Month: September 2003

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Monday, September 22nd Break Up C-USA: The Atlantic 10 Conference is looking to add member institutions, once the Big East has announced its expansion plans, and once again C-USA has schools licking their chops. While everyone is awaiting the Big East announcement, expected to include Conference […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Saturday, September 20th Checking Work: Brigham Young University is getting involved in the Ricky Clemons debacle at Missouri. Clemons, who took correspondence courses through BYU, is having his work checked by the university after allegations by Clemons’ former girlfriend that tutors had completed his work. Clemons […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Friday, September 19th Michigan Bills Webber: With former Michigan and current Sacramento King Chris Webber entering a guilty plea to criminal contempt charges, the University of Michigan has asked District Judge Nancy Edmonds to order Webber to reimburse the school’s legal fees and losses from NCAA […]

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The Morning Dish – Thursday, September 18th Move the Venue: Baylor University attorneys have made a motion to move the wrongful death suit against the university from Waco to Houston. The suit, brought by Patrick Dennehy, Sr., is alleging wrongful death of his son Patrick Dennehy, Jr., who was murdered, […]

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The Morning Dish – Wednesday, September 17th Thomas Finds a Home: Former Georgia center Steve Thomas has announced he’s transferring to Middle Tennessee State, after being dismissed by Georgia head coach Dennis Felton last week. Thomas, who averaged 10.2 points per game and 7.3 boards, was dismissed from the Bulldogs […]

Conversation with Kathryn Tappen

A Conversation with Kathryn Tappen by Adam Shandler Let’s talk dream jobs. Zamboni driver has to be one of them. So does professional beer taster, massage tester, and video game player. (I guess “Hoopville writer” narrowly missed the list – this year.) And I bet if you polled a hundred […]

989 Sports Final Four 2003

Review: NCAA Final Four 2003 by Dean Austin   Title: NCAA Final Four 2003 Publisher: 989 Sports Platform: Playstation 2 Score (out of 10): 6 Help support Hoopville. Click to purchase through Amazon.com Seconds to go in this tight MAC Championship. Top seeded Central Michigan with the ball and down […]

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The Morning Dish – Tuesday, September 16th March Madness&#8482: A Texas federal court upheld the NCAA’s claim that they own the rights to use the term “March Madness&#8482”. In a cybersquatting case brought three years ago against two defendants, Netfire, Inc. and Sports Marketing International, Inc., the District Court in […]