Members of the East Carolina,
Memphis, Rice, Southern Miss, Tulane and Central Florida baseball teams
visited the Children's Ward at Pitt County Memorial Hospital in
Greenville on Friday.
The visit was part of the "Reach
for the Stars" program in conjunction with the 2007 C-USA Baseball
Championship.
Cavs, Heels meet for berth in ACC championship
North Carolina's Tim Fedroff had
four hits and scored three times to power a 19-hit attack and lead the
Tar Heels to a 14-5 win over North Carolina State in the Atlantic Coast
Conference baseball tournament in a game that spanned two days on the
calendar.
The start of the contest was
delayed an hour and 40 minutes by rain and the 3-hour, 5-minute game
that started on Thursday did not finish until 1:15 a.m. Friday morning.
North Carolina (46-12) will meet
Virginia on Saturday, with the winner moving on to Sunday's championship
game as the Bracket B winner.
SEC will
look at potential football playoff revenue
The debate over a major-college
football playoff touches on its impact on the sport's regular season, on
the survivability of a decades-old bowl system and on the potential for
infringement on players' academics, according to a USA Today report by
Steve Wieberg.
But where it will turn,
University of Florida president and playoff advocate Bernie Machen
predicts, is on money.
"The big (unknown) is: 'Is there
a lot of money that's not on the table?' " he says. "It could be
sizable. More than $100 million more than is on the table now."
It's one plank in an argument
he'll make to presidents of the 11 other schools in the Southeastern
Conference next Friday during meetings in Destin, FL.
Machen also sees a playoff
bringing a more equitable split of postseason revenue, which last season
totaled almost $218 million — 86% pocketed by schools in six conferences
— Atlantic Coast, Big Ten, Big 12, Big East, Pacific-10 and SEC — and
Notre Dame.
May 24, 2007
East Carolina
track standouts in NCAA regionals
Qualified performers from East
Carolina's men's and women's track teams will compete in the NCAA
Division I East regional championships today and Saturday in
Gainesville, FL.
Six individuals from ECU and two
Pirate relay teams will be competing to advance to the NCAA national
championships to be held June 6-9 in Sacramento, CA.
For the ECU women, Camelia
Morman will compete in the triple jump while Chelsea Salisbury will
represent the Pirates in the hammer throw.
For the men, Brandon Small and
Chris Richardson will run in the 400 meter dash, while Terrence Myers
and Eric Frasure will compete in the hammer throw.
East Carolina's 4x100 relay team
of Aidan Sanderson, Jarek Hewett, David Rucker and Kevin Thompson is
also in the regionals, as is the the 4x400 relay team of Small,
Sanderson, Bryson Bowling and Richardson.
Two gridders planning to leave Virginia Tech
Tailback George Bell and wide
receiver Brandon Barden have indicated they will leave the football
program at Virginia Tech.
Bell, who starred at Jack Britt
High in Fayetteville, is headed to Division II Catawba, where he hopes
to play more. Barden, a freshman who arrived in January and went through
spring practice, was shaken by the April shootings on the Blacksburg
campus that left 33 dead. He is looking at the possibility of
transferring to Vanderbilt.
East Carolina opens its 2007
football season at Virginia Tech on Sept. 1.
Rolle through as role player in hoops for LSU
LSU basketball coach John Brady
has announced that forward Magnum Rolle, by mutual agreement, will be
given the opportunity to pursue other interests as it relates to his
basketball career.
The 6-foot-10 Rolle may transfer
or sit out next season and prepare for the 2008 NBA draft.
"Despite the development of
several players who have had the patience and made it to the next level
in our program at his position, sometimes the parties involved do not
agree on a developmental process of the player as it relates to the
team," Brady said. "When that happens, other options may be explored. We
wish Magnum well with his future in basketball and his pursuit of his
education."
Rolle played in 60 games in two
seasons at LSU with nine starts. He averaged 2.8 points per game and 3.2
rebounds.
May 24, 2007
Slain Miami
lineman's parents to get $2 million
Though the Bryan Pata murder
case remains unsolved, his family received financial relief Tuesday when
the insurance companies of the apartment where the Miami Hurricanes
defensive lineman lived agreed to pay a $2 million settlement to his
parents, Jeanette and Pierre, according to a Miami Herald report.
The apartment complex had
advertised 24-hour security, which apparently was not in force when Pata
was shot and killed on Nov. 7.
Georgetown hoops duo announces future plans
Two Georgetown basketball
standouts have announced their plans for the future. Power forward Jeff
Green, the Big East player of the year, plans to forego his senior
season to enter the NBA draft, while seven-footer Roy Hibbert announced
that he will remove his name from the draft and return to the Hoyas for
his senior season.
Green, a 6-foot-9, 235-pounder,
averaged 14.3 points and was second in both rebounding (6.4) and assists
(3.2). Hibbert (7-2, 278) was the Hoyas' leading rebounder (6.9) and
shot blocker (90) and second leading scorer on the team (12.9).
Heels' stumbles persist in ACC baseball tourney
Georgia Tech's David Duncan
scattered five hits and three runs over eight innings as the
seventh-seeded Yellow Jackets surprised No. 2 seed UNC-Chapel Hill, 8-4,
Wednesday in the second game of the Atlantic Coast Conference baseball
tournament in Jacksonville, FL.
The Tar Heels (45-12, 21-9) lost
their opening game as a No. 2 seed for the second year in a row and have
now dropped six consecutive ACC tournament games since 2004.
May 23, 2007
C-USA
baseball session tickets available for $10
Individual session tickets for
the Conference USA baseball tournament, which begins today at East
Carolina's Clark-LeClair Stadium, will be available for $10 each at the
stadium box office. Tournament passes are $60 each.
ECU opens play at 7:30 p.m.
tonight against Tulane. Tournament play continues through Sunday when
the championship game is scheduled for 1 p.m. [VIEW
C-USA BASEBALL TOURNAMENT BRACKETS]
League
honors go to six Pirate baseball players
Six East Carolina baseball
players received recognition from Conference USA on the eve of the
league tournament. Outfielder Harrison Eldridge and right-handed closer
Shane Mathews of the Pirates were first-team all-conference selections.
Infielder Dale Mollenhauer,
outfielder Ryan Tousley, and right-handed pitcher T.J. Hose of ECU were
second-team All-Conference USA. Designated hitter Kyle Roller was named
to the All-Freshmen team.
Paper: Villanova legend beaten, near death
Howard Porter was close to death
Monday in a Twin Cities hospital, according to a Minneapolis-St. Pauls
Star-Tribune report.
The former college basketball
superstar traveled a rough road through addiction and rehabilitation
that eventually led to a job as a Ramsey County probation and parole
officer, where he was responsible for keeping others from many of the
mistakes he made.
Porter's badly beaten body was
found about 5:30 a.m. Saturday in an alley in north Minneapolis.
Porter had no identification on
him, and he was unable to speak to officers, according to police
reports. Sources close to the 58-year-old Porter said Monday that the
former Villanova star had suffered severe brain injury and was close to
death.
