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July 2, 2003
June 29, 2003
Tulane president: 'Get rid of BCS'
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion Ledger
Tulane president Scott Cowen comes across as a well-reasoned man, a person willing to weigh the worth of a proposition before staking out his position on a topic...
June 29, 2003
Sting eclipses the Sun at home
Charlotte Observer
When at home, the Charlotte Sting has found a way to win...
June 29, 2003
'Gades have no time for pity
Ottawa Sun
"We did get lucky in that Winnipeg and Calgary are mirror images in their passing games," said defensive end Keaton Cromartie. "So that makes it easier."...
June 29, 2003
Wave Saver
New Orleans Times Picayune
The future of TU athletics hinges largely on AD Rick Dickson's ability to convert energy from recent fund-raising into cash...
June 29, 2003
ACC expansion could work out for everyone
New Orleans Times Picayune
It turns out that in spite of themselves, those ACC presidents and chancellors might not be so clueless after all...
June 27, 2003
Four on All-Star squad
Greenville (S.C.) News
Four Greenville Braves players will participate in the Southern League All-Star game at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville in Florida on July 8. Outfielders Ryan Langerhans and Bill McCarthy will join infielder James Jurries and pitcher Adam Wainwright in the contest...
June 26, 2003
Tulane leads good fight against BCS
Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Daily News Journal
The presidents of all universities which field Division I-A football teams and are not a member of Bowl Championship Series conferences should borrow a page from Tulane president Scott Cowen...
June 25, 2003
2003 PREVIEW: Rising Star Quarterbacks
FoxSports.com
Losman has a ton of experience in the offense and should become one of the nation's statistically best quarterbacks...
June 24, 2003
What if the little fish ate the big fish
ESPN.com
The commonly accepted model of trickle-down conference cannibalism is as follows...
June 22, 2003
On Campus
New Orleans Times Picayune
In a time when most of the college sports world is concerned with issues of money and power, Vanderbilt athletic director Todd Turner has other things on his mind...
June 20, 2003
Cowen causes stir with blitz against the BCS
New Orleans Times Picayune
While Tulane was completing a review of its athletic program, school president Scott Cowen had little to say publicly. Now he's in the middle of a national media blitz...
June 19, 2003
Cowen to the rescue
Deseret (Utah) News
Scott Cowen may be a stranger in these parts. But when it comes to the future of college football, you can color him the Robin Hood of a very thick Sherwood Forest on the outskirts of the greedy hog farm known as the Bowl Championship Series...
June 19, 2003
Tulane Football Preview
SI.com
Mewelde Moore for Heisman? Don't laugh. C-USA teams traditionally don't pack the strength-of-schedule punch to launch successful Heisman campaigns, but if Tulane can muster the talent, chemistry and luck to go unbeaten in September, the league may have a candidate in Moore, the nation's best all-purpose back and one of the most productive in NCAA history...
June 19, 2003
Hornets gauge skills for draft as prospects play, work out
New Orleans Times Picayune
For two hours Wednesday, NBA draft prospects James Jones of Miami, Waitari Marsh of Tulane, Ray Young of UCLA and Jermaine Boyette of Weber State worked to impress Hornets head coach Tim Floyd and members of the team's basketball operations staff...
June 19, 2003
Aubrey's debut striking
Akron Beacon-Journal
The calls had been coming in for days, with folks from all over Ohio wanting to know when Michael Aubrey would be arriving...
June 19, 2003
Indians' top pick off to rough start with Captains
Cleveland Plain Dealer
For a guy with his earning potential, Michael Aubrey chose the right major in college - finance. He's got plenty of cash to invest these days after receiving a $2.01 million sign ing bonus as the Indians' first-round draft pick...
June 17, 2003
Problems continue with BCS
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Scott S. Cowen, president of Tulane University, is upset...
June 15, 2003
How Division I-A Is Selling Its Athletes Short
New York Times
The role of Division I-A intercollegiate athletics is increasingly out of sync with the goals and values of America's higher education institutions...
June 15, 2003
TU seeks to continue making positive strides
New Orleans Times Picayune
There are wake-up calls, and then there are wake-up calls...
June 15, 2003
Ramsey has better grasp of the situation
New Orleans Times Picayune
Redskins quarterback Patrick Ramsey compares the challenge of learning an NFL offense to trying to master a foreign language...
June 14, 2003
Finney declines Marshall offer to stay with Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
The lure of going home to coach at Marshall just wasn't enough for Shawn Finney, as he announced Friday that he will remain Tulane's head basketball coach...
