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Steve has the chance to rub it in and he should at every chance he gets. Shall we all send you a SLU shirt so you can wear one every day, Steve?

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DeCoursey (Sporting News Lead College Hoops writer)is scheduled to be on between 1 and 3 pm.

Nah, I'm still hangin' on with the band. Many of us have set up deadlines for when we would quit...all of which seemed to have passed (make NCAA, win conference title, beat #1 team, etc) so i guess the new deadline is whenever the team moves on campus. I wasnt able to do much with the Billiken rag..it would have taken quite a bit of work to get it arranged for band. plus, our band doesnt have an in-house arranger like almost every other school has. Budgetary reasons, you know. We have added about 10 new charts this year (some of which you may like) and eliminated some older ones that have seen better days. speaking of better days, those striped rugbys have seen better days havent they? everywhere you look, some other band has the same look. oh well.

http://www.bluejackets.com/ Columbus (from the NHL) has added a third jersey. Problem is, the new logo makes even less sense than their original one!!

I always liked to tell people who asked that the Billiken was the "Norse God of Death and Destruction" Usually got a funny look for that!

NEW YORK -- The NIT said Tuesday it will no longer have a third-place game. The 32-team postseason tournament has brought its last four teams to Madison Square Garden for the semifinals and then played championship and third-place games two nights later. The National Invitation Tournament started in 1938 and held a third-place game every year except 1982 and 1983. The NCAA tournament, which started in 1939, held a third-place game from 1946 through 1981. The Preseason NIT, which is held at Madison Square Garden during Thanksgiving week, will still have a third-place game.

http://collegesportsinfo.com/ This site has a "Realignment Grid" with info about every possible move rumored for virtually every school. Quite useful and interesting information.

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland (AP) -- Cheerleading is now a varsity sport at the University of Maryland, a move critics say is designed to sidestep federal sex discrimination law. The university and the federal Office of Civil Rights say it is the first instance of a school seeking to use cheerleading scholarships to comply with Title IX, the 1972 law prohibiting sex discrimination by any school that receives federal money. "Our expectation is that we're the first, but the first of many," Michael Lipitz, Maryland's associate athletics director for administration, told The Washington Post. Four cheerleaders now receive partial scholarships, and a total of 12 cheerleading scholarships are to be phased in within three years. Cheerleaders on scholarship will attend cheering competitions, but will not perform at games. Critics say the move is intended to skirt the law so Maryland can increase funding for men's programs. Title IX calls on schools to make their percentage of female athletes proportionate to female enrollment, or to demonstrate that they are meeting demand for women's sports programs. "It seems like they're looking for the easiest way out, that their intent is to conform to the letter of the law, but not necessarily the spirit," said Donna Lopiano, chief executive of the Women's Sports Foundation. Cheerleading is not recognized as a sport by the NCAA, and the Department of Education says cheerleaders who perform at other teams' events cannot be considered members of athletic programs for the purpose of complying with Title IX. Lopiano questioned the university's choice of cheerleading when Maryland club teams have sought varsity status, but Lipitz said cheerleading and water polo, which was granted eight scholarships, were the only teams that sought the status this year.

Going on 9 years as a member of the SLU Band trumpet section. I stand near the set. 27 and employed in radio in STL. Lifelong Billiken fan, parents have had season tix forever and I've been going to games with them since I was about 6. Dad was an Oklahoma A&M grad (now State) and big fan of Henry Iba and college hoops...mom is a SLU grad. So far, the most amazing memory was rushing that court after beating DePaul at the Miracle in Memphis. Best road trip EVER! I also know SLUWX and know that the band will miss him...figures, he leaves when we may start playing the Bonnies on a more regular basis. (You had quite a time with that team!)

