I found this article today on
ESPN.com about former HSC basketball player and member of the
HSC Hall of Fame - Russell Turner.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5392828
Russell Turner wasn't quite getting it. The point of the drill -- the one he helped run as a young assistant coach at Wake Forest -- was to give an underclassman named Tim Duncan confidence in a particular scoring move. That involved actually letting Duncan score.Instead, the 6-foot-7 Turner turned competitive when assigned during practices to put a body on Duncan and conceded nothing while trying to toughen up the future national player of the year. In those moments, recalled former Wake Forest coach Dave Odom with a laugh, Turner actually tried to shut down Duncan. "He had a total sense of fearlessness," said Odom, who Turner served under from 1994 to 2000. "He was unafraid of anybody. You're looking at Dean Smith and Mike Krzyzewski and Bobby Cremins and Gary Williams, all these coaches we're going up against. He'd look at them and say, 'Why can't we do this?' He motivated me."
Turner's first head-coaching stop is at a school with zero NCAA tournament appearances. Turner is facing yet another daunting challenge now that he's a head coach for the first time. He's trying to energize a UC Irvine program that, despite two Big West regular-season titles under former coach Pat Douglass, has never before advanced to the NCAA tournament. The school decided not to renew Douglass' contract in March, ending his 13-year run after a 14-18 season and later hiring the 39-year-old Turner, with his history of winning wherever he's coached on the college level. There does exist a tiny gap on that résumé, one that reveals just how much Turner believes in his own abilities. A decade ago, after six seasons as an up-and-coming assistant in the ACC, Turner left it all behind. His wife, Elizabeth, had finished first in her class at Wake Forest and gotten accepted into the medical residency program at UC San Francisco. In supporting her, Turner was willing to move across the country with no promise of another coaching job and risk stepping off the career fast track. "Everyone in the business thought I was nuts," said Turner, who graduated magna cum laude from
Hampden-Sydney (Va.) College, where he was the runner-up for Division III player of the year in 1992.
In the last 30 days http://www.hsctigers.com/ has had 404 unique visitors! The visitors came from 16 states and 6 different countries. 
Joe Bush, who has served as Hampden-Sydney College's athletic director for the past 18 years, has announced he will retire at the end of the fall semester. Bush cited "family issues" as his reason for retirement.
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY —Clayton Michael Parker, a senior at Hampden-Sydney College, has been inducted into the Gamma Chapter of Chi Beta Phi at the college. The national honorary science society recognizes and rewards academic excellence in the sciences and encourages participation in scientific fields.
Article from the NC Wesleyan Website: 
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY, VA (09/08/2010)(readMedia)-- At Opening Convocation on Thursday, August 26, John Robert Chambers, a sophomore at Hampden-Sydney College, received the Omicron Delta Kappa
Award. The ODK Award was established in 1974 to mark the 50th
anniversary of the Lambda Circle and has been endowed by generous
contributions from ODK alumni. This scholarship is awarded annually to
a member of the sophomore class who demonstrated real leadership in
their freshman year....
Below is an article from the Times Dispatch on HSC QB Travis Lane
The ODAC, with Hampden-Sydney. I think the Tigers are
a little stronger than we give them credit for entering their opener
with Averett. How many times has a Marty Favret offense plugged in
another quarterback and been off to the races? I remember worrying
about a Favret offense once. That was 1998, however.
Today is the official start to the football season for the 2010 Hampden Sydney Tigers! The players and coaches are ready, able, eager, and predicted to win big again in 2010. This teams returns many veterans and a host of bright eyed newcomers. 
