The Bradley Braves volleyball team has high hopes for this season, especially after a five-match win streak to start the season. If the team is going to be successful this year, Alise Tupuritis, a junior outside hitter for the Braves, will be in the thick…
Posts published in “Sports”
The Bradley soccer team kicked off its 2012 campaign last weekend splitting two games at Shea Stadium. Gone is a talented senior class that led the Braves to two consecutive trips to the NCAA tournament, including a berth in the second round a season ago.…
Last season ended on a sour note. The Bradley volleyball team finished one win shy of advancing to the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament for the first time since 2005. This season started on a much sweeter note. The Braves went undefeated in the North Carolina…
A new NFL season is nearly upon us. In five days, the regular season kicks off so I figured this would be the perfect time to go division by division and offer my prediction of the winners. AFC North: Baltimore Ravens The AFC North is…
If one were to take a walk and run into Jochen Graf on Bradley’s campus, he would seem like your average student. On the soccer pitch, however, he is transformed into an athlete who described himself as one who would never “shy away from any…
Robert Griffin III Fair or not, the two most talked about rookie starting quarterbacks in the National Football League this season are Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III. So who is going to have the better season? There are three reasons it will be Griffin.…
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…
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…
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…
Perfect game Saturday, Chicago White Sox’s Philip Humber threw the 21st perfect game in MLB history against the Seattle Mariners. Yes, striking out 20 batters in a game is more rare, but that’s an individual performance. As baseball is more of a team sport, a…