Who should SLU keep on their schedule?? (I'd post a poll...but dont know how to do that) Memphis, UC to keep rivalry By Bill Koch The Cincinnati Enquirer The University of Cincinnati's anticipated move to the Big East Conference in 2005 is loaded with positive implications for the Bearcats, but even progress sometimes comes with a down side. OK, there's not a lot that UC will miss about Conference USA, but there is at least one thing. When the Bearcats leave, they will be leaving behind their rivalry with Memphis, one of their most cherished. UC and Memphis started playing each other in basketball during the 1967-68 season when Memphis joined the Missouri Valley Conference. Except for a five-year break while UC left the league to become an independent, the two schools have met every season, through the MVC, the Metro Conference, the Great Midwest Conference and C-USA. In fact, it was UC and Memphis that stuck together to leave the Metro and form the Great Midwest. Originally, Louisville was also part of the deal but at the last minute opted to remain in the Metro. UC and Memphis went ahead without the Cardinals. The good news is there's a chance UC will continue to play Memphis in a nonconference game every season even after the Bearcats leave C-USA. Memphis athletic director R.C. Johnson said he has talked to UC's Bob Goin about it. He also wants to continue to play Louisville. "From a scheduling standpoint, that makes some sense," Johnson said. "From a fan-interest and television standpoint, it would make sense as well." UC leads the series with Memphis 33-27. Both schools have taken turns dominating, with Memphis winning 11 in a row from 1981-82 to 1986-87. UC has had the upper hand lately, having won eight of the last nine. The Tigers won last season in Memphis. The rivalry heated up in 1991-92 when UC beat Memphis four times, including an 88-57 thrashing in the Midwest Regional final that sent UC to the Final Four. Over the years, Memphis fans have ridden UC coach Bob Huggins hard. In the early days of Huggins' tenure, a well-dressed, middle-aged male fan constantly yelled insults at the UC coach, referring to him as "Higgins." One year, when the Bearcats landed at the Memphis airport, they were greeted by a group of Memphis fans, who followed Huggins and the team through the concourse to the baggage claim, with the lights from a TV crew in Huggins' face the whole way. The next year, a bus met the UC team on the tarmac. Last season, when Memphis beat UC at the Pyramid, Huggins was peppered with insults, but afterward some of the same fans who had been abusing him asked for his autograph. Huggins obliged. "He kind of plays along with it," Johnson said. "He plays to the crowd. There's been some great games, and it's a great rivalry because of that."

SODERBERG AND WEBER HEADLINE CLINIC ST. LOUIS—Saint Louis Billikens head men’s basketball coach Brad Soderberg and first-year Illinois Fighting Illini head coach Bruce Weber are the featured speakers at the Saint Louis University Coaching Clinic to be held on Wed., Oct. 1. The clinic will begin 4:30 p.m. at The Pasta House Co. located at 3761 Laclede Ave. Soderberg will present “Basketball the Saint Louis Way.†Weber’s topic is “Developing a Competitive Practice.†The Billikens’ Lance Randall will feature “Winning Halfcourt Offense.†Pre-registration is $25. Registration on the day of the clinic is $35. Dinner is included. For more information, contact JoAnne Probst at 314-977-3170

The school building referenced is on the WEST of Compton and just south of Laclede and east of the SLU tennis courts. The part on the east of Compton (Vashon Community Center) is part of the Harris-Stowe complex.

No, he was quite fair. Didnt say a nasty thing at all. And to be fair, the only college hoops mention was that tommie was scheduled to visit on sat.

Not to be mean, but isnt this schedule what Calapari wanted? The whole conference changed its scheduling practices (no more divisions) after he made a stink. I find it ironic that it worked out this way for them...sometimes you get what you ask for, and they got the NASCAR division again! Why they didnt schedule a decent non conference home game besides Mizzou? (Fordham, Austin Peay, Tenn Martin, Belmont, Samford, Oakland?? Thats the best they could do?) And I agree, they will be on tv a lot on a potentially national basis. Those ESPN + games mean fans will be able to pick up the tigers nationwide (if they have the hoops package or are at a sports bar)...beats our deal where most local watering holes dont even have Charter Cable.

