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Kicker Jonathan Knott, who was on the Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz training camp roster, is a graduate of Tulsa Union and went on to kick for Louisiana Lafayette. LINK

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Knott (6-2, 210, Louisiana-Lafayette) played his first two years of college at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M in Miami, OK. The Tulsa Union grad was named first team All-Conference his sophomore season connecting on 10 of 15 field goals and 32 of 34 extra points.

Knott finished out his college career with the Ragin’ Cajuns of University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In 2001, he led the Sun-Belt Conference in field goals hitting 11 of 15. Knott was also invited to play in the National All-Stars.com bowl in the spring of 2003. This will be Knott’s first stint in professional football and Reasons is impressed with his kicking abilities.

“Jonathan Knott has a successful college career and looks to join our football team this season,” Reasons said. “His leg strength will be a plus for us in the kicking game.” LINK

Knott (6-2, 210, Louisiana-Lafayette) played his first two years of college at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M in Miami , OK . The Tulsa Union grad was named first team All-Conference his sophomore season connecting on 10 of 15 field goals and 32 of 34 extra points.

Knott finished out his college career with the Ragin' Cajuns of University of Louisiana at Lafayette . In 2001, he led the Sun-Belt Conference in field goals hitting 11 of 15. Knott was also invited to play in the National All-Stars.com bowl in the spring of 2003.

This will be Knott's first stint in professional football and Reasons is impressed with his kicking abilities.

“Jonathan Knott has a successful college career and looks to join our football team this season,” Reasons said. “His leg strength will be a plus for us in the kicking game.” LINK

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UL Lafayette signee B.C. Thibeaux carded the low score with a 73 to pace the Rebels’ winning 333 team effort. LINK

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Delhomme talked about keeping a level head under pressure and believing in teamwork. LINK

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Bears first round pick Tommie Harris won't meet most of his new teammates until this weekend's minicamp, he already has been welcomed into the Bears' family by Tillman, a fellow Texan. "Peanut" was a one-man welcome wagon on draft day.

"I know Peanut," Harris said. "We played against each other in high school. My high school always dominated his. Peanut is a great guy. He came over to the house and fit right in with the family. When he first saw me, he gave me a hug.

"We never talked like that before, but he just greeted me and called me 'teammate' and all the other stuff. So I'm looking forward to being out there with him on the field, going to battle with him.

"Peanut lit up my whole house with his personality. He stayed for hours just talking to everybody and having everybody laugh, so my mom feels real comfortable about him."

Thanks to Tillman's enthusiasm and energy, Harris is eagerly awaiting the challenge of contributing to a new team and fitting into a new environment.

"Charles told me it's a great city," Harris said. "He said it loves football. He told me that everybody I meet, just say, 'Beat the Packers,' and they're supposed to go wild or something. So I found a way to greet people." LINK

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Its good to see Peanut having fun. Don't lose that feeling, Peanut!

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Gibbs's best fifth-round pick was Brian Mitchell in 1990, who set every Redskins return record and is statistically the top returner in league history.

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Keary Colbert, the team's second-round pick, (WR) could contribute more as a rookie than Gamble. The USC product is an excellent possession receiver who will complement speedster Steve Smith and give Jake Delhomme a sure-handed target over the middle. Colbert's toughness was an attractive trait for the club.

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Run-scoring machine Chase Lambin arrives with the first-place Binghamton Mets for tonight’s contest. The second baseman collected seven RBI in Tuesday’s wild 17-12 loss to the Trenton Thunder. Lambin belted his first Eastern League homer in the contest, finishing just a single shy of the cycle.

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Falcons Fall 7-3 To Colorado Springs Sky Sox In Exhibition Game. A six-run second inning propelled the Colorado Sky Sox to a 7-3 win over Air Force, in a five-inning exhibition baseball game at Sky Sox Stadium on Tuesday, April 6. Scott Dohmann picked up the win in relief for the Sky Sox, the Triple-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies.

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Ausmus, who has thrown out only four of the 16 runners who have attempted to steal off him, ranked 12th in the National League through Sunday at throwing out runners. Ausmus ranks higher than only the Cubs' Paul Bako (who has thrown out two of nine runners), Colorado's Charles Johnson (who has thrown out only two of 15) and the Mets' Mike Piazza (who is 0-for-8.)

