Status Note

1986 marked the second year of Joey Meyer’s tenure at DePaul, since taking over from his father, the legendary Ray. After seven years running with the national elite at the end of Ray’s career, Joey’s first year of 1985 was a step back, as they scraped into the NCAA Tournament and lost in the first […]

It was a new era for DePaul basketball in 1985. The legendary Ray Meyer had stepped down after over four decades on the sidelines and handed the reins to his son Joey. Meyer the Younger was taking over a program that was on a high. DePaul had run with the national elite for the past […]

Ray Meyer was an iconic figure in college basketball. He had been on the sidelines at DePaul since 1942 and guided the program through peaks, valleys, and a changing landscape for over four decades. Some of his best teams came at the end of his career, from the Final Four trip of 1979 to a […]

The Houston Astros were starting to come into their own as they came into 1995. The franchise was coming off two consecutive winning seasons and were firmly in the hunt for the playoffs in 1994 when the August strike cancelled the balance of the season. Baseball resumed in 1995 and so did the Astros, as […]