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News Nuggets, 05.27.04
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NOTES FROM ECU AND BEYOND...
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Compiled from staff reports
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Clear sailing for Pirates on
day one
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05.26.04: Bearcats
reject ESPN Friday night game ... .. Radio network expanded
for tournament ... .. Georgia State 'moving on up' to CAA... ..
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05.25.04: College
baseball polls ... .. Rice brushes off consultant, recommits
to big-time sports ... .. Bulls lose veteran football player... ..
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05.24.04: Weekend
in the limelight for Pirates and Bunn ... .. C-USA
Tournament Vitals & Schedule ... .. Final regular season
standings... ..
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05.23.04: C-USA
standings & postseason schedule ... .. Potential
class-action suit filed on behalf of walk-ons ... .. Father
of Tar Heels basketball coach passes... ..
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05.22.04: Big
season means big bucks for Blazers basketball coach... ..
Hamrick snags spot on NCAA baseball panel... ..
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05.21.04: ECU
assistant Herenda in UVA sights... .. Eustachy inks juco
backcourt star... .. Upgrade in store for Saturday nights in
Baton Rouge... ..
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05.20.04: ECU,
UNC-CH visions sail through early tests... .. C-USA maps out
new alignments... .. USM- Cal game shifts to Thursday for
ESPN... ..
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No Nuggets 05.19.04
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05.18.04: Purple
Alert issues first call to arms... .. College baseball
polls... .. New UC baseball stadium set for debut... ..
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05.17.04: Pirates
on the brink... .. C-USA Standings, Scoreboard, Schedule...
.. ECU-connected duo helps Berlin clinch World Bowl berth... ..
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05.16.04: C-USA
Scoreboard... .. Would-be Spetman successor backs out at Air
Force... .. Mixed verdict for Hokies' QB Vick... ..
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05.15.04: C-USA
Scoreboard... .. Beer tabs spell more scrutiny for
Colorado coaches... .. Paterno locks in until octogenarian
years... ..
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05.14.04: R.J.,
T-Law contend for major national award... .. Syracuse
ditches Orangemen moniker... .. ACC adopts new scheduling,
tourney formulas... ..
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05.13.04: First
pitch of possible climactic game coming early... ..
Billikens AD Woolard transfers to USF... .. ACC hits jackpot
with revised TV deal... ..
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05.12.04: Beleaguered
Odom, former ECU assistant, quits Mizzou... .. South Florida
to name new AD today... .. Basketball rules panel elevates
status of instant replay... ..
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05.11.04: Pirates
four steps from top rung of Collegiate Baseball ladder... ..
Ticket frenzy sells out ECU-State rematch... .. Suitors
lining up to host ACC title game... ..
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05.10.04: Pirates
sail onward towards baseball crown... .. C-USA standings &
scoreboard... .. Tulane to resurrect men's track and field
program... ..
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05.09.04: ECU
golfer Millican lands NCAA spot ... .. McGee
brushes off Broyles' criticism of Holtz... .. Calipari joins
DiMaggio, Lombardi, in Italian American HOF... ..
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05.08.04: USF
football scores multiple TV appearances... .. LSU escapes
new sanctions... ..
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05.07.04: Purple-clad
crowd goal of radio station promotion... .. Perp gets jail
time for Fiesta ticket scam... ..
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Opening day of the Conference USA Baseball
Tournament in Houston was one for the underdogs — with a notable exception.
No. 2 seed Tulane and 3rd seed Southern Mississippi,
the teams considered most likely to block regular season champion East
Carolina's path to the tournament title, both bit the dust early and hard.
Bucking the upset trend was the nationally
4th-ranked Pirates, who headed back to the hotel early after a
13-2 walloping of Louisville that
was halted after seven innings by the mercy rule.
In a morning game, Jarrett Grube struck out 10 and
Jordan Hart had five hits, including two home runs, as No. 5 seed Memphis
astonished USM, 10-5.
On deck for the next upset was 7th seed UAB, which
stunned Tulane for the third time this season, 10-4. Cole Helms was 3-for-4
with two RBI's and Eugene Rodriguez hit a three-run home run for the
Blazers.
ECU would live up to its favorite's role,
manhandling the Cardinals in the third game of the day. Ace pitcher Greg
Bunn improved his record to 9-0 and Ryan Norwood and John Poppert were each
3-for-3 with four RBI's as the Pirates won their school-record 48th game of
the season.
Day one was capped by a 9-5 victory by middle-seed
Houston over middle-seed Texas Christian. Thanos Papavasiliou had a
three-run home run and Cole Bruce had three hits for the Cougars.
Southern Miss and Tulane will play an elimination
game at 10 a.m. on Thursday, while Louisville and Texas Christian will
follow with a do-or-die match-up at 1:30 p.m.
The two upstarts, UAB and Memphis, will meet in the
first game of the winner's bracket at 5 p.m., while ECU and Houston, the
tourney host, will battle in the 8:30 p.m. nightcap.
Tune in to the Pirate Radio 1250 live
Internet feed.
View the C-USA Tournament schedule &
scoreboard page.
Court rejects boosters' seat assignment suit
LAWRENCE, KA — Seat locations for University of
Kansas men's basketball games can be determined by how much season-ticket
holders contribute to the athletic department's fund-raising arm, a Douglas
County District Court judge has determined.
District Judge Jack Murphy last week dismissed a
lawsuit by season-ticket holders challenging a priority points system that
will go into effect next season. The new policy reserves some of the best
seats in Allen Fieldhouse for season-ticket buyers who donate $5,000 to the
Williams Educational Fund.
In his ruling, Murphy said, "there is nothing
impermissible about tying season-ticket purchases to athletic fund
contributions."
The judge cited a 2001 favorable ruling for Wichita
State University in a lawsuit by fans who challenged a donation plan
implemented at that school to determine seat locations for basketball games.
Topeka attorney Brock Snyder, a 40-year
season-ticket holder and lawyer for the plaintiffs, said he will not get to
keep three seats he had in the fifth row of a lower section, and he doesn't
intend to buy seats farther from the court.
Another plaintiff in the case, Topeka resident Frank
Godding, has held season tickets for the past 53 years. Both Godding and
Snyder were among 121 season-ticket holders notified last season they would
lose their priority seats and be reassigned for the next season unless they
made the donation.
The university plans to send letters to the holders
of about 9,000 season basketball tickets next week informing them of their
priority points totals.
Fox to roll out college sports TV network
Fox Sports will unveil a three-channel
college sports network this fall that will feature more than 800 live NCAA
events a year, the Associated Press has reported.
The three regional channels, formerly part
of Fox Sports Digital Nets, will be available in approximately 20 million
homes, Fox said in making the announcement Tuesday.
Digital subscribers will have all three
channels — Eastern, Central and West.
News Nuggets are
compiled periodically from staff, ECU, Conference USA and its member
schools, and from Associated Press and
other reports. Copyright 2004
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