While only claiming one victory in three games over the weekend, the Bradley Braves baseball team has bounced back to win consecutive games. Tuesday night the Braves defeated Iowa 7-3 and beat Northern Illinois 4-3 Wednesday. The Braves pitching staff gave up 25 total runs on Saturday and Sunday, but [...]

After cruising through the season, the Bradley softball team took a wrong turn last weekend. Illinois State swept the Braves in their three-game series, including a 5-3 victory in 10 innings Sunday. It was the first time Bradley has been swept in a three-game series since playing Drake on March [...]

What we’ve known for months finally became reality Thursday night. Quarterbacks Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III were drafted No. 1 and No. 2 overall by the Indianapolis Colts and Washington Redskins, respectively. The NFL draft is an imperfect science. For every Peyton Manning, John Elway and Cam Newton there [...]

Jack White is a familiar name for any rock enthusiast, although his reputation is debatable. For some, he’s spread himself too thin, for others he is a musical renaissance man. The fact is, he’s created three different bands featuring different styles of music, opened his own production company and left [...]

I went into Girl Talk with very high hopes, and I think I was in the minority there. Unfortunately, nothing quite lived up to my expectations, from the minimal turnout to the mediocre openers and lack of crowd etiquette, things were not what I was hoping they would be. The [...]

Brace yourselves, avid moviegoers. The summer blockbuster season is coming. Hollywood has prepared a large slate of sequels, prequels, remakes and reboots for our rapid consumption in the upcoming months. But which offerings are truly worth seeing? Marvel Comics’ “The Avengers” will be the first film out the door, with [...]

An issue that both President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney actually agree on can only mean two things for America — either the Mayans were right or it’s something that should be seriously considered. With Congress’ College Cost Reduction and Access Act, which decreased the interest rate [...]

As an English major, I would be careless if I did not use a poem to describe my experience in college: “If things had happened differently  Maine or upper Michigan  might have given me a sense of place…   But as it is, the only thing that gives me a [...]

My first article for the Scout came out in September of 2008, at a time when most people at this university were still in high school. It feels like ages ago. I was a freshman, in my first few weeks in college and I was just starting to figure out [...]