Thursday, January 28, 2010

Thursday News---Jan 28th, 2010

The CAA has released the 2009 All-Academic team and the Academic All-conference team. The UMass athletic dept also has a press release here.

UMass underclassmen Emil Igwenagu and John Ihne made the team as well as seniors Jarad Chivers and Jeromy Miles (Academic All-Conference)

UMass will welcome Hofstra transfer Anthony Nelson who also made the list.

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MassLive.com reports that former UMass star and coach Joe Cullen has named defensive line coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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FCS team Eastern Washington will install artificial turf-----in the team colors of red & white.

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the latest edition of David Coulson's "Around FCS" newsletter discusses FCS players in the various All-Star games.

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