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Robert Mulcahy's chronicle of his decade leading Rutgers University athletics is an intriguing story about fulfilling a vision. The goal was to expand pride in intercollegiate athletics. Redirecting a program with clearer direction and strategic purpose brought encouraging results. Advocating for finer coaching and improved facilities, he and Rutgers achieved national honors in Division I sports. Unprecedented alumni interest and support for athletics swelled across the Rutgers community. His words and actions were prominent during a nationally-reported incident involving student athletes. When the Rutgers Women's Basketball team players were slandered by racist remarks from a popular radio talk show host, Mulcahy met it head on. With the coach and players, he set an inspiring example for defending character and values. Though Mr. Mulcahy left Rutgers in 2009, his memoir reflects continued devotion to intercollegiate athletics and student athletes. His insights for addressing several leading issues confronting Division I sports today offer guidelines for present and future athletic directors to follow.

Robert Mulcahy's chronicle of his decade leading Rutgers University athletics is an intriguing story about fulfilling a vision. The goal was to expand pride in intercollegiate athletics. Redirecting a program with clearer direction and strategic purpose brought encouraging results. Advocating for finer coaching and improved facilities, he and Rutgers achieved national honors in Division I sports. Unprecedented alumni interest and support for athletics swelled across the Rutgers community. His words and actions were prominent during a nationally-reported incident involving student athletes. When the Rutgers Women's Basketball team players were slandered by racist remarks from a popular radio talk show host, Mulcahy met it head on. With the coach and players, he set an inspiring example for defending character and values. Though Mr. Mulcahy left Rutgers in 2009, his memoir reflects continued devotion to intercollegiate athletics and student athletes. His insights for addressing several leading issues confronting Division I sports today offer guidelines for present and future athletic directors to follow.

[Lauren Elaine Jannucci], a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. [John A. Jannucci] of Mendham and Normandy Beach, N.J., was married yesterday to Matthew Robert Mulcahy, a son of Mr. and Mrs. [Robert E. Mulcahy] 3d of Mendham. Msgr. [Kenneth E. Lasch] performed the ceremony at the Roman Catholic Church of St. James in Basking Ridge, N.J. He was assisted by the Revs. Edward Kearns and George Moore.

\"I will say, the Republican Party does not have a great history with lesbian and gay people,\" the official added. \"We are forced to be hopeful.\" Contract Contretemps Mrs. [Christine Todd Whitman] called Mr. [Robert E. Mulcahy]'s contract extension \"premature\" while taking pains to point out she was not criticizing his performance nor indicating how she would deal with his rehiring \"at the proper time.\" Mrs. Whitman also pointed out that Mr. Mulcahy receives $175,000 a year, the use of an \"executive-class\" car, and a subsidy for membership at a golf club. She said she was sure Mr. [Jim Florio] would agree that \"we must exercise fiscal responsibility, which includes the prudent review of all significant expenditures,\" especially now that some of the authority's bonds could become the obligation of state taxpayers.

Boosters of each of the sports - men's tennis, men's heavy and lightweight crew, men's swimming and diving, men's and women's fencing and men's tennis pleaded their cases before a sometimes- combative board. Board member Les Goodman chided another speaker for \"opining like a lawyer.\" That speaker, Glen Pantel, is a lawyer and the father of freshman fencer Adam Pantel. Athletic Director Robert E. Mulcahy III has proposed that the sports be phased out during this 2006-07 season to streamline the athletic department, which now fields 30 teams.

\"The number one way to decrease steroid use is through random testing,\" said Dr. R. Robert Franks, an orthopedist at Cooper Bone & Joint Institute in Camden. But because of privacy and funding issues - the tests cost $80 to $120 apiece - only 16 districts statewide have enacted such programs. At Hackettstown High School in Warren County, a random drug- testing program cost the district just $2,400 last year, said Stacy Heller, a student-assistance counselor who administers the program. \"If you get a speaker in once to talk to the kids, that can cost $5,000,\" she said. \"Our random drug testing program cost $2,400, and it's certainly more effective than a one-time speaker.\" Another student-assistance counselor, Jodi Ann Bosco, described random testing as \"a preventive tool,\" not an enforcement tool. Studies have shown that a key point for student steroid use is between eighth and ninth grades, when the difference in physical maturity can be most pronounced, said Bosco, who is past president of the state association of student-assistance counselors. The time to start random testing, she said, is freshman year.

Colleges cannot buy the instant recognition and credibility Robert Mulcahy brings to Rutgers as its new athletic director. Mulcahy will need no introduction when he seeks out well-heeled alumni or his former state government peers for their support and, even more important, their money. The news conference Wednesday at which Mulcahy, president and chief executive officer of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority for the past 19 years, was introduced was not much different from past events where new Rutgers coaches were presented. Mulcahy's challenge at Rutgers, where he will relocate permanently April 15, is as big or bigger than the one he assumed in 1979 when he took command at the Meadowlands. If he's half as successful as he was turning the sports complex into a sports and entertainment mecca, Rutgers fans finally will have something to get excited about and the state university will reap the benefits of investing $185,000 a year in Mulcahy for three years.

In 19 years as chief executive of the Meadowlands Sports Complex, Mulcahy presided with acknowledged brilliance over everything from Rolling Stones and Three Tenors concerts to a papal Mass, a World Cup Soccer championship, the NCAA Final Four, and the staging of four major league pro sports franchises. \"We're, frankly, a little nervous,\" said John Mara, executive vice president of the Giants football team, which makes its home in the sports complex. \"Bob Mulcahy almost single-handedly turned the Meadowlands into one of the nation's premiere entertainment venues.\" Mulcahy, 61, announced Wednesday that he is leaving in April to become athletic director at Rutgers University. A former chief of staff for Gov. Brendan T. Byrne, Mulcahy is among the highest-paid state officials, with an annual salary of $182,875. The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority operates the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, and the Atlantic City Convention Center.

Robert E. Mulcahy III, president and chief executive officer of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, is expected to be introduced today as the university's athletic director, according to two sources close to the situation. Mulcahy, who has headed the sports authority since 1979, was not available for comment Tuesday night. His sports authority contract expired Jan. 31, but Governor Whitman asked him to continue in that role as the authority began negotiations with the Nets basketball team over a new lease at Continental Arena. The Republican governor was instrumental in helping Mulcahy, the chief of staff in former Gov. Brendan T. Byrne's Democratic administration and former mayor of Mendham, get the Rutgers job. He will succeed Fred Gruninger at Rutgers. Gruninger announced his retirement in the fall in his 25th year as athletic director.

Point guard Earl Johnson Jr. would like to forget the Rutgers practice nearly two years ago that ended with him and three others running wind sprints in the nude. They were losers in a strip free-throw contest rigged by Coach Kevin Bannon to humiliate players recruited by his predecessor, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed Tuesday by Johnson and two others. Bannon focused on players recruited by his predecessor, Robert Wenzel, including Johnson and 7-foot center Josh Sankes. Other players could skip rounds or replace clothing, according to the lawsuit, filed in state Superior Court in New Brunswick, where Rutgers is based.