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The Charleston Post & Courier talks about Coastal Carolina, Furman, Elon, Presbyterian, South Carolina State, and Charleston Southern football this week. Coastal Carolina's heartbreaker of a loss to Colgate on Sunday — the Raiders won, 23-19, on… more »

ELON -- An alum stopped by Pete Lembo's office Wednesday to reiterate his full support for the Elon University football coach. "Don't worry, Coach, I'm still behind you," the man said. Lembo didn't launch into a laughing fit and fall out of his ch… more »

Change isn’t always good, and it doesn’t always come at the precise time we want. It’s a six letter word that holds many implications and tends to have baggage as a passenger. But for the Elon football team change is the one word that has defined the… more »

ELON - Last year's opener came draped in historical tones for Elon University. The players' first road trip requiring a plane ride delivered them to an NFL stadium where they took on their first opponent from college football's major level. Tonigh… more »

In the 2007 season, freshman quarterback Scott Riddle put up record-breaking numbers. He had Southern Conference opponents unable to stop his explosive passing performances. To expect a freshman to perform at the same caliber as Riddle would be setting… more »

ELON — For the first time since joining the NCAA's Football Championship Subdivision nine years ago, Elon enters a football season with reason to think big. Six consecutive losing seasons -- a dubious first for the program -- ended with a 7-4 finish… more »

ELON - As the months have passed and the pain has throbbed less, safety Nolan Ward and members of the Elon University football team's defense have absorbed their share of comedic jabs about last season's bittersweet ending. "Somebody on the offense m… more »

The Southern Conference is a tough football conference. How tough? So tough, national champion and Michigan slayer Appalachian State lost two of seven league games and didn't even earn the conference's automatic bid to the Football Championship Su… more »

ELON -- Feeling sluggish from the effects of postoperative medication and soft from helpings of holiday food, Daronce Daniels pulled up a chair to sit beside his mother, a personal trainer. What came next will not go down as the tenderest of Christma… more »

For Furman coach Bobby Lamb, the light bulb lit up on Nov. 10, 2007. That was the day last season when the Paladins faced Georgia Southern and quarterback Jayson Foster, the speedster who would finish the year with 1,844 rushing yards and 24 touchdow… more »

ELON - However microscopic the contact may or may not have been, the fact remains that the Elon University football team opens next week against an opponent which expressed some form of interest in Phoenix coach Pete Lembo during the offseason. Richm… more »

Elon's quick rise under Coach Pete Lembo hasn't gone unnoticed. Southern Conference coaches and media picked the Phoenix -- winless in league play just three years ago before Lembo took over -- to finish second to Appalachian State this season. And t… more »

Thoughts and musings on college football while we roll toward the last week in August and the opening of the season ... Even as the Big South undergoes its own Little Bang Theory with the addition of Stony Brook and the impending nuptial with Presbyt… more »

ELON - Scott Riddle leaves Elon University football practice these days with bags of ice strapped to his record-setting right arm. But that's nothing more than a precautionary measure designed to ease the grind of training camp for the sophomore quar… more »