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Softball mops one win in rainy week

If Bradley’s softball team thought it were finally done with rain-outs, Wednesday changed its mind pretty quickly. The Braves had a doubleheader scheduled for Wednesday afternoon against Illinois State, and a rainy Wednesday moved those to Thursday. The rain almost kept them playing, but the…

The grotesque double standard in sports

Honestly, there’s nothing I absolutely despise more than a dumb ole double standard. Scratch that; I downright hate it. We see double standards quite a bit, honestly, and none of them are good. Like, when the law tells you to stop texting and driving, yet…

Bradley drops two out of three close games to Evansville last weekend

The toughest out to get in baseball is the last one. Bradley’s baseball team knows this all too well after last weekend, where all three games were decided by four runs combined. The Braves lost two of those three games to the Evansville Aces, one…

Women’s tennis splits weekend, grabs second conference win

Another conference win in the books for the Bradley women’s tennis has put the team in position for their first winning record in over 20 years. Sunday, the Braves (11-11, 2-3 MVC) closed out their 2016 home schedule by clinching its 11th win of the…

Can you feel the Burn(s)?

Last week, senior Lyle Burns was named Missouri Valley Conference Golfer of the Week for the third-straight week and a Bradley record for the fifth time in his career. Now, Burns only has one tournament left in his collegiate golf career: the MVC tournament. His…

Power hitting first baseman Alyson Clemente overcomes injury to smash BU records

Technically, Alyson Clemente broke the Bradley softball home run record 15 days before she officially did. On March 19, the redshirt senior first baseman officially broke Alycia Bachkora’s five-year-old record against Indiana State with a two-out blast, but Clemente still remembers the record-breaker that didn’t…

Softball loses first Valley series to visiting Panthers

Bradley’s softball team went into last weekend’s home series against Northern Iowa on a hot streak, winning seven of its last nine games. However, the magic didn’t last as the Braves came out of the UNI series with a win and two losses to the…

The Masters showed us that golf is great

Sports makes for the greatest reality television in the world. No writer could ever come up with stories that ooze with so much drama and intrigue. Have you ever wondered why the best sports movies and stories are all based on real events? “Hoosiers,” “Moneyball”…

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