As per Maurice Scott on 1380 this afternoon. Should be a good weekend for a visit with the home soccer game and nice weather.

http://www.sunspot.net/sports/college/foot...ports-headlines Haves and have-nots discussing BCS agree to meet again in Nov. Talks called 'productive,' but few details; presidents of schools to be polled By Alan Schmadtke Orlando Sentinel Originally published September 9, 2003 ORLANDO, Fla. - After weeks of posturing, rhetoric and even a congressional hearing, presidents representing college football's two diverse realities sat in the same hotel room yesterday in Chicago and enjoyed a high-brow discussion befitting their titles. They broad-brushed over the Bowl Championship Series and outlined 10 principles to guide them toward another meeting in November. They just wouldn't discuss those principles - or many other details - although the presidents seem interested in embracing the game's long-held bowl system for the postseason. "The news here is this was a highly productive meeting," said NCAA president Myles Brand, who guided matters at the O'Hare Hilton. "It exceeded our expectations. It was successful in that it laid a foundation." The two groups, BCS presidents and presidents of a non-BCS coalition, will meet again Nov. 16 in New Orleans. In between, 11 of the dozen participating presidents will survey colleagues in their respective conferences about what they believe is important. Among the issues: access to a national championship format, money from that format, student welfare and college football's traditions. "What we're looking at is what is best for college football in the long run," Nebraska president Harvey Perlman said. "That is a very complex question. It has to do with bowls. It has to do with finances that sustain our programs. We're all struggling with how to come up with a satisfactory answer." Added Tulane president Scott Cowen, who facilitated the creation of the non-BCS coalition: "What we share is a desire to improve the vitality of college football in America. What we are going to try to see is if there are ways to improve the system." The BCS has been in place since the 1998 season. Champions from six of 11 Division I-A conferences are granted automatic berths in either the Orange, Sugar, Fiesta or Rose bowls. The two highest-ranked teams are paired off for a de facto national championship game. Historically, the two remaining bowl slots have been filled by teams chosen from those conferences or by Notre Dame. Champions of the five non-BCS conferences have bowl ties but are not granted automatic access to the BCS. Although there have been three unbeaten, untied teams from the non-BCS leagues since 1998, all three were left out of the BCS. That, plus the fact the six BCS leagues have fattened up on multimillion-dollar checks from ABC, drove the five non-participants to demand a presidential debate. Threat of an antitrust lawsuit hovered. Last week leaders from the two sides learned from members of the House Judiciary Committee that Congress is loathe to interfere in college football's business, regardless of any real or perceived inequities. Even after that hearing the two sides talked of strong opposition. Such talk dissipated yesterday. "This was an initial meeting about high values of thought," Cowen said. "These are very broad principles. We need to reflect on them, visit them with other presidents and reflect them at our next meeting." Presidents yesterday declined to define a timetable for reshaping the BCS. But conference commissioners who run the BCS - none of whom was invited to yesterday's meeting - will start renegotiating bowl and television deals in early 2004. The Orlando Sentinel is a Tribune Publishing newspaper

