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June 4, 2004
May 31, 2004
LSU draws 15th straight regional
New Orleans Times Picayune
A rested and rejuvenated LSU baseball team returned to practice Sunday morning after two days off. It hardly seemed to bother the Tigers that the SEC tournament was still going on without them...
TU's Kogan to play for NCAA title
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane's Michael Kogan became the first Green Wave player to reach the NCAA men's tennis singles championships since 1955, beating South Alabama's Franticek Babej 6-1, 6-3 on Saturday at the University of Tulsa...
May 30, 2004
Wave's Kogan reaches semifinals
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane's Michael Kogan advanced to the semifinals of the NCAA men's tennis singles championships by defeating the nation's fifth-ranked player Saturday in Tulsa, Okla...
LSU still looks good for NCAA Regional
New Orleans Times Picayune
LSU most likely will be in and Tulane mostly likely will be out when the NCAA selection committee announces the 16 schools it's picked as regional hosts today...
May 29, 2004
Mandatory service paying dividends for Tulane senior
Tulsa World
Growing up in Israel, Michael Kogan was the typical teenager. Hanging out with friends at the mall or an occasional trip to the beach were the norm...
May 28, 2004
Dickson delivering upbeat news to Green Wave fans
Baton Rouge Advocate
A year after leading the fight to save Tulane's athletic program, Rick Dickson's life isn't less hectic, just happier. The Tulane athletic director has made 27 stops across the nation speaking to school alumni and fans, from 850 who turned up on a spring night in Manhattan to the couple of dozen who gathered in an intimate setting Tuesday night at a Tulane supporter's south Baton Rouge home...
Eagles knock Wave out of tournament
New Orleans Times Picayune
After being soundly beaten by Tulane during the regular season, Southern Miss got more than revenge Thursday...
May 27, 2004
Forgettable Starts
New Orleans Times Picayune
Although Tulane ended the regular season by losing two of its last three games, it entered the Conference USA tournament believing it was not far from being on top of its game...
May 26, 2004
Passion makes difference for Green Wave's Kogan
New Orleans Times Picayune
One day Tulane tennis coach Robert Klein opened his e-mail, and waiting for him was an ordinary message from an old player, nothing in the e-mail's subject line to suggest its potential importance...
Something to prove
New Orleans Times Picayune
When Tulane and Alabama-Birmingham met in mid-April, the two were on very different paths. The Green Wave again was positioning itself to challenge for the Conference USA title...
Blazers make it to tourney for first time in three years
Birmingham News
The UAB baseball team's season teetered on the brink on April 16. Nine straight losses had forced the Blazers, then 14-19 overall and 2-9 in C-USA, into a corner. And Tulane, ranked No. 7 nationally at the time, was headed to Young Memorial Field...
May 25, 2004
Tulane athletics spreads message across the state
Lafayette Daily Advertiser
When Tulane Athletic Director Rick Dickson needs to get in touch with the university's alumni, he needs to do much more than stroll across St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans...
May 23, 2004
TU clinches 2nd seed in Conference tourney
New Orleans Times Picayune
Junior shortstop Tommy Manzella hit a three-run homer in the fifth inning, and junior catcher Greg Dini hit a solo home run in the seventh as Tulane defeated Houston 5-4 at Cougar Field in the regular-season finale...
May 21, 2004
Houston heats up with perfect timing
Houston Chronicle
It's been a long, hard climb, but the Houston Cougars are finally over .500 for the first time since before Valentine's Day. The Cougars beat Tulane 3-2 on Thursday in the opening game of their final Conference USA regular-season series to go over .500 for the first time since they were 1-0 on Feb. 13. Their deepest descent below .500 was when they fell to 14-22 on April 16...
Rice debating pros, cons of football
New Orleans Times Picayune
For Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson, the question being debated at Rice University is all too familiar...
May 20, 2004
Into the eye of the hurricane
New Orleans Times Picayune
It was no time for a joke. The Tulane women's tennis team was rapt in concentration, preparing for its match against Oklahoma, the winner advancing to the round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament. Tulane had never been there...
