“We were looking for a gem and we found a bright diamond right in our own backyard.”
– Former Temple Athletic Director Dave O’Brien after hiring Dawn Staley as Temple’s women’s basketball coach on April 20, 2000.
The diamond is gone.
In a move that may shake the women’s basketball program for years to come, Dawn Staley agreed [...]

The men’s and women’s track and field teams engaged in a little double duty last weekend as the squads split and competed in the Penn Relays and the Lions Invitational at the College of New Jersey.
Both meets served as precursors to the two-day Atlantic Ten Conference Outdoor Championship, which begins Saturday at the University of [...]

John Marzano, a former Temple baseball player who played 10 years in the Major Leagues, died on Saturday, April 19 after falling down a flight of stairs in his South Philadelphia home. He was 45.
As of late Saturday night, the exact cause of Marzano’s death was not immediately clear, the Associated Press reported.
Marzano, a catcher [...]

Quarterback Vaughn Charlton led the Cherry team to a win in the Owls’ annual intra-squad football game.

Lady Comfort is the third Owl in three years to enter the WNBA’s ranks.

As the Temple men’s basketball team made its surprising run to the NCAA Tournament last month, thoughts raced through Andrew “Scootie” Randall’s head.
“They played pretty good and they could’ve made it further in the tournament,” Randall said, referring to the Owls opening round loss to No. 5 Michigan State. “I feel as though I can [...]

Men’s Basketball
Senior guard Mark Tyndale was among nine Atlantic Ten Conference men’s basketball players who were selected to participate in the 56th-annual Portsmouth Invitational in Virginia Wednesday. Sixty-four seniors will attend the four-day invitational, the nation’s oldest amateur tournament, which has produced more than 50 players who have gone on to either play or coach [...]

Ken Anderson, Temple’s women’s gymnastics coach from 1986 to 2006, died on Thursday, March 20.  He was 52.
As of press time, The Temple News was unable to confirm the cause or location of Anderson’s death, although current women’s gymnastics coach Aaron Murphy said Anderson had battled a rare form of cancer for the last 18 [...]

Sometime in the fall, prior to the start of its five-month-long season, the fencing team sat down and discussed its goals for the upcoming campaign with Rolf Wagschal, M.A., a doctoral candidate in Temple’s kinesiology department.
With Wagschal, who has a sport psychology concentration, and their coaches’ help, the 19-member squad copiously outlined the specific objectives [...]

The atmosphere in the No. 12-seeded Owls locker room afterwards was almost equivalent to their play during the game: quiet and weary.