Recently having successfully completed his defense of his doctoral dissertation at the University of Arizona, new assistant athletics director for external relations William Broussard presented in two paper sessions at the 2007 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting in Chicago April 8-10.
AERA is "a national research society (that) strives to advance knowledge about education, to encourage scholarly inquiry related to education, and to promote the use of research to improve education and serve the public good" (from the AERA Home Page). The conference hosts approximately 10,000 higher ED faculty, administrators, and graduate students presenting papers on various higher education topics including higher education policies and practices as well as pedagogical approaches for working with students from diverse learning and cultural backgrounds.
Broussard presented April 8 on a panel entitled "Research on the 'Front Porch' - Research and Inquiry on American Intercollegiate Athletics" with representatives from the University of Washington and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He presented a talk entitled "A Rhetoric of Resistance - The Lack of Sport Culture Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition."
On April 9, Broussard presented during a panel sponsored by the AERA Special Interest Group on Education and Sport. He presented a paper entitled "Redressing the Education of Student-Athletes: The University Writing Program as a Locus of Student-Athlete Advocacy." The paper was about the role that university writing program professionals have played in NCAA reform in the past two decades. The panel had approximately 75 attendees and other presenters from University of Central Florida, Loyola Marymount, Asuza Pacific, University of Miami, and Indiana University.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Timmy B, Mr. Belding and friends
Tim Brando and Mike McConathy.
The Christus Schumpert Children’s Classic is a wonderful event for a great cause.
It’s headlined by three of the brightest names in Louisiana sports – pro golfers Hal Sutton and David Toms, both Shreveport-Bossier residents, and CBS sportscaster Tim Brando.
The annual event in Shreveport and Bossier City stretches over two days and generates financial support and awareness for the Sutton Children’s Hospital in Shreveport.
Golf, of course, is the centerpiece. Brando is a catalyst for the event organizers thanks to his widespread network of friends in the sports and entertainment world. Timmy B., as friends call him, was, after all, a serious candidate to host the NBC version of “Wheel of Fortune” in 1989.
Brando is also a friend and admirer of NSU basketball coach Mike McConathy, going back to Coach Mike’s days growing up in Bossier City when he was an All-American at Airline High School.
That combined with Coach Mike’s emergence on the national college basketball scene to net him an invitation to join with other sports and entertainment figures as celebrity participants in the Tim Brando Celebrity Shootout on Sunday and an 18-hole tournament alongside Sutton, Toms and other PGA players Monday at Olde Oakes Golf Course in Bossier City.
It was fun to reunite with Dennis Haskins, the actor best known for his role as “Mr. Belding” on the popular TV sitcom “Saved by the Bell.” Haskins, a former college basketball player, is a close friend of Brando’s who actually got a big lift to his acting career in Natchitoches. He was part of the cast in the mid-1970s Louisiana Outdoor Drama Association production of “Louisiana Cavalier” and has fond memories of Lasyone’s Restaurant and other local landmarks.
I first met Haskins in February 2006 in Houma, when he was staying at the same hotel where the Demon basketball team was posted up after a win over Nicholls State, awaiting a flight to play at Utah State in the BracketBusters. He was as pleasant and unassuming then as he was this weekend.
Among the basketball figures involved – giving their time for the cause -- were Bobby Cremins, the College of Charleston coach best known as the longtime coach at Georgia Tech; Tom Penders, the former Texas and Rhode Island coach now recharging the program at Houston; and new LSU women’s basketball coach Van Chancellor.
The longtime Ole Miss women’s coach, who spent six seasons as head coach of the WNBA’s Houston Comets and was head coach of Team USA, is as gracious and down to earth as it gets. He enjoyed getting to know Coach Mike and also had fond memories of match-ups and conversations with retired Lady Demon coach James Smith.
Smith went 1-2 vs. Ole Miss while Chancellor coached, with one of the losses in Oxford by a 74-73 margin.
“James Smith was a great, great coach,” said Chancellor. “I told him we couldn’t play Northwestern any more because they were too good and hardly anybody knew it. The SEC was tough enough without lining up against his teams.”
Former Demon football player John Evans hosted assistant athletic director for external relations Dr. William Broussard, Kendra (Peters) Broussard, Demon Sports Network play by play man Patrick Netherton and myself at the Sunday night dinner, concert and pairings party in the Riverdome of the Horseshoe Casino and Hotel.
Monday, April 16, 2007
NSU on TV tonight twice
Move over Jack Bauer, there are Demons we’ll be watching tonight!
Former Northwestern State star and current Dallas Desperados WR/DB Jermaine Jones will play tonight on ESPN2 at 7 p.m. CT, when the Dallas Desperados (6-0) host the Philadelphia Soul (4-1).
This will be the second of three appearances that Dallas will make in the regular season on Russell Athletic ESPN Arena Football Monday. The third game will be on Monday, June 25th at 9 p.m. CT, when they face the Colorado Crush.
Jones, in his fifth season of Arena Football, leads his team in tackles with 35, and has 3 interceptions. The Morgan City native was the 1998 Southland Conference Player of the Year and runner-up in voting for the Buck Buchanan Award given to the national defensive player of the year in Division I-AA football. He was a consensus All-America selection.
At 8:30 on ABC, there’s NSU graduate Erin Parker on “The Bachelor.” Last week, the 2004 accounting graduate (she graduated with honors, cum laude, by the way) was the last of 15 contestants to receive one of 12 roses, signifying an invitation to remain in the chase for the affections of U.S. Navy Lt. Andy Baldwin. The Logansport native, now a financial analyst in Dallas, will try to stay in the game tonight. The field started with 25 women hoping to be “the one.”
