's top basketball players in the Class of 2006 have decided where they'll play next. David Booker of Moss Point and Kevin Sims of Forest Hill - both first-team All-State picks by The Clarion-Ledger - have committed to Charlotte and Tulane, respectively. Each plans to make his decision official when the late signing period begins April 12...
Wave wins its third straight
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Warren McFadden and Mark Hamilton combined for four hits and eight RBIs to lead the Green Wave to a 14-4 victory over Jackson State on Tuesday night at Zephyr Field...
March 27, 2006
Q&A with Baseball coach Rick Jones
The Tulane Hullabaloo
Last season, Tulane baseball left Turchin Field for the most coveted diamond in college baseball, Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Neb., as they battled for the National Championship in the College World Series. The Green Wave was looking to open their 2006 season in a renovated Turchin with more seats to accompany the fans who followed the Green Wave during Super Regional action last season...
Tulane right-hander handcuffs Tigers
Memphis Commercial Appeal
What started as a promising opening Conference USA baseball weekend for the University of Memphis ended with a realization that, as much as the Tigers have improved this season, there's some ground to cover. Defending league champion Tulane used a second straight strong pitching performance, this one from righthander Stephen Porlier, to win 10-2 Sunday at Nat Buring Stadium...
March 26, 2006
Rebuilding effort makes big strides at Tulane
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Peeking beneath the half-drawn blinds of Vince Granito's third-floor office in Tulane's Wilson Center, it is nearly impossible to tell the courts of the Goldring Tennis Center were damaged by the flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina...
March 25, 2006
Tigers do it all right vs. Tulane
Memphis Commercial Appeal
So this is what University of Memphis baseball coach Daron Schoenrock meant when he said his team would be a challenge for Conference USA opposition if it hit, pitched and played solid defense at the same time. In Friday night's Conference USA opener against defending league champion and 14th-ranked Tulane, the Tigers -- minus a nightmarish ninth defensively by shortstop Michael Murray -- did all three in an 11-4 victory before a chilled gathering of about 200 at Nat Buring Stadium...
March 24, 2006
Rebuilding effort makes big strides at Tulane
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Coming up with a freshman who can make a difference in Tulane's season has been an easy problem for Green Wave Rick Jones to solve. He seems to do it every year. This season won't be any different. Freshmen Seth Henry and Anthony Scelfo are just following the footsteps of Chad Sutter, James Jurries, Jake Gautreau, Michael Aubrey, Brad Emaus, Brian Bogusevic, Tommy Manzella and J.R. Crowel...
Sports Spotlight: Gloria Asumnu
The Tulane Hullabaloo
Junior sprinter Gloria Asumnu is a three time Conference U.S.A. Champion and holds multiple school records, yet she continues to get better because of her determination to improve her times...
March 22, 2006
Dickson remains committed to Tulane
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson said Tuesday he has removed his name from consideration for the same position at Southern Methodist University. "I have the highest respect for (SMU president) Gerald Turner, and the position in Dallas is a great opportunity," Dickson said in a statement released by the university...
March 21, 2006
Privateers ready to face slumping Green Wave
New Orleans Times-Picayune
When Tulane and UNO met a month ago, the Green Wave was on a six-game winning streak while the Privateers were one game better than .500. Since then, things have changed. UNO has won six of its past seven games and nine of its past 14. Tulane has gone from a winning streak to searching for a winning combination...
Wave eyes C-USA race
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
Tulane coach Rick Jones has been through a growing period with his baseball teams before. The 1996 team started slow, after reaching the Conference USA Tournament championship game the year before. After a 56-12 record last season and a spot in the College World Series, the Green Wave look a lot like the '96 team that started 18-14...
Wave AD Dickson interviews at SMU
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane confirmed Monday that Green Wave athletic director Rick Dickson has been in contact with officials at Southern Methodist about its athletic director vacancy. "We are aware that SMU has spoken with Rick Dickson," Tulane spokesman Michael Strecker said...
TU's hopes blown away
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Several times during his career Dave Dickerson came close to landing his first head coaching job. Then last year Dickerson got that chance, being chosen the Green Wave's basketball coach on April Fool's Day...
Johnson glad for role lifting people's spirits
New Orleans Times-Picayune
The love affair began in 1998, when the kid from Chicago met his match. He was seduced by beauty, titillated by charm, wooed by meals at Dunbar's. The relationship lasted four unforgettable years, but Linton Johnson finally went his own way...
