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 »

With a no. 5 national ranking and a top-rated defense, William and Mary was determined to end its five-game losing streak to James Madison. A sellout crowd on Homecoming at Zable Stadium was ready as well. After a quiet first half, the Tribe quick… 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 »

HARRISONBURG - Speedy Scotty McGee will have to stay off his feet much of the offseason. The senior kick returner for the James Madison football team underwent surgery on his left foot Monday, the same procedure he had on his right foot after the 2006 s… more »

HARRISONBURG - As the two quarterbacks hoping to start for James Madison this fall competed on the field Saturday at Bridgeforth Stadium, a future prospect was watching from the stands. Dustin Thomas, a 6-foot-2, 220-pound quarterback from St. August… more »

A bunch of standout former college football players who weren't drafted last weekend have been invited to NFL minicamps. James Madison defensive back Marcus Haywood, a Bruton High graduate, was invited to the New Orleans Saints' rookie camp. His f… more »

HARRISONBURG - Justin Thorpe has always enjoyed being on his own. As a small child, James Madison's freshman quarterback said, he remembers entertaining himself for hours. "I've always been kind of a loner," Thorpe said Saturday after JMU's annual sp… more »

Rising sophomore tailbacks Scott Noble (Baltimore, Md./Franklin) and Corwin Acker (Landover, Md./Blake) ran for touchdowns to highlight James Madison’s spring football game at Bridgeforth Stadium/Zane Showker Field Saturday. Noble, who sat out the 20… 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 »

HARRISONBURG - It's not BCS money, but James Madison turned a small profit by hosting three rounds of the NCAA Division I-AA football playoffs this past season, according to the university. Figured finalized last month show that JMU took in $37,301 o… more »