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Piazza hit a chopper back to the mound, Maddux fired the ball back to catcher Paul Bako to get the runner at home and save the run. Bako then threw out Piazza at first.

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Bill Alvaro said he was first noticed by pro scouts playing in an American Legion game as a junior. The pro scouts came to see Will Vespe. They left liking the former Gloucester Catholic ace, but they also left liking Alvaro, too. Alvaro said this exposure helped him gain an opportunity to pitch at the University of Southwestern Louisiana.

"This is great for our kids," Alvaro said. "You don't have to be the kid being looked at to be seen."

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LHP B.J. Ryan allowed his first run of the season. The reliever had a 0.00 ERA over his first 12 innings through nine appearances, but allowed three runs, two earned, during his one inning.

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Thursday The Mets' lone run came on a home run off the bat of Chase Lambin in the sixth inning. The homer was Lambin's second of the year. The two teams will square off again on Friday night.

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FridayThe Mets rallied from a 2-0 deficit with three runs in the seventh inning. A leadoff homer from catcher Justin Huber preceded Wayne Lydon's two-out, two-run triple that scored Chase Lambin

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In the final seven games Muhammad had 32 receptions for 539 yards and two touchdowns. He continued to put up solid numbers in the postseason with 15 receptions for 352 yards and two touchdowns, including four catches for 140 yards in Carolina's 32-20 loss to New England in Super Bowl XXXVIII, including a record 85-yard touchdown reception from Jake Delhomme which gave the Panthers their only lead.

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An idea for LouisianaThe inaugural Southern California Coaches Corner, a clinic for both basketball coaches and players, is scheduled for May 15 at Santa Ana College.

College coaches who have committed to speaking during the event include Jim Boeheim of Syracuse, UCLA's Ben Howland, Henry Bibby of USC, Long Beach State's Larry Reynolds, Jessie Evans of the University of San Francisco, Bob Burton of Cal State Fullerton and the University of Portland's Michael Holton.

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... The Arkansas State Indians, the Northeast Louisiana (now Louisiana-Lafayette) Indians and assorted other teams with Native American nicknames also have dotted ...

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Steelers defensive back Ike Taylor during mini camp on the South Side Saturday.

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Martin and Yarbrough ran in the same 110-meter hurdles heat Saturday evening, running times of 13.73 and 13.83, respectively, to break the 12-year-old mark of Louisiana's Larry Moore.

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BATON ROUGE, La. -- Center Treynell Clavelle and guard Amber Long will be transferred from LSU, coach Pokey Chatman announced Thursday.

Clavelle averaged 3.7 points and 3.3 rebounds in 10 minutes per game. She scored a career-high 11 points in LSU's victory over No. 1 seed Texas in the NCAA regional semifinal and contributed a career-best nine rebounds in the SEC tournament second-round victory over Ole Miss.

"It is difficult to part ways with a player the caliber of Treynell," Chatman said. "She made significant contributions when called upon. Her performance in the Sweet 16 against Texas comes to mind. Anytime you have someone that can score 11 points off the bench on that stage, you hate to lose them."

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Jessica van der Linden ... and Louisiana's Brooke Mitchell are the only two pitchers in that nation in the top five for ERA and strikeouts.

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On May 21 and 22 at the True Blue Plantation course near Pawleys Island, the inaugural Hannah & Friends Celebrity Golf Classic will kick off that quest. Weis has put together a lineup that includes Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, Carolina Panthers quarterback Jake Delhomme and other players and coaches for the two-day bash, which he hopes will raise $100,000 toward his goal of $1 million.

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Taylor's defensive playbook wasn't dictionary-thick at Lafayette. He played cornerback for one season opposite Charles Tillman, who, like Taylor, was a 2003 draft pick. With Taylor and Tillman -- the Bears' second-round selection -- on the corners, Lafayette kept it simple.

"The playbook was probably a couple of pages," Taylor said. "We played a couple of half-field (coverages), a little Cover 2. But other than that, we just manned-up the whole game."

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Binghamton's Chase Lambin is leading the Eastern League with 22 RBIs.