Sources: SMU focusing on four AD candidates
Dallas Morning News
SMU officials are considering several candidates to be the school's next athletic director. The position becomes vacant May 31, when Jim Copeland retires. According to sources, SMU is looking at four college athletic directors: Rick Dickson of Tulane, Rick Hartzell of Northern Iowa, Chet Gladchuk of Navy and Gary Barta of Wyoming...
March 20, 2006
Green Wave execute sacrifices to turn back Jags
Mobile (Ala.) Register
In the era of booming home runs and astronomical batting averages, the small-ball game and solid pitching still work as Tulane proved with a 7-2 win over South Alabama on Sunday at Stanky Field. The 14th-ranked Green Wave scored four times on singles after sacrificing runners into scoring position to improve to 14-8 while the Jaguars fell to 15-8 on the season...
March 19, 2006
Jags' Walters halts Wave
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Less than 24 hours after Tulane's Sean Morgan held South Alabama's hitters in check, the Green Wave got the same treatment Saturday afternoon from Jaguars junior P.J. Walters...
March 18, 2006
Henry delivers big hit for Green Wave
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane coach Rick Jones promised to shake up his batting lineup for Friday night's game with South Alabama, but not even Jones could have predicted it would be a freshman to give the Green Wave a much-needed jolt...
March 17, 2006
Tulane figures out biggest problem
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane's baseball faithful can rest a lot easier now. The problem with the Green Wave has been diagnosed, and it isn't as serious as many may have thought...
March 15, 2006
Nicholls rolls past Tulane
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Nicholls State scored five runs during a four-inning stretch Tuesday night to defeat Tulane 7-4 at Zephyr Field. The loss ended the Wave's 12-game winning streak over the Colonels. "That's what's special about this game," said Nicholls State coach Chip Durham, "anybody can beat anybody"...
March 12, 2006
Big ninth inning dooms TU
New Orleans Times-Picayune
For five innings Saturday afternoon, it appeared Tulane's bullpen was again going to bail it out of trouble. Oral Roberts, however, had something else in mind. The Golden Eagles went through four Tulane pitchers in the ninth inning and rallied for seven runs and a 13-6 victory over the Green Wave at Zephyr Field...
March 11, 2006
Offense powers Tulane
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Nathan Southard, Cat Everett and Mark Hamilton each drove in two runs Friday night to propel Tulane to a 7-5 victory over Oral Roberts at Zephyr Field. Southard got the Green Wave (11-5) going in the third inning, combining with Hamilton for a pair of two-run homers while Everett helped extend Tulane's lead to 7-3 with RBIs in the fourth and sixth innings...
March 10, 2006
Track transitions to highly expected outdoors
The Tulane Hullabaloo
At their Wesfeldt facility on Tulane University's campus, it is evident that the Green Wave Track and Field team is still unwinding from the cyclonic catastrophe that hit the Gulf Coast six months ago...
Memphis overwhelms Wave in tournament
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Handling Memphis' pressure was a main objective for the Tulane Green Wave in Thursday's Conference USA tournament quarterfinals at the FedExForum. It turns out it was easier said than done. Memphis' pressure suffocated Tulane in the first half for a lopsided start in a 75-56 Tigers victory...
Everett not coming up short
New Orleans Times-Picayune
When it came time for Tulane's Cat Everett to take over at shortstop this season, no one would have blamed him for having a few butterflies in his stomach...
Top-seeded Tigers send Tulane packing
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun Herald
Fifth-ranked Memphis waited to make a statement Thursday in the second round of the Conference USA Tournament. The bad news, for Tulane: it came against the Green Wave in the form of a 75-56 win that sends the Tigers to the semifinals and Tulane home for the year. The top-seeded Tigers (28-3) remained in the hunt for a No. 1 seed in a game that was over before the first Green Wave timeout...
Carney, Williams, Washington lead UofM blowout
Memphis Commercial Appeal
John Calipari is usually long in sentence, going on and on, no matter the subject in a manner only a man who has been through filibusters can truly appreciate. But in issuing a challenge this week to his perceived three best players, the University of Memphis coach did not mince words, and was unusually short and direct...
March 9, 2006
Tulane topples Marshall
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane forward David Gomez left the FedExForum on Wednesday night with a swollen lip and some bruises. But the smile on his face was the first hint that he didn't mind the rugged play during a 64-58 victory over Marshall in the first round of the Conference USA tournament...
Tulane overcomes foul troubles, advances to face top-seeded Tigers
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Marshall had a chance to avenge the humiliation. It came midway through the second half of its opening-round Conference USA tournament game against Tulane Wednesday night at FedExForum. With the game tied at 50, Quincy Davis, Tulane's all-conference post player and leading scorer, picked up his fourth foul and a seat on the sidelines...
