October NewsStand
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Nov. 3, 2003
Oct. 31, 2003
TU should follow Hens' blueprint
New Orleans Times Picayune
If the going gets tough for Tulane against Navy's multifarious, triple-option offense, the Green Wave should remember the Hens...
Defense braces for Tulane aerial assault
Annapolis Capital
Forgive Shalimar Brazier and Vaughn Kelley for feeling they have bull's-eyes emblazoned across their chests this week...
Oct. 30, 2003
Split Decision
Los Angeles Times
Nothing you might call J.P. Losman would come as much of a surprise. Traitor. Scourge. Pariah. The young man knows what people back home in Southern California - at least some people - think of him. "I would like for them to see things my way," he says...
Green Wave to keep offensive plan the same
New Orleans Times Picayune
There seems to be two trains of thought on what's going on with Tulane's normally high-powered offense, which scored only nine points in last Saturday's loss to Memphis...
Elpheage signs with N.O. team
New Orleans Times Picayune
Lynaris Elpheage is going to play professional football at home after all. Elpheage, a former Tulane defensive back who was released in training camp by the Saints, signed Wednesday with the expansion VooDoo of the Arena Football League...
Flexible line key for Navy
Annapolis Capital
Navy's offensive linemen need to learn every position along the unit. Tackles must know how to block like guards and vice versa...
LSU, Tulane mulling a meeting next season
New Orleans Times Picayune
There was once a proud football rivalry between LSU and Tulane. Later, there was a bitter feud that kept the schools from playing each other in any number of major and minor sports...
Bowl-game system gets penalty flag
New Orleans Times Picayune
The current system for crowning a college football champion is unfair and "un-American" in the way it excludes certain schools, members of a Senate panel said Wednesday...
Oct. 29, 2003
Losman feeling brunt
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane senior quarterback J.P. Losman has said again and again that he wants to be the one the team counts on to make a play at the end of the game. Losman is discovering how heavy a burden that can be...
Wave of skill to test Mids
Annapolis Capital
No team has given Navy more trouble in recent years than Tulane. The Green Wave scored a whopping 143 points on the Midshipmen in three straight meetings...
Williams emerges in UAB offense
New Orleans Times Picayune
The tumult of UAB's season -- the loss of the offensive coordinator to cancer, the quarterback to injury and then the game against No. 15 Texas Christian, 27-24 -- found its way into the hands of an 18-year-old New Orleanian, playing against the nation's No. 4 team...
Oct. 28, 2003
Tulane facing a dwindling confidence
New Orleans Times Picayune
With Tulane in the midst of a four-game losing streak, Chris Scelfo is facing, perhaps, his biggest challenge in his five seasons as the Green Wave coach...
Stalled Mids look to accelerate
Annapolis (Md.) Capital
A day later, Coach Paul Johnson was still scratching his head over Navy's puzzling performance in a 21-17 defeat to Delaware...
Mids, with bowls on their minds, say they can't afford another loss
Baltimore Sun
After a damaging defeat to Division I-AA power Delaware on Saturday, Navy quarterback Craig Candeto believes the Midshipmen can ill afford another loss if they expect to merit serious attention from the bowl-game committees...
Oct. 27, 2003
Tulane 'O' not making waves
New Orleans Times Picayune
Perhaps Tulane defensive tackle Terrence Tarver said it best following Saturday's 41-9 loss to Memphis when he said "there's going to come a time when we have to put the talking aside and play football"...
Oct. 26, 2003
U of M rolls over Tulane
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Tommy West remembers the snickers and pockets of laughter. They came two weeks ago at the University of Memphis coach's weekly press luncheon after West said his team was on the verge of becoming something special...
Tigers maul Wave again
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane was presented an opportunity Saturday afternoon that had bonus points attached. It had a chance to erase the memory of last year's physical beating by Memphis and end its losing streak...
Tigers' Williams a pain to Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
He gave Tulane defensive linemen vertigo and Tulane defensive coaches headaches. Memphis running back DeAngelo Williams was slippery and speedy on Saturday, running for a season-high 195 yards and two touchdowns, averaging nearly a first down per rush (9.3 yards)...
