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Baseball shaves heads for charity

The Tech baseball team has joined up with the St. Baldrick's Foundation to raise money to help find a cure for childhood cancer.

For every $250 that is raised, a new member of the team will have their head shaved on March 17, 2007 against Boston College.

The team hopes to raise a total of $5000 for the fight against childhood cancer.

St. Baldrick's has raised more than $20 million and they have shaved more than 26,000 heads since their founding in 1999.

As of midnight on Wednesday, the team was approaching the halfway point of their goal.

Ross retires from Army after 3 years

Former Tech coach Bobby Ross retired from football after coaching the game for 27 years.

The 70-year-old coach left Army after three seasons with the team. The Jackets' coach from 1987-1991 led the team to their most recent national championship in 1990.

He was also the unanimous choice as the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award that year as the top coach in collegiate football.

The team finished without a loss, the only nation that year to do so, and beat Nebraska 45-21 in the Citrus Bowl to conclude the season.

Ross went on to coach the San Diego Chargers and lead them to a Super Bowl appearance.

He last coached the Detriot Lions before going to Army in 2004.

Ross inherited a team that was on a fifteen-game losing streak and had ended the previous season with a NCAA record in futility, finishing 0-13.

He compiled a 9-25 record, including a 0-3 record against rival Navy, in his three seasons in Army.

Ross has also had coaching stints at the Citadel from 1973-1977 and Maryland from 1982-1986. He has a collegiate record of 96-85-2 in sixteen years of college coaching and a 77-68 record in the NFL.