Tulane rallies, set for rematch with Memphis
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
Tulane coach Dave Dickerson feared his team might overlook Marshall during Wednesday's opening round game of the Conference USA Tournament at the FedExForum. It nearly came true before the Green Wave rallied for a 64-58 win that sets up a rematch with top-seeded Memphis in the second round...
Green Wave ousts Herd
Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail
Ron Jirsa had been warned. Before the Marshall coach and his Thundering Herd even set foot in the FedEx Forum here, Jirsa was cautioned that there was a "good" shooting end of the court and a "bad" end...
Green Wave sends Marshall packing
Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Disptach
The story of Marshall's season turned out to mirror the story of its Conference USA Tournament debut. Grit and effort were trumped by an ill-timed second half scoring slump, leading to a 64-58 Thundering Herd loss to Tulane Wednesday night at FedEx Forum. Close-but-not-quite again was the tale, like so many occasions during a 12-16 season...
March 8, 2006
Tulane topples Marshall
New Orleans Times-Picayune
The mistakes came in succession for Tulane pitcher Brandon Gomes, one resounding "ping" after another in LSU's 4-3 victory over the Green Wave on Tuesday night at Alex Box Stadium...
Tulane motivated for C-USA tourney
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane's Dave Dickerson doesn't feel he has to say much to motivate his team at this stage of the season. He says his Green Wave team understands what it's up against...
Tulane coach: Looking ahead means trouble
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
Tulane coach Dave Dickerson is bracing his team for a possible letdown in their Conference USA Tournament opener today at the FedEx Forum. The Green Wave, the No. 8 seed, tangles with ninth-seeded Marshall at 6 p.m., with the winner facing top-seeded Memphis in the second round on Thursday...
'Tis the postseason
Memphis Commercial Appeal
As he walked off the court at FedExForum Tuesday, Tulane's Dave Dickerson was tossing about cliches with the frequency one would expect from a basketball coach preparing his struggling team for conference tournament play. Dickerson, in his first year at Tulane, eventually ended the run of ''it's a new season'' and ''anything can happen in a tournament'' quotes to relay the motivational technique he'll employ...
Marshall motivated for C-USA tourney
Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch
Reversing Marshall's performance against Tulane begins under the basket. The Thundering Herd was thoroughly outplayed in the paint at Tulane on Feb. 4, suffering a 61-36 defeat. Green Wave forward David Gomez led all scorers with 17 points on 6-of-6 shooting, and fellow big man Quincy Davis added 13 points and seven rebounds...
Tulane coach influenced by Marshall's Jirsa
Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette
If Marshall coach Ron Jirsa can't get the better of Tulane counterpart Dave Dickerson tonight at the Conference USA basketball tournament, he has nobody to blame but himself. OK, that's a Yao Ming of a reach. But as Dickerson tells it, he might not be in Memphis tonight were it not for the head man on the opposite bench...
LSU baseball team edges Tulane
Shreveport Times (Gannett)
It's only March, but the shaving cream came out at Alex Box Stadium Tuesday night. That's because it was No. 12 Tulane and No. 8 LSU won 4-3 in front of 4,711 "" the largest actual crowd of the season. The Tigers (14-2) had lost four of their previous five against the Green Wave in the sacred Box and 12 of the previous 21 overall. Tulane (10-5) has also won two games in Omaha, Neb., at the College World Series (2001, 2005) since LSU won one (2000)...
March 7, 2006
Heated Rivalry
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Early season non-conference games aren't supposed to mean much -- unless the teams are Tulane and LSU. When they play, at least to many fans, the game always is a big deal. The Green Wave (10-4) and Tigers (13-2) will meet in baseball for the 281st time when they square off at 6:30 tonight at Alex Box Stadium in Baton Rouge...
Tulane glad to be home
Baton Rouge Advocate
In terms of logistics, traveling to Baton Rouge to play LSU has always been one of the easiest road trips for the Tulane baseball team. Considering what the Green Wave went through in the last six months, today could feel like a Sunday drive...
Tulane's Gomes to start against LSU
Baton Rouge Advocate
Brandon Gomes, the Friday night starter for Tulane's first three weekends of the baseball season, is the scheduled starter for tonight's game against LSU. Green Wave officials said Gomes, a junior right-hander from Fall River, Mass., missed Friday's game against Manhattan because of a blood blister on his throwing hand. Manhattan won 1-0, but Tulane came back to win the three-game series...
Well-traveled Tulane heads to Baton Rouge
Shreveport Times (Gannett)
The Tulane baseball team plays its first legitimate road game tonight against No. 8 LSU at Alex Box Stadium, but that's just a walk to a park considering what the Green Wave has been through since Hurricane Katrina...
