Staff Reporter
INDIANAPOLIS — Peyton Manning and Marshall Faulk won’t be the only former Indianapolis Colts players being recognized for their collegiate achievements this year.
Marshall University recently announced its 2017 induction class for its Athletics Hall of Fame, a list of nine former student-athletes that includes former Colts running back Ahmad Bradshaw.
Bradshaw starred for the Thundering Herd from 2004 to 2006, and would become a seventh-round selection of the New York Giants in the 2007 NFL Draft.
Here is a blurb from the school about Bradshaw’s dominance at Marshall:
“Bradshaw was a top-five running back for the Herd in just three seasons. He finished his career fourth in all-purpose yards per game (124.8), sixth in rushing touchdowns (31), eighth in total touchdowns (36) and 10th in scoring (216 points). His 1,523 rushing yards in 2006 was the school’s fifth-best single-season total, while his 21 touchdowns were the sixth-highest and his 126 points stood eighth. Bradshaw posted 11 100 yard games at Marshall, with his best effort coming on Nov. 18, 2006, when he put up a Joan C. Edwards Stadium-record five touchdowns and 261 yards against UTEP. He led the Herd in all-purpose yards all three seasons and caught 86 passes for 696 yards, scoring five more times through the air. He was named second team All-Conference USA as a junior, then first-team as a senior.”
Former Mountaineer Joe Mazzulla Named Fairmont State’s New Basketball Coach
From WValways.com
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FAIRMONT –
Fairmont State University officials announced Tuesday that Joe Mazzulla has been named as the new men’s basketball coach, replacing Jerrod Calhoun, who accepted a Division I head coaching job at Youngstown State University on Monday. Mazzulla, a standout guard for West Virginia University has spent the last five years as an assistant coach at Glenville State College, Fairmont State and most recently with the Maine Red Claws of the NBA D-League.
Joe Mazzulla during WVU career. Photo by WVillustrated.com
“It is a privilege to welcome Joe back to Fairmont, and we couldn’t be happier to have him as our next head men’s basketball coach,” said FSU Athletic Director Tim McNeely.
t’s hard to believe that Rio de Janeiro hosted the Summer Olympics just six months ago.
Today, the Olympic Village has turned into a ghost town, and many of the venues have fallen into disrepair.
At the Maracana Stadium, the power has been turned off because there is nobody to pay the energy bill. Water in one practice pool is orange. Turf has turned brown and, along with countless stadium seats, inexplicably removed from the field.