Hempstead, NY - The Hofstra University community mourns the passing of former Pride Football Coach Joe Gardi, who passed away Wednesday following a stroke suffered last week. He was 71 years old. Gardi, who directed the Hofstra University football pr… more »

RICHMOND, Va. (May 28, 2010) -- CAA Football has ventured into the world of blogs as the league launched caafootballblog.com earlier this week. The blog, along with CAASports.com, will both serve as usable extensions of the CAA Football brand and all o… more »

MIAMI -- Marques Colston was in a meeting when his history was hijacked, when the men with the calculators and the spreadsheets took a giant eraser to his youth. This was on Dec. 3, and the Saints’ wideout had just gathered with the rest of the team’… more »

CAA Football continued a strong championship reputation at the collegiate level by recording its fourth NCAA Division I National Championship in the last seven seasons in December. Next weekend, on Feb. 7, in South Florida, three former standouts from… more »

Villanova linebacker Osayi Osunde, the 2009 CAA Football Student-Athlete of the Year, headlines a list of 106 CAA Football Academic All-Conference honorees for the 2009 season. Osunde, who maintains a 3.959 grade point average and is working towards… more »

Conference revels in rising stature, but costs prompt two of its programs to fold. William & Mary will play Villanova on Friday night in the division I-AA football semifinals, with the winner becoming the sixth Colonial Athletic Association team… more »

In a week of stunning announcements – from Tom Suozzi’s concession to ‘Junior’ Gotti’s mistrial – nothing compared with the sudden death of Hofstra University football. School president Stuart Rabinowitz made the announcement to immediately terminate… more »

With two CAA teams dropping football, Maine and three other schools find themselves isolated. They are fierce rivals on the football field. Off the field, the universities of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island are about to come t… more »

Citing a lack of interest within the college community and increasing costs of operation, Hofstra University announced Thursday that it was terminating its football program. The move will free up $4.5M to enhance academic programs at the Long Island sch… more »

Saying the news caught him by complete surprise, University of Massachusetts athletic director John McCutcheon said Thursday that Hofstra's decision to drop football was disappointing, but not a harbinger that UMass might follow suit. McCutcheon reit… more »

After a comprehensive review, the Board of Trustees has, at my recommendation, voted unanimously to eliminate our intercollegiate football program in order to redirect those resources toward academic initiatives and need-based scholarships. This deci… more »

Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y. - Hofstra University's Board of Trustees has decided to eliminate Hofstra's Division I Football Championship Subdivision intercollegiate football program, and reinvest those resources into new academic programs and ne… more »

DURHAM — There are numbers CAA commissioner Tom Yeager has a pleasure trying to crunch, and others that present more of a challenge. Start with the tough ones. Two years from now, the CAA will welcome its 13th football-playing member, Old Dominion, w… more »

In some people's minds, defending national champion Richmond is one of the favorites to win the 2009 title. But the reality of the Colonial Athletic Association is that the Spiders might not even survive their own division, let alone the NCAA playoffs.… more »

Richmond, which returns 18 starters off last year’s NCAA National Championship team, and Villanova, which returns 16 starters from 2008, are picked to share the overall CAA Football Championship in 2009. New Hampshire, last season’s North Division winn… more »