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          <title>Liberty prepares for VMI&#8217;s triple option attack</title>
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Richard Anthony isn&#8217;t even on Liberty&#8217;s official football roster. Spencer Landis is a fourth-string quarterback who hasn&#8217;t played a snap this season.

Yet those two became important players at practice this week, as the Flames prepared for tonight&#8217;s game against VMI &#8212; Liberty&#8217;s home finale &#8212; and the Keydets&#8217; triple-option offense.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Broggin&#8217;s versatility comes in handy for Flames</title>
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Danny Broggin was a state-championship winning quarterback at William Campbell High School in 2005, but once he took the final snap in the Generals&#8217; 18-0 win over J.I. Burton at James Madison&#8217;s Bridgeforth Stadium, he knew his time as a signal caller was done.

No one was recruiting the 6-foot Broggin as a quarterback, and the school who eventually offered him a scholarship &#8212; Liberty &#8212; had no plans of using him behind center.

When he arrived in the fall of 2006, though, Broggin had no idea what his role would be. It&#8217;s a theme that&#8217;s carried over throughout his Flames career.           ]]></description>
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          <title>LU&#8217;s senior class ranks as winningest in school history</title>
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When Liberty football coach Danny Rocco first decorated his office at the Williams Football Operations Center when it opened in 2006, he adorned the walls with photos from previous coaching stops.

There was a shot of Virginia&#8217;s linebacking corps, which included players like Ahmad Brooks and Darryl Blackstock. There was a shot of Boston College beating Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind.

As the years went by, he replaced the art with photos of Liberty&#8217;s football accomplishments. There&#8217;s a shot of the Flames winning their first Big South crown on Gardner-Webb&#8217;s field. There are photos of key members of this season&#8217;s senior class, a group that&#8217;s near and dear to the head coach&#8217;s heart.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Flames look to dominate, pay back winless Blue Hose</title>
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Presbyterian has something on Liberty that no other Big South conference team does in the last three seasons. The Blue Hose have beaten the Flames.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:55:29 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Disappointment doesn&#8217;t faze Landis</title>
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Once in the running for Liberty&#8217;s starting quarterback job, Spencer Landis fights through elbow surgery and is determined to help the team during his senior season           ]]></description>
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          <title>Liberty MBB notes: Gordon turning heads at practice</title>
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Freshman Evan Gordon making an impression for Liberty           ]]></description>
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          <title>LU finds its offense is becoming predictable</title>
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Aldreakis Allen lined up behind quarterback Tommy Beecher last Saturday at Charleston Southern, like he does any time Liberty sets up in the power-I formation.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:53:20 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>LU looks to put Charleston Southern away early</title>
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This week&#8217;s inspirational message at Liberty&#8217;s football operations center: &#8220;Leave nothing to chance.&#8221;

It&#8217;s plastered all over the walls on sheets of white copy paper, accompanied by Charleston Southern logos. The point is to remind Liberty&#8217;s players that they essentially hold the key to the rest of their season. The Flames have been the dominant team in the Big South since 2006, winning 12 straight league games.

Liberty has outscored today&#8217;s opponent, Charleston Southern, 72-0 in the last three halves between the two teams and 92-10 overall.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:17:24 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Rocco has Flames focused on Charleston Southern</title>
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The pictures are undeniable. When Liberty&#8217;s players look at the video from the Flames&#8217; last two games against Charleston Southern, all they see is the Flames taking the Buccaneers to the woodshed. Liberty beat the Buccaneers 42-0 last October at home, and two years ago in South Carolina, the Flames blasted CSU 50-10.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:39:16 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Liberty runs over Coastal Carolina 58&#45;13</title>
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Aldreakis Allen ran for three touchdowns and Liberty routed Coastal Carolina 58-13 on Saturday.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:04:42 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Liberty hit hard by offseason departures</title>
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. &#8212; Considering the staggering personnel losses and the offseason drama Liberty&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team endured, it&#8217;s not surprising at all that the Big South&#8217;s coaches and media picked the Flames to finish seventh in the league race this season.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Cavs, Flames all even</title>
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It&#8217;s been something of a strange season for the Virginia men&#8217;s soccer team. Trying to predict what George Gelnovatch&#8217;s crew will do on any given night is kind of like guessing who will win the next Nobel Peace Prize.           ]]></description>
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          <title>LU men emerging from tumultuous offseason</title>
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. &#8212; Considering the staggering personnel losses and the offseason drama Liberty&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team endured, it&#8217;s not surprising at all that the Big South&#8217;s coaches and media picked the Flames to finish seventh in the league race this season.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:43:52 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>RU center adapts to American game, earns Big South honors</title>
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. &#8212; Art Parakhouski&#8217;s first impressions of America were formed in the snowy, windswept hamlet of Twin Falls, Idaho. Tucked about halfway between Boise and Pocatello near Interstate 84, Twin Falls is home to about 40,000 people and the College of Southern Idaho, a community college that regularly pumps out Division I basketball players.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:40:56 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Flames are always up for Coastal contest</title>
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The &#8220;Beat JMU&#8221; t-shirt that Danny Rocco wore in the week leading up to Liberty&#8217;s game with James Madison late last month received plenty of pub in the greater Harrisonburg area. Rest assured, though, JMU wasn&#8217;t the first school to be featured on a shirt at a Liberty practice. That distinction goes to Coastal Carolina.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Rocco holds Flames to higher expectations</title>
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Danny Rocco&#8217;s natural inclination is to express disappointment with his football team&#8217;s inconsistency.

