It felt like basketball weather on a crisp 50 degree afternoon in Peoria last Saturday as the men’s and women’s basketball teams invited fans into the Renaissance Coliseum for their annual Red-White Scrimmage. The women tipped-off first and played two 10-minute halves. The White team…
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There seems to be something about traveling to Iowa that always stifles the Bradley volleyball team. Bradley hasn’t won in Iowa since Nov. 2013. This trip proved to be no different as the Braves were defeated by Drake and Northern Iowa over the weekend. “Playing…
There were a lot of pivotal “firsts” in the life of 6-year-old Austin Shone. When I was six, I helped my dad pour cement into a small hole next to our driveway to put up my first basketball hoop. It would eventually develop a ring…
The resurgence of redshirt senior Dan Lensing sparked the Bradley men’s golf team this week at the Valparaiso Crusader Collegiate in Chesterton, Indiana. Lensing led the Braves to their first tournament victory of the season as he fired a 5-under 211 en route to his…
Bradley’s men’s and women’s golf programs started their respective seasons at the Golfweek Program Challenge in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina this past week as both teams combined to finish sixth of 14 teams over the extent of the three-day tournament. The tournament is unique because…
If you think coaching one college golf team is difficult, try coaching two. That is the challenge Bradley head coach Jeff Roche is taking on this fall. With the departure of women’s golf coach Mary Swanson to Washington University in St. Louis late this summer,…
When I came to college three years ago, I had a faint idea as to what the sport of disc golf (now referred to as Frolf) was. I had a few friends who caught the Frisbee fever in high school, but I didn’t understand the…
Picture this. It’s the end of July and you’re about to board a trans-Atlantic flight, when you see multiple 7-footers in red sweat suits filling the aisles of the plane. No, you’re not seeing things, it was just the Bradley men’s basketball team heading across…
Every year, I buy my mom a book for her birthday. It’s become something she looks forward to each September. In fact, it’s quite a logical gift. My mom loves churning through pages before she goes to bed each night. I’m a writer who has…
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…