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Sports: Poised to win Triple Crown, Big Brown instead finishes last
June 9, 2008
Sorry horse racing fans, Saturday was a day for golf. >>
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Troop's Takes: Why I just can’t root for Kobe Bryant during the NBA finals
June 5, 2008
The Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics are set to tip off game one of the NBA Finals tonight. I’ve thought long and hard about predicting such a neck-and-neck series between two essentially even teams.>>
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Troop's Takes: ’Cats, Carbone end difficult season
May 27, 2008
On paper, it may as well have been just another season for Ohio University baseball coach Joe Carbone.>>
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Troop's Takes: Notes on this and that in OU sports
May 19, 2008
Normally in my 'Troop"s Takes' column I pretty much give just that - a take - one big opinion. This week, with so much going on in various sports around Ohio University, I"ll provide a bit of an opinionated notebook.>>
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Troop's Takes: Lady "Cats hoops program should be optimistic after hiring of Randall
May 12, 2008
Move over Boo Jackson; there"s another 'Boo' in town now.>>
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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.>>
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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.>>
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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.>>
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Troop's Takes: Another coach bites the dust
May 1, 2008
I feel like I"ve written this sort of column before.>>
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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.>>
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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.>>
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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.>>
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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.>>
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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.>>
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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.>>
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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.>>
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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.>>
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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.>>
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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.>>
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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?>>
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