ATLANTA — After 97 years in the education business, Georgia State has come around to football. Calendars are marked for Sept. 2, 2010: the planned grand opening at the Georgia Dome. Leading this unlikely team will be an equally unlikely coach — Bill Cur… more »

HARRISONBURG - Currently, not every football team in the Colonial Athletic Association plays every other member. In 2011 - for one season only - a school might not even face everyone in its own division. Old Dominion will become the seventh team in t… more »

Cheryl Levick says she became Georgia State’s athletics director because it’s a perfect fit for her. Whether she proves to be a perfect for the university will depend largely on how well she completes the task predecessor Mary McElroy started — building… more »

Consider Georgia Southern's in-state monopoly on Division I-AA football broken. Georgia State signed 26 players to its first recruiting class last week and directed a silent challenge toward the boys of Beautiful Eagle Creek by signing 14 in-state pl… more »

ATLANTA -- Georgia State coach Bill Curry wondered how many recruits would commit to a program that won't start play until 2010. So the longtime coach decided to keep his selling points simple to recruits: Work closely with him and his staff on a dai… more »

The Colonial Athletic Association football conference is getting too big, but league administrators still aren't sure how to handle the growth. That seemed to be the consensus after a meeting among athletic directors from the 12 current members and t… more »

There are still logistics to be worked out as the Colonial Athletic Association football conference prepares to expand to 14 teams, but Commissioner Tom Yeager said the league will stay together. Splitting into two separate conferences was one option… more »

Colonial Athletic Association athletic directors will convene in Washington next week and discuss the league's coming football expansion. In general, the agenda is this question: Can a 14-team football conference work? The ADs will be together for… more »

Only 14 months after rewarding her with a new four-year contract, Georgia State University on Thursday dismissed Mary McElroy, one of the few African-American female athletics directors at a non-historically black college or university. McElroy’s off… more »

HARRISONBURG - With all signs pointing toward a 14-team, two-division alignment for the Colonial Athletic Association in the near future, the league's coaches want the NCAA to take the unprecedented step of awarding the conference two automatic bids in… more »

A few months ago, Carolyn Curry called her husband of 45 years and asked Bill a simple question: “You think we should try to see each other again?” It wasn’t that they were having marital difficulties. The Currys are as warm and loving and committed… more »

Despite scheduling issues, CAA commissioner Yeager favors ther national role. Unless something changes, Colonial Athletic Association football four years from now will be a 14-team league, the largest conference in the country above the Division II… more »

At various intersections in Bill Curry’s developing life, when he needed counsel, he turned to Bobby Dodd. Curry had been recruited by Dodd at Georgia Tech, and though that was no great coup first off, it had developed as such. Curry would become an all… more »

In two years, Georgia State University will begin competing at the Football Championship Subdivision level. The Panthers will play in the shadow of Georgia and Georgia Tech but hope to build a quick tradition much like Georgia Southern did a generation… more »

Georgia State football coach Bill Curry was in high school when he memorized Ogden Nash's poem "The Panther." Little did he know that a line from that poem -- "if called by a panther, don't anther" -- would come in handy some 50 years later. But befo… more »