It remains to be seen if she can make it as far as former Demon football player Lanny Lawrence did three years ago, when he got down to the final four before getting an unkind cut. To recall that entertaining saga, check out the link below:
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Doug Ireland, SID
Former Northwestern State star and current Dallas Desperados WR/DB Jermaine Jones will play tonight on ESPN2 at 7 p.m. CT, when the Dallas Desperados (6-0) host the Philadelphia Soul (4-1).
This will be the second of three appearances that Dallas will make in the regular season on Russell Athletic ESPN Arena Football Monday. The third game will be on Monday, June 25th at 9 p.m. CT, when they face the Colorado Crush.
Jones, in his fifth season of Arena Football, leads his team in tackles with 35, and has 3 interceptions. The Morgan City native was the 1998 Southland Conference Player of the Year and runner-up in voting for the Buck Buchanan Award given to the national defensive player of the year in Division I-AA football. He was a consensus All-America selection.
At 8:30 on ABC, there’s NSU graduate Erin Parker on “The Bachelor.” Last week, the 2004 accounting graduate (she graduated with honors, cum laude, by the way) was the last of 15 contestants to receive one of 12 roses, signifying an invitation to remain in the chase for the affections of U.S. Navy Lt. Andy Baldwin. The Logansport native, now a financial analyst in Dallas, will try to stay in the game tonight. The field started with 25 women hoping to be “the one.”
It remains to be seen if she can make it as far as former Demon football player Lanny Lawrence did three years ago, when he got down to the final four before getting an unkind cut. To recall that entertaining saga, check out the link below:
Doug Ireland, SID
Monday, April 09, 2007
Coach Hatch back in hoops action
Former Demon basketball standout Gayle Hatch (1960-62), best known as one of America’s foremost weight training experts, has been named strength and conditioning coach of the LSU men’s basketball team.
Maybe in between directing workouts, he might give the Tigers some memories of his 44-point game, second best in Demon history, on Dec. 13, 1961 against Kentucky Wesleyan. In that performance, he sank 18 of 21 shots – an amazing 85.7 percent, stil the best in school history by a player with at least 11 attempts.
“Coach Hatch,” as he is universally known (and I mean universally), reached the pinnacle of his coaching career in 2004. He was named the head coach for the 2004 USA Olympic Weightlifting Team competing in Athens, Greece.
Coach Hatch is a member of several weightlifting and strength and conditioning halls of fame. He was also included in an exhibit of prominent native Americans at the Smithsonian museum in Washington.
Some of his pupils have been the strength and conditioning coaches for national champion football teams at Miami, Tennessee and LSU.
The Baton Rouge resident is a member of the NSU Graduate N Club Hall of Fame and the Long Purple Line, is a recipient of the Nth Degree and was honored with the creation of the Gayle Hatch Basketball Scholarship supporting Demon basketball. He keeps a close eye on the current-day Demons and stays in touch with head coach Mike McConathy.
Hatch has been a friend and advisor to LSU basketball coaches Dale Brown and John Brady, and received a Final Four ring for his efforts in 2006.
Brown was a catalyst for creating the NSU basketball scholarship in Coach Hatch’s name a couple of years ago. He also spearheaded a tribute dinner for Coach Hatch prior to the Athens Olympic Games.
Maybe in between directing workouts, he might give the Tigers some memories of his 44-point game, second best in Demon history, on Dec. 13, 1961 against Kentucky Wesleyan. In that performance, he sank 18 of 21 shots – an amazing 85.7 percent, stil the best in school history by a player with at least 11 attempts.
“Coach Hatch,” as he is universally known (and I mean universally), reached the pinnacle of his coaching career in 2004. He was named the head coach for the 2004 USA Olympic Weightlifting Team competing in Athens, Greece.
Coach Hatch is a member of several weightlifting and strength and conditioning halls of fame. He was also included in an exhibit of prominent native Americans at the Smithsonian museum in Washington.
Some of his pupils have been the strength and conditioning coaches for national champion football teams at Miami, Tennessee and LSU.
The Baton Rouge resident is a member of the NSU Graduate N Club Hall of Fame and the Long Purple Line, is a recipient of the Nth Degree and was honored with the creation of the Gayle Hatch Basketball Scholarship supporting Demon basketball. He keeps a close eye on the current-day Demons and stays in touch with head coach Mike McConathy.
Hatch has been a friend and advisor to LSU basketball coaches Dale Brown and John Brady, and received a Final Four ring for his efforts in 2006.
Brown was a catalyst for creating the NSU basketball scholarship in Coach Hatch’s name a couple of years ago. He also spearheaded a tribute dinner for Coach Hatch prior to the Athens Olympic Games.
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Stork report: one more Moore
Talk about timing: Amy Moore, wife of Demons’ assistant basketball coach Jeff Moore, managed to wait until the end of the college basketball season to give birth to their first child.
Gracie Ann was 7 pounds, 3-ounces and 19-inches long when she arrived Wednesday morning in Bossier City, where Mom has been a third grade teacher. The family will relocate to Natchitoches later this spring.
Dad reports his entire universe has been turned upside down. Everybody is doing great.
Gracie Ann was 7 pounds, 3-ounces and 19-inches long when she arrived Wednesday morning in Bossier City, where Mom has been a third grade teacher. The family will relocate to Natchitoches later this spring.
Dad reports his entire universe has been turned upside down. Everybody is doing great.
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