June 14, 2003
Clemson assistant emerges as top candidate for MU job
Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail
The search to fill the men's basketball coaching vacancy at Marshall took two more twists Friday with the front-runner withdrawing from consideration and a new leading candidate emerging...
June 14, 2003
Cowen targets BCS bowl system
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane president Scott Cowen would like to see a playoff for college football's national championship, one in which all 117 Division I-A schools would get a fair shot to participate...
June 13, 2003
Overthrow plot
SI.com
Tulane president Scott Cowen is looking for some help dismantling the Bowl Championship Series...
June 13, 2003
President says BCS has 'adverse' effects
ESPN.com
Tulane president Scott Cowen is looking for help dismantling the Bowl Championship Series...
June 13, 2003
Finney only remaining finalist at Marshall
New Orleans Times Picayune
The head coaching job at Marshall appears to belong to Tulane basketball coach Shawn Finney if he wants it...
June 13, 2003
Strange sportsfellows
New Orleans Times Picayune
When I think back over the events of the past week involving the future of Tulane University's athletics program, I will never forget Don Zapalowski...
June 12, 2003
It won't get easier for Tulane
Corpus Christi Times
A crisis apparently was averted in New Orleans Tuesday when Tulane University officials voted to save the school's 110-year-old football program, which is alleged as a primary reason the school reportedly was losing between $6 million and $7 million per year on athletics...
June 12, 2003
Tulane president vows to lead athletic reform
New Orleans Times Picayune
One day after Tulane University ended a tumultuous process by voting to keep its athletic program in Division I and keep its football team in place, university President Scott Cowen said Tulane is better and stronger and declared he'll try to lead a reform of major college athletics...
June 12, 2003
Redskins' Ramsey set for good second year
Hampton Roads (Va.) Daily Press
In just about every way, Wednesday was a good day for Washington Redskins' quarterback Patrick Ramsey...
June 12, 2003
It won't get easier for Tulane
Birmingham Post-Herald
A crisis apparently was averted in New Orleans Tuesday when Tulane University officials voted to save the school's 110-year-old football program, which is reportedly was a primary reason the school reportedly was losing between $6 million and $7 million per year on athletics...
June 11, 2003
OVERALL COVERAGE OF TULANE DECISION AVAILABLE HERE
June 11, 2003
The ballots are in: Football will stay
New Orleans Times Picayune
Resounding cheers momentarily drowned out John Koerner, the chairman of the Tulane Board of Trustees, as he announced to a throng of Green Wave faithful Tuesday morning that a once-divided board had achieved resounding unity: Tulane would, after 110 seasons, keep playing football...
June 11, 2003
HEALING BEGINS
New Orleans Times Picayune
They hugged twice Tuesday. But in recent weeks, Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson said, he wasn't sure what to make of his relationship with Tulane president Scott Cowen...
June 11, 2003
Tulane can turn attention to tangle of conference ties
New Orleans Times Picayune
Understandably, Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson has not been paying a great deal of attention to the talk of conference realignment around the nation...
June 11, 2003
Decision a challenge to Wave fans
New Orleans Times Picayune
Sitting here in the afterglow of Tulane's decision to keep right on chugging in Division I-A intercollegiate athletics, there were several comments that resonated...
June 11, 2003
Recruits relieved program still alive
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tremell Jack let out an audible exhale of relief. Alvin Johnson pumped his arm with a demonstrative "Yes!"...
June 11, 2003
Recruiting fine, Wave coaches say
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane football coach Chris Scelfo joined other college football coaches on the road in May to begin the 2004 recruiting season. But Scelfo found a tough sell on the recruiting trail...
June 11, 2003
Scelfo steady in uncertain times
New Orleans Times Picayune
On June 10, Tulane football has already gained its biggest victory of the season...
June 11, 2003
If only city's Wave fervor was flexible
New Orleans Times Picayune
I might have known the future of Tulane University football even before Scott Cowen did...
June 10, 2003
Tulane to remain Division I-A in football
Yahoo.com
Tulane will remain Division I-A in football after the school's board of trustees voted Tuesday to keep all programs in the school in the highest level of NCAA competition...
June 10, 2003
Green Wave swamped by ardent fans
ESPN.com
Tulane University's will keep its football program in Division I-A, the school announced Tuesday...
June 10, 2003
Wave of the future
SI.com
Tulane votes to keep football team in I-A but vows changes...
June 10, 2003
Tulane University decides against changes in athletics program
USA Today
Tulane University's board of trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to keep the school's football program in Division I-A...
