A meeting with the commissioner addresses travel concerns for four New England schools. Tom Yeager, the Colonial Athletic Association commissioner, traveled to Boston this week to bridge the gap with the athletic directors at the universities of Main… more »

Conference revels in rising stature, but costs prompt two of its programs to fold. William & Mary will play Villanova on Friday night in the division I-AA football semifinals, with the winner becoming the sixth Colonial Athletic Association team… more »

With two CAA teams dropping football, Maine and three other schools find themselves isolated. They are fierce rivals on the football field. Off the field, the universities of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island are about to come t… more »

Saying the news caught him by complete surprise, University of Massachusetts athletic director John McCutcheon said Thursday that Hofstra's decision to drop football was disappointing, but not a harbinger that UMass might follow suit. McCutcheon reit… more »

DURHAM — There are numbers CAA commissioner Tom Yeager has a pleasure trying to crunch, and others that present more of a challenge. Start with the tough ones. Two years from now, the CAA will welcome its 13th football-playing member, Old Dominion, w… more »

In some people's minds, defending national champion Richmond is one of the favorites to win the 2009 title. But the reality of the Colonial Athletic Association is that the Spiders might not even survive their own division, let alone the NCAA playoffs.… more »

Richmond, which returns 18 starters off last year’s NCAA National Championship team, and Villanova, which returns 16 starters from 2008, are picked to share the overall CAA Football Championship in 2009. New Hampshire, last season’s North Division winn… more »

The Colonial Athletic Association will swell to 14 football schools in 2012, when Georgia State joins. Too many? Too few? Or just right? Rather than fret about growing too big too fast, maybe the league will say what the heck and just super-size i… more »

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – When he moved into the president’s office at the University of Rhode Island in 1991, Robert L. Carothers inherited a football program that had suffered through five consecutive losing seasons. When he finishes moving out of the pres… more »

Junior quarterback Chris Paul-Etienne accounted for 252 yards of total offense and two touchdowns as he helped lead the Blue team past the White team in the annual Blue and White game at Meade Stadium Saturday afternoon. Paul-Etienne, who transferre… more »

In an effort to preserve the overall integrity and competitiveness of University of Maine athletics during these difficult economic times, athletics director Blake James on Wednesday announced his decision to suspend the women’s volleyball and men’s soc… more »

HARRISONBURG - Currently, not every football team in the Colonial Athletic Association plays every other member. In 2011 - for one season only - a school might not even face everyone in its own division. Old Dominion will become the seventh team in t… more »

Less than two weeks before the start of spring practice, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football coach Russ Huesman is looking for a new defensive coordinator. After a little more than two months on the job, Mike Elko resigned from UTC last w… 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 »

Joe Trainer, who spent the 2008 season as the Rhode Island football associate head coach/defensive coordinator, has been named the school's 19th head coach. Trainer returns to Rhode Island after he joined the coaching staff at Bowling Green back in D… more »