Eye on Athletics Capping a High Flying Career Baseball coach Jim Morris retired after 25 winning seasons at the U. Two national titles, 44 consecutive NCAA tournaments, 13 College World Series appearances, and numerous players drafted into the Major Leagues: Jim Morris’s career at the University of Miami is over the top. As the legendary […]
Tag Archives: Hurricanes Football
The Inside Story
Eye on Athletics The Inside Story Dominating defenses and high-powered offenses from opposing squads give college football teams enough to worry about week in and week out without the added concern of thunderstorms, lightning, and intense heat disrupting practice sessions. That’s why most of the Elite Power Five schools, including the University of Miami, either […]
Former UM Football Player Gives $1.5M
A Momentum2 gift from T. Kendall “Ken” Hunt, B.B.A. ’65, will endow a full scholarship in perpetuity for the running back position on the UM Hurricanes football team. To read the story, click here.
Off-Field Battles Forged Hall of Famer
Cancer free, quarterback Jim Kelly returns to the U It was the game that put Miami Hurricanes football on the map—a November 1979 road matchup against powerful Penn State. Making his first collegiate start at quarterback for Miami was Jim Kelly, a kid from East Brady, Pennsylvania, who grew up dreaming about playing for the […]
Kelly’s Homecoming
UM and NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly, B.B.A. ’83, will lead Alumni Weekend and Homecoming festivities. Now declared cancer free, Jim Kelly will return to the University of Miami to help his ’Canes family celebrate Alumni Weekend and Homecoming, which takes place October 30 to November 2. Kelly, a Buffalo Bills and Hurricanes […]
