Tom Brady holds Super Bowl records in passing first downs (19) and completions (32). He has led two final drives in two separate Super Bowls that have ended in game-winning field goals.
Even now, Head Coach Bill Belichick has his team operating like a fine-tuned machine, slanting and curling for first downs while the defense and special […]

Tom Brady completed 14-of-21 passes for two touchdowns and 207 yards in the AFC Championship game at Pittsburgh, shaking off a the previous night’s 103-degree fever. Talk about being cool under pressure.
Brady’s superb play is one of the main reasons the defending Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots will repeat Sunday.
For his career, Brady is 8-0 in […]

Sunday brings Super Bowl XXXIX, the culmination of the NFL season, the game that every football player wants to win in his lifetime and arguably, the single greatest sporting event on the American calendar.
This year’s game in Jacksonville pits the AFC Champion New England Patriots against the NFC Champion Philadelphia Eagles.
The Patriots have won two of the […]

TCU came into last Saturday’s game against Tulane looking to close out their Conference USA tenure with a win. Through the first 56 minutes, it looked as though they would succeed. Instead, two players who were only backups a couple of weeks ago helped engineer a game winning drive for the Green Wave, sending the […]

About a month ago, the Green Wave was sitting at the bottom of the Conference USA standings as many began viewing this season as a rebuilding year. But after winning four out of its last five games, including last week’s thrilling 35-31 win at TCU, the Green Wave will become bowl-eligible with a win tomorrow.
Standing in […]

Hold the jazz funeral.
The New Orleans Saints willed their way to victory Sunday in a 27-20 dog fight over the Kansas City Chiefs. The Saints, now 4-5 on the season kept their heads high after an embarrassing loss at San Diego last week and came out with a much needed victory at home against the Kansas […]

With its 45-31 win over Army Saturday at the Superdome, Tulane finally captured back-to-back wins; a feat that had eluded the Green Wave all season.
Sophomore quarterback Lester Ricard opened the game with the same impressive play he had against Navy. However, hopes of Ricard breaking any more records were quickly discarded when he broke his wrist […]

The enigma that is the New Orleans Saints further confused
Sunday, as the surprising San Diego Chargers blew the black and
gold off the field 43-17.
From the very first drive, the Chargers looked the superior
squad, capitalizing on a bit of trickery as backup running back
Jesse Chatman ran a fake punt for a 22-yard gain on the way to […]

Navy came into the Superdome Saturday boasting the
nation’s 10th-best pass defense and intent on moving to 8-1
for the first time since 1963, when the Midshipmen were
quarterbacked by the great Roger Staubach.
But Green Wave quarterback Lester Ricard had other ideas,
putting up Staubach-like numbers by completing a school record 94.7
percent of his passes en route to a 42-10 […]

Following a 42-10 thrashing of heavily favored Navy, the Green
Wave is still in contention to reach a bowl game.
The team needs to win the remainder of its games starting with
this weekend’s matchup against Conference USA opponent Army.
Army is 2-7 on the season and has lost two in a row after
posting two wins in consecutive weeks against Cincinnati […]

Lethargic. Unfocused. Inconsistent
Those were some of the many ways to describe how the Green Wave offense played during the 24-3 road loss Saturday against the Houston Cougars.
The Cougars reeled off 24 unanswered points in the first half, including a fumble recovery for a touchdown. But unlike last week, when the offense exploded for 59 points […]

After a thrilling homecoming win over UAB, the Green Wave will look to win its second straight game tomorrow (4 p.m., ESPN Plus) in Houston against the Cougars.
Houston (1-6 overall, 1-4 in Conference USA) is currently sharing last place in Conference USA with Tulane, East Carolina and USF and has a four-game losing streak. The […]

The Saints went on the road last week in desperate need of a win to keep slim playoff hopes alive. Luckily for the team, the trip was to Oakland to face the lowly Raiders who entered the game 2-4. The Saints prevailed 31-26 Sunday to improve their record to 3-4 before entering a bye week.
The […]

Mewelde Moore found himself in a familiar position last weekend.
Sitting in the Superdome locker room, he was once again fielding
questions from the media about another stellar performance and
celebrating a victory. Only this was the visitor’s locker room
Sunday, not Saturday, and this time Moore was decked in purple and
gold instead of green and white. After graduating […]

Tulane will be opening its doors wide tomorrow for the 5-1 University of Alabama at Birmingham Blazers. The Blazers are coming off a 41-25 win against Conference USA foe TCU and sit atop C-USA at 3-0. The initial BCS rankings speak for themselves, as UAB is ranked 24th.
Although Tulane has won the past two meetings […]