Then he looks down the list of offensive and defensive skill players and reminds himself just how young this particular Liberty team is.

Among the top three rushers, two are sophomores and one is a freshman. Six of the top seven receivers are either freshmen or sophomores. And though he&#8217;s a senior, the starting quarterback didn&#8217;t arrive on campus until August, so he&#8217;s a relative newcomer.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:39:09 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>LU&#8217;s ground game stalls</title>
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Inadvertently, Rashad Jennings has made life extremely difficult on Liberty&#8217;s two young tailbacks.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:45:54 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Beecher likely to start at QB, Brown at WR, with Summers out</title>
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At the beginning of the week, Liberty football coach Danny Rocco said with some certainty that he would play two quarterbacks today against James Madison. But that was Tuesday, and at that time, Rocco figured wide receiver Chris Summers would have a fairly good shot at returning from a foot injury suffered during the Flames&#8217; win against Lafayette last Saturday in Pennsylvania.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:56:11 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Special teams could play pivotal role for LU against JMU</title>
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During most days at practice, Liberty University&#8217;s kickers, punters and long snapper gather together on one sideline, doing all sorts of things that don&#8217;t exactly look like they belong at a football practice.

Take Wednesday for instance. One by one, Mike Larsson, Matt Bevins, Ben Shipps, Paul Young and Robby Cramer all took off down the sideline, jumping as high in the air as possible on one leg before coming down and doing it again with the other. It looked more like practice for a dance troupe than a football team.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:20:13 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Flames find a new leader in quarterback Mike Brown</title>
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Liberty coach Danny Rocco first saw it on a recruiting trip to Monticello High School, but he didn&#8217;t see it on a football field. It was the dead of winter, and Mike Brown was in Monticello&#8217;s gym at basketball practice. Brown didn&#8217;t have a future in basketball. He was mulling three FCS football scholarship offers, so it could be forgiven if Brown chose to slack off during the hoops season.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:46:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>A victory over No. 7 JMU would give LU a major cause to celebrate</title>
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It&#8217;s been seven years since a team ranked in the FCS&#8217; top 10 has made the trip to Lynchburg to face Liberty. That fact alone makes Liberty&#8217;s game Saturday night against No. 7 James Madison huge.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:36:14 EST</pubDate>
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Mike Brown makes his first career start at QB with Tommy Beecher out with a concussion           ]]></description>
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          <title>Summers lifts Liberty past Lafayette</title>
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Chris Summers has a career-high 14 catches in Liberty&#8217;s 19-13 victory.           ]]></description>
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EASTON, Pa. &#8212; If it&#8217;s a Danny Rocco-coached team, then the third game of the season must be on the road against a team from one of the FCS&#8217; auto-bid conferences.

