October NewsStand
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Nov. 4, 2002
October 31, 2002
C-USA changing basketball format
New Orleans Times Picayune
Conference USA announced Wednesday that it will abandon its current two-division format in men's basketball at the end of the 2002-03 season...
October 30, 2002
Football in the Oaks
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane University President Scott Cowen and Athletic Director Rick Dickson and his staff must be sore from all the congratulatory pats on their backs they've gotten since Saturday's game against Navy at Tad Gormley Stadium. And not just because Tulane won, 51-30...
October 29, 2002
Wave's defense bending against the run
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane's inability to stop the run was again exploited this past Saturday when Navy rolled up 387 rushing yards, the most by a Wave opponent this season...
October 29, 2002
Veterans stand out in league of youngsters
New Orleans Times Picayune
Conference USA has become known as a hotbed for young quarterbacks, with eight of its 10 starters either freshmen or sophomores. But the two elder signal-callers stole the spotlight Saturday...
October 27, 2002
Losman scuttles Navy
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane knew that success against Navy was going to depend on its ability to be patient early and later put the Midshipmen in a position where they couldn't uses their lethal running game to catch up...
October 27, 2002
Playing outside generates excitement
New Orleans Times Picayune
As Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson watched his son play in a Friday night high school football game, a worst-case scenario was developing for a football game Saturday afternoon...
October 27, 2002
Wave defense clinches win
New Orleans Times Picayune
On a day when Tulane's Mewelde Moore broke the school's all-time rushing record, it was his team's defense stopping the run that clinched a victory at Tad Gormley Stadium...
October 27, 2002
Tulane Notes
New Orleans Times Picayune
It took more than a half-century to catch him, but Eddie Price is no longer Tulane's No. 1 career rusher. Junior Mewelde Moore broke the record with 87 yards on 17 carries against Navy, giving him 3,125...
October 27, 2002
Hurst's change benefits Tulane
New Orleans Times Picayune
It's a little hard to believe now, but Tulane power hitter Britney Hurst wasn't atop the Green Wave's recruiting list when she was a senior at Southern Lab in Baton Rouge. In fact, she wasn't atop anyone's list...
October 27, 2002
Moore sets Tulane all-time rushing record in win
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane tried to reconnect with its history for homecoming by playing its first outdoor home game in 28 years Saturday afternoon...
October 27, 2002
Navy slips up in second half before falling to Tulane, 51-30
Baltimore Sun
It's almost unreasonable to ask a football team to play a perfect game. Even the best and most talented teams jump offside, miss blocks and fumble from time to time...
October 26, 2002
Wave girds for Navy's running onslaught
New Orleans Times Picayune
For the past four weeks, Tulane defensive coordinator Eric Schumann has had to devise schemes to stop opponents that threatened the Green Wave with balanced attacks...
October 26, 2002
Navy football: Moore worries for Navy
Annapolis Capital
Tulane head coach Chris Scelfo said Mewelde Moore wasn't "overly fast" when asked to describe the team's record-setting tailback. Navy head coach Paul Johnson had to chuckle at that comment...
October 26, 2002
Navy's battle with fumbles resumes against Tulane
Baltimore Sun
Consider, for a moment, all the ways Navy has managed to fumble this year...
October 25, 2002
Tad Gormley and Tulane make history
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tad Gormley Stadium has been sitting in City Park for 65 years, making history. In the first football game played there, DePaul's Demon Deacons defeated the Loyola Wolfpack 18-7...
October 25, 2002
Gormley upgrades for game
New Orleans Times Picayune
While the Superdome has been home to a couple of winning teams this fall, one of the tenants, 5-3 Tulane, is renting a new pad for the weekend...
October 25, 2002
Freshmen show force
New Orleans Times Picayune
Sean Lucas has a knack for snagging some of the spotlight from teammate Anthony Cannon. The past year at Stephenson High School in DeKalb County, Ga., Cannon was the anchor on the 400-meter relay team...
October 25, 2002
Standout safety lifts Navy with persistence
New Orleans Times Picayune
Thumb through the Navy statistics and you'll notice the eye-popping defensive numbers of safety Josh Smith. Seventy-seven tackles, including four games with 10 or more...
October 25, 2002
New Orleans Times Picayune - Tulane Athletics Profile, Day Two
Wave of the Future
With 'special event' games, ticket promotions and outreach, Tulane is trying to bolster attendance, spread excitement and fuel football success...
Endowment, buildup boosting athletic assets
Rick Dickson knows full well what lies at the end of the rainbow: Stanford. The California university, with its enormous resources and wealth, has Dickson's model athletic department...