Green Wave shooting to keep high seeding
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane has wrapped up a high seed for next week's Conference USA baseball tournament, but the Green Wave knows its work hardly is done...
C-USA taking time on moves
New Orleans Times Picayune
Those thinking that a reconfigured Conference USA would come out of its spring meetings that end today with most, if not all, of the major decisions about how the league will operate starting in 2005 will be disappointed...
Officials discuss football title game
Birmingham News
Conference USA's 12 athletics directors on Wednesday gave their approval to dividing the realigned conference into East and West divisions in football when play kicks off in 2005...
May 19, 2004
C-USA mulls title game
New Orleans Times Picayune
Count Marshall coach Bob Pruett among those in favor of Conference USA instituting a football championship game when his school and five others join the conference in 2005, expanding it to 12...
Graduation tops C-USA meetings
Houston Chronicle
Conference USA Commissioner Britton Banowsky got his first face-to-face look at his new conference this week. One of his messages was a seconding of the message NCAA President Myles Brand delivered after landmark academic legislation was put in place...
Midweek games likely to increase for C-USA
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Conference USA's football roster will change in 2005, but indications are the new faces will keep riding a TV path the league already has in place...
May 18, 2004
C-USA schools deal with change
New Orleans Times Picayune
This year's program for the Conference USA spring meetings includes pictures of all of the attendees. Good thing. They should come in handy...
Tulane's Bogusevic honored
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane's Brian Bogusevic was selected Monday the Louisville Slugger Player of the Week by Collegiate Baseball Magazine, as well as the Conference USA Hitter of the Week...
May 17, 2004
Expanded C-USA open for business
Orlando Sentinel
Conference USA has its table set with placards. Now the league just needs to learn more about the new makeup of the family...
Bogusevic beats Billikens
New Orleans Times Picayune
One pitch. One swing. Game over. Brian Bogusevic's grand slam in the bottom of the ninth Sunday afternoon ended a day of struggle and lifted Tulane to a 13-9 victory over Saint Louis in the regular-season finale at Turchin Stadium...
Superdome is losing turf, but it's gaining Momentum
New Orleans Times Picayune
The New Orleans Saints and Tulane Green Wave football teams will be playing on their third surface in as many seasons this fall at the Superdome...
May 16, 2004
C-USA boss Banowsky all about the job
New Orleans Times Picayune
In the midst of the muddle - what polite people call conference realignment, what Wall Street calls corporate raiding - Britton Banowsky, the new commissioner of Conference USA, seemed to vanish into thin air...
Tulane routs Billikens
New Orleans Times Picayune
It was a different situation for Tulane freshman Daniel Latham, but that didn't stop him from being aggressive and effective...
May 15, 2004
Rest? Now isn't the time
New Orleans Times Picayune
They yearn for a rest. A summer-long snooze in a bed miles away from hardcourts and nets and endless sets. Many of the Tulane women's tennis players are exhausted...
Hamilton's five RBIs lift TU
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane first baseman Mark Hamilton finally is beginning to come around, and that's bad news to Green Wave opponents...
May 14, 2004
Jones juggling depleted rotation
New Orleans Times Picayune
Before the start of the season, Tulane coach Rick Jones had a pitching staff so deep that his weekend rotation could have been done by a blind draw. Returning were pitchers that accounted for 43 of the Green Wave's 44 victories last season...
May 13, 2004
Build of a star
New Orleans Times Picayune
For track experts to break down what makes sprinter Gloria Asumnu successful, they would most likely use confusing terminology...
May 10, 2004
Bogusevic's bat propels Tulane
New Orleans Times Picayune
One day following his first complete-game pitching effort of the season, Tulane's Brian Bogusevic gave the Green Wave a lift with his hitting...
May 9, 2004
Wave solid all-around, beats Bulls
New Orleans Times Picayune
After losing the opening game of its three-game Conference USA series to South Florida, Tulane bounced back Saturday and played a complete game...
