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  • OU names Tennessee standout as new women's b-ball coach

    May 9, 2008

    Semeka Randall has been named the new head women's basketball coach at Ohio University, Ohio Director of Athletics Jim Schaus announced Friday. Randall, a native of Cleveland, is the ninth head coach in the program's history.>>

  • Troop's Takes: He’s great but LeBron won’t be best

    May 8, 2008

    Tuesday night I learned one really important thing about professional basketball. Though I’m surrounded by an Ohio University campus full of Cleveland Cavaliers fans, I hope they consider my legitimately impartial message.>>

  • Troop's Takes: The editor’s alternate view

    May 8, 2008

    I disagree with our sports columnist about LeBron James never being “the best.” While Caleb Troop may eventually be proved right, he doesn’t have the evidence to say such a thing, including anything that transpired during Tuesday’s Game 1 against the Boston Celtics.>>

  • Troop's Takes: Another coach bites the dust

    May 1, 2008

    I feel like I’ve written this sort of column before.>>

  • Ohio's Crawley resigns, takes same job at Boston College

    April 29, 2008

    After two groundbreaking seasons as head coach of the Ohio women’s basketball team, Sylvia Crawley has resigned and accepted the same position at Boston College of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). She will assume duties immediately. >>

  • Uncertainty over key positions remains after spring game

    April 28, 2008

    At the start of spring practice, the Ohio University football team had some key positions up for grabs. With the arrival of junior college transfer Boo Jackson at quarterback, and the departure of all-time leading rusher Kalvin McRae, all eyes were on who would fill the backfield.>>

  • Troop's Takes: Spring football hints at some answers

    April 21, 2008

    I don’t mean to burst the hype bubble that is the annual Green and White football game coming up this Saturday. After all, the final spring scrimmage is a great event that can tell fans a ton about their football team.>>

  • OU, Solich close to three-year extension

    April 14, 2008

    Ohio University is close to reaching a three-year contract extension with head football coach Frank Solich, departing Director of Athletics Kirby Hocutt confirmed over the weekend.>>

  • Competition stiff for running backs

    April 14, 2008

    As Vince Davidson and L.J. Flintall stroll out of recent spring practice, they talk and joke like any good friends. Just by watching them, nobody would guess they are in the midst of a tight four-man competition to become Ohio University’s starting running back.>>

  • Troop's Takes: Spare some positive memories for Hocutt

    April 14, 2008

    The last two-and-a-half years of the professional life for Kirby Hocutt have been, to say the least, eventful.>>

  • Troop's Takes: OU hires new athletic director, but old problems remain

    April 10, 2008

    On Monday afternoon, Ohio University President Roderick McDavis announced the hiring of Wichita State’s Jim Schaus as the new director of athletics at Ohio. But after the cavalcade of coaches, administrators and media members concluded their meet and greet shortly after the press conference, one thing had not changed.>>

  • Ohio names Wichita State AD to head its athletics department

    April 7, 2008

    Ohio University named a new athletics director this afternoon (Monday), hiring a man who held the same position for the past nine years at Wichita State University in Kansas. President Roderick J. McDavis announced the hiring of Jim Schaus, 47, as director of athletics at a press conference in the Convocation Center. >>

  • Troop's Takes: Will defense be a Bobcat strength?

    April 7, 2008

    For many, April is a time to grab the umbrella, start watching baseball, and begin anticipating the upcoming summer. For Ohio Bobcats’ football defensive coordinator Jimmy Burrow, it’s a time to get his unit back on the gridiron for a few team workouts.>>

  • Ohio volleyball program loses one of its incoming recruits to Big 12

    April 3, 2008

    New Ohio University head volleyball coach Ryan Theis has lost one of his two incoming recruits for next fall. Outside hitter Rachel Hockaday, from Maroa Forsyth High School in Illinois, has asked Ohio to let her out of her signed Letter of Intent.>>

  • Troop's Takes: Fact? Fiction? Some MLB predictions?

    March 31, 2008

    With apologies to the fine folks in Tokyo, Japan, today marks the real start of the baseball season. Twenty-six of the 30 major league baseball teams start the 162-game season on this the final day of March. So who is going to win it all? Why wait until October to find out?>>

  • Troop's Takes: Hate to say it, but I’m glad it’s over

    March 27, 2008

    Every once in a while comes a season of Ohio University athletics that you don’t want to see come to an end. The 2006 football squad was a team and program you just had to follow until the last snap. The magic of Frank Solich that year took everyone by storm.>>

  • Bobcats fall to Bradley comeback; season over

    March 25, 2008

    The Ohio Bobcat men's basketball season is over. The Bradley Braves defeated the Ohio Bobcats 79-73 Monday evening in the quarterfinals of the College Basketball Invitational at Carver Arena. The Braves improved to 19-15 overall, while Ohio finished its season at 20-13.>>

  • Men’s coach responds to concerns about tournament fee

    March 24, 2008

    Ohio University men’s basketball coach Tim O’Shea explained Friday how and why the team is paying for postseason tournament expenses, and stressed that he sees the program as being fiscally responsible.>>

  • New volleyball coach already hard at work in his new role

    March 21, 2008

    On Monday morning, Ryan Theis already had his game face on. Theis was officially introduced as the new head volleyball coach at Ohio University by soon-departing Director of Athletics Kirby Hocutt Monday after a long and diligent search process. But you won’t find many photos of Theis chuckling at the press conference or sitting back and letting it all sink in.>>

  • Ohio gets three double-doubles in victory over Brown

    March 20, 2008

    Ohio's Bubba Walther, Leon Williams and Jerome Tillman all posted double-doubles to lead the Bobcats to an 80-74 victory over Brown in the first round of the College Basketball Invitational Tuesday night in Athens.>>

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