News Nuggets, 08.27.03
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Logan teams up with Hinton on weekly sports show

Prominent Greenville resident Steve Logan is stepping a bit further into the broadcasting realm. The former East Carolina football coach will be joining Henry Hinton as co-host of the 'Midweek Tailgate Show,' which is simulcast each Wednesday from 6:30-7:30 p.m. during football season on Greenville Cable 7 TV and radio station WCZI 98.3 FM.

Logan will debut on tonight's program and he is expected to be a part of the show in the future with some regularity, though the exact number of shows he will appear on is not firm. He plans to focus on topics relating to college athletics each week. On tonight's program, Logan will interview Cincinnati football coach Rick Minter, whose Bearcats will host ECU in the teams' Labor Day season opener.

After winning more games and racking up a longer head-coaching tenure than any of his predecessors in Pirate football history, Logan has become involved in the sports broadcasting profession. He has done work with Fox Sports over the summer and is contracted to be a part of the broadcast team this fall for Army's regional network TV coverage.

Logan was forced to step down as ECU's skipper last December after 15 years as a staff member, including the last 12 as head coach. He is scheduled to continue receiving his annual $200,000 ECU base salary until the year 2006, with earnings he generates from other employment during that period deducted from the school's obligation

Injury no barrier to recognition for Art Brown

In an ironic twist of fate, East Carolina senior tailback Art Brown has been named a preseason candidate for a prestigious honor less than two weeks after being sidelined for the season by a knee injury. Brown is one of four Conference USA running backs named to the watch list for the 2003 Doak Walker Award, awarded annually to the nation's top college running back.

In addition to Brown, Mewelde Moore (Tulane), Lonta Hobbs (TCU) and DeAngelo Williams (Memphis) are among 39 contenders for the honor. The board of directors of the SMU Athletic Forum, which sponsors the award, will select eight semifinalists on November 19, and the Doak Walker Award National Selection Committee will vote on the winner in late November.

Brown, a 1,000-yard rusher in 2002 and a preseason selection to the All-C-USA team, will use his medical redshirt this year and have another shot at earning recognition and awards in 2004.

Southern Miss, LSU schedule two-game series

HATTIESBURG — Louisiana State will make a two-game appearance on Southern Mississippi basketball schedule, starting with a Dec. 20, 2003 game in Baton Rouge, La.

That first game is set for 3 p.m., at the 14,164-seat Maravich Center on the LSU campus, with the second game of the series slated for the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi, on Dec. 18, 2004, according to a statement issued by Golden Eagles head basketball Coach James Green and USM athletics director Richard Giannini.

Giannini said the games will benefit the Golden Eagle program.

"We work continually to enhance our schedule, and this two-game addition will draw national attention," he said. "And in the second year, the game will give Hattiesburg-area fans the opportunity to gather with our Gulf Coast students, faculty, alumni and fans to continue and enhance the success we enjoyed with the Houston game there last season."

Southern Miss and LSU have played three times previous to this year's game, with the Tigers winning all three games.

Their most recent meeting was in the first game of the 1989-90 season in the opening round of the preseason Big Apple NIT Tournament. The Golden Eagles lost that game 91-80, against a team that featured Shaquille O'Neal, (then) Chris Jackson and Stanley Roberts, all future NBA standouts.

O'Neal was limited to 10 points in that game, while Jackson led all scorers with 37. Southern Miss put four players in double figures, led by center Daron Jenkins, who had 25. Future NBA standout Clarence Weatherspoon contributed 17 points and a game-high 14 rebounds as a USM sophomore.

The two teams first played in 1930-31 in a game won by LSU, 46-35. LSU also posted a 107-79 victory in a 1972-73 game, Dale Brown's first year as head coach of the Tigers.

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