March 6, 2006
Tulane rallies past Jaspers
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Cat Everett and Mark Hamilton combined for seven hits and sophomore reliever Trey Martin threw four scoreless innings as Tulane defeated Manhattan College 5-3 on Sunday at Zephyr Field...
March 5, 2006
Wave finds enough timely hitting to win
New Orleans Times-Picayune
When a team is struggling at the plate as Tulane has lately, a two-run inning can seem like an offensive outburst. That was the case Saturday afternoon for the Green Wave, which scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to defeat Manhattan 5-3 at Zephyr Field...
Wave's rally falls short
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Anthony Price had 19 points and nine rebounds, and Tulsa held off a late Tulane rally for a 63-59 win Saturday in a Conference USA game. "After everything we've been through this year, I am proud of this team to have achieved what we have," Tulane coach Dave Dickerson said...
March 4, 2006
Wave squanders opportunities in loss to Jaspers
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Manhattan did just about all it could to help Tulane on Friday night, but the Green Wave failed to help itself to all that the Jaspers offered. The Green Wave, just as it did a week ago in the first game against Pepperdine, couldn't come up with clutch hits when it needed them, resulting in a 1-0 loss to Manhattan at Zephyr Field...
Wave's rally falls short
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Anthony Price had 19 points and nine rebounds, and Tulsa held off a late Tulane rally for a 63-59 win Saturday in a Conference USA game. "After everything we've been through this year, I am proud of this team to have achieved what we have," Tulane coach Dave Dickerson said...
March 3, 2006
Guidry takes on larger role
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Ten days ago, Tulane's Timmy Guidry was beginning to settle in with the role he was going to play this season for Coach Rick Jones and the Green Wave baseball team. After being beaten out for the starting third base job by newcomer Jonny Weiss, Guidry, a fourth-year junior who prepped at Jesuit, was going to start some games at third, but was expecting to be inserted into the lineup mostly in late innings as a defensive specialist...
Tulane women win, will face SMU today
Dallas Morning News
Maybe things aren't back to normal in New Orleans, Mardi Gras notwithstanding. But for Tulane, it's as close to normal as the Green Wave has been since Hurricane Katrina. Tulane defeated Central Florida, 69-52, in Thursday's first round of the Conference USA Women's Basketball Championship...
March 2, 2006
Green Wave gets past Southern Mississippi
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane coach Dave Dickerson didn't really want to talk about the struggle his Green Wave went through Wednesday night against Southern Mississippi. He said to forget that the Green Wave was in control, lost it, regained it and almost lost it and the game at the end...
Wave rolls into C-USA tourney
New Orleans Times-Picayune
To Coach Lisa Stockton, momentum might be on Tulane's side when the Green Wave opens play in the Conference USA tournament against Central Florida tonight in Dallas. "I really feel great about the way our team is playing," Stockton said. "We're playing hard. We're playing together...
Tulane outguns USM
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
Tulane used the inside play of Quincy Davis and the steady shooting of Chris Moore to rally past Southern Miss 50-47 on Wednesday night at Fogelman Arena. The win allowed the Green Wave to improve to 11-15 overall and 6-7 in Conference USA play; the Golden Eagles dropped to 8-20 and 2-11 with their fifth straight loss...
Golden Eagles lose 8-point lead, 20th game
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
For Southern Miss, the 20th might have been the toughest. In a game where points were at a premium, the Golden Eagles saw an eight-point lead slip away with 8 minutes to play as Tulane rallied for a 50-47 Conference USA victory Wednesday night before an announced 1,271 at Fogelman Arena...
March 1, 2006
Dependable Gomez there for Wave through thick, thin
New Orleans Times-Picayune
When Tulane senior Quincy Davis, the Green Wave's expected go-to player this season, was slow to adapt to a new coach and system, sophomore forward David Gomez filled the void. When Davis began playing up to expectations, Gomez continued to get the job done...
Tulane looks for revenge
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
Round Two of the Southern Miss-Tulane battle on the hardwood will have an effect on next week's Conference USA Tournament at the FedEx Forum in Memphis. Southern Miss (8-19 overall, 2-10 in C-USA) and the Green Wave, (10-15, 5-7) tip off tonight at 7 at Fogelman Arena with an eye on the season-ending tournament...
USM needs road win to delay 20th loss
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
Twenty was once a magical number in college basketball. The Associated Press' national poll stopped there. Twenty wins all but meant an invitation to a postseason tournament. But 20 is the last number Southern Miss would care to see this season, though the Golden Eagles are unlikely to do much more than postpone the inevitable...
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