BRIEFLY : DUBOSE IS LIVING A DREAM IN ALABAMA.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Some 20 years after fulfilling his dream of playing for Bear Bryant Paul William "Bear" Bryant (September 11, 1913–January 26, 1983) was an American college football coach. He was best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team, and is the namesake of the Paul W. Bryant Museum. at Alabama, Mike Dubose Mike DuBose (born January 5, 1953, in Opp, Alabama) is a former college football player and the current head coach of Millsaps College. He is most notable for his tenure at the head coach at the University of Alabama. got Bryant's old job and all the pressure of preserving the tradition the coaching great started years ago. Athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic Bob Bockrath announced the hiring Monday at a news conference packed with former players and other alumni, many of whom pushed for Gene Stallings' replacement to come from the Alabama ``family.'' Bockrath said details of Dubose's contract have not been worked out, but it is expected to be for at least three years. ``This is proof that dreams do come true,'' said Dubose, 43, the team's defensive coordinator A defensive coordinator typically refers to a coach on a football team in the National Football League or college football who is in charge of the defense. This position aids the head coach a great deal in many ways by delegating play calling to other coaches and allowing the head and a member of Bryant's Crimson Tide teams during 1972-74, which compiled a 32-4 record. Stallings will coach Alabama through its Jan. 1 appearance in the Outback Bowl against Michigan. Minnesota's list of coaching candidates got a little shorter when Florida defensive coordinator Bob Stoops turned down the job. The position was vacated when Jim Wacker resigned at the end of football season. Minnesota is expected to name a replacement this week. Stoops was the second coach to visit the university. Washington State coach Mike Price was in town last Tuesday but withdrew as a candidate Sunday. Colorado State coach Sonny Lubick and San Francisco 49ers Florida's Danny Wuerffel and Iowa State's Troy Davis were among four players invited to Saturday night's Heisman Trophy presentation. Also invited to the Downtown Athletic Club The Downtown Athletic Club was an athletic club in a 35-story building located at 19 West Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA. It was founded in 1926. By 1927, it had purchased this site next to the Hudson River to construct its own building. in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , which awards the Heisman to college football's most outstanding player, were Arizona State's Jake Plummer and Ohio State offensive tackle Orlando Pace. A Heisman spokesman said one or two more players were expected to be invited. BASKETBALL The Big Ten, seeking increased TV exposure and another money maker for its athletic programs, adopted a men's postseason basketball tournament - the first in the league's 102 years. The vote by the Big Ten Council of Presidents/Chancellors was 9-2, with Michigan and Indiana against the proposal. The tournament will begin March 5-8, 1998, at a neutral site the Big Ten hopes to announce in the spring. The winner gets an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Forward Jamal Mashburn, who had missed eight games because of a broken right cheekbone cheek·bone n. See zygomatic bone. , was activated Monday by the Dallas Mavericks. Fred Roberts was put on the injured list because of left-elbow problems. Mashburn was hurt Nov. 12 in a game against the Clippers. He was averaging 9.3 points per game. Seattle SuperSonics coach George Karl was fined $8,500 for verbally abusing the referees and refusing to leave the court last Thursday. Karl got into the dispute and was ejected with five minutes left in a 117-86 victory at Minnesota. ETC ETC - ExTendible Compiler. Fortran-like, macro extendible. "ETC - An Extendible Macro-Based Compiler", B.N. Dickman, Proc SJCC 38 (1971). . Billy Payne, president and chief executive officer of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, is the winner of the NCAA's Theodore Roosevelt Award. The award, the NCAA's highest individual honor, is presented each year to a former college athlete who has demonstrated a ``continuing interest and concern for physical fitness and sport.'' Payne played football at the University of Georgia Organization The President of the University of Georgia (as of 2007, Michael F. Adams) is the head administrator and is appointed and overseen by the Georgia Board of Regents. . Sonoma State has dropped its football program. School officials made the announcement Monday, citing severe money problems and a need to increase funding for women's sports as reasons for ending its Division II football program. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Mike Dubose, here watching Saturday's loss to Florida with player Kelvin Moore, was named Monday as the head coach at Alabama. Associated Press |
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