Monday, July 29, 2013

Texas College Steers looks to win CSFL




TEXAS COLLEGE STEERS 2013 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE


 DayTime Opponent  
August
 317:00 PM @ Belhaven University   
September
 76:00 PM @ Incarnate Word University   
 1412:00 PM vs. Hardin-Simmons   
 217:00 PM @ Houston Baptist University   
282:00 PM @ WBU   
October
 121:00 PM @ Oklahoma Panhandle State   
 192:00 PM @ Langston   
262:00 PM vs. Bacone   
November
92:00 PM vs. SW Assemblies of God   
162:00 PM vs. OBU

 BOLD: HOME GAMES
•* CSFL Conference Game
Game times are (CST)

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Virginia University of Lynchburg has date with WSSU Rams

LYNCHBURG, Virginia  --   Virginia University of Lynchburg have a 10-game schedule for the 2013 includes four home games and six road games. Last season VUL were road warriors, playing seven road games and three home games.

For the first time in three seasons the VUL Dragons will start the season at home. Virginia University of Lynchburg opens the 2013 season at Lynchburg City Stadium on September 7th. They will welcome the Dragons of Lane College, marking the first every meeting between these teams.

The following week the Dragons will travel to Winston Salem, NC for a one game road trip September 14th. It will be the first ever meeting between the Rams of Winston Salem State University who are  the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Champion, after finishing last season with a  14-1 record, and a loss to Valdosta State in the Division II National Championship.

The Dragons are home for it USCAA football opener in week three, hosting conference opponent Southern Virginia University on September 14th. VUL will hit the road the next three weeks, playing at Alderson-Broaddus on September 28th, at Edward Waters College October 5th in Jacksonville, FL their longest trip of the season. Rounding out VUL’s three game road swing, is the Wesley College Wolverines on October 12th. This will the Dragons second time traveling to Scott D. Miller Stadium in Dover, DE and third meeting all-time.

The ensuing week, the VUL Dragons returns to Lynchburg City Stadium to do battle against Concordia-Selma College, for their only home game of October.   Following a bye, Dragons fans will travel to familiar territory November 2nd, playing against North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro, NC. The Aggies have had the Dragons number over the past two seasons, holding a 2-0 series lead.

VUL will return to Lynchburg November 9th for Homecoming 2013. The Dragons are welcoming the Blue Bears of Livingstone College to the Lynchburg City Stadium. The regular season finale will conclude on November 16th when VUL travel to Pembroke, NC and square off against the Braves of UNC Pembroke.

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2013 Dragons Football Schedule (Print Copy)

DateTimeOpponentLocation
9/7/2013 1:00 pmLane CollegeLynchburg, VA                                
9/14/2013 6:00 pmWinston Salem State UniversityWinston Salem, NC                            
9/21/2013 1:00 pmSouthern Virginia UniversityRonoake, VA    
 
                       
9/28/2013 12:00 pmAlderson-Broaddus CollegePhilippi, WV                            
10/5/2013 2:00 pmEdward Waters CollegeJacksonville, FL                              
10/12/2013 1:00 pmWesley CollegeDover, DE                              
10/19/2013 1:00 pmConcordia CollegeLynchburg, VA
    
                        
Homecoming 2013
11/2/2013 1:00 pmLivingstone CollegeLynchburg, VA                           
11/2/2013 1:30 pmNorth Carolina A&T State UniversityGreensboro, NC                            
11/16/2013 2:00 pmUNC Pembroke UniversityPembroke, NC                             

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Bethune-Cookman Wildcats employ MMA-style training

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida  --  Bethune-Cookman's summer football workout Saturday morning ended with 20 players trying to choke each another out.
 
And Wildcats coach Brian Jenkins was happy to hear about it.
 
That is because the workout-ending scrum was by design – the end of a four-session, alternative method of training endorsed by Jenkins and directed by Fight Sports Daytona instructor Todd Cutler and B-CU Director of Strength and Conditioning Medgar Harrison.
 
Cutler, who trains mixed martial artists at his Fight Sports Gym – an old white building located along Ridgewood Avenue -- said the program is based on the principles and conditioning of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
 
It is a style of training that seems to be gaining ground with professional athletes – perhaps most notably Minnesota Vikings defensive end Jared Allen – looking to augment their normal training methods.
 

Concordia-Selma Hornets prepares for first football practice



SELMA, Alabama  --  Entering his first full season as head coach at Concordia College Alabama, Don Lee cannot wait for football season to arrive.

“I’m excited. I get to start a team fresh,” Lee said. “Starting off in the springtime, we came in and we put in our system, but now it is good going into the season to see how well your system can be executed.”