In 2006, it was Towson (CAA). In 2007, Elon (Southern Conference). Last season, Liberty&#8217;s third game was at Western Carolina (Southern Conference). Today, that trend continues with a trip to Lafayette of the Patriot League.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Chris Lang blog: Weekly picks, Lafayette press conference</title>
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Weekly Big South and FCS Top 25 picks, plus quotes from Tuesday&#8217;s Lafayette press conference           ]]></description>
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          <title>LU focusing on special teams</title>
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The game film alone should be enough to grab the attention of Liberty&#8217;s players.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:44:01 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>LU expects Beecher to play at Lafayette</title>
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Liberty quarterback Tommy Beecher suffered a mild concussion during the second series of the Flames&#8217; win against North Carolina Central last Saturday, LU athletics trainer Chris Casola said.           ]]></description>
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Practice had gone well enough this week. Then Thursday came. As the finishing touches were put on Williams Stadium in preparation for tonight&#8217;s Liberty home opener against North Carolina Central, Flames coach Danny Rocco noticed the wavering focus, the lagging sense of urgency. And he unloaded as the team met at midfield at the end of practice, offering a not-so-gentle reminder that the Flames were 0-1, and hadn&#8217;t won a football game since last November.           ]]></description>
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Chris Rocco&#8217;s comment last Saturday was completely unsolicited, especially considering he plays a prominent role on Liberty&#8217;s defense.

&#8220;Beecher, wow, he&#8217;s tough,&#8221; Rocco said.

That seemed to be the overriding sentiment among the Flames&#8217; players in Morgantown. Tommy Beecher, the senior quarterback who transferred from South Carolina, made an immediate and indelible impression on his new teammates early in the game. Beecher took off on a scramble on 3rd-and-7 from the WVU 46 after the pocket collapsed, sprinted to the middle of the field, slid for the first down &#8230; and got popped by WVU cornerback Robert Sands after he was already on the ground.           ]]></description>
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Liberty coach Danny Rocco and West Virginia coach Bill Stewart have long been friends. When the two were assistant coaches in 2002 &#8212; Rocco at Virginia and Stewart at WVU &#8212; the two attended a midnight church service together in Charlotte, N.C., the site of the Continental Tire Bowl.           ]]></description>
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When the Big South&#8217;s coaches and media gathered in a Charlotte, N.C., hotel last month, Liberty coach Danny Rocco shared his excitement with reporters about his fourth Flames&#8217; team.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:21:20 EST</pubDate>
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Ultimately, Danny Rocco&#8217;s decision to start Tommy Beecher at quarterback for Liberty&#8217;s Sept. 5 opener at West Virginia was about how Rocco could get his best 11 offensive players on the field at once. Beecher, a senior South Carolina transfer, is limited. He plays quarterback or nothing. Mike Brown? Well, one only has to look at the depth chart released Tuesday to see his value to the Flames.           ]]></description>
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Liberty&#8217;s Mario Cosby spent four years, including one redshirt season, playing various backup positions along the offensive line. But as his senior year approached, and starting positions opened, Cosby&#8217;s first impulse was to cut bait.
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          <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:06:31 EST</pubDate>
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After the 2008 season, Heritage High running back Korrey Davis had narrowed his choices to two schools: Massachusetts and Liberty. The chance to play for a perennial playoff contender in one of the nation&#8217;s top FCS conferences &#8212; the CAA &#8212; was too tantalizing to pass up, so Davis packed his bags for Amherst, Mass., and spent a year playing for the Minutemen.           ]]></description>
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First the bad news: third-seeded Liberty gave up 10 runs to No. 6 High Point on Thursday in Game 6 of the Big South Championship at McCormick Field in Asheville, N.C. Now the good: The Flames&#8217; bats more than made up for it in a 20-10 victory.
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Third-seeded Liberty University&#8217;s baseball team took the lead with three runs in the fourth inning and cruised to a 10-3 triumph over fourth-seeded Radford in Game 3 of the Big South Championship, Wednesday night in Asheville, N.C.

