Western Carolina will open its annual Spring Drills in preparation for the 2009 season this Saturday, March 28 on the turf of Bob Waters Field at E.J. Whitmire Stadium. The NCAA-mandated 15 practice days will span the month of April, culminating with th… more »

Ida Baker senior Mike Anderson gave a short speech in the school auditorium Tuesday before signing his Division I football scholarship with Western Carolina. His most prevailing words were: "Thank you." He directed them at just about everyone, includ… more »

Proximity, history could charge UD-DSU meetings. The University of Delaware and Delaware State University have some catching up to do. Football rivalries don't form overnight. But UD and DSU already have many of the ingredients to make this one sp… more »

Catamounts to host five home games; play three playoff teams from a year ago Cullowhee, N.C. – Five home games and a season-opening road trip to Southeastern Conference foe, Vanderbilt, highlight Western Carolina’s 11-game 2009 Catamount football sch… more »

The Southern Conference on Friday announced several cost-saving measures that will go into effect for the 2009-10 academic year, including trimming one day off baseball trips and cutting the number of teams eligible for postseason league tournaments in… more »

Winston-Salem State University's move to Division I athletics could be hitting the wall. Chancellor Donald Reaves of WSSU asked the UNC board of governors to approve an increase in student-athletics fees at a meeting in January, said Joni Worthington… more »

Spitzer joins Mike Malone of the Amarillo Dusters as former Catamounts in the af2 Former Western Carolina quarterback Todd Spitzer, who threw for over 2,000 yards in two seasons under center for the Catamounts, has been assigned to the Florida Fireca… more »

Malone Signs with Amarillo Dusters of the af2, WCU Football is hitting the weight room ahead of the March 9 opening of spring practice Even with the opening of official spring drills still a month and a half away, the Western Carolina Catamount footb… more »

CULLOWHEE, N.C. --- Georgia Southern played 50 minutes of its ugliest football on Saturday. Then, everything came into bloom for the young Eagles. From the bleakest scenario, Georgia Southern rallied. Seven turnovers didn't stop it. Nor did the 13… more »

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- When Furman coach Bobby Lamb says his Paladins have a big task in front of them Saturday against Delaware, he means it literally. Lamb noted two things about the Blue Hens -- they are one of the biggest teams he has ever seen and th… more »

The defeat on Saturday was certainly nothing to smile about. But Tuesday morning, two things made Appalachian State coach Jerry Moore optimistic despite the 41-13 loss his Mountaineers suffered at the hands of LSU. The first was the way his team r… 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 »

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 »

The number of games between ACC teams and Division I-AA teams will double this season. Three ACC teams — Clemson, Florida State and Georgia Tech — have the audacity to play two Football Championship Subdivision, or FCS teams in the politically correc… more »

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Samford’s fifth-year quarterback Dante Williams will undergo surgery and will miss the season due to a knee injury suffered on the second play of Saturday’s scrimmage. “We've lost Dante for the season,” Samford head coach Pat Sulli… more »