C-USA Football News

After spending one year on the coaching staff at LSU, long-time assistant Robert Kirby is once again leaving the SEC, this time to join Josh Pastner and the Memphis Tigers.

The Mustangs football coach was in Ponte Vedra this week for the American Athletic Conference spring meetings and spoke about several topics.

Thanks in part to the Houston Cougars, the Rice Owls are playing for at least a share of the Conference USA baseball title today.

Coming off a winning weekend, the UAB Blazers softball started off slow but picked up quickly and finished the week with a win.

Samford's Phillip Ervin dives back to first base to beat the pick-off throw from UAB's Alex Luna to Harry Clark in Birmingham, Ala., Tuesday, April 30, 2013.

From Tulane sports information: Five Tulane Green Wave track and field athletes qualified to compete in the NCAA East Regionals announced the NCAA on Thursday.

Although she did not pitch for a Boone County team, it would be difficult for any sports enthusiast not to recognize the name of Andrea Williamson, softball pitcher supreme from Harts Creek in Southern Lincoln County.

Justin Fuente, head coach of the Memphis Tigers gets ready to lead his team out on the field before a game against the Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders on September 15, 2012 at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee.

Tulane 's track and field squad wrapped up their final day at the Conference USA Outdoor Championships, and the men's squad finished in strong fashion, as they earned points in three events - including the 4 x 100 meter relay that was anchored by freshman Devon Breaux who earned Male Freshman of the Meet honors.

With each victory in the postseason, University of Memphis men's tennis coach Paul Goebel's beard is, in Goebel's hands-on estimation, "getting scruffier and scruffier all the time." Saturday in the second round of the NCAA men's tournament at Oxford, Miss., Goebel's Tigers stunned seventh-ranked Ole Miss, 4-2, to advance to the Sweet 16 at ... (more)

Five runs in the sixth were more than enough behind Sam Moll as Memphis defeated No.

The discomfort in University of Memphis No. 1 singles player Connor Glennon's left wrist was too much to bear.

In the penultimate Conference USA series of the regular season, Marshall will welcome the East Carolina Pirates to Linda K. Epling Stadium in Beckley, W.Va., Friday through Sunday.

When the UCF Knights baseball team hosts the Tulane Green Wave this weekend at Jay Bergman Field, the three-game series will have some finality to it in a few different ways.

The University of Memphis track and field teams begin competition Thursday at the Conference USA Outdoor Championships at Rice University in Houston hoping to add to what may be a record number of athletes participating in the postseason.

Conference USA released their post-season softball on Wednesday and a couple of UAB Blazers were honored.

It says a lot about how bad Memphis was under Larry Porter that the Tigers 4-8 record marked one of the biggest improvements for a team in the country.

Auburn third baseman Damek Tomscha was named SEC player of the week after having two key hits in the series win over no.18 Ole Miss over the weekend.

University of Memphis junior pitcher Erik Schoenrock was named Conference USA co-Pitcher of the Week on Monday following an impressive 1-0 complete-game shutout Saturday that kicked off off a three-game weekend sweep of Marshall.

As much as he enjoyed tossing a gem - a 1-0 Conference USA victory over Marshall on Saturday at FedExPark - University of Memphis left-hander Erik Schoenrock felt for his pitching opponent.