"We have to live by the highest ethical standards in athletics"
Q&A with Tulane President Scott Cowen...
October 24, 2002
New Orleans Times Picayune - Tulane Athletics Profile, Day One
New Wave
Tulane was once a football power; but a series of missteps launched decades of struggle. Now, with patience and perseverence, school officials are addressing everything from finances to an eroding fan base...
Athlete Exemptions Improving The School
Lynaris Elpheage would not be eligible to attend Tulane under normal restrictions. But the standout junior cornerback, admitted through an academic exception, is a successful student...
Plunging from peak prestige
At 2 p.m. Oct. 15, 1949, Tulane was perched near the pinnacle of college football. But 10 minutes into a much-anticpated game against Notre Dame, the Green Wave had been convincingly and permanently dislodged from the ranks of the sport's elite...
Haves and Have Nots
Membership in the Bowl Championship Series, football's ultimate gridirion guild, confers fortune, prestige and a national championship shot, a growing disparity that hinders non-BCS Division I-A schools like Tulane...
October 24, 2002
Navy football: Filling billing
Annapolis Capital
Not many players in Navy's football media guide have as glowing a bio as Eddie Carthan...
October 23, 2002
Moore eyes all-time Tulane rushing mark
Baton Rouge Advocate
Homecoming week is especially eventful at Tulane this year. The Green Wave will play their homecoming game against Navy on Saturday afternoon at Tad Gormley Stadium in City Park...
October 23, 2002
Scelfo forced to alter Wave's practice schedule
New Orleans Times Picayune
Three-game winning streaks at Tulane have been fairly rare, so you can understand Green Wave coach Chris Scelfo's being a little reluctant to change his team's routine...
October 22, 2002
Local teams are tripling our pleasure
New Orleans Times Picayune
Noticed that Blue Mondays have hit the road in New Orleans?Mondays come nowadays and we're singing and dancing, celebrating and rejoicing. Life is good -- as it applies to local football...
October 22, 2002
Around campus: Tulane cracks top-10 lineup after historic win
Golf Week
Tulane recently won the Beacon Woods Invitational Oct. 24 by 24 shots. It was a historic win for the Green Wave Women's golf program. Besides the numerous records the team broke during the tournament, it marked the first time Tulane had won a golf tournament away from New Orleans...
October 22, 2002
Tulane specializing in good field position
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane's cornerbacks are becoming the cornerstone of the Green Wave's special teams. Last Saturday against Alabama-Birmingham, Jeff Sanchez and Lynaris Elpheage turned in impressive performances...
October 22, 2002
BCS status a priority for Banowsky
New Orleans Times Picayune
Never before, Britton Banowsky said Monday during the announcement of his hiring as the second commissioner of Conference USA, had he ever heard the phrase "BCS/non-BCS" used so much...
October 22, 2002
Conference title still up for grabs
New Orleans Times Picayune
For the East Carolina Pirates to win Conference USA, Coach Steve Logan said, they need to make fewer turnovers. For the Alabama-Birmingham Blazers to win the conference, Coach Watson Brown said they need a miracle. Nevertheless, ECU and UAB are two of six teams with a shot at winning the conference...
October 20, 2002
From start, Mids finished, 46-21
Baltimore Sun
Paul Johnson realized when he took over the Navy football program that there would be some hard days ahead. But this many? Perhaps not...
October 20, 2002
Wave barricades Blazers
New Orleans Times Picayune
In Floyd Dorsey's four years at Tulane, it had never happened. So when the Green Wave's offense went conservative early in the third quarter with a two-touchdown lead against Alabama-Birmingham...
October 20, 2002
Wave faces pleasant reality
New Orleans Times Picayune
The magic number shrank to two Saturday, a feat just this side of amazing for anyone who passed by and caught a glimpse of the train wreck that was Tulane football in 2001...
October 20, 2002
Cannon's tackling tops team and true freshmen nationally
New Orleans Times Picayune
Entering Saturday's game with 63 tackles, Tulane linebacker Anthony Cannon was the leading tackler among true freshmen nationally...
October 20, 2002
Risky lateral passing gives Wave edge, 2 TDs
New Orleans Times Picayune
After Tulane's convincing 35-14 win over Alabama-Birmingham on Saturday, all Green Wave coach Chris Scelfo could do was smile...
October 19, 2002
Wave won't 'overlook' Blazers
New Orleans Times Picayune
A month ago, the University of Alabama-Birmingham was a team Tulane couldn't wait to play. The Blazers had just fallen to 1-3 with a 34-0 loss to Louisiana-Lafayette, and there was little optimism that things would improve...
