If he has his way, a former Barbers Hill football coach could become a regular presence in the Baytown area once again. Craig McGallion, the Eagles’ head coach between from 1995-97, is the newest assistant football coach at Lamar University and he ex… more »

BEAUMONT - With one new hire, Ray Woodard kept a promise. With another new hire, he brought in an outlaw. On the job for less than a month, the new head football coach at Lamar University has hired a pair of locals in his first two assistant coaches… more »

BEAUMONT - For now, Ray Woodard's makeshift office in the Montagne Center has all the charm of a prison cell. There's a desk with a few doodads on it. There's a bookshelf littered with a few VHS tapes. A cardboard box sits on the floor, and a single… more »

HUNTSVILLE — Southland Conference commissioner Tom Burnett said he was delighted to see Lamar University reinstating football after a 20-year absence. Burnett remembered Lamar football from his collegiate days at Louisiana Tech. The league's commissi… more »

BEAUMONT - If you saw Ray Woodard at the city park and didn't know any better, you might mistake the new Lamar football coach for one of those growling, block-framed contestants on "The World's Strongest Man." He's tall. He's large. He looks like the… more »

Lamar University is one step closer to the return of football as the school announced in a press conference on Monday that their new head coach would be Ray Woodard. “Ray Woodard will be our next football coach at Lamar,” said athletic director Billy… more »

West is best in the Southland Conference. At least, it has been. In the two years since the SLC split into divisions, the West has clearly had the upper hand. In the four divisional sports -- baseball, men's and women's basketball and volleyball -… more »

BEAUMONT - Jimmy Simmons wants to make something clear. The Lamar University president said his school's current plans to renovate and upgrade Cardinal Stadium are not final. In fact, as far as Simmons is concerned, they're not even plans yet.… more »

Lamar University announced earlier this year that the Cardinals were going to bring back football with the hopes of fielding a team by the fall of 2010. Last week, The Beaumont Enterprise released a list of 11 applicants for the vacant head coaching… more »

With the overwhelming support of the students on the campus of Lamar University voting to pay an athletic fee each semester, the return of Cardinal football is in plain view. The first snap could come as early as the 2009 season and Lamar posted… more »

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 »

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 »

BEAUMONT -- The students have spoken, and they've told Lamar University to move the chains. The student referendum on whether to approve an athletics fee has easily passed, with 79 percent voting yes, Student Government President Obi Arisukwu said in… more »

BEAUMONT - Zach Bass spent one year playing football at a Division III program, looked around at a few other places and decided to come home to Lamar University, where college football has been dead for 19 years. Today, he'll find out if Lamar can ag… more »

BEAUMONT - Our story begins in the middle. Not at the start, and not at the end, but in the middle. As of 2:04 p.m. Tuesday, two of the first four polling places had closed at Lamar University, and students were well into shaping the future of their… more »