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With 6-foot-10 Sun Belt Freshman of the Year Freddy Asprilla not willing to return to the Golden Panthers, head coach Isiah Thomas did his best to make sure the squad has a center by 2011.

The Golden Panthers mena s basketball team that will hit the court this fall will be very different from the one that lost to Western Kentucky in the second round of the Sun Belt Conference tournament last March.

When Mario Cristobal took over Florida International in 2007, he took one small baby step and they won one game.

Florida International University hired Isiah Thomas to win games, not make friends.

Last Year's Record: 5-7 The 2008 season began tough for the Golden Panthers as they took on three straight BCS opponents.

When the subject of college football is brought up in conversation, nobody mentions the Sun Belt conference.

It's a Wednesday night. It's the offseason in early June. The perfect time for a college football player to settle back and relax, right? Take a drive just southwest of Omaha, and enter a nondescript metal building a stone's throw off Interstate 80.

Andrew Mattox won plenty of awards in his senior season at Spruce Creek. In football, he was a Class 6A All-State first-team selection, Most Valuable Player of the Central Florida All-Star game and The News-Journal's Defensive Player of the Year.

While Golden Panthers men's head basketball coach Isiah Thomas signed four junior college guards in April, the only remaining scholarship guard from last year's squad is doing everything he can to remain in the new coach's rotation.

Trailing 10-2 as they came to bat in the bottom of the seventh inning of their final game of the season, the Paola High School junior varsity baseball team would not let Ottawa leave the Rock Stadium without having to battle.

Golden Panthers mena s basketball head coach Isiah Thomas signed his first big man on May 20, continuing his trend of signing players from junior community colleges by inking a forward from a Texas college.

Art Alvarez answered the phone Thursday, even though he was already on the other line.

Golden Panthers men's basketball head coach Isiah Thomas announced the signings of four players to basketball scholarships yesterday, a move made after three players from last season's squad were granted releases from their scholarships.

Marshall McDuffie's story is one every young football player should know, about choices, consequences and how technology can take one mistake and define a life with it.

Before he can run the Bucs offense, rookie quarterback Josh Freeman first must learn the Bucs offense.

The Golden Panthers basketball team continues to lose players. FIUSM.com Josue Soto of the men's basketball team will be leaving FIU and playing professional basketball in Puerto Rico.

Florida International Golden Panthers coach Isiah Thomas has signed four junior college players, the first batch of scholarships given out by the Hall of Fame player since taking the job.

For FIU to build on what it accomplished in 2008, coach Mario Cristobal knows it must begin with defensive improvement.

FIU quarterback Wesley Carroll, a transfer from Mississippi State, capped a strong spring by going 11-of-17 for 110 yards and a touchdown .

The Golden Panthers are young but building depth around a core of exciting young playmakers like sophomore return man/receiver T.Y. Hilton and junior cornerback Anthony Gaitor.