Liberty (32-19) advances to play sixth-seeded High Point, a 7-4 winner over Winthrop earlier in the day, tonight at 7. Radford (25-23) will meet No. 1 seed Coastal Carolina at 3 p.m.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 00:08:52 EST</pubDate>
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Antwan Burrus, a forward from Greenville, N.C., will sign a national letter of intent to play basketball at Liberty, The Daily Reflector reported.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 07:18:33 EST</pubDate>
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Liberty University and Lynchburg area soccer enthusiasts alike are clicking their heels over today&#8217;s opening of the Thomas Indoor Soccer Center, the newest upgrade to LU&#8217;s athletic facilities located adjacent to the LaHaye Student Center and Ice Center.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 02:56:03 EST</pubDate>
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It was a long day. Rashad Jennings will admit that much. When the NFL Draft started Saturday, the Liberty running back was projected to be selected anywhere from the second round to the fifth round. By mid-afternoon Sunday, Jennings was a staple atop the ESPN list of &#8220;best players available.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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When Marquette men&#8217;s basketball assistant coach Dale Layer learned of Rjchie McKay&#8217;s departure at Liberty, he immediately became interested in returning to Lynchburg to coach the Flames.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:25:21 EST</pubDate>
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The search to find Ritchie McKay&#8217;s successor has ended.           ]]></description>
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One week after Ritchie McKay stunned the Liberty community by leaving his post as LU men&#8217;s basketball coach to become the associate head coach at Virginia, the search for McKay&#8217;s successor is well under way.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:32:18 EST</pubDate>
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Have you lost your mind? Maybe Ritchie McKay hasn&#8217;t heard those exact words, but he knows the decision he made last week puzzled many of his peers.           ]]></description>
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I spoke yesterday to Bob Fredericks, the head coach at Scottsdale Christian Academy outside of Phoenix. Bo Barnes, a 6-foot-4 guard, had given Liberty a verbal commitment last month. But Fredericks said Ritchie McKay&#8217;s departure took Barnes by surprise, and Barnes told Fredericks that he and his family would have to &#8220;think it through&#8221; in terms of signing a letter of intent come April 15.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:18:36 EST</pubDate>
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Liberty coach Ritchie McKay is leaving the school after two years to join Tony Bennett&#8217;s staff at Virginia.
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Two of my Media General colleagues&#8212;Jeff White of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and Whitey Reid of the Charlottesville Daily Progress&#8212;are hearing grumblings up in Charlottesville that newly hired Cavs basketball coach Tony Bennett is targeting Liberty coach Ritchie McKay to join the Virginia coaching staff as an assistant coach.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:36:46 EST</pubDate>
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Seth Curry has found a new home.
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          <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:30:20 EST</pubDate>
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Liberty coach Jim Toman knew what the book said. Down a run, runner on first, nobody out in the bottom of the ninth, you bunt. No brainer.

Except the book doesn&#8217;t necessarily account for a guy like Doug Bream, who entered Friday&#8217;s game with Presbyterian batting .418 with a .731 slugging percentage. &#8220;The hottest hitter on our team,&#8221; Toman said.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:52:49 EST</pubDate>
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As the dust began to settle from Tuesday&#8217;s bombshell announcement that Seth Curry had decided to transfer after one season at Liberty, Flames coach Ritchie McKay was surprisingly upbeat.

&#8220;It&#8217;s not Black Tuesday around here, or anything like that,&#8221; McKay said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:47:44 EST</pubDate>
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For the first time in Danny Rocco&#8217;s tenure as Liberty University&#8217;s football coach, uncertainty is the main theme as the team opens spring practice.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:41:11 EST</pubDate>
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Last November 25, the day that Seth Curry scored 26 points in his third collegiate game to help Liberty stun Virginia at John Paul Jones Arena, the natural question from the assembled press to then-Cavaliers coach Dave Leitao was this: How could the ACC miss on another Curry?           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:14:26 EST</pubDate>
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James Madison&#8217;s Kyle Swanston was having a fine night Monday at the Vines Center. The 6-foot-7 forward had knocked down seven 3-pointers before he sank the dagger, a banked 3 from the top of the key that crushed Liberty&#8217;s fading hopes.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:06:13 EST</pubDate>
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Some college basketball fans don&#8217;t see the need for the proliferation of postseason basketball tournaments. Sixty-five teams in the NCAA tournament, 32 more in the NIT, 16 more in the CBI.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:16:27 EST</pubDate>
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Angel McCoughtry and Candyce Bingham each scored 12 points in a short night&#8217;s work, leading Louisville to a 62-42 victory over Liberty in the opening round of the NCAA tournament on Sunday.            ]]></description>
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Liberty University&#8217;s baseball team snapped a two-game losing skid by belting six home runs, including two by Doug Bream, in a 19-6 victory over Fordham, Wednesday afternoon at Worthington Stadium.           ]]></description>
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The lower-tier postseason college basketball tournaments are an interesting case study. For all intents and purposes, the main goal of any team&#8217;s season &#8212; advancing to the NCAA tournament &#8212; was not met. So there are natural questions. Do the athletes care about playing in the so-called consolation tournaments? Do the fans care?           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:51:46 EST</pubDate>
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For the first time in its last three NCAA women&#8217;s tournament appearance, Liberty won&#8217;t have to face a higher seed on its home floor in the first round.