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... the hosts did enough scoring, including a first-inning homer by Melvin Mora (3-for-5) and got the usual clutch relief from B.J. Ryan, who struck out three in the eighth.

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Scott Dohmann pitched two hitless innings and Marc Kroon added a perfect ninth inning for his first save of the season Sunday as the Colorado Springs Sky Sox ...

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... The Arkansas State Indians, the Northeast Louisiana (now Louisiana-Lafayette) Indians and assorted other teams with Native American nicknames also have dotted ...

Besides the exposure of a marketing snafu by Louisiana, it is an otherwise interesting article on the fallacy of mascot correctness.

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It seems to me that schools should understand the pain their name selection places on a majority of Native Americans. They do not see it as an honor, as the Cajuns, Orangeman, and Irish see theirs with. Maybe because the Native Americans population were brought to near extinction by the Euro invasion. I would recommend these schools think about this and resolve to place these names in the past.

I would not try to force a school to do the above only that they try to walk in the moccicins of a defeated people so to speak.

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That article is very interesting. I think people need to chill out and realize what we're talking about here... a frickin game. Why can't these groups of people see the mascot as a proud symbol of who they are instead of a mockery. Certainly, no school would choose a mascot that would mock itself. I wish people would just stop being such "pear shaped organs!" (I didn't use the other word, because I wouldn't want to offend anyone)

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Michigan moved up two spots to sixth. The Wolverines are followed by Stanford and Louisiana-Lafayette.

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Water SkingMandy Nightingale (Sapulpa, Okla./University of Louisiana-Lafayette) won the Women’s tricks event. . . Complete results are available at ncwsa.com.

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While UL Lafayette’s master’s program in physics is on the list, its graduation rate surpasses the national and state average for graduates, said Bradd Clark, dean of UL Lafayette’s College of Sciences.

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The Lafayette Business and Industry Training Service at University of Louisiana will offer a business course, “Marketing Ideas That Really Work: Getting Business to Come to You” from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. May 19.

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TechSouth. The summit, . . . was made possible by a consortium of local technology, academic and economic development volunteers and featured more than 75 companies, such as Apple, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun Microsystems. UL Lafayette and IBM were the event’s chief sponsors.

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UL Lafayette was one of the summit’s sponsors. The university’s plans to add a technology center to its University Research Park had techies and researchers alike drooling over its planned virtual caves and

3-D applications. The innovations allow researchers to step into their data.

“We will start selling that heavily as soon as we finalize the architectural plans,” said UL Lafayette President Ray Authement.

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A $1.2 million grant from the state Department of Transportation and Development awarded to UL Lafayette will help construct an extensive bicycle path on the UL Lafayette campus.

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Louisiana volleyball to play in the Rebel Classic The Rebels will then return home for the Rebel Classic the weekend of Sept. 18 as a part of the Vanderbilt football weekend. Ole Miss will face-off against Jacksonville State, Louisiana-Lafayette and Illinois-Chicago in the Rebel Classic.

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Binghamton's Chase Lambin is leading the Eastern League with 22 RBIs.

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James Carville . . . — once known as the Ragin' Cajun —

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A local software company (Bizzuka Inc) and UL Lafayette will partner to offer students hands-on experience in revamping the firm’s Web design products.

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The Center for Business and Information Technologies at UL Lafayette and the College of Engineering at Southern University of Baton Rouge are presenting "A Roadmap to Supply Chain Management” on Monday at the PBS Pinchback Engineering Building on the campus of Southern University.

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Proposed budget cuts for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership of Louisiana at UL Lafayette come as the national program has been heralded for its creativity and vision by Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy’s School of Government.

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For more than 50 years, Walter Constantin, owner of Rayne Land Plane, has marketed his company’s land planes to farmers across the world. But when he designed a new product, he decided to turn to a UL Lafayette center to help him venture out into a new field of clientele.

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Houston's Brad Lidge (31), Anaheim's Francisco Rodriguez (30) and Baltimore's B.J. Ryan (28) are among the middle men who have more strikeouts than solid starting pitchers such as Matt Morris (22), Esteban Loaiza (22), Al Leiter (24) and Tom Glavine (21).

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