Confessions of a crazed sports editor
(12/21/08 10:04pm)
BALTIMORE -- Forgive me readers, for I have lost my mind.
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BALTIMORE -- Forgive me readers, for I have lost my mind.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- The Spider football team decisively beat the University of Montana Grizzlies 24-7 Friday night at Finley Stadium to give the University of Richmond its first national title in any sport in the school's 178-year history.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- John Crone, the University of Richmond's senior fullback, had an announcement to make.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Two hours before kick-off of the National Championship game Friday, Dec. 19, University of Richmond football fans lined Finley Stadium's entryway for the last Spider Walk of the season. Students, alumni and parents, some with their faces painted, others carrying signs, cheered as the football team made its way into the stadium.
NEW YORK -- Friday night I stood beside more than 30 Richmond alumni to watch our football team make school history. From 800 miles away, we packed into a pub named The Australian and screamed with the crowds in Chattanooga, Tenn., and every other fan watching around the nation. Although I felt like a teenybopper wearing my Richmond '11 T-shirt, I didn't care because the place was packed and our Spiders rocked the house.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- The University of Richmond football team hadn't been No. 1 in almost three months.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- The Spiders arrived for their first national FCS championship game on Tuesday and have since been preparing for Friday's match-up against the University of Montana.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- The University of Richmond football team arrived Tuesday night here to begin preparing for Friday night's national championship. Richmond practiced Wednesday afternoon at Finley Stadium after a media meeting. Richmond held a press conference at 3:15 p.m. Thursday, then lightly practiced at 4 p.m. Kickoff is 8:05 p.m. Friday.
The University of Richmond football team has set a number of program records this season, but on Friday it could win something no team in school history has -- a national championship.
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- When junior quarterback Eric Ward was practicing passing plays this week, senior tight end Joe Stewart was usually his third option.
The University of Richmond football team is set to play the University of Northern Iowa at 4 p.m. on Saturday in Cedar Falls, Iowa, for the semifinal game of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.
BOONE, N.C. -- Dozens of students traveled five hours to The Rock here in Boone to cheer on the Spider football team, which won 33-13, upsetting the three-time defending national FCS champions.
BOONE, N.C. -- All week long, the question for the football team's defense was whether the addition of senior defensive ends Sherman Logan and Lawrence Sidbury Jr. would make a difference during Saturday's game against Appalachian State University.
The University of Richmond football team is set to play Appalachian State University Saturday in Boone, N.C., for the quarterfinal game of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.
The Spiders have averaged more rushing than passing yards per game this season, but on Saturday it was a 45-yard touchdown pass that got the University of Richmond offense started.
The University of Richmond football team has made the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs for the third time in four years.
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - The University of Richmond football team forced seven turnovers during its game Saturday afternoon at the College of William & Mary, but still needed overtime to assure its second-consecutive Football Championship Subdivision playoff berth.
The University of Richmond may have allowed the University of Delaware to score two defensive touchdowns, but the deciding factor of Saturday's game was offensive touchdowns -- the Spiders had four and the Blue Hens had none.
Sixteen teams, 15 games, four weeks and one reason I prefer the Football Championship Subdivision to the Football Bowl Subdivision: the playoffs.
The University of Richmond may have allowed the University of Delaware to score two defensive touchdowns, but the deciding factor of Saturday's game was offensive touchdowns -- the Spiders had four and the Blue Hens had none.