The 14th-seeded Flames will open tournament play Sunday in Baton Rouge, La., against No. 3 seed Louisville in the Raleigh Regional. Game time is set for approximately 9:30 p.m. Central time (8:30 p.m. local time).           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:03:53 EST</pubDate>
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Anthony Smith had one foot out the door in 2006. He had conversations with his old AAU coach. He spoke to friends at other schools. The sophomore guard was done with Liberty and was ready to transfer.

Then a funny thing happened. Liberty underwent a coaching change, and something about new mentor Ritchie McKay convinced Smith to give the school another chance.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:26:50 EST</pubDate>
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Liberty University freshman hockey player Colton Crossley suspected something was wrong Saturday when dozens of people at the American Collegiate Hockey Association Men&#8217;s Division 1 National Championship tournament started feeling sick.

 &#8220;We just felt like we had no energy to play,&#8221; Crossley said. &#8220;I had a really bad headache and felt really nauseous, and so did one of my friends who came to watch. It was a really weird feeling.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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          <title>Updated:LU hockey players treated for carbon monoxide poisoning</title>
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Liberty University freshman hockey player Colton Crossley suspected something was wrong Saturday when dozens of people at the American Collegiate Hockey Association Men&#8217;s Division 1 National Championship tournament started feeling sick.           ]]></description>
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Liberty celebrated a 51-50 victory Sunday at the Millis Athletic Center, Liberty&#8217;s 12th Big South tournament title in the last 13 seasons.           ]]></description>
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Rachel Hammond led Liberty with 13 points in the Flames&#8217; 51-50 Big South tournament championship game victory over Gardner-Webb Sunday. But it wasn&#8217;t Hammond&#8217;s scoring that impressed Gardner-Webb coach Rick Reeves. It was the senior&#8217;s all-out effort that left Reeves gushing after the game.           ]]></description>
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Tyler Bream&#8217;s day mirrored that of his team&#8217;s. The Liberty freshman struck out in his first two at-bats, and on a frigid afternoon at Worthington Stadium, it seemed to take a little while for Bream to get going.

He came through in the eighth inning of Friday&#8217;s Big South opener against Charleston Southern with an opposite-field triple that gave the Flames the lead for good. He later scored on a P.J. Jimenez sacrifice fly, and the Flames&#8217; held on for a 5-4 victory.
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Fresh off earning Big South player of the year honors, Liberty&#8217;s Megan Frazee had 26 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Flames to a 74-64 victory over Charleston Southern in the quarterfinals of the Big South tournament Friday afternoon at High Point&#8217;s Millis Athletic Center.

The Flames (22-8) advance to today&#8217;s 2 p.m. quarterfinal game against No. 4 seed Winthrop (16-14), which beat Coastal Carolina 67-48 in Friday&#8217;s second quarterfinal.
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Liberty women&#8217;s basketball coach Carey Green had trouble convincing his team that the Flames had areas that needed shoring up before the start of this weekend&#8217;s Big South tournament.            ]]></description>
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High Point closed its hard-fought contest with Liberty on a 9-2 run over the last 3:45 at the Millis Center, Monday evening, propelling the Panthers to a 58-53 win in the regular-season finale for both teams.
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RADFORD &#8212; Let&#8217;s contrast the two sides of Thursday&#8217;s Big South tournament semifinal contest. First, VMI. As Liberty&#8217;s Johnny Stephene pushed Travis Holmes on the back for a foul in the second half, Holmes&#8217; momentum kept him going until he stepped three rows deep into a throng of cadets in the end zone at Radford&#8217;s Dedmon Center.

While he was there, Holmes exchanged a few high fives with his fellow cadets, who responded with enthusiastic whoops and slaps on the back.

Meanwhile, on the Liberty bench, there was point guard Jesse Sanders, a spectator again after re-injuring his right ankle so severely that the toes on his foot resembled the skin of a Concord grape.
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          <title>Chris Lang: Liberty&#45;VMI pregame</title>
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News and notes courtside from Radford&#8217;s Dedmon Center           ]]></description>
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          <title>Flames advance to semifinals</title>
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Liberty&#8217;s Kyle Ohman gave the missed free throw little thought. There was nothing he could do to get it back. He clanked the front end of a one-and-one, allowing Gardner-Webb to pull within one possession Tuesday night and make an almost inconceivable comeback possible.           ]]></description>
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UNCA swept the regular-season series last year but Winthrop has won three straight in the series since then, including last year&#8217;s Big South tourney title game.            ]]></description>
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Four Flames reached double figures, as Liberty University&#8217;s women&#8217;s basketball team rolled to its 17th consecutive victory with a 71-33 rout of Presbyterian, Monday night at the Vines Center.
The Flames (20-7, 14-0 Big South Conference) leaped out to an early 15-3 lead and stretched it to 41-11 by halftime in reaching the 20-win mark for the eighth time in nine seasons with their 10th home win in a row.           ]]></description>
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There was some surprising news in regards to Liberty freshman Seth Curry Monday, and some not-so-surprising news.


