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NSU Preseason To Start With Drills, Spring Game
The 2008 Colonels football pre-season events will begin March 31 with spring drills and end April 19 with the annual spring football game in John L. Guidry Stadium.
Head football coach Jay Thomas said the Colonels hope to have a good spring practice,… more »
Five UCA Players Suspended by Coach
CONWAY — It certainly wasn’t the kind of announcement Central Arkansas Coach Clint Conque wanted to make on the opening day of spring practice.
Conque indefinitely suspended five players from the Central Arkansas football program Friday after one was… more »
UCA Bears Begin Spring Drills
Things will generally be more technical on the offensively and more competitive defensively as the University of Central Arkansas Bears open spring football practice Friday.
The Bears, coming off a 6-5 season in their second year in the Southland Con… more »
SHSU Announces Spring Football Schedule
HUNTSVILLE –Sam Houston State head football coach Todd Whitten has announced the spring practice schedule for 2008.
The spring season will kick off March 17 and the Bearkats will work out on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons. On Saturday mornin… more »
Northwestern State great Joe Delaney's name will go on NFL Award
NATCHITOCHES — As Northwestern State prepares this spring to again celebrate the life and honor the memory of heroic two-sport All-American and NFL star Joe Delaney, a pro football award honoring a top NFL running back has been named in honor of the lat… more »
SFA Releases Spring Schedule
Lumberjack Pro Day scheduled for Tuesday, March 18th
NACOGDOCHES The Stephen F. Austin Lumberjack football team will begin its 2008 Spring Schedule with its first of 14 official workouts Monday, March 31 announced head coach J.C. Harper Tuesday mo… more »
Lamar will issue bonds to help fund football facility renovations
BEAUMONT - Lamar University is still hunting for money. Just not as much.
To help pay for renovations to its football facilities, the university will issue bonds and gradually pay them off with money gained from its new student athletics fee, Preside… more »
Southeastern Lions Hit Field in Spring 2008 Debut
HAMMOND – The Southeastern Louisiana football team opened spring practice on Sunday with a Monday afternoon workout at the Southeastern football practice fields.
The team, dressed in helmets and jerseys, worked out for about two hours in their initia… more »
Pain, or Gain, For Texas State?
The students at Texas State University approved a fee increase two weeks ago for the purpose of supporting big-time football, thereby encumbering future student generations with a feast or famine scenario.
It's not right or wrong. It's not bad or goo… more »
Texas State Makes Play to Move Up Football Ladder
BEAUMONT - Lamar University and Texas State University-San Marcos both had football items on the agenda Friday at the Board of Regents' meeting in Mary and John Gray Library on the Lamar campus.
But Texas State already has football, and its aspiratio… more »
Cox, Charter Fight Hurts Southland Football Fans
Cox Sports, who had the plug pulled on them last September 18th, is fighting to be on Charter's basic cable lineup so Nicholls State and Southeast Louisiana football games will be available for a wider audience. But the NBA's New Orleans Hornets stand… more »
Pending Football Slate at Grambling to Include Northwestern State
GRAMBLING — Grambling will announce a 2008 football schedule, perhaps as early as today, that includes a new home-and-home deal with Northwestern State.
That leaves at least one more non-conference date still to fill. GSU will open next season at Nev… more »
UCA's Conque Praises Mostly-Broad Recruiting Class
University of Central Arkansas football coach Clint Conque got a little bit of everything in his 2008 recruiting class.
Except ... "big uglys."
The ink was barely dry on the list released Wednesday when several supporters called Conque to questi… more »
End Result of Last Year Sends UCA On Mission
With a lot of returnees going into this season from a team that finished a surprise second in the Southland Conference, University of Central Arkansas football coach Clint Conque was initially worried about complacency.
THIS YEAR'S MISSION
"W… more »
Texas State Votes To Pay For FBS Move
The students at Texas State are willing to pay for big-time football.
Texas State students voted overwhelmingly to increase their athletics fee by $10 per semester credit hour in $2 per year increments over five years to help the university move its… more »