June 10, 2003
Tulane keeps football program
TheSportingNews.com
Tulane's trustees voted unanimously Tuesday not to eliminate the football team, but told the school it must reduce the amount of money the athletic department loses each year...
June 10, 2003
Local athletes watch Tulane situation carefully
The Daily Iberian (New Iberia, La.)
The athletic careers and professional lives of hundreds of people could be affected Tuesday when the Tulane University board of trustees meets to decide the fate of the athletic department in general and the football program in particular...
June 10, 2003
Tulane football on hot seat today
Baton Rouge Advocate
The future of Tulane football hangs in the balance today as the university's governing body is expected to vote whether to disband the century-old program...
June 10, 2003
Decision day for Tulane
Shreveport Times
Tulane students and supporters lined the streets surrounding the university's Uptown campus on Monday...
June 10, 2003
Future of athletics is on the line at Tulane
USA Today
There are yard signs and extended hours for the ticket office. Former football players have purchased a huge block of season tickets. Monday, there was a phone-a-thon, with coaches and staff members trying to sell more. If school was in session, you could almost imagine current football players conducting a bake sale outside the student union building...
June 10, 2003
No time for board to punt
New Orleans Times Picayune
Its future remains uncertain, but the answer is clear: Now is not the time to give up on Tulane football...
June 10, 2003
Tulane president mum on football
New Orleans Times Picayune
Speaking for the first time since a firestorm erupted about the possible elimination of Tulane University's football program, university President Scott Cowen said Monday that he never said football was financially unsustainable, but he declined to say what he will recommend today when the board of trustees votes on the fate of the school's athletic programs...
June 10, 2003
Wave faithful make final pitch
New Orleans Times Picayune
There was no calm before the storm at Tulane on Monday. The day before the Board of Trustees votes on the future of Tulane athletics -- and what's best for Tulane University -- many tried to promote what they thought was best, from ad hoc committee members to voracious fans...
June 9, 2003
Tulane close to being major victim of BCS monopoly
CBS Sportsline
Tulane's board of directors is supposed to decide the fate of the football program Tuesday. The winds are blowing ill. The athletic department loses $7 million per year. The board of trustees that will make the decision is made up mostly of folks who don't even live in the state. It may look harder at the bottom line than a 113-year-old football tradition going kaput...
June 9, 2003
Tulane backers stage final defense of sports program
Florence (Ala.) Times Daily
They sat amid the cases holding trophies, game balls and other memorabilia in the lobby of the athletic building. Tulane coaches, local big shots and civic leaders dialed phones and urged alumni to buy season tickets...
June 9, 2003
TU supporters to rally while panel meets
New Orleans Times Picayune
With most students gone for the summer, Tulane's quiet Uptown campus belies the firestorm raging over the board of trustee's scheduled vote Tuesday on the future of the school's athletic program and the possible elimination of football...
June 8, 2003
Tulane athletics debate broadens
New Orleans Times Picayune
The chairman of a group studying the future of Tulane's athletic program is virtually unknown to Tulane fans and most New Orleans residents. The fact that Philip Greer lives in California is only one reason for his obscurity in the city...
June 8, 2003
Wave faithful deserve answers
New Orleans Times Picayune
There is a deathwatch at Tulane University. Presided over by Scott Cowen, its president and a man who some say has a death wish, but not his own...
June 8, 2003
Where Tulane went wrong
New Orleans Times Picayune
If you really want to understand the debate about the future of Tulane athletics, you don't need to know anything about head coach Chris Scelfo or quarterback J.P. Losman or running back Mewelde Moore. You need to know about a guy named Trey Macdiarmid...
June 8, 2003
Tuesday: Decision day for tradition-rich, cash-poor Tulane athletics
Jackson Clarion Ledger
THIS Tuesday, Scott Cowen, president of Tulane University, will make a decision that could end 107 years of football at the New Orleans school...
June 8, 2003
Tulane's day of reckoning nears
Baton Rouge Advocate
The evaluation of the Tulane athletic program has played out like a courtroom drama...
June 7, 2003
Tulane shouldn't drop football
Shreveport Times
By this time next week, there's a strong possibility that we may have seen the last of football at Tulane...
June 7, 2003
Tulane club heads urge school to stay I-A
New Orleans Times Picayune
A group of Tulane club presidents, saying it represents 59,000 of the school's alumni around the world, on Friday sent a letter to the school's board of trustees expressing "our strong opinion" that Tulane should keep all sports at the Division I level...
