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News Nuggets, 07.13.04
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UAB has added another national
television game to its 2004 football schedule, setting a new school
benchmark for ESPN/ESPN2 appearances.
The Blazers, already set for national
TV dates at Florida State (Sept. 18, ESPN2) and at home against Texas
Christian (Oct. 15, ESPN), will move their game with South Florida from
Saturday, Nov. 6, to Wednesday, Nov. 3, to accommodate an ESPN2 telecast.
Kickoff time will be 7 p.m.
UAB defeated USF last season, 22-19, at
Tampa as placekicker Nick Hayes kicked a game-winning, 42-yard field goal
with nine seconds remaining.
This three national television
exposures is the most UAB has received in its footballhistory.
For South Florida, ESPN2's decision to
telecast the game from Birmingham's Legion Field brings the Bulls' slated
national TV exposures to four.
USF's season opener against Pittsburgh
in Tampa on Monday, Sept. 6 (4:30 p.m.), and the the Bulls' finale against
visiting Memphis will be carried by ESPN.
Divided school ditches Indian
nicknames
Political correctness has made its way to the
Mississippi River town of Cape Girardeau, MO, and it will require the local
institution of higher learning to reshape the identity of its athletic
teams.
After more than 80 years, Southeast Missouri State
University will no longer use Indians as a nickname.
The school, 110 miles south of St. Louis and 180
miles north of Memphis, last month settled a long-running debate over the
use of the nickname and mascot when its board of regents voted unanimously
to drop both for the men's teams as well as the Otahkians nickname for the
women.
The women's team name symbolized the legend of a
Cherokee woman named Otahki who died near Cape Girardeau on the tribe's
Trail of Tears forced march from its Eastern U.S. homelands to the Oklahoma
territory in the 1830s.
Supporters had argued that the nicknames showed
pride in the American Indian heritage of the region. But others found them
demeaning.
After a transition period to allow for phasing out of the Indians moniker,
Southeast's teams will be known as the Redhawks.
The school has already initiated the process of designing a Redhawk logo and
the changeover is expected to come in the spring semester of 2005.
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