C-USA Football News

HOUSTON, Texas, July 2. THE Rice Owls posted the highest team grade point average for all Division I swimming & diving programs, the Collegiate Swim Coaches Association of America announced Thursday with its listing of the Spring 2009 Scholar-Athlete Teams.

Faced with a demanding early season football schedule, the Houston Cougars enter Conference USA play with a losing record.

Robert Dozier joined teammate Tyreke Evans, picked fourth by the Sacramento Kings, as former Memphis Tigers drafted into the National Basketball Association on Thursday night at Madison Square Garden in New York City, when he was selected with the 60th pick in the second round by the 2006 NBA Champion Miami Heat.

Memphis men's soccer head coach Richie Grant unveiled the Tigers' 2009 schedule on Thursday afternoon.

Dave Campbell's Texas Football made its way to my desk earlier this week. Wow. The cover features Texas Longhorn quarterback Colt McCoy brandishing black-and-orange eyeblacks with the Longhorn emblem "These Eyes of Texas." When Texas Football hits the news stands, it's the unofficial beginning to the football season.

So okay, we've got our mad out, we've cried our tears, or in rarer instances, some of us have actually said "Good riddance!" In any case, having gone through the stages of denial, rage, and bargaining, we are, for better or for worse, faced with acceptance: John Calipari has gone - and taken with him athletes whose letters-of-intent to play for the ...

The Southern Miss Golden Eagles are determined to send coach Corky Palmer out in style.

Conference USA has picked Stacie Townsend and Patrick Mutai as 2008-09 Scholar Athletes of the Year as voted by the C-USA Board of Directors, the league announced Monday.

Talk about your Cinderella story. The Southern Miss Golden Eagles baseball team didn't have a very good regular season.

By Phil Stukenborg , Memphis Commercial Appeal Thursday, June 4, 2009 Three months before the season opener against Ole Miss, the University of Memphis football team has filled the remaining opening on its staff.

Having blown a three-run lead in the ninth inning, the Rice Owls are still stinging from a loss to LSU in Omaha last year.

Ryan Wood yanked ground balls from the left side of the plate. Sthil Sowers launched a long home run over the right field wall.

A man faces charges for allegedly ramming a state trooper with his motorcycle, the second time he's been accused of such a crime.

With the recession forcing many college athletic programs into a cost-cutting mode, Tulane is relying on the experience it gained from Hurricane Katrina to make it through this latest rough patch.

The body of a man was pulled from a canal in South-Central El Paso early Monday, El Paso Fire Department officials said.

Houston Cougars hurdler Seun Adigun is the Conference USA Female Track Athlete of the Year.

UH athletics with Steve Campbell May 26, 2009 Skladany braces Cougars for wild, wild, C-USA West - and more John Skladany was in the Houston Cougars defensive meeting room on Tuesday, watching video.

New Memphis Coach, Josh Pastner, has started his coaching career off with a bang.

Excellence is what got into Ryan Berry on Sunday. The Rice Owls' 13-year streak of conference baseball championships - regular season or tournament or both - was on the line.

After seeing a Conference USA baseball crown slip through their collective claws on the last weekend of the regular season, the Rice Owls came into the conference tournament on a mission.