BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Georgia Southern's men’s basketball team lost, 57-55, to Samford in a Southern Conference game Thursday night.     The Eagles had two chances in the final 30 seconds to win the game, but had a shot at the buzzer miss. The loss drops GSU to 8-12 overall, 6-4 in the SoCon. Samford improved to 6-13, 3-5.     GSU sophomore guard Jelani Hewitt scored 23 points. He was 9 for 15 from the ...

    Georgia Southern's men’s tennis team will begin its 2012 season today with a non-conference match against Mercer University.     A ribbon cutting ceremony to unveil the newly renovated Hanner Tennis Complex will take place at noon and will precede the match against the Bears at 2 p.m.     The major renovation of the main courts near Hanner Fieldhouse began last summer with a reconstruction of the facility. The project included the addition of spectator ...

    Willie Powers III has started in all 19 of Georgia Southern’s men’s basketball games, but GSU head coach Charlton Young says “no one has seen the real Willie Powers yet.”     Powers, a 6-foot-2, 197-pound senior point guard, missed most of GSU’s 2008-09 basketball season because of a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. He missed all of the Eagles’ 2010-11 season after tearing the medial collateral ligament and meniscus in his ...

    Georgia Southern fans will be able to cheer on one of their own in a full Division I Rugby season starting this month.     GSU Rugby is in a new Division I conference that consists of 11 teams in the southeast: Arkansas State, GSU, Kennesaw State, Life University, Middle Tennessee State, Emory, Central Florida, Florida Atlantic, Florida International, South Florida, and Florida State.     The first game is scheduled against Middle Tennessee State at ...