October 19, 2002
Riding a wave to the Big Easy
Birmingham News
UAB proved it can cook up some solid football performances at Legion Field. Now it's time to see whether the Blazers can cook just as well on the road...
October 19, 2002
Tulane vs. UAB
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane-UAB Game Capsule...
October 19, 2002
Tulane's Westerberg beats LSU's Hazley in tennis
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane's Mattias Westerberg defeated Jason Hazley of LSU 6-3, 6-3 in the second round of the Tulane Men's Tennis Invitational held at the Goldring Tennis Stadium Friday evening...
October 18, 2002
Resurgent Blazers set to tackle Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
Give University of Alabama-Birmingham coach Watson Brown a microphone and an audience, and he'll deliver more one-liners than comedian Henny Youngman...
October 18, 2002
Area's best heading to Tulane tourney
New Orleans Times Picayune
The Tulane Men's Collegiate Invitational scheduled today through Sunday will feature the best Division I tennis players from Louisiana...
October 17, 2002
Defenses target Wave's Moore
New Orleans Times Picayune
Last year, Mewelde Moore stole the spotlight. The running back, then a sophomore, broke Tulane's single-season rushing record with 1,421 yards, and the total-yard record for the school and conference with 2,259...
October 17, 2002
Hayes perfect so far on kicks
Birmingham News
UAB place-kicker Nick Hayes can sympathize with Florida State sophomore kicker Xavier Beitia after watching Beitia's 43-yard field-goal attempt against Miami sail wide left, costing the Seminoles a shot at the upset...
October 16, 2002
Tulane discovers defense, but struggles on offense
Birmingham News
The scouting report on the Tulane football team has read something like this the last four seasons: Good offense, horrendous defense...
October 16, 2002
Wave's confidence building
New Orleans Times Picayune
Nothing builds confidence like success. In Tulane's case, back-to-back wins for the second time this season have added to the Green Wave's confidence...
October 15, 2002
TU takes another 'big step'
New Orleans Times Picayune
One thing Chris Scelfo has learned in his 3? seasons as Tulane's coach is that there isn't a lot of time to celebrate after a victory...
October 15, 2002
Hackney brings UAB up to speed
New Orleans Times Picayune
He's a redshirt freshman, and last Saturday he could have worn a red cape, too. UAB quarterback Darrell Hackney's super performance led the Blazers from a 28-6 first-half deficit to a 51-34 victory against Houston...
October 15, 2002
Thin offensive line troubles Watson
The Birmingham News
Watson Brown on Monday called UAB's offensive line a "serious" concern heading into this weekend's game against Tulane...
October 13, 2002
Down by 15 at half, Blazers charge back
The Birmingham News
Watson Brown did not pound the blackboard or go into a tirade with UAB trailing the University of Houston by 15 at halftime of their Conference USA football game at Legion Field on Saturday afternoon...
October 13, 2002
Tulane stuffs Bearcats
New Orleans Times Picayune
Going into Saturday's game against Cincinnati, Tulane coach Chris Scelfo would have been happy if his defense could just slow down the high-powered Bearcats' offense...
October 13, 2002
Tulane kicks into high gear against Cincy
New Orleans Times Picayune
How bad had things become for Tulane kicker Seth Marler, the automatic All-American from a year ago? Last week, Coach Chris Scelfo had him attempt a field goal with the clock winding down -- and with a 52-9 lead against Louisiana-Monroe -- just to get some of Marler's confidence back. He shanked it...
October 13, 2002
UC's loss to Tulane may get even worse
Cincinnati Enquirer
The University of Cincinnati football team had one streak snapped, another streak against it continue and the status of its starting quarterback uncertain Saturday...
October 13, 2002
Tulane Notes
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tale of two halves. Tulane running back Mewelde Moore couldn't make a dent in Cincinnati's defense in the first half. Moore gained 26 yards on eight carries, 12 of the yards coming on one rush. But in the second half he found some success...
October 12, 2002
Tulane trying to buck trend
New Orleans Times Picayune
One of Tulane's season goals is to win the conference title. But the Green Wave, which has lost two of its first three league games, will have to buck a Conference USA trend to accomplish that goal...
October 12, 2002
Tulane vs. Cincinnati
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane-Cincinnati Game Capsule...
October 12, 2002
Wave confidence cresting
New Orleans Times Picayune
During the past two seasons, Tulane point guard Brandon Spann ignored several national publications that predicted the Green Wave would finish last in the National Division of Conference USA...