Wave get sinking feeling
New Orleans Times Picayune
The feeling now is resignation. Tulane knows what's going to happen and seems pretty much helpless to prevent it. The only variable, it appears, is how the damage is going to be done...
Oct. 25, 2003
Tulane forced to start its youth
New Orleans Times Picayune
There is little doubt that Tulane didn't anticipate having to play as many freshmen as it has this season...
Inside Tulane
New Orleans Times Picayune
Memphis at Tulane. Kickoff: 1:30 p.m. at the Superdome...
Tiger QB hitting his stride
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Minutes after he had passed for 228 yards and three touchdowns in last weekend's lopsided Conference USA win at Houston, University of Memphis quarterback Danny Wimprine was reminded how well he has played in two games at Houston's cozy, on-campus Robertson Stadium...
Oct. 24, 2003
Marshall votes to pursue C-USA membership
SI.com
Marshall has taken another step toward joining Conference USA. The university's board of governors unanimously voted Friday to authorize President Dan Angel to pursue C-USA membership. School officials believe an invitation is imminent, and Angel said the Thundering Herd wants to begin play in C-USA in 2005...
Bulls cut Hassell, keep Johnson
Chicago Tribune
One of the shocking stories of any NBA training camp happened on Wednesday, and it had nothing to do with the Bulls' shockingly flat performance in their exhibition finale...
Superdome, NFL team, shell out for new turf
ESPN.com
Football fans will see a new field in the Louisiana Superdome after this weekend's Tulane and Saints games...
Wimprine eager to have Dome success continue
New Orleans Times Picayune
For Danny Wimprine, nothing says comfort and coziness like the largest man-made structure in New Orleans...
Flashy Williams gives Tigers big-play boost
Memphis Commercial Appeal
There is a page in the weekly University of Memphis media notes package devoted to the record-breaking accomplishments of quarterback Danny Wimprine. Though only a junior, Wimprine has established 23 school records. Several others are within reach...
Dome taking some 'ouch' out for Saints
New Orleans Times Picayune
Fred McAfee held up his left arm to reveal a softball-sized scar on his elbow, a badge of courage from the Saints' last home game at the Superdome...
Oct. 23, 2003
Tulane out to end slide
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Every season begins with a vision. Tulane's vision for this season included avoiding a three-game losing streak, which a year ago put the Green Wave in a 2-3 hole; they rallied to finish the regular season 7-5 and reach the Hawaii Bowl...
Wave follows QB's lead
New Orleans Times Picayune
After quarterback J.P. Losman's most inconsistent game of the season at Louisville last Friday, Tulane coach Chris Scelfo reminded all that, "Tiger Woods doesn't shoot 62 every Sunday"...
Green Wave faces challenge of holding on
New Orleans Times Picayune
They're holding on to the season as best they can, and the truth is their grip is loosening...
Wave's Losman is Unitas finalist
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane quarterback J.P. Losman joined an elite group Wednesday when he was chosen one of seven finalists for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, presented annually to the nation's top senior quarterback...
Oct. 22, 2003
Tulane defense fighting through injuries
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane's defensive depth chart looks like a baseball manager's scorecard in about the 15th inning...
After audition, Johnson might get Bulls' call
Chicago Sun-Times
With just one preseason game remaining for the Bulls, Linton Johnson's improbable audition has reached its final act...
Defense seeks Quick relief
New Orleans Times Picayune
It didn't take long for Tulane coach Chris Scelfo to realize that Brandt Quick can help the Green Wave more as a linebacker than as a defensive lineman...
Blazers all thumbs
New Orleans Times Picayune
At UAB, things quickly went from thumbs up to thumbs down. The Blazers, 5-7 a year ago, had won their past two games and were in the middle of a close battle with No. 15 Texas Christian when quarterback Darrell Hackney dislocated the thumb on his throwing right hand...
Stats are fine, but Tiger TDs better
Memphis Commercial Appeal
His offense is putting up gaudy numbers, statistics that make the mundane University of Memphis offenses of the mid-1990s a distant memory for Tiger football fans...
Oct. 21, 2003
Johnson playing way onto roster
Chicago Tribune
Raptors All-Star Vince Carter probably had to consult a media guide to discover who guarded him late in Tuesday night's exhibition at Air Canada Centre. Tall, muscular kid, guy by the name of Johnson...
