Category: Lamar Cardinals
Lamar athletics grants exclusive TV rights to KBTV FOX 4
BEAUMONT - Lamar University and KBTV FOX 4 have reached an agreement that makes FOX 4 Lamar's exclusive television station for live broadcasts of all Lamar athletic events.
"This is a historic event for FOX 4, and we are delighted to be the official… more »
Lamar footballers to conclude spring drills with playing of 2010 Spring Game
BEAUMONT - Lamar University's football team will conclude its spring training Saturday afternoon with the playing of the Cardinals' 2010 Spring Game at the Lamar Soccer Complex.
First play for the offense-vs.-defense, controlled-scrimmage-format game… more »
LU player moves after Northeastern cuts team
Steven Murray-Sesay and his Northeastern University football teammates had just finished the season one day earlier when the school's athletic director called a meeting.
Seated among 86 teammates and 10 coaches, Murray-Sesay learned of the dreaded ne… more »
Former SHSU Head Coach Whitten Named OC at Lamar
BEAUMONT - Todd Whitten, who spent the past five years as head football coach at Sam Houston State University, is joining Ray Woodard's Lamar University staff as offensive coordinator.
Whitten, who replaces Tommy Mainord who left in January to take a… more »
Education First donates $1 million as sponsor of Lamar athletics
Education First Federal Credit Union has signed on as a sponsor of Lamar University athletics with a $1 million contribution, university officials announced Monday.
"This sponsorship will be a tremendous help in bringing back football to Lamar Univer… more »
South Alabama Football to Face All Four Year Institutions in 2010
MOBILE, Ala. - The University of South Alabama football team concluded its inaugural season with a perfect 7-0 mark while outscoring the opposition 321-41. Accomplishing a similar feat in the program's second year won't be an easy task.
The Jaguars… more »
Monday night football coming to Lamar campus
BEAUMONT - Monday night football - Lamar University style - will hit campus under the lights and with all of the other normal trimmings at the Lamar Soccer Complex on Nov. 9.
Coach Ray Woodard and his staff will put their 65-man squad of scholarship… more »
Lamar's Woodard to enter Kilgore College Hall of Fame
After enrolling as a freshman student at Kilgore College in the fall of 1979, Ray Woodard decided to take a stab at football as a walkon candidate during spring training.
It was a decision that paid huge dividends for the then gangly 220-pounder who… more »
Lamar dedicates Coach Vernon Glass Field of Champions
While a student at Lamar University in the mid-1970s, Bart Simmons learned many things that helped him move on to a successful career in business - one that has seen him become owner of five Dallas area companies.
All that Simmons learned at Lamar, h… more »
USA Football to Face Three Fellow Start-Up Programs in Future
MOBILE, Ala. - The University of South Alabama football team will be able to test itself on numerous occasions against three other schools that are just starting their program with Friday's announcement of future opponents.
The Jaguars will play home… more »
Lamar to Play Six Home Games in 2010 Football Season
BEAUMONT, Texas – Lamar University completed its football schedule for 2010 Friday with the addition of Panhandle State as the Cardinals’ 11th opponent for the school’s first season of competition since 1989.
“We are certainly happy to finalize our s… more »
2009 Southland Conference Football Media Day Quotes
The following is a compilation of quotes from coaches and players at Southland Conference Football Media Day:
Central Arkansas Head Coach Clint Conque
On Momentum from the 10-2 Season
"We certainly carried a lot of momentum and a lot of energy… more »
Lamar Football Adds Iowa Transfer Coleman
BEAUMONT, Texas – Lamar head football coach Ray Woodard has announced that former Beaumont West Brook standout Jacody Coleman has transferred to Lamar and will be a member of the school’s football program beginning this fall.
Coleman spent the last t… more »
Southland Announces 2009 Media Day Participants
The scheduled participants for this year's Southland Conference Media Day event on July 29th in Lake Charles, La. were announced by the league today.
Central Arkansas
Clint Conque, Coach
Lane Freiwald, OL
Larry Hart, DE
Lamar
Ray Woodard, Coa… more »
CSN Update: Georgia State to Face South Alabama in '10, '11
College Sporting News has learned that Georgia State will face South Alabama in a home-and-home that starts in 2010 and wraps up in 2011.
This is another home-and-home in a series of games between 2010 newcomers USA, GSU and Lamar.
According to pr… more »