A Good analysis of the BCS and the schools "fighting" it. Baltimore Sun Hey, football reformers: Where's your outrage? Laura Vecsey THE GOOD FIGHT for a better, fairer system of establishing a national champion - or at least distributing the TV cash equally among any Tom, Dick or Harry with a Division I-A football program - is apparently over. The reformers are now reformed. Or at least they're in the pro- cess of being placated. Or co-opted. Or bought off. In July, still furious over the Green Wave's exclusion from a national title bid after going 12-0 in 1998, Tulane University president Scott Cowen rattled his saber and rallied the troops. With a bevy of fellow mid-major college presidents at his side, the "have-nots" of college football seemed ready to storm the "haves'" Bastille. They even had a name: Presidential Coalition for Athletics Reform. The rhetoric was intense. It was aimed straight at the heart of a system fatted on monstrous TV contracts and fueled by a complicated and weighted ranking system no mid-major could possibly crack. "When Tulane had a perfect football season in 1998, we had no practical chance for a major bowl or a championship run despite being one of only two undefeated teams in the country," Cowen said. "When Brigham Young University was at 12-0 in 2001, the team went into its 13th game of the season knowing it had no shot at a title or even a major bowl game. It finished the regular season 12-1, still with a better win-loss percentage than eight of the top 10 schools in the BCS rankings that season," he said. "Marshall University's football team went 11-2 the past two years, and it also had a better record than eight of the top 10 BCS-ranked teams. But Marshall was unable to compete for a championship or play in a major bowl because Marshall is not a BCS school." Cowen's charge was that without fair access to a national title game, the BCS effectively restricts every school that's not in the BCS from revenues and scheduling benefits. On Friday, Cowen was in front of Congress, further making his point: "This is an arrangement that is restrictive, limits access to postseason play in football, and is unnecessarily causing a widening financial gap between BCS and non-BCS schools that is having a cumulative negative effect on all college sports." Yes, college football and the Bowl Championship Series went to Washington last week, just like baseball (and its sorry state of woes) and the Olympics (the International Olympic Committee and the U.S. Olympic Committee made separate but equally clownish showings). That's not good company. Congress all but threatened the BCS and the NCAA to do something about its college football system, in which only $5 million of the $109 million generated by the BCS in the 2002-03 season went to non-BCS conferences. Antitrust issues, charged the House Judiciary Committee. "This disparity substantially affects the ability of non-BCS schools to recruit talented players and coaches and affects resources for academic and athletic programs," said House Judiciary chairman James Sensenbrenner, who wants Congress to "examine the application of the antitrust laws to college athletics, and to help identify ways to ensure that in the realm of college sports, merit prevails over money." Funny how the threat of congressional intervention can bring together two warring factions, pronto. Yesterday, after all the fuss and talk of reform, Cowen and college presidents representing all conferences that field Division I-A football programs met in Chicago with NCAA president Myles Brand. Oddly, the non-BCS college presidents seemed radically more mild-mannered and complacent. They talked about changes, about philosophy. But clearly what they really understand is that being in the same room with the bigwigs might get them a little more dough. In fact, it's safe to say Division I football will not be pushed into any kind of full-blown playoff system when the new TV contracts come due in 2005. Not when the almighty BCS can be persuaded to pay off a few more of the little guys. Anything to keep the lightweights from spoiling the party. This is called progress, since neither side wants a fight that would expose their free market at work and risk public humiliation (if that's possible) over the greed and money grab that is big-time college athletics. Certainly the six conferences that make up the Bowl Championship Series (ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pacific-10 and SEC and independent Notre Dame) don't want trouble. And now, after the saber rattling and cries of discrimination and exclusion appear to be done, neither do the presidents of mid-major college football programs. This is what comes from the threat of lawsuits and congressional intervention in the name of violations to those antitrust laws. In testimony before Congress, Big Ten Conference commissioner Jim Delany said the BCS has only formalized a pattern that was already firmly in place. In the 20 seasons from 1978 to the formation of the BCS in 1998, 159 of the 160 slots in those four bowl games were filled by teams currently in the six conferences, with automatic annual slots for their champions or by Notre Dame. Likewise, BCS proponents say the non-BCS Division I-A schools will share $4.5 million this season simply for making their schools available to the "system." The fact of this disparity does not exactly make it right - not that the NCAA is interested in leading any reforms. NCAA chief Brand said it's up to the college presidents to take on this task, which is interesting since these are some of the same people who hire coaches who break rules, promoting a climate in which the primary attitude is: Bigger is better; we must be part of this "valuable" system. "The expense associated with operating a Division I-A football program is not for every institution," Brand said. Go Miami. Go Ohio State. See you in New Orleans, where it won't be a Sugar Bowl between Marshall and Tulane anytime soon. It was fun to dream, though. Copyright © 2003

Almost Every NCAA event has the St Louis Sports Commission, the Valley and SLU as part of the hosting committee. SLU and the Valley work together quite a lot on logistical things (SLU media relations works at NCAA tourney games, etc). Its not a huge surprise to see them working together. When do the games get played? Our Friday March 5 game against Houston has a TBA time. The Valley normally plays at 600 and 830 on friday for their tourney. Will SLU be a middle game between two valley games? (i dont think so, but who knows) Perhaps the Valley moves their games to the afternoon? The press release mentions cross promotions...maybe a buy a Billiken ticket and get a Valley ticket free? What do you think? I think (just based on seating differences in the Valley setup and the SLU setup at Kiel) the Valley games get bumped to the afternoon, the building gets cleared, and then the SLU game happpens later. Perhaps an 8 pm start?

