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News Nuggets, 04.24.04
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Pirates nudge Golden Eagles
from shared perch
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04.21.04: Pirates'
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04.20.04: Pirates
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04.19.04: Supercharged
Pirates sail into 1st place tie... .. C- USA baseball
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04.18.04: Extreme
games: College baseball day to remember... .. Penders lures
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04.17.04: Juco
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04.15.04: Mother
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04.14.04: DePaul's
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Conference USA's tug-of-war between East Carolina
and Southern Mississippi for supremacy in the league baseball standings took
on a divergent twist Friday, and the Pirates were the beneficiaries.
Red-hot ECU kept its roll going,
holding off visiting Louisville 6-4
and extending its winning streak to 14 games, while the Golden Eagles flew
straight into a brick wall in a shocking 17-1 humiliation at Tulane.
The net result for the Pirates — at least for a day
— was sole possession of first place. ECU and USM play the same opponents
today, and a reverse outcome would knot them at the top of the standings
again.
East Carolina,
ranked ninth by Baseball America, is
13-3 in the conference. No. 11 Southern Miss slipped to 12-4, and
18th-ranked Tulane is now in position to challenge the frontrunners with an
11-5 record.
Louisville fell to 8-8 in the league with its loss
to the Pirates.
ECU will host the Cardinals today at 6 p.m. and
tomorrow at 1 p.m., and USM will conclude its three-game road series with
the Green Wave with a 2 p.m. game today and a 1 p.m. finale on Sunday.
View C-USA standings heading into this week's
games...
Jackson radio station picks up USM baseball
HATTIESBURG — Fans of the nationally-ranked Southern
Miss baseball team now have another home to listen to the Eagles' Radio
Broadcasts.
Jackson's WPBQ-AM 1240 (ESPN Radio 1240) will
broadcast a partial lineup of the remainder of USM's season, including a key
May 22 game at East Carolina.
The station's coverage of the Golden Eagles begins
with Southern Miss's games today and tomorrow at Tulane.
The broadcast schedule is as follows:
4/24/2004 at Tulane (New Orleans) 2 PM
4/25/2004 at Tulane (New Orleans) 1 PM
4/30/2004 at UAB (Birmingham) 7 PM
5/1/2004 at UAB (Birmingham) 2 PM
5/2/2004 at UAB (Birmingham) 1 PM
5/4/2004 New Orleans (Hattiesburg) 6 PM
5/8/2004 Louisville (Hattiesburg) 4 PM
5/9/2004 Louisville (Hattiesburg) 1 PM
5/15/2004 at Charlotte (Charlotte) 1 PM
5/22/2004 East Carolina (Hattiesburg) 1 PM
5/26/2004 at C-USA Tournament (Houston) TBA
5/27/2004 at C-USA Tournament (Houston) TBA
5/28/2004 at C-USA Tournament (Houston) TBA
5/29/2004 at C-USA Tournament (Houston) TBA
Academic Senate wants Spartans out of I-A
San Jose State's Academic Senate has voted to limit
funding for sports teams and has recommended the school withdraw from
Division I-A and the Western Athletic Conference.
The 21-11 vote, conducted by secret ballot earlier
this week, was intended to send a message to the university's
soon-to-be-named president that academics should come ahead of football in
tight budget times.
The Academic Senate — a group of faculty, students,
staff and administrators that advises the president — proposed that savings
from athletics funding be transferred to academic programs.
"We're not opposed to football per se, but Division
I-A has costs we can't afford," said James Brent, the political science
professor who pushed for withdrawal.
The senate vote is only symbolic — presidents have
ignored faculty recommendations on athletic funding in the past.
But Brent said he hopes the vote will "counter what
the president will hear from a group of very loud boosters who don't have
the best interests of the university as a whole at heart."
The Academic Senate also voted to have the entire
faculty vote on the question of withdrawal from Division I-A and the WAC in
a referendum.
Monday's vote is the first formal faculty
recommendation to emerge from a year-long debate over athletics funding. It
comes as the university's budget tightens and the football program struggles
to fill seats and win games.
The two finalists for the university president's job
last week warned against taking hasty action over athletics funding and
pointed out the benefits of intercollegiate athletics.
News Nuggets are
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schools, and from Associated Press and
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