Following a week that featured splitting even in a series win at SIU-Carbondale and a loss at SIU-Evansville, the Braves squared off against Missouri State and Northern Illinois University. The result was considerably less than they hoped. Due to an incoming storm, there was a…
Posts published in April 2014
I was in the 5th grade when I heard OutKast for the first time. Their album “Speakerboxxx/The Love Below” had come out earlier that school year, and it was hands down one of the coolest things I had ever heard in my life. From the…
In a weekend that included a furious comeback, an ejection and Mother Nature toying with the schedule, there was also some softball played. Bradley’s softball team dropped two games to Southern Illinois April 12 and 13, taking the first game of a doubleheader Saturday before…
You might have seen him doing flips off trees, running up sloped walls or jumping over obstacles across campus, but soon, you can see him on NBC’s television show, “American Ninja Warrior”. Junior and interactive media major Drew Marinelli was one of more than 120…
April 21-25: Derby Days Sigma Chi fraternity will be hosting its Derby Days philanthropy event. Events for the week will include a speaker from the Children’s Hospital of Illinois, mural painting and a burger cookout, the derby darling pageant and a serenade from members of…
Milwaukee Brewers Almost two weeks into the Major League Baseball season, a couple of teams have shown surprising efforts so far. However, the most surprising team by far is the Milwaukee Brewers. Let’s not mention their series against the Cardinals earlier this week. They lost…
It was Shakespeare who penned the quote, “If music be the food of love, play on.” But what happens when the food of love turns into a buffet? A few months back, I wrote an article that mentioned the way Spotify was an innovation for…
It was a milestone worthy of celebration: it had been a whole two weeks since someone in the NFL was arrested. And then Aldon Smith had to ruin the moment. For some reason, he decided to tell airplane officials in a terminal at the Los…
• Officers received a complaint from a male student who said he saw three unknown males take a traffic barrel from the Main and University intersection construction site around 3 a.m. April 10. Patrol officers and on-campus security not find the males. Most barrels…
In what has been claimed as a school lacking in spirit, Bradley is searching for students to rise above and bring spirit to the Hilltop. The athletic department approved a women’s cheerleading squad and will host its tryouts and Kaboom! tryouts April 25 through April…