Classic showcases Temple recruits

Temple recruits, Daniel Dingle, Quenton DeCosey and Josh Brown, compete at the Mary Kline Classic in New Jersey. The Temple News talked with two of the men’s basketball team’s 2012 recruits, Daniel Dingle and Quenton DeCosey, and one of its 2013 recruits, Josh Brown, at the Mary Kline Classic in Pennington, N.J. on Saturday. Dingle, [...]

Boathouse woes

City law has slowed Temple’s process of building a boathouse for the crew teams. The Schuylkill River is one of the most celebrated venues for competitive rowing in the world. With ideal training conditions set by tranquil currents come morning and its borders decorated by the iconic lights of Boathouse Row by night, the Schuylkill [...]

Offensive weapon emerges

Sophomore Jalen Fitzpatrick looks to show his versatility. Junior running back Matt Brown emerged from the locker room after he led the Cherry squad to a 17-10 win in Temple’s annual Cherry and White scrimmage on Saturday, April 14, and said to the media, “This is the man you need to interview right here, No. [...]

Brown prepares for role as starter

Matt Brown anticipates picking up more carries. Matt Brown ran 52 yards untouched. He exploded up the middle and dashed his way to a touchdown in the fourth quarter of a blowout 42-14 win against Army on Nov. 19, 2011, in typical form for the elusive junior running back, who finished with 133 yards and [...]

Trustee to own local news orgs.

Lewis Katz will head the company that owns the Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com. Lewis Katz, a member of the executive committee of the Board of Trustees and chair of the athletics committee, led a team of six investors who purchased the Philadelphia Media Network, the parent company of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News [...]

Men’s basketball team: Season in review

The Owls’ season was spoiled by an early exit in the postseason. The men’s basketball season that was riding high for a one-month stretch from mid-January to mid-February came to a crashing end as the Owls lost back-to-back games, one in the Atlantic Ten Conference tournament and one in the NCAA tournament, for the first [...]

Seniors disappoint in season’s conclusion

The Owls’ seniors didn’t show up for their final game. NASHVILLE, Tenn. – As the horn sounded on South Florida’s 58-44 win against the men’s basketball team in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Friday, March 16, Temple fans could only sit back and wonder, “What happened?” There was a time this season [...]

Villanova can’t hold Temple back anymore

Cranney argues that after opposition, Temple and Villanova are now Big East rivals. Nothing makes a rivalry grow like a school trying to block another from getting into a power conference. The Temple and Villanova rivalry, which sports an illustrious 98-year history in basketball and has spiked recently in football as the Mayor’s Cup enters [...]

Losses loom as Temple advances

Men’s basketball enters March Madness amid a cloud of uncertainty. Uncertainty is the word to use to describe the men’s basketball team right now. Temple fans must feel uncertain about a team that has lost two of its past four games, including a bad loss to Massachusetts in the Owls’ first game of the Atlantic [...]

Turnovers doom Temple in A-10 tournament upset

No. 24 Temple lost to UMass, 77-71, in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Ten Conference Tournament. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Top-seeded Temple (24-7) was upset by No. 8 Massachusetts (22-10), 77-71, in the Atlantic Ten Conference tournament quarterfinals on Friday afternoon. The loss is the earliest Temple has been eliminated from the A-10 tournament since [...]

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