UTEP excited to join forces with C-USA
El Paso Times
The new 12-school Conference USA, which UTEP will become a member of next summer, might want to think about adopting the theme from "Cops" for its league...
May 8, 2004
Green Wave revives men's track and field
New Orleans Times Picayune
Track is back. At Tulane, where the men's outdoor track and field program was dropped in 2002 to comply with gender-equity requirements, the program will be reinstated, symbolizing the athletic department's efforts in matching the requirements about two years ahead of schedule...
Bulls charge past Green Wave 9-4
New Orleans Times Picayune
For the past few weeks, South Florida had been looking like a team that was ready for its season to be over. The Bulls had lost five of their past six games and 10 of their past 14...
May 7, 2004
Patience has its rewards
New Orleans Times Picayune
Early last season, Tulane's Wes Swackhamer was knee deep in a bad habit. Instead of being the Green Wave's feared designated hitter, Swackhamer ranked third on the team in strikeouts with 38, about one every four at-bats...
Green Wave women fourth in regional
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane, led by a 2-under-par 70 by Liliana Alvarez, is fourth after Thursday's first round of the women's NCAA East Regional golf championships at the 6,165-yard Mission Inn El Campeon Course...
May 6, 2004
Coach confident in surging Tulane
New Orleans Times Picayune
It's not a mission, per se, because that suggests the Tulane women's golf team's trip to the NCAA East Regional, which begins this morning at Mission Inn Golf and Tennis Resort in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla., is a beyond-serious matter...
Bills' Wyche awed by QB Losman
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
For the second time in his long and mostly illustrious NFL coaching career, Sam Wyche is in a position to guide the torch passing from old, accomplished quarterback to new, hot prospect...
May 5, 2004
Jurries' bat big in loss
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Trust in James Jurries. The Tulane University graduate, a former academic All-American, has worked in financial planning...
May 4, 2004
Green Wave's Dickson to receive award
New Orleans Times Picayune
A year ago, Rick Dickson was working tirelessly to preserve Tulane's Division I-A athletic program. One year later, the Tulane athletic director was chosen to receive a prestigious award, honoring his efforts...
May 3, 2004
Burse, Sam adjust sights in new Storm
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Janell Burse sat along the sidelines after practice last week, condensation trickling from the ice packs strapped to both of her knees. Traces of blood showed through a large Band-Aid covering a sizable gash on her left shin...
Location is everything as Tiger tames Wave
Memphis Commercial Appeal
The strategy was to play small ball. University of Memphis baseball coach Dave Anderson realized the best way to beat 13th-ranked Tulane Sunday at Nat Buring Stadium was to force the action. So he had the Tigers taking the extra base, reaching on bunt singles and scoring on squeeze plays...
May 2, 2004
A confidence man
Buffalo News
Let's get this straight. Eli Manning was the passing prince going into the 2004 NFL draft but announced, through his Hall of Fame daddy, that he would sit out the season if the San Diego Chargers selected him first overall. They took him anyway and Manning pouted until he was traded to the New York Giants...
May 1, 2004
Tulane lefty cools down Tigers
Memphis Commercial Appeal
University of Memphis righthander Jarrett Grube, who entered Friday's night game as the Conference USA earned-run average leader, admitted he made several bad pitches...
UTEP leaves WAC
El Paso Times
UTEP chose east over west Friday, leaving the Western Athletic Conference after nearly four decades of membership for Eastern-based Conference USA...
UTEP bolts WAC, will join Conference USA
New Orleans Times Picayune
The latest spin of the conference realignment wheel has stopped in El Paso, Texas. Conference USA presidents invited UTEP to become the league's newest member Friday and Miners officials quickly accepted...
Move part of Stull's 5-year plan
El Paso Times
UTEP's decision to leave the Western Athletic Conference for Conference USA on Friday marked the culmination of a five-year plan to make the school's athletic department a major player in the ever-changing landscape of collegiate athletics...