October 12, 2002
13 returners give TU women boost
New Orleans Times Picayune
On Friday afternoon, Tulane's explosive 6-foot-3 center Teana McKiver couldn't have been more ready for tipoff. She was sporting her game uniform. She had some nervous energy. She was smiling broadly...
October 12, 2002
Season starts today for UC
Cincinnati Post
The University of Cincinnati begins a "new season" today. That's Bearcat center Josh Shneyderov's assessment, anyway. UC will tee it up for the sixth time when it faces Tulane at the Superdome this afternoon, but the Bearcats are doing everything they can to put a disappointing 1-3 stretch of non-conference games behind them and look ahead...
October 11, 2002
Guidugli to give Wave big test
New Orleans Times Picayune
Cincinnati coach Rick Minter called quarterback Gino Guidugli his team's pied piper. But it sometimes takes him three quarters to start making noise...
October 11, 2002
Tulane's defense is done breaking
Cincinnati Post
You've heard of a "bend-but-don't-break" defense. Last year, Tulane dispensed with the whole bending issue and went straight to the break...
October 11, 2002
Ramsey taking celebrity in stride
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tuesday was a typical off day for Patrick Ramsey. He went to Redskins Park before noon to study film for a couple of hours, then spent the rest of the day with his wife Ginny hanging around their townhouse in northern Virginia...
October 10, 2002
Tulane DT Tickles improves to starter
New Orleans Times Picayune
After four years of fighting for playing time, countless practices in the sweltering heat and aggravating knee surgery, Tulane's Marlon Tickles finally became a regular starter...
October 10, 2002
Between Kid Quarterback and Coach, Something Unexpected Has Come to Pass
Washington Post
There are harder jobs than playing quarterback for Steve Spurrier, namely, dam building, hydroponic farming and mapping genomes, but you get fired a lot less. What's interesting about Patrick Ramsey is that he doesn't seem to mind any of this...
October 10, 2002
Cole hits the books, then hunts QBs
Cincinnati Post
Trent Cole is at his best when he's trying to catch something that doesn't want to be caught. Growing up, the University of Cincinnati sophomore went hunting all the time with his family...
October 9, 2002
Tulane's Elpheage shares NCAA lead
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane junior cornerback Lynaris Elpheage is tied for the NCAA Division I-A lead with six interceptions after getting two against the University of Louisiana at Monroe on Saturday...
October 9, 2002
Secondary lifts Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
While Tulane's linebackers have not played up to par this season, the same cannot be said for the Wave's secondary, Coach Chris Scelfo said. It has been a solid part of the team's defense...
October 9, 2002
Ramsey's good start no surprise to Wave staff
New Orleans Times Picayune
Frank Scelfo, who doubles as Tulane's quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator, had Patrick Ramsey on the other end of the long-distance line Tuesday...
October 9, 2002
Note to Patrick: Brace yourself
Washington Times
You wonder if Patrick Ramsey has any idea what he's getting into. He's said to be a smart kid, originally pre-med at Tulane, but he's only 23, and he had a rather low-profile college career. You wonder if he realizes, truly realizes, what being the quarterback of the Redskins entails...
October 9, 2002
Bearcat bench sits still
Cincinnati Post
People will tell you the biggest difference between the average football team in Conference USA and the nation's perennial powerhouses is depth...
October 8, 2002
Tulane receives healthy, heaping dose of hospitality in victory at ULM
New Orleans Times Picayune
During the first five weeks of the season, losing a player to an injury for several games, or even the season, had become the norm for Tulane...
October 8, 2002
Olinger ready for Tulane
New Orleans Times Picayune
Last weekend, Cincinnati's Jon Olinger received more passes than Britney Spears at a fraternity party...
October 8, 2002
Redskins' Ramsey Gets Out of the Gate
Washington Post
It has been rare for the Washington Redskins to report to work hopeful that they have their starting quarterback for the next decade or so in place. But they had that feeling yesterday as they savored Sunday's 31-14 victory at Tennessee, hoping they will remember the game as the launching of rookie Patrick Ramsey's career and the end of the franchise's quarterback shuffling...
October 7, 2002
The (Quarterback of the) Future Is Now
Washington Post
Why was there a two-week long saga concerning Danny Wuerffel and Patrick Ramsey? Why was there any question, even for a second, about who the No. 1 quarterback should be for the Washington Redskins?...
