CSUN NOTEBOOK: BIG SKY CAN SMILE.Byline: Chris Branam Daily News Staff Writer If Cal State Northridge had not committed to building an on-campus football stadium, the Big Sky Conference might have voted to end its affiliation with the school. That's what Big Sky commissioner Doug Fullerton said last Friday, the day after CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge President Blenda Wilson recommended the North Campus site for building a football/soccer complex for the Matadors. ``(CSUN) made a real commitment to an issue that is hanging out there,'' Fullerton said. ``What attracted us to Northridge in the first place was its potential for football.'' Fullerton and the Big Sky have supported building an on-campus stadium for CSUN. The Big Sky sent a ``memorandum of understanding'' to CSUN on Sept. 27, 1995, describing the goals set by the conference for upgrading the Matadors' football and basketball facilities. In almost four years since Wilson signed the agreement, the North Campus football stadium hadn't received any of the improvements promised by CSUN. That failure, Fullerton said, hadn't gone unnoticed by the Big Sky's university presidents. ``It was exactly an issue that will be discussed when the presidents meet this summer,'' Fullerton said. ``There are presidents that want a full disclosure of where we are going (with CSUN's affiliation).'' Vote of confidence: Sam Jankovich Sam Jankovich was born in Butte, Montana and lettered in football while playing for the University of Montana in 1957. He played linebacker and offensive line. A knee injury ended his career. After graduation, he coached a couple of Montana high school football teams. , CSUN's interim 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 , said the on-campus stadium recommendation by Wilson was also an endorsement of head football coach Ron Ponciano. ``I really think that if this institution would support the football program,'' Jankovich said, ``Ron Ponciano would be an outstanding football coach here.'' Ponciano and his staff guided CSUN to a 7-4 record and its first appearance in the Division I-A Top 25 last season. Tough questions: Myles Corrigan, one of four finalists to become CSUN's permanent athletic director, faced tough questions in his public forum last week about his role in Washington's NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association violations that put the Huskies football program on probation five years ago. Corrigan, an assistant coach at the time, said he didn't have a direct involvement in any of the violations. He is now the assistant athletic director at Washington. The next finalist, Moravian College Moravian College & Theological Seminary History The College traces its roots to the Bethlehem Female Seminary, which was founded in Germantown, Pennsylvania by Benigna, Countess von Zinzendorf in 1742 and is the oldest institution of higher education for women in the United Athletic Director Richard Dull, could also be asked about his past at his public forum today at 3 p.m. Dull was the athletic director at Maryland in 1986 when Terrapins basketball star Len Bias Leonard Kevin Bias (November 18, 1963 – June 19, 1986) was an American college basketball player who suffered a fatal cardiac arrhythmia that resulted from a cocaine overdose less than 48 hours after being selected by the Boston Celtics in the 1986 NBA Draft. died from cocaine ingestion ingestion /in·ges·tion/ (-chun) the taking of food, drugs, etc., into the body by mouth. in·ges·tion n. 1. The act of taking food and drink into the body by the mouth. 2. . After months of controversy, Dull resigned. In 1991, he told The Baltimore Sun Baltimore Sun Daily newspaper published in Baltimore, Md., U.S. It was begun as a four-page penny tabloid in 1837 by Arunah Shepherdson Abell, a journeyman printer from Rhode Island. he wasn't prepared for the scrutiny and at one point thought he was having a heart attack in his office. Record breaker: Sophomore Annetta Wells, a sophomore from Gardena, is on a record pace for breaking records. Wells set the Big Sky record in the 200 meters at the California-Nevada State Championships in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. on April 24 with a time of 23.52 seconds. Her time broke the meet record and was the third-best mark in CSUN history. Wells also ran the anchor leg of the Matadors' 400 relay team that broke the Big Sky record with a time of 44.82 seconds at the California-Nevada Championships. The team of Wells, LaShaunda Fowler, Anicia Rimm and Krystal Harris Krystal Marie Harris (born November 7, 1981 in Anderson, Indiana) is a pianist and singer-songwriter. Krystal has been singing since she was just 18 months old, and playing piano since she was 3 years of age. She also plays the drums, the guitar, the bass, and the flute. ran the second-fastest 400 relay in school history. |
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