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As heated as Liberty coach Ritchie McKay was during the final minutes of the Flames&#8217; blowout loss to VMI Tuesday, he presented an aura of calm afterward.

&#8220;It&#8217;s just one game,&#8221; McKay insisted. 

Liberty must gather its wits, forget about the 37-point home loss and prepare to face Big South regular-season champion Radford on its home floor today.

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          <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:05:43 EST</pubDate>
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Liberty has spent much of the 2008-09 basketball season playing a five-guard lineup, but it appears the Flames have finally found a big man.
Make that two big men.

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With 30 seconds left and the Flames trailing at Winthrop in an Jan. 10 Big South Conference contest, redshirt freshmen Avery Warley rammed an offensive rebound home to put the Flames on top to stay.

In Monday&#8217;s rematch with the Eagles in the Vines Center, Warley was not called upon for any late-game heroics, but came up big in another tight game. She shot a perfect 7-for-7 from the floor to help lift the Flames to a 63-48 victory. 

It was Liberty&#8217;s 13th win in a row and 500th in the program&#8217;s history.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:28:42 EST</pubDate>
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Liberty coach Ritchie McKay made a prescient comment about his precocious basketball team in December when the freshman-laden Flames warded off a late run to beat George Mason in overtime.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:22:20 EST</pubDate>
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Seth Curry&#8217;s forehead wrinkled as he contemplated the question. When was the last time he took a pure, uncontested jumper in a game?
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Former South Carolina quarterback Tommy Beecher has accepted a scholarship offer from Liberty and will transfer to LU once he graduates from USC in May.

Beecher&#8217;s playing status for next year is dependant on gaining an NCAA waiver. Beecher has one year of eligibility remaining. Beecher wants to enroll in Liberty&#8217;s seminary program, a graduate discipline South Carolina does not offer.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:56:29 EST</pubDate>
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Seth Curry was going to break Liberty&#8217;s freshman scoring record. Barring injury, it was inevitable. And it happened with 7:05 remaining in the Flames&#8217; 69-48 win over Presbyterian at the Vines Center on Monday night.           ]]></description>
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Liberty University senior forward Megan Frazee scored a season-high 31 points and pulled down a game-high 10 rebounds Monday night in a 58-51 victory, the Flames&#8217; 12th in a row, over Gardner-Webb, which suffered its first defeat of the season at Paul Porter Arena.

Frazee&#8217;s double-double was her third in a row and seventh of the season. Her 10 rebounds bring her career total to 839, making her the eighth-leading rebounder in Big South history.           ]]></description>
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Danny Rocco has had little need to peruse resumes during his three years as Liberty&#8217;s football coach. His coaching staff, for the most part, has undergone little change.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:23:26 EST</pubDate>
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The Washington Redskins have hired Scott Wachenheim as tight ends coach, reuniting head coach Jim Zorn with a colleague from the early 1990s.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:34:54 EST</pubDate>
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Liberty&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team drew one of the 13 televised matchups for ESPNU&#8217;s BracketBusters event on Saturday, Feb. 21.
The Flames will travel to Norfolk to meet Old Dominion. The game will be televised either by ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU or ESPN360.com.           ]]></description>
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About six and a half minutes into Liberty&#8217;s 80-38 women&#8217;s basketball victory over Radford Monday night at the Vines Center, first-year Highlanders coach Tajama Ngongba noticed her defeat on her players&#8217; faces.           ]]></description>
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Jesse Sanders spent much of the first half at the Vines Center dribbling into the middle of the lane, spinning, faking a pass one way and firing one another. He had High Point so confused that the Panthers did the unthinkable and left Liberty&#8217;s shooters wide open.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:20:46 EST</pubDate>
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Liberty coach Carey Green theorized that an impending scoring milestone had gotten into Moriah Frazee&#8217;s head.            ]]></description>
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In the course of Liberty&#8217;s non-conference schedule, the Flames saw plenty of qualified big men.

