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The NCAA's implementation of limited summer practices for women's basketball teams couldn't have come at a better time for new University of Tennessee at Chattanooga coach Jim Foster and his team.

Luke Winter came out of the locker room after halftime looking like he was in a Three Stooges episode and Moe had just conked him on the head with a blunt instrument.

The Chattanooga Football Club has four games left on its schedule.

Former Bradley Central wide receiver James Stovall picked the United States Naval Academy over the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga as a senior in high school.

Former Bradley Central wide receiver James Stovall passed on the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga as a senior in high school. After a year at the Naval Academy Preparatory School, Stovall signed with the Mocs today.

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's basketball coach Jim Foster has hired two young assistant coaches, Brittany Johnson and John McCray, both of whom were with him in some capacity at Ohio State.

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s basketball coach Jim Foster has hired two assistants, Brittany Johnson and John McCray, leaving only a graduate assistant vacancy on his staff. The hirings became official late Tuesday afternoon.

With perfect Academic Progress Rate four-year averages of 1,000, the men's golf and cross country teams led the way in a very good 2011-12 academic year for University of Tennessee at Chattanooga athletics.

Nine of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s 17 sports posted perfect Academic Progress Rate scores of 1,000 for the 2011-12 academic year. Men’s golf and men’s cross country had four-year averages of 1,000 for the NCAA’s measurement of player eligibility, retention and graduation.

The Chattanooga Football Club will face its toughest road test of the season this weekend with back-to-back games against the New Orleans Jesters and Mississippi Storm.

The much-anticipated start of defensive end Vantrell McMillan's University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football career will likely have to wait until 2014.

While Mercer and East Tennessee State made their moves to the Southern Conference official Thursday, Virginia Military Institute had to wait until Friday.

There's a decent chance that during the Chattanooga Football Club's road game tonight against the Knoxville Force, a Frenchman will pass the ball to an Englishman who will send it on to a Kenyan for a CFC goal.

After six months of one-way traffic out of the Southern Conference, three schools were added to the league Thursday.

The Southern Conference didn't rush to add members once the dominoes began falling and schools began announcing that they were leaving what had been a 12-member league since 2008.

The Southern Conference announced today that the league has offered invitations to join the league to East Tennessee State, Mercer and the Virginia Military Institute. The three schools were approved by the SoCon’s council of presidents this morning during the spring meetings in Hilton Head, S.C.

Southern Conference commissioner John Iamarino is optimistic that his battered league, which has seen five of 12 members announced their plans to move elsewhere, will approve bringing in three new members today.

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga was going to have a meaty Southern Conference home football schedule in 2014.

Wiping sweat from his face Monday, David Randall had nothing but good things to say about his experiences in Chattanooga the past few days. And for good reason.

Amid all of the uncertainty and instability facing the Southern Conference following the announced departures of five of the league's 12 members, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga sees opportunity.

The Chattanooga Football Club wasn't in top form Saturday against the Mississippi Storm — there were many missed scoring chances and some defensive lapses — but it played well enough for a 3-0 win.

David Blackburn spoke with confidence Friday when he was asked if the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga was still committed to the Southern Conference, the Mocs' home since 1976.

The Chattanooga Lookouts earned their fourth straight win Friday night at AT&T Field, beating the Pensacola Blue Wahoos 1-0 in a defensive duel. Four in a row is the Lookouts' longest win streak of the season.

Fynn Glover likes to run. Whether it's while wearing his Chattanooga Football Club uniform or almost any other time, the 25-year-old covers a lot of ground.

What started as a trickle has become a full-fledged flood.

Elon University announced today that it was leaving the Southern Conference and taking its athletic programs to the Colonial Athletic Association.

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga senior associate athletic director Matt Pope is one of five finalists for the Austin Peay athletic director job. He will interview Monday at the Ohio Valley Conference school in Clarksville, Tenn.

The Chattanooga Lookouts lost for the fourth time in five games Friday night at a soggy AT&T Field. But at least there were no extra innings this night.

Fresh off a hard-to-swallow overtime loss Tuesday in the first round of the U.S. Open Cup, the Chattanooga Football Club is back on the road tonight in its return to National Premier Soccer League play.

While serving as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's basketball coach is Jim Foster's newest and primary professional responsibility, it's not his only one.

As new University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men's basketball coach Will Wade spoke at his introductory reception Tuesday, almost-as-new athletic director David Blackburn sat to the left of the stage.

Three days after opening its National Premier Soccer League schedule with a 5-0 rout, the Chattanooga Football Club turns its attention tonight to the first round of the U.S. Open Cup.

The Chattanooga Football Club kicked off its fifth season Saturday night at Finley Stadium.

Want to know what the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's basketball team will look like offensively and defensively under new coach Jim Foster?

Jim Foster scrolled through his text messages Friday, shortly after being introduced as the new University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's basketball coach.

The Chattanooga Football Club's fourth season ended last July in San Diego with a loss in the National Premier Soccer League championship game. Year five for the local men's amateur side begins at 7:30 tonight at Finley Stadium.

David Blackburn's first big decision as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga athletic director was a bold one. Blackburn announced via Twitter around noon Thursday — it was his first tweet ever — that former Vanderbilt and Ohio State coach Jim Foster had been hired as the new women's basketball coach at UTC.

Jim Foster, who spent the past 11 seasons at Ohio State, has been hired as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s basketball coach, new UTC athletic director David Blackburn announced via Twitter today.

On the same day that Southern Conference commissioner John Iamarino was in Lexington, Va., for a site visit to the Virginia Military Institute, a possible addition to the league, Davidson made its future departure official.

Davidson College turned down an invitation to join the Colonial Athletic Association last October, opting to remain in the Southern Conference, where it has had the most successful men's basketball program for the past decade.

The concurrent searches for new University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s and women’s basketball coaches are progressing and should be wrapped up within the next week or so, new athletic director David Blackburn said Monday.

Moses Johnson was in the gym shooting Saturday when she received a phone call asking how she was handling the uncertainty surrounding the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's basketball program.

The games on the field were the story for most of Friday, day two of the Gulf South Conference baseball tournament at AT&T Field. The rain in the forecast for this weekend also received a lot of attention.

Josh Williams ended his University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football career as the Mocs' all-time sack leader with 23.5.

During a conference call Thursday that lasted about 20 minutes, the Southern Conference made major progress toward adding new members to replace the departing College of Charleston, Appalachian State and Georgia Southern.

Max Aeschlimann looked right at home on the mound at AT&T Field on Thursday. Of course, he'd been there before

The crack of the bat sound coming from AT&T Field will sound a little different for the next few days. Instead of the wooden bat smack of the Chattanooga Lookouts and their opponents, composite bats will be connecting during the Gulf South Conference baseball championship, which begins at 10 this morning.

The Chattanooga Football Club is less than two weeks away from the start of its fifth season.

When Georgia Southern and Appalachian State made it official last month that they were leaving the Southern Conference for the Sun Belt, it put the SoCon's 2014 football schedule in disarray.

The Chattanooga Lookouts and Jackson Generals were tied at 4 heading into the bottom of the eighth inning Friday night at AT&T Field when play was suspended due to heavy rainfall.

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