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After being shot at a city nightclub, it was unclear if Franklin Martin would ever play football again. When he returned to the practice field, he told his story.

10/21/05 Empty Gun Was All That Kept JMU Player Alive

 
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Stories ran daily on JMU's hiring process as they made a run at former UNC coach Matt Doherty before hiring Dean Keener.

03/19/05 Carrier: Go For It

03/23/05 Bourne: Still Researching

03/31/05 Today Or Thursday, JMU Says

04/02/05 JMU Hires Keener After
Being Rejected By Doherty

 
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06/28/03 - Touched By Cancer...But By Few RCBL Hitters, Bruins' Chumley Persists

 
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06/21/03 - Heatwole Retires
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05/08/03 - Wither Weathers Horrible Crash
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Bud Childers' return from medical leave took on a surreal look as his team refused to practice and his status was in limbo for two days, the deadlock ultimately broken by his resignation. Unfazed, his former team went on to score an overtime upset against long time rivals, without their former coach.

02/04/03 - Childers Back At Work

02/05/03 - Childers' Status Murky

02/06/03 - Childers Out Again

02/07/03 - Bourne: Childers Won't Be Back

02/08/03 - Dukes Turn Attention To Basketball

02/10/03 - Larry Chides Madison

02/10/03 - Brooks' Dukes Shock Monarchs

02/14/03 - Friends Rally Around Childers
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Don Burgess, a former Harrisonburg High School star, had only been on the job one month as assistant basketball coach at Virginia Military Institute but he had already fallen under the spell of the tradition and atmosphere atthe 164 year old school. October 17, 2002 - Burgess Falling For The Rat Life
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Roger Bergey ends his 30 year coaching career at Harrisonburg High School demonstrating the integrity that has carried him through good and bad by pulling his team from the Valley District Tournament as discipline for an egregious example of poor sportsmanship. July 1, 2002 - Three Storied Decades