DePaul&#8217;s Mac Koshwal averages a double-double. Virginia&#8217;s Mike Scott nearly does as well. So Artsiom Parakhouski, who leads Radford into the Vines Center for tonight&#8217;s game with the Flames, shouldn&#8217;t offer much in the way of surprises for Liberty.

But he is an anomaly in the Big South.           ]]></description>
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HIGH POINT, N.C. &#8212; Liberty&#8217;s offense is predicated on continual motion, hard screening and crisp passing.           ]]></description>
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Credit High Point&#8217;s basketball fans Tuesday night. With their team up nine points with less than two minutes to play, they didn&#8217;t leave the Millis Center early to beat the traffic. They stuck around to savor a rare home victory, cheering vociferously as Steadman Short slammed home a dunk with 2:10 left to seemingly seal the game and send the visitors from Lynchburg home stunned.
Those who bounced early missed &#8212; depending on which side you were on &#8212; a mind-numbing collapse or an epic comeback, one completed when Liberty&#8217;s Seth Curry scored an uncontested layup with 5.6 seconds left to put the Flames up four points. Jesse Sanders tacked on a free-throw at the end, and LU escaped with a 61-56 victory, their first here in five years.           ]]></description>
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Senior forward Megan Frazee totaled a game-high 22 points and 14 rebounds as Liberty University&#8217;s women&#8217;s basketball team led from wire to wire in a 75-48 Big South victory at UNC Asheville on Monday night.           ]]></description>
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As the shot clock ticked down, Johnny Stephene dribbled along the baseline, looking for Seth Curry. Five seconds left.            ]]></description>
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The first 15 minutes of Liberty&#8217;s game with East Tennessee State Tuesday night were rough. Really rough. The game was played with all the physical subtlety of a sledgehammer crashing into glass. Bodies flew everywhere. Shots caromed all over the floor, or sometimes missed rim altogether.

Amid this maelstrom of rough and tumble basketball, though, were five minutes of near perfection near the end of the first half for the Flames, who forced ETSU into five turnovers and seven missed shots during closing stretch. Liberty won 64-54, and the 15-0 run just before halftime played a key role in the Flames&#8217; fifth straight victory.

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Former Virginia Tech receiver Ervin Garner was one of four players to transfer to Liberty in time for the start of spring semester classes Monday.
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The move was effortless. Anthony Smith rotated to the right wing off a high ball screen and found himself stunningly open Monday night. The Liberty senior didn&#8217;t hesitate, rising for a high-arcing 3-pointer that slipped through with a satisfying swish.           ]]></description>
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Charleston Southern opened the second half Saturday night at the Vines Center by hitting four of its first five shots to turn a six-point halftime deficit into a four-point lead, and Liberty coach Ritchie McKay was seething, though most fans wouldn&#8217;t know it.           ]]></description>
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A YEAR AGO, KYLEE BEECHER REACHED THE PINACCLE AT HIDDEN VALLEY WITH BACK TO BACK STATE TITLES..
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Pierre Miller scored 22 points &#8212; including a go-ahead 3-pointer with 28 seconds remaining &#8212; to lead Presbyterian to a 67-66 win over Liberty in double overtime on Monday night.            ]]></description>
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Liberty University&#8217;s women&#8217;s basketball team didn&#8217;t exactly roll out the welcome mat for Gardner-Webb in the first game of its inaugural season in the Big South Conference, Saturday night at the Vines Center.

The Bulldogs (7-6, 0-1 BSC), coached by former Flames coach Rick Reeves and featuring Holy Cross graduate Laura Povilonyte, got a dose of what they can expect in the physically imposing league this winter. They were out-rebounded 53-27 in a 55-42 defeat.           ]]></description>
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Tournament MVP Megan Frazee drilled the game-winning shot from just inside the 3-point arc with 51 seconds remaining Tuesday in the Hokie Hardwood Classic championship, lifting Liberty to a hard-fought 45-43 win against host Virginia Tech and giving the Lady Flames the tournament title and their first-ever win over the Hokies.           ]]></description>
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Senior Megan Frazee, returning to the Liberty lineup after an ankle injury had sidelined her for eight straight contests, scored 19 points and grabbed 10 rebounds after halftime Monday in the Flames&#8217; 72-58 victory over  North Carolina A&amp;T.            ]]></description>
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