TU must score early, often
New Orleans Times Picayune
More than halfway through the season, Tulane's offense remains ranked as one of the most potent in Conference USA. It is third in total offense and second in scoring and passing...
U of M defense gives a glimpse at potential
Memphis Commercial Appeal
University of Memphis linebacker Will Hyden had been waiting four years for the moment...
Tigers-Tulane Notebook
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Reserve Tiger quarterback Patrick Byrne handled kickoffs in last Saturday's game at Houston, and Tiger coach Tommy West expects the redshirt freshman from Brewton, Ala., to retain the spot the rest of the season...
Oct. 20, 2003
TU's weaknesses exposed
New Orleans Times Picayune
When Tulane coach Chris Scelfo was asked last week about the Green Wave's nationally televised game with Louisville, he said: "There's a thin line from exposure and being exposed"...
It all comes together for Tigers
Memphis Commerical Appeal
OK, so this is why University of Memphis coach Tommy West was so upbeat after his team's loss at Mississippi State on Oct. 11. He saw the potential, he sensed a breakout game...
Oct. 19, 2003
Teams shoot to rebuild
New Orleans Times Picayune
LSU coach John Brady and Tulane coach Shawn Finney found several new puzzle pieces at their disposal this weekend...
Area teams eager to build on last season
New Orleans Times Picayune
Optimism runs high for every college basketball team in October. But for some area women's basketball programs, the pieces truly seem to be falling in place this year...
Oct. 18, 2003
Not in the cards
New Orleans Times Picayune
Eric Shelton rushed for 128 yards and three touchdowns, and Michael Bush scored two touchdowns Friday night to lead Louisville to a 47-28 victory over mistake-prone Tulane at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium...
To play in December, Wave has work to do
New Orleans Times Picayune
For Tulane, the good news is the toughest part of the schedule is probably in the rear-view mirror...
Shelton runs through Green Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
In the second quarter, numerous Tulane defenders chased touchdown-bound running back Eric Shelton for 11 frustrating yards, slowed down by their Achilles' heel. Tulane has been vulnerable against the run all season, and Friday, Louisville exposed it...
It's Friday night rush hour
Louisville Courier-Journal
The University of Louisville and Tulane football teams figured to put up big offensive numbers last night at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium, but the Cardinals put up theirs with powerball...
Cardinals' defense torments Tulane
Louisville Courier-Journal
Houston coach Art Briles watched Tulane quarterback J.P. Losman move the Green Wave up and down, down and up and up and down the field last week and said Losman was more than simply the best quarterback in Conference USA...
Oct. 17, 2003
Cardinals want time on their side tonight
Louisville Courier-Journal
Time is slipping away from the University of Louisville football team...
Tulane eager to win
New Orleans Times Picayune
When Tulane meets Louisville in a rare Friday-night appearance on national television, it will be facing a situation that has become all too familiar over the years. It will be trying to end a losing streak...
Inside Tulane football
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane at Louisville
Kickoff: 7 p.m. at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium in Louisville, Ky...
Oct. 16, 2003
Wave hoping to make splash
New Orleans Times Picayune
The coach sat in her new office, which at that point was a folding chair and a couple of stacked boxes for a desk, and stared into the unknown...
Offense clicks with LeFors
New Orleans Times Picayune
As back-up to Dave Ragone, quarterback Stefan LeFors mainly was a spectator in his first two seasons at Louisville. LeFors threw seven passes last season, nine the season before...
Tulane's defense 'really struggling'
Louisville Courier-Journal
Tulane football coach Chris Scelfo doesn't really care that his school has become the headquarters of Bowl Championship Series dissidence, with university president Scott Cowen leading the Presidential Coalition for Athletics Reform...
Oct. 15, 2003
Losman mastering late comebacks for Tulane
Baton Rouge Advocate
ESPN should advise its viewers to stick with the Tulane-Louisville game to the end Friday night even if the Green Wave should fall way behind...
Moore nearing elite company
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane running back Mewelde Moore, whose 115 yards against Houston was a season high and his third 100-yard rushing game this season, is closing in on another accomplishment...
