The softball team lost both sides of a doubleheader to Creighton under gray skies and scattered storms. The seemingly volatile weather went hand-in-hand with the Braves’ up-and-down season, with a 15-28 record and second from the bottom in the Missouri Valley Conference after winning it…
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Six seniors ended their college tennis careers at the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament in Wichita, Kan., on a sour note as the women and men’s tennis teams went a combined 1-8. Coach Scott Petersen put things in perspective when he referred to his trio of…
For the second time this season, the Bradley baseball team fell to in-state rival Illinois 8-5 in Champaign. The two teams met on April 6 in Peoria with Illinois coming out victorious by just a run with a score 11-10. Illinois jumped all over sophomore…
While most students are struggling to make it to the end of the semester, the women’s track team has a little more on its plate. “The next two-and-a-half weeks are the most challenging part of our competitive year,” said coach David Beauchem. For the ladies…
A certain quarterback in Pittsburgh needs to be thanking his lucky stars. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell suspended Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger for six games to begin the 2010-2011 NFL season for violating the league’s personal-conduct policy. If Roethlisberger follows the conditions laid out by Goodell…
Mariano Rivera Do you want to know why the AL has won 12 straight All-Star games? Mariano Rivera has closed for all but two of them. The Panama Express, the Hammer of God, The Sandman. No player in the past 15 years of sports has…
The Braves traveled to Indiana State to take on the Sycamores and won two of the three games. In the first game of the series, the Braves needed extra innings to take down the Sycamores by a final score of 5-2. Indiana State jumped out…
The Bradley baseball team continued its roller coaster season losing two of three at home to Creighton University. In game one, the Bluejays scored a run in the top of the first inning on a single, sacrifice bunt and another single to take an early…
Fifty one saves, three overtimes and one own goal are something sports fans can only dream of experiencing in a playoff. But those haven’t been spread out over a six-week time frame. Instead they have been wrapped into the first four games of a first…
Lakers As a sophomore in high school, throwing a crumpled piece of paper into a garbage can from a distance was the chance to shout the name of the 2000s greatest basketball player, Kobe Bryant. This childish way of emulating a basketball superstar doesn’t…