I have no affiliation with Ivory Tiger. They are an 80's "hair" rock cover band. Just good group who plays Humphreys on a monthly basis. The guys all dress the part and really enjoy playing and are really quite good. A good hang on a wednesday nite (and the ONLY wed nite band that plays Hump that I enjoy).

Marque Perry is in Italy Kenny Brown in Portugal Anthony Bonner in Spain J. Love China Dave Fergerson was in Finland, and may return. H Waldman's last stop was Russia, but it sounds like he's staying put in Las Vegas.

http://www.clarionledger.com/news/0308/22/wmsu02.html August 22, 2003 SEC adds cowbell ban for non-league games 'We don't like it, but we accept it,' says MSU athletic director By Todd Kelly [email protected] Oregon's football players will get a steamy dose of heat and humidity in Starkville next weekend when they play against Mississippi State. The Ducks, however, will miss another local tradition: cowbells. Last week's vote by Southeastern Conference athletic directors to standardize game management operations for all games means the league's rule against artificial noisemakers has been extended to include non-conference games in 2003. The referee at MSU's home games against Oregon on Aug. 30 and Memphis on Oct. 11 will have the authority to warn and subsequently penalize the Bulldogs for what he deems a "significant" amount of cowbell noise in the stands — the same policy that was strengthened for SEC games only prior to last season. "I just hope our people will respect it and not put our team in a difficult position," Mississippi State athletic director Larry Templeton said Thursday. "We don't like the rule, but we accept it being a member of this conference. We're going to abide by the rules of this conference." After considerable preseason speculation last year on how the rule would be enforced, the Bulldogs ended up being warned once and penalized once against Kentucky on Nov. 2 at Scott Field. Templeton and SEC associate commisioner Charles Bloom said the policy was not amended with the specific idea of extending the ban on artificial noisemakers. "I would just say it happened to fall under this package," Bloom said. "I think it was was really done just to standardize the game management operations for people working the games ... (so as) not to have four (home) games with one set of rules and two or three (home) games with a different set of rules." In addition to artificial noisemakers, sideline pass allotment and cheerleader location also were affected, Bloom said. Postgame "curtain calls" won't be permitted, while marching bands will be limited in the number of songs they can play after games are finished. Bloom said the changes arose from the league's "sportsmanship summit" in February. "The athletic directors told the game management directors (from each school) to come up with some proposals that would help sportsmanship," Bloom said. Templeton indicated the league's athletic directors voted unanimously to approve policy changes. "There was some debate on individual issues, but it was probably 12-0 when the whole package was voted on," Templeton said. Bloom said the SEC office was leaving any announcements on the policy changes to individual schools. Templeton indicated MSU would issue a statement before the opener. "I'm sure we'll remind everybody about all kinds of things, such as alcohol, parking, traffic control, noisemakers and sportsmanship," he said. "I think sportsmanship has been probably the No. 1 topic."

It was Mizzou that accepted those credits in whole when they accepted them in the form of a jr college degree from the various summer instutions that Clemons attended. The claim that only three hours were accepted doesnt wash with me, since he needed the jr college degree to get into school, and those other 21 were required for that to happen.

SLU women's soccer coach Tim Champion will be a guest on 1380 in the 11 am hour on frday.

Ryan was on 1380 today as he prepares to head back to Europe to play. During the course of the conversation he mentioned the following website as a great way for people to keep up with players in the Eurpean leagues http://www.eurobasket.com/ Good Luck with those Eiffel Towers, Ryan!!