It was only a matter of time before a Sun Belt school became the lead story in college football.
Saturday was the day.
The league had some really good moments in the past, but never had a Sun Belt school beaten a top-ten ranked team...
Well, the first weekend of college football is in the books and half the fan bases are happy and half are not.
Well, except for schools like Louisiana-Monroe, who don't open their season until this Saturday.
Here are my thoughts about the results around the Sun Belt Conference (Louisiana excluded...
College Football Talk, recently released their Sun Belt conference predictions for the upcoming 2012 season, and the website picks Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns to finish in fourth place this year.
Louisiana 51, South Alabama 50
Sun Belt Conference Tournament Championship
Alltel Arena, North Little Rock, AR
March 7, 2000
As the 1999-2000 season drew to a close, NIKE unveiled a series of commercials with the theme "Bracketville," a very well done takeoff on the movie "Pleasantville...
The Sun Belt Conference recently announced they were adding the University of Texas-Arlington to their membership, effective July 1, 2013.
Then, they made another announcement.
"No further expansion is planned at this time."
If Karl Benson had been in the room, I'd have hugged him...
Andrew Fonzi pitched three hit ball over seven and one third innings, and Nick Zaharion and J. T. Files both homered to lead #4 seed South Alabama to a 5-3 win over #8 seed Western Kentucky Thursday night at the Sun Belt Conference baseball tournament in Bowling Green, KY...
Les Aulds delivered the tiebreaking single, and first baseman Joey Rapp added insurance with a two run single as #5 seed Louisiana-Monroe rallied from an early deficit to defeat #4 South Alabama, 7-4 in the first game of the Sun Belt Conference Tournament in Bowling Green, KY.
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Bracket "B" for the Sun Belt Conference Tournament features teams seeded 2 ,3 ,6 and 7. The round robin bracket games will begin Wednesday at Bowling Green Ballpark in Bowling Green, KY. For a preview of Bracket "A' featuring the 1, 4, 5 and 8 seeds, click here.
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It shouldn't have come as a surprise, but after finishing tenth in the Sun Belt Conference this season, Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns were shut out of the All-Conference team released Tuesday by the league.
In a mild surprise, Louisiana-Monroe's Jeremy Sy was named the league's Player of the Year, while Arkansas State's Jacob Lee was named the Pitcher of the Year...
It hasn't been a great year for the Sun Belt Conference. In fact, this year the Sun Belt will be a one-bid league for the first time in more than twenty years. But, someone is going to get the automatic bid and play i...
Because there are some teams in this league who are ignored by the media (if you ever find someone from the Little Rock paper covering UALR in person, let me know) we don't get to vote on the All-Conference team. That's too bad. Because, more often than not, my team looks better than the one that the league releases.
This ...
The South Alabama Jaguars defeated Louisiana's Ragin' Cajun softball team, 3-1, on Saturday in Boca Raton, Florida, to capture the 2012 Sun belt Conference Championship Tournament.
The sixth-ranked Louisiana Ragin' Cajun softball team will be looking for another Sun Belt Conference Championship title on Saturday, when they face-off with the South Alabama Jaguars.
Once play finally resumed, it didn't take long.
After play was suspended for the night in the bottom of the fifth inning because of weather last night, South Alabama made short work of FIU 9-1 in six innings in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament in Boca Raton, FL...
In a game that was delayed over two hours by weather, South Alabama's Hannah Campbell pitched a complete game shutout as #2 seed South Alabama defeated #7 Louisiana-Monroe 6-0, in first round action at the Sun Belt Conference Softball Tournament in Boca Raton, FL...
The 2012 All-Sun Belt Conference Team will officially be released on Tuesday in Boca Raton, Florida, site of the 2012 Sun Belt Conference Tournament, which gets underway on Wednesday.
Before the league releases it's honorees, I wanted to give you my team.