The Hornets will start two-a-days Aug. 4, which will give Lee his first look at his team since spring practices.

After taking over as head coach following the third game last season, Lee led Concordia to a 6-3 record.

He said he fought the urge to change up the offensive and defensive schemes to what he likes to do when he took over in 2012, because he knew it would disrupt the Hornets’ season. Instead, he used last season to evaluate the talent on the roster to see what he had to work with.
COACH DON LEE

“It was an opportunity for us to evaluate a lot of things; evaluate the system, evaluate the players and then come into spring ball and see what fits into your system,” Lee said.

Lee’s pass heavy, Air Raid offensive system will give opponents little time between plays, while his defensive schemes are based around applying a lot of pressure to opposing offenses to force turnovers.

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2013 Concordia Hornets Football Schedule

Date Opponent Location Time
Aug-31 Abilene Christian University          Abilene, Texas 6 PM (CST)
Sep-7 Stillman College Tuscaloosa, AL 5 PM (CST)
Sep-14 open
Sep-21 Miles College Fairfield, AL 6 PM (CST)
Sep-26 University Of West Alabama Demopolis, AL 7 PM (CST)
Oct-5 Ave Maria University (Homecoming) Selma, AL** noon (CST)
Oct-12 Arkansas Baptist (Cross Road Classic) Prichard, AL 2 PM (CST)
Oct-19 Virginia University of Lynchburg Lynchburg, VA 1 PM (EST)
Oct-26 Fort Valley State University Fort Valley, GA 2 PM (EST)
Nov-2 Georgia Military Selma, AL** 1 PM (CST)
Nov-9 Delta State University Cleveland, MS 2 PM (CST)
Nov-16 Warner University (Senior Game) Selma, AL** 1 PM (CST)

BOLD: Home Game



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South Carolina State still draws respect in MEAC

ORANGEBURG, South Carolina  --  As compared to the larger NCAA Division I football conferences like the Southeastern Conference, the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference’s preseason luncheon did not garner national attention.

For those with team members and Football Championship Subdivision observers, the one-day event held this past Friday in Norfolk, Va., offered some interesting revelations which can only increase anticipation for the upcoming season:

1. Bethune-Cookman is considered the team to beat, but South Carolina State still commands   respect.

As the defending MEAC champions and owners of a 13-game conference-winning streak, the Wildcats enter the new season with great swagger and a high confidence level. Since taking over in Daytona Beach in 2010, Brian Jenkins has made a meteoric rise to the top of the conference coaching ranks in leading Bethune-Cookman to a 28-7 overall record, 21-3 in the MEAC and a share of two regular-season titles. Another perfect season in conference play would leave the Wildcats one shy of South Carolina State’s MEAC-record 22 straight conference wins set from 2007-2010.

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Mickey Clayton to host new sports talk show on Internet

(L) Clayton Smith and (R) Mickey Clayton will co-host, Insiight on Sports
with Alvin Hollins being the producer and Gerald Tookes will be director of the shows.
(Courtesy: INSiiGHTS ON SPORTS)
Coming August 2, INSiiGHTS ON SPORTS (http://insiights.com/)

TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- The story that Mickey Clayton mentioned on Wednesday afternoon is sad, but it happens.

As he told it, an out-of-state high school sophomore was pulled from remedial classes by his parents after they were told that the boy could not remain in the developmental classes if he wanted to be on his school’s football team. The parent figures that football will be his ticket to playing in the pros as they decided to follow the coach’s edit, Clayton said.

“All their hopes are on (the child) but they couldn’t understand how important it is for him to do his math and pass his grades,” Clayton said. “There is an educational component that we want people to understand that it starts at this point to be ready for the next level.”

Clayton will use a sports talk show that he and a few of his friends have put together to bring issues like the one he discussed earlier to the forefront.

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Lincoln confirms school is dropping three sports

LOWER OXFORD, Pennsylvania  --  Athletic Director Dianthia Ford-Kee confirmed this week that Lincoln University is dropping men’s and women’s tennis, and women’s bowling, for the upcoming 2013-14 academic year. 
 
The move raises the number of discontinued sports at LU to four in the last two years, as men’s soccer was axed following the 2011 season. Lincoln now offers a total of 11 intercollegiate sports: men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, softball, football, men’s and women’s track, men’s and women’s cross country, women’s soccer and volleyball. 
  
“Right now, it’s not etched in stone that none of these (suspended programs) will return,” Ford-Kee said. “That’s why we have elected to say we have suspended those sports.”    
 
In an era of tumbling state funding, universities across the country are being forced to cut back athletic department budgets. But according to Ford-Kee and Eric Webb, the school’s Director of Communications, the decision was made not to save money, but was a response to declining interest and low participation numbers.