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News Nuggets, 04.08.04
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04.06.04: UConn
fuels fans back home with title win... .. T-Law lands C-USA
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04.05.04: Straight
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04.04.04: UAB's
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04.03.04: Coach
'K' closes in on milestones... .. Final Four notebook... ..
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04.02.04: No
sleeping in on April Fool's day for Cincy... .. DePaul hawks
2005 regional tickets... .. Frogs formally unveil new hoops
palace... ..
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04.01.04: Big
Easy bowl hooks up with title sponsor... .. Crackdown on
sleazy recruiting looms... .. TV viewership up for women's
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03.31.04: Big
Easy bowl hooks up with title sponsor... .. Crackdown on
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03.30.04: Autumn
in Greenville means football and engineering... .. Holtz a
casualty in Gamecocks' scrimmage... .. College baseball
polls... .. Big Dance still fueling CBS ratings bonanza...
.. Saint Joe's coach honored with Naismith Award... ..
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03.29.04: C-USA
baseball standings... .. Spring dawns on new era of Army
football... .. 49ers' Withers named 3rd-team All-America...
.. Dukies bump off Cinderella to round out Final Four
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03.28.04: Xavier
not figuring on being Duke's cupcake... .. Memphis phenom
named to National All-Freshman Team... .. Tulane, LSU aim to
reclaim attendance mark... .. Horned Frogs placekicker nails
postgrad grant... ..
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Miami Dolphins running back and former East Carolina
star Leonard Henry was named the NFL Europe League Offensive Player of the
Week for games played the first week of the season (April 3-4).
On Saturday, April 3, Henry gained a total of 174 yards and scored two
touchdowns to help the Frankfurt Galaxy open the season with a 34-11 victory
over the Amsterdam Admirals.
Henry, a native of Clinton, rushed for 114 yards on 19 carries, including
scoring runs of eight and 24 yards. He added three receptions for 60 yards,
including a 29-yard grab that led to a Galaxy touchdown.
Drexler glides into Basketball Hall of Fame
SAN ANTONIO — Nicknames have followed Clyde Drexler
throughout his basketball career.
In college, he played for the electrifying "Phi Slama Jama" teams at the
University of Houston. As a pro, he was Clyde "The Glide" for his speed,
ball handling and swooping moves to the basket.
As an Olympian, he played on the first "Dream Team."
Now, he can add something a little more formal: Hall of Famer.
Drexler was one of six former players, coaches and team executives announced
this week as the newest members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of
Fame in Springfield, Mass.
Joining him are Lynette Woodard, an Olympic gold medalist and first female
Harlem Globetrotter; coach Bill Sharman, already in the hall as a player;
the late Maurice Stokes, the 1956 NBA rookie of the year; Jerry Colangelo,
chairman of the Phoenix Suns; and Drazen Dalipagic, an international star
for Yugoslavia.
They will be inducted Sept. 10 in Springfield.
Drexler, who in 1997 was selected one of the NBA's 50 greatest players, was
humbled to be a new member of the hall.
"I grew up watching a lot of them and to be in the same class as they are is
phenomenal," Drexler said. "It kind of validates your career as a basketball
player. I think that I'm the luckiest man in the world."
In college, he played in two Final Fours. In his 15-year NBA career, Drexler
led the Portland Trail Blazers to the NBA Finals in 1990 and '92, and won a
championship with Houston in 1995.
He is one of three players in league history to
accumulate 20,000 points, 6,000 rebounds and 6,000 assists.
Nicholls State ditching Rebel mascot
THIBODAUX, LA —
Nicholls State is dropping its mascot, a
Confederate officer which some feel is an homage to the Old South and the
slave era.
The school announced last week that it would erase images of the mascot on
school buildings and property and get rid of the costumed figure at football
and basketball games.
The school's teams have long gone by the "Colonels" moniker and the mascot
is often referred to as Tillou, recalling the school's namesake, former Gov.
Francis Tillou Nicholls, who was a Confederate general.
Still, university officials said Friday that the school never actually gave
the mascot a name, and that the cartoon image was not originally conceived
as a Civil War icon.
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schools, and from Associated Press and
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