Spring is always the best time for sports. March Madness, the beginning of another baseball season, and both the NBA and NHL playoffs are set to begin. Yet this year there is another sport to add to the list: boxing. Boxing may be missing the…
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Yes Baseball hit it out of the park when it added two wildcard teams for the 2012 season. I have always admired the MLB playoff format for having just four teams in each league make the playoffs compared to the NBA, which has eight teams…
It’s that time of the year where teams look to hit their strides right before their conference tournament. However, the Bradley women’s basketball team is running in the wrong direction with two home losses last weekend. Sunday, on Senior Day, the Braves fell 68-59 to…
The Scout examined the top five greatest moments from NCAA tournament history: 5. 2010 Butler Bulldogs In one of the most improbable runs in tournament history, the Butler Bulldogs out of the Horizon League bested national powers Syracuse, Kansas State and Michigan State to…
Loyola junior Ben Averkamp scored a game-high 19 points as the visiting Ramblers knocked off Bradley 56-44 Saturday night at Carver Arena in the Sears BracketBusters series. Braves’ coach Geno Ford said he was disappointed with the number of shots the team allowed Averkamp to…
Although the Bradley women’s basketball team had its woes on the road, the Braves are on a four-game winning streak at home after beating Northern Iowa 75-61 last Friday. In front of the second-largest home crowd this season, the Braves helped raise $3,200 for the…
The Bradley Braves baseball team started off the season with one win, two losses and one rainout. While that may not seem like the ideal outcome to some, junior Jason Leblebijian saw some positives in the team’s first few games. “I was very happy. It’s…
Bradley basketball coach Geno Ford’s first year on the Hilltop has been a roller coaster ride. The season started with optimism like it always does for the Braves. With Bradley basketball the only game in town, expectations are going to be high. Predictions of a…
Bradley pitcher Joe Bircher may be the best athlete on campus, but you would never know it from talking to him. The 6-foot-4-inch senior from Omaha, Neb. has a quiet confidence and, despite individual success, always puts the team and program first. Bircher has been…
The Bradley men’s basketball team hasn’t shot the ball well all season and the theme continued Wednesday night in a 62-55 loss to Drake at Carver Arena. The Braves shot a dreadful 0-for-20 from the perimeter, connecting on no threes for the second time this…