June 7, 2003
Former Green Wave players step up
New Orleans Times Picayune
The thought of abolishing football at Tulane is incomprehensible to Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Shawn King, who led the Green Wave to a 12-0 record and top 10 national ranking in 1998...
June 6, 2003
Green Tidal Wave of Turmoil
BayouBuzz.com
About six weeks ago, a shocking announcement hit the Tulane Athletic Department and the supporters of Green Wave sports. The university had commissioned an ad-hoc committee of the board to investigate the viability of the entire athletic program and make a recommendation about the future of the program to the Board of Trustees...
June 6, 2003
TU alumni seeking support
New Orleans Times Picayune
Four prominent Tulane boosters, saying they represent a growing grassroots movement, on Thursday expressed outrage at the possible elimination of Green Wave football and urged the school's board of trustees to keep all sports at the Division I level...
June 6, 2003
Football out of Losman's hands for now
New Orleans Times Picayune
He's a quarterback waiting for a signal to come in from the sideline. If J.P. Losman could make the call, it would be "go."...
June 6, 2003
Tulane releases football schedule
New Orleans Times Picayune
With only days remaining before Tulane's board of trustees is scheduled to decide the fate of the school's athletic programs, including whether it will continue playing football, the university released a schedule Thursday for its 2003 football season...
June 5, 2003
Tulane coach will miss Aubrey
MLB.com
Rick Jones has coached college baseball for 28 years now, and running a top-level college program like Tulane has put Jones in charge of scores of talented ballplayers...
June 5, 2003
Tribe decides place to start is at first
Cleveland Plain-Dealer
The Indians have been busts at using first-round picks to select first basemen in the player draft...
June 5, 2003
Wanting to stay course
New Orleans Times Picayune
When the committee looking into the fate of Tulane athletics makes its decision Tuesday, it has just one option, according to an overwhelming number of the university's graduates and students. That will be to keep the athletic program just as it is...
June 5, 2003
Tulane financial figures in dispute
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane president Scott Cowen has told board members he would prefer to keep all Green Wave sports at the Division I level, but does not think the program can be sustained financially, board member Billy Slatten said Wednesday night...
June 5, 2003
Scelfo's ability to sell being pushed to limit
New Orleans Times Picayune
Think Hornets owners George Shinn and Ray Wooldridge appear to be having a tough time selling their program to prospective coaches, two of whom withdrew from the race to become the next coach of New Orleans' NBA franchise?...
June 4, 2003
Eliminating football is one option at Tulane
New Orleans Times Picayune
Scrapping the Tulane football program while remaining Division I for other sports has emerged as a serious option for the university's board of trustees, which is set to meet next week to decide the fate of the financially troubled athletic program, Tulane Athletic Director Rick Dickson said Tuesday...
June 4, 2003
Aubrey survives rare case of nerves, eager to play for Cleveland
New Orleans Times Picayune
During Michael Aubrey's three years at Tulane, he never felt nervous or intimidated -- not while playing before the largest crowd to watch a college baseball game at the Superdome, and not when he was called on to pitch in the Green Wave's three College World Series games in 2001...
June 3, 2003
Retooling begins for Green Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
Getting over the fact that the season has ended has never been easy for Tulane coach Rick Jones. He says it's usually a two- to three-day process...
June 1, 2003
Tulane chief endures Green Wave of criticism
New Orleans Times Picayune
His face painted as green as AstroTurf, there stood Tulane's president, as conspicuous as ever, cheering for his beloved Green Wave as it played its 2002 homecoming game at Tad Gormley Stadium...
June 1, 2003
Seahawks survive
Wilmington Star-News
Freshman Matt Sutton barely reacted as he trotted down the first-base line, as if it was just another hit...
June 1, 2003
LSU in driver's seat after shaking off Tulane
Baton Rouge Advocate
After the early missed opportunities, after the many momentum swings, after the inning-by-inning wonder if LSU's tenuous grip on the lead could withstand a late Tulane flurry, something familiar happened...
June 1, 2003
Seahawks eliminate Green Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane's string of extra-inning victories, and its season, came to an end Saturday night when UNC Wilmington rallied for a pair of runs in the bottom of the 10th inning and took a 9-8 victory over the Green Wave in the losers' bracket of the NCAA regional at Alex Box Stadium...
June 1, 2003
TIGERS IN CONTROL
New Orleans Times Picayune
For six innings Saturday, Tulane and LSU gave more than 7,000 fans at Alex Box Stadium a thriller. Then the Tigers took care of business...