U of L feels TV heat in having to play this Friday
Louisville Courier-Journal
The University of Louisville football team will have much more competition than Conference USA rival Tulane on Friday night...
Basketball coaches to be briefed about behavior
New Orleans Times Picayune
When the National Association of Basketball Coaches meet today in Chicago, UNO's Monte Towe and Tulane's Shawn Finney aren't sure what to expect. LSU's John Brady says he has a pretty good idea what it's about, and he's not one bit pleased about it...
Green Wave sweeps past Privateers
New Orleans Times Picayune
Anastasia Kenon and Lindsey Norman had double-doubles, helping Tulane's volleyball team sweep past UNO 32-30, 30-25, and 35-33 on Tuesday night at Kiefer Lakefront Arena...
Blazers are bracing for TCU's defense
New Orleans Times Picayune
Texas Christian had 10 sacks in beating South Florida 13-10 on Thursday. Alabama-Birmingham has eight sacks this season...
Oct. 14, 2003
Honeycutt angles for backup job
The Oregonian
The Trail Blazers have two capable power forwards. Rasheed Wallace is a two-time All-Star, and Zach Randolph is one of the NBA's hottest young prospects...
Scelfo disappointed in Tulane's offense
New Orleans Times Picayune
There's no question more went wrong than went right in Tulane's loss to Houston on Saturday. But Green Wave coach Chris Scelfo was especially disappointed in the offense's failure to take care of the ball...
Freshman is U of L's Mr. Everything
Louisville Courier-Journal
The University of Louisville football team is six games into the Michael Bush experience, and as expected the freshman from Male High School defies labels...
C-USA leaders meet to discuss options
New Orleans Times Picayune
Conference realignment is heating up again. The Big East Conference is expected to announce its expansion plans Nov. 4, and presidents from Conference USA schools will meet today in Chicago with hopes of approving expansion plans to replace up to five of its football-playing members...
UNO to test streaking Green Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane has won 10 consecutive matches and is off to its best volleyball start at 17-2. The Green Wave has beaten UNO four consecutive times and has not lost to a Louisiana opponent this season...
Pitt, Big East should join Tulane's fight against BCS
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Scott Cowan was on the other end of the telephone. Not Tulane University president Scott Cowan. Not, by his own description, "The Guy Fighting The BCS" Scott Cowan...
Oct. 13, 2003
Despite solid offense, Wave faces uphill battle
New Orleans Times Picayune
Even with a healthy football team, only a true optimist would have believed the Green Wave would be heading into the second half of its season with a 3-3 record...
Cards ground Army via air
Louisville Courier-Journal
It's baseball playoff time, so University of Louisville football coach Bobby Petrino decided to play longball against visiting Army yesterday...
It's good that things are going to get tough for Cards
Louisville Courier-Journal
There are 117 schools that play NCAA Division I-A football. The average Sagarin computer ranking of the three teams the University of Louisville has played in Papa John's Cardinal Stadium is 136...
Oct. 12, 2003
UH fights off Tulane 45-42
Houston Chronicle
The University of Houston continues to put up impressive offensive numbers, but the difference in Saturday's game against Tulane might have been one big defensive play at the end...
Cougars take control early, hold off Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
There wasn't anything fancy or explosive about Houston's offense. The Cougars were willing to settle for a 3-yard run just as quickly as they would accept a 5-yard pass. Their whole idea was to be in control...
Kolb's melody sad ballad for Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
And to think Kevin Kolb could be around for three more years. Kolb, Houston's freshman quarterback, orchestrated a masterpiece against Tulane, especially in the first half, leading his offense with misdirections, short passes, and an occasional long pass...
Scelfo's sermon has no listeners
New Orleans Times Picayune
The sermon says that each game is an individual event, no more or less important than the prior one or next one, capable of being severed from the pack, analyzed and sifted of the good while the bad is tossed away. It is to be remembered or forgotten depending on the need for motivational ploys...
Wave's familiar story has sorrowful ending
New Orleans Times Picayune
It has become apparent that when Tulane's offense is clicking, it's a monster. On Saturday, it clicked -- for half of the game...
Oct. 11, 2003
Losman has link to Boller
Oakland Tribune
J.P. Losman didn't understand the connection to Kyle Boller when it was first brought up. "What is that link again?" Losman asked...
