If last year’s Stanley Cup playoffs taught us anything, it was that the Nashville Predators are serious contenders to win it all. While they ultimately fell in the finals to the reigning champion Pittsburgh Penguins, the Predators came away from the loss hungrier than ever…
Posts published in April 2018
Eight teams remain as we head into the second round of the 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Out of those eight teams, my pick to win the Stanley Cup is the Vegas Golden Knights. At the start of the season, they had the longest odds to…
Seventeen members of the Bradley track team traveled to Azusa, California, late last week to run in the two-day Bryan Clay Invitational. Every runner came away with season bests. Thursday was highlighted by redshirt junior Haran Dunderdale, who finished first out of 99 in the…
The Bradley tennis team ended the regular season in a dominant fashion on Sunday, defeating the Valparaiso Crusaders 7-0 at the Markin Tennis courts, completing its first full sweep of the season. Freshman Sandra Maletin and sophomore Natalia Barbery led the way by winning their…
The Bradley softball team managed one win in a three-game series against Southern Illinois University at Petersen Hotels Field in Peoria this past weekend. After a mid-week 6-5 win against rival Illinois State, the Braves are now 18-25 overall and 7-11 in the Missouri Valley…
The Bradley Running Club is hoping to collect a third consecutive victory in the Illinois Marathon Relay on Saturday in Champaign. This is the largest race of the semester for the Running Braves. They will enter two relay teams, made up of four runners…
He was born a human like the rest of us. His enormous size put him at a physical advantage, but put his health at a disadvantage. Gentle giant André Roussimoff, better known as André the Giant, revolutionized the sport of wrestling, and HBO’s recently released…
The Bradley men’s golf team ended its regular season on Tuesday as the champions of the Missouri Valley Conference. The Braves totaled a score of 883, 15 strokes ahead of second-place Southern Illinois, at the par-72 Dalhousie Country Club in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. On day…
The Bradley baseball team traveled to Champaign on Tuesday night to take on the University of Illinois, as late-inning heroics paved the way for a 4-3 Braves victory. The Braves scored early as senior Derek Bangert drove in sophomore Luke Shadid to get things started…
The creative process in the performing arts isn’t always a picnic, but for the theatre department at Bradley, the work is entirely worth it. The Department of Theatre Arts closes its 2017-2018 season with the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Picnic,” a show about a drifter who disrupts…