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The conference East Carolina once
called home is adding some new tenants, and one of them will move in sooner
than anticipated.
Northeastern University will join the
Colonial Athletic Association in 2005, a year earlier than previously
expected, the CAA announced Thursday.
The America East Conference waived a
2-year waiting period in its bylaws and accepted Northeastern's resignation
effective June 30, 2005. Northeastern is a member of the America East for
all sports except football.
"As a conference that has been on both
sides of the issue, once the decision to change conferences has been made it
is usually in everyone's best interests to facilitate the transition as soon
as possible," CAA commissioner Tom Yeager said.
ECU played all of its sports except
football in the CAA until 2001, when it became a full member of Conference
USA. The Pirates joined C-USA in football in 1997.
In the CAA, Northeastern will compete
in 12 sports, including basketball, but will remain in the Atlantic 10
Conference for football. The CAA does not conduct a football championship,
but the addition of Northeastern gives it a sixth football-playing
institution.
Northeastern will reunite with
Delaware, Drexel, Hofstra and Towson, which departed America East for the
CAA after the 2000-01 athletic season. Other CAA members are George Mason,
James Madison, UNC Wilmington, Old Dominion, Virginia Commonwealth and the
College of William and Mary.
Georgia State will expand the CAA's
membership to 12 when it joins on July 1, 2006.
Cowboys owner to be enshrined by Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE, AR — The University of
Arkansas has announced that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones will be
inducted this September into the school's Sports Hall of Honor along with
eight other former Razorbacks.
The others include five All-Americans
and three all-conference selections.
This year's honorees are former
Arkansas football players Harry Jones, Wayne Martin, Jerry Jones and Brandon
Burlsworth; basketball players Jerry Carlton, Lee Mayberry and Tracy Webb
Rice; track and field standout Seneca Lassiter; and tennis player Peter
Doohan.
The university said the group combined
to win 20 All-America distinctions, 36 all-conference accolades and played a
part in 13 individual or team national championships.
Honorees were elected to the UA Sports
Hall of Honor by a vote of former letterwinners in conjunction with the "A"
Club. Burlsworth was elected posthumously.
The honors will be presented Sept. 3 at
the Northwest Arkansas Convention Center in Springdale.
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