11.12.2009 10:40 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Atlantic 10 Conference men’s soccer tournament kicks off today in Kingston, R.I., and it couldn’t set up better for SLU, which needs to win the tournament to reach the NCAAs.
SLU has a first-round bye and, barring an upset in…
09.03.2009 4:20 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The release of the conference schedule is never as much fun as the nonconference schedule. You know who you’re playing. All that’s new are the dates.
Still, here are a few nuggets from SLU’s conference schedule:
I’ve been lobbying for years for…
08.13.2009 3:05 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Atlantic 10 today officially announced its move to Newport News, Va., from its office in Philadelphia, where it had been since 1995. Prior to that, it was in various towns in New Jersey, plus Pittsburgh and Morgantown, W.Va.
The league’s…
08.11.2009 3:06 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In a development that, frankly, makes no sense that I can see, the Atlantic 10 is moving its offices to Newport News, Va., according to that city’s paper, the Daily Press. There is expected to be a press conference announcing…
06.15.2009 1:25 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
With Brett Thompson transferring from SLU, it got me wondering as to how common it is for players to transfer from A-10 schools.
It turns out that half of the teams in the league have had players transfer out after the season.…
05.20.2009 10:45 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
With the completion of the baseball regular season, the Atlantic 10 sports season is done except for the NCAAs. So which school has the best all-around program?
Well, it depends which method you use to figure it out, but it’s either…
04.22.2009 3:11 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
SLU’s women’s volleyball team, which reached the second round of the NCAA tournament, its women’s outdoor track team and tennis team, and men’s indoor and outdoor track received the NCAA’s Academic Performance Program awards for finishing in the top 10…
04.18.2009 10:20 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
That’s the topic the New York Times brings up in a story on Saturday: Is the Atlantic 10 the wrong place for Fordham. Not surprisginly, it turns out a lot of people in New York think Fordham is in over…
03.25.2009 12:45 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
SLU coach Rick Majerus has often complained about the travel involved with SLU being in the Atlantic 10, a league where the closest opponent is Dayton and where all the other teams are in the Eastern time zone.
But that doesn’t…
03.23.2009 8:29 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Matt Vautour at the Daily Hampshire Gazette reports that the A-10 will announce on Tuesday that the conference tournament will stay in Atlantic City, N.J., for the next three seasons. The league had also been looking at Cincinnati, Dayton, Springfield,…