Scelfo: Next game always crucial
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane coach Chris Scelfo has a standard answer for those who question the magnitude of any upcoming game. It's the biggest game of the season, he usually says, because it's the one the Green Wave is playing next...
Houston at Tulane (homecoming)
New Orleans Times Picayune
layers to watch: Tulane quarterback J.P. Losman has a sore ankle he suffered in the Texas game, but has been practicing. As Losman goes, so does the Wave offense...
Oct. 10, 2003
MARCHING TO A T
New Orleans Times Picayune
Having recruited students, alumni and friends of Tulane, university student Ryan Guillory on Saturday will help the school field its first band in 28 years...
OutKast headlines Wave homecoming
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane coach Chris Scelfo did his best Andre 3000 on Tuesday, only to be critiqued by one of his players who was, undoubtedly, a greater rap music aficionado...
Briles' system works wonders for Houston
New Orleans Times Picayune
Art Briles will win you over, even if he has just won over you. Briles' Houston Cougars roughed up John Thompson's East Carolina Pirates last week in the battle of two rookie coaches in Conference USA...
Green Wave, Tigers rested, ready for stretch
New Orleans Times Picayune
They're both coming off bye weeks, leaving the head coaches to offer their spin on getting back to business...
Tulane defense carries Green Wave to fast start
New Orleans Times Picayune
With the graduation of Britney Hurst, Tulane's volleyball team lost its single-season record-holder in attacks, kills and digs...
HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
New Orleans Times Picayune
The Tulane Hall of Fame inducted its first class in 1977. This year's inductees were chosen by the Hall of Fame committee, made up of members of the university's letter-winners' organization (the T-Club), alumni, faculty, local media, current coaches, athletes and athletics staff...
Oct. 9, 2003
Young Wave defensive line feeling heat
New Orleans Times Picayune
The four defensive linemen stood patiently alongside each other as their coach, rain pouring off his visor, meticulously broke down techniques and formations...
Heft on offensive line lets Briles, Houston balance spread attack, strong running game
Houston Chroncile
When the need arises -- as it does for all football teams at some point -- to knock opponents down and run the ball, the Houston Cougars' offensive line has melded quickly and efficiently...
Early success no surprise to Gulley, Gibson
Houston Chroncile
Youngsters Will Gulley and Leonard Gibson aren't surprised coach Art Briles thought after spring drills that his first University of Houston football team had a chance to be better than forecast. ...
Oct. 8, 2003
Redskins find their man in Ramsey
NFL.com
The Washington Redskins have their quarterback of the future. It would be surprising to me if Patrick Ramsey doesn't have a very successful career in this league...
Tulane relying on youth
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane is glad freshman defensive tackle Taurean Brown got his red-shirt year in before a wave of injuries hit the defensive line...
Williams takes receptions lead
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane wide receiver Roydell Williams is doing what the coaches always expected him to do: lead the Green Wave in receptions...
TCU-USF matchup set for national stage
New Orleans Times Picayune
No. 19 Texas Christian and South Florida meet Friday night on ESPN2, a marquee Conference USA matchup and reason for Army coach Todd Berry to humbly sigh...
Oct. 7, 2003
Green Wave running backs seeing the light
New Orleans Times Picayune
Some insist that in order to have a good running game, a good passing game is a necessity. Tulane offensive coordinator Frank Scelfo says it's a lot simpler than that, and it all revolves around good blocking...
Oct. 5, 2003
Sanchez makes impression as rookie with Cowboys
New Orleans Times Picayune
Cornerback Jeff Sanchez was considered a long shot to make an NFL roster after he completed his collegiate eligibility at Tulane last fall...
Oct. 4, 2003
Green Wave going through recruiting period
New Orleans Times Picayune
The incertitude of the collegiate conference landscape right now has league commissioners and fans alike spending time in a virtual junior high cafeteria, spreading gossip and rumors...
Oct. 1, 2003
Hatch not easy to keep up with
New Orleans Times Picayune
When Bessie Hatch went on her training runs at home in Ojai, Calif., she was often accompanied by her father, Bill, who rode alongside on a bicycle...
