HOUSTON—For the first time since the Hal Mumme years of the Southeastern football resurrection, the Lions bring back a starting quarterback this season for their fourth run in the Southland Conference. But unlike recent years, there's not much of an… more »

Somebody had to be picked No. 1 in the Southland Conference. When it came down to it, there was really only one choice. McNeese State was picked as the overwhelming favorite in preseason polls at SLC media days in Houston this week. The Cowboys were… more »

The Southland Conference is trying to slice into what is becoming the cutting edge of college sports programming. The Southland Conference Television Network, which will debut this fall along television stations and cable systems across the league's… more »

FRISCO, Texas – The Nicholls State football team has been picked to finish fifth overall in the Southland Conference head coaches and sports information directors’ preseason polls released Tuesday. McNeese State, a team which has won the last two SLC… more »

The Southland Conference football race could be an example of the more things change, the more they stay the same. While change is consistent in the league — new teams settling in, another (Lamar) on its way in a few years and one team (SFA) with who… more »

Northwestern State University head football coach Scott Stoker was in town on Thursday night as part of the school's "Victory Tour." Stoker knows as well as anybody how important those victories are. He is less than a month away from beginning his… more »

Northwestern State athletic supporters might not recognize their facilities when they arrive on campus this fall for the Aug. 30 football opener against Texas A&M-Commerce. The entire campus is undergoing a transformation, but the moves are most… more »

Northwestern State athletics director Greg Burke says he didn't approach the 2008 football schedule any differently. But the results sure look different. The schedule, which includes seven home games and some eye-catching matchups, was the main topic… more »

The Bills on Tuesday announced the signing of seventh-round draft selection (219th overall) Demetrius Bell. Bell was the team's first of three seventh round selections. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Northwestern State offensive tackle sta… more »

Northwestern State will play the 2008 football season without its starting quarterback from last season. Germayne Edmond, who started 10 games in 2007 for the Demons, will not play this year as he continues to rehabilitate from surgery on both should… more »

NATCHITOCHES – With interest feverish in season tickets for the seven-game 2008 Northwestern State football home schedule, athletic ticket manager Zach Williams has extended the “early bird special” $10 discount through next Thursday. Nearing the end… 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 »

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 »

This is how Demetrius Bell, drafted a couple of weeks ago by the Buffalo Bills in the seventh round, describes his relationship with his father: "I treat it as if my mother went to the sperm bank. I don't hate him for [not being in my life]. It made… more »

Maybe now, with a potential professional football career ahead of him, Demetrius Bell can move past it all. Move past the unwanted spectre that in some ways always hung over his athletic career at Northwestern State. Bell rarely has spoken o… more »