October 7, 2002
Redskins Find a Quarterback and a Win
Washington Post
The Washington Redskins found their next quarterback today. Although the discovery could prove in the coming weeks to be yet another cruel mirage for fans who have endured 13 starting quarterbacks in 10 seasons, the debut of young Patrick Ramsey was exactly what the Redskins needed...
October 7, 2002
Ramsey steps up for Skins
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane rookie Patrick Ramsey came off the bench and threw for 268 yards and two touchdowns as the Washington Redskins bounced back from two consecutive losses to beat the Tennessee Titans 31-14 Sunday...
October 7, 2002
No late magic for Bearcats
Cincinnati Post
With eight games remaining, there's plenty of time for the University of Cincinnati Bearcats to salvage their season, as long as the growing force of their frustration doesn't send them over the edge...
October 6, 2002
Wave douses ULM with powerful surge
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane showed a side Saturday night that not even Green Wave coach Chris Scelfo had seen in quite a while.
The Green Wave made Louisiana-Monroe pay for just about every mistake it made...
October 6, 2002
Losman takes control
New Orleans Times Picayune
With his hands raised higher than the line judges' signaling "touchdown," J.P. Losman ran toward his teammates...
October 6, 2002
Tulane Notes
New Orleans Times Picayune
Earning his spot. During Tulane's first road game at Houston, freshman receiver Damarcus Davis didn't even travel. Four games later, Davis was not only on the road with the Green Wave but in the starting lineup...
October 6, 2002
Too much Tulane: ULM still can't put hands on first win of season
Monroe News-Star
Trading field goals for touchdowns is no way to win a football game. Louisiana-Monroe moved the chains but couldn't crack the end zone Saturday night in a 52-9 loss to Tulane before a season-high crowd of 11,645 at Malone Stadium...
October 5, 2002
Scelfo set for college reunion
New Orleans Times Picayune
Long before the start of the season, Tulane coach Chris Scelfo knew the game against Louisiana-Monroe had a chance to be something special...
October 5, 2002
Tulane at ULM: No time for nostalgia, says Tulane coach Chris Scelfo, a former Indian
Monroe News-Star
Chris Scelfo has fond memories of his days as a former Louisiana-Monroe football player and graduate assistant in the 1980s...
October 5, 2002
Tulane vs. Louisiana-Monroe
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane-Louisiana-Monroe Game Capsule...
October 4, 2002
Wave wants steadier play from line
New Orleans Times Picayune
Every Saturday, Tulane offensive line coach Don Mahoney straps himself in and prepares for his young, inexperienced unit to take him on a roller-coaster ride...
October 4, 2002
Wave them home: Tulane players who prepped in northeastern La. return to face ULM
Monroe News-Star
Call it old home week. Local products at Tulane this year include: West Monroe defensive lineman Terrence Tarver; Ouachita defensive lineman Jay Ashton; and Newellton defensive lineman Chris Washington...
October 3, 2002
Shelvin, Dorsey strengthen Tulane's weak side
New Orleans Times Picayune
Calling Roxie Shelvin and Floyd Dorsey the "weak side" of Tulane's defensive line isn't a misnomer -- the weak side is the side that doesn't line up against the tight end...
October 2, 2002
Tulane coach Scelfo looks for success at UL-Monroe
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane coach Chris Scelfo will return to the site of some of his biggest -- and by his own admission smallest -- football accomplishments when the Green Wave play at the University of Louisiana at Monroe on Saturday night...
October 2, 2002
Scelfo disappointed in start
New Orleans Times Picayune
During the past three weeks, Tulane coach Chris Scelfo has accrued a long list of disappointments. The Green Wave suffered letdowns in several areas in each game...
October 2, 2002
Lili could stir up Monroe
Monroe News-Star
Louisiana-Monroe athletics director Bruce Hanks should have one eye on the Weather Channel and another on the ticket window this week.
Louisiana-Monroe (0-4) plays host to Tulane (2-3) at 6 p.m. Saturday in Malone Stadium in the historic first meeting between the two schools...
October 2, 2002
Arena passes first test
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane, LSU, UNO and ULL were there Tuesday night for the ING/Louisiana Showcase -- an all-Louisiana volleyball doubleheader. But the event was more about preparations for a national audience to come in December...
October 1, 2002
Wave sees better days
New Orleans Times Picayune
The past three weeks have been exactly what Tulane expected -- torturous...
October 1, 2002
Indians prepare for Wave with the starter shuffle
Monroe News-Star
The bye last week offered an interesting dilemma for Louisiana-Monroe interim head coach Mike Collins and his staff...
