Although the game will not count on the final record for the Bradley men’s basketball team, the Braves faced off in their lone exhibition game against Division III powerhouse Augustana College out of Rock Island, Illinois. From the initial tip, the Braves lacked a certain…
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In sports, it’s rare to find a player considered to be a diamond in the rough. Those would-be players that have top talent, but remain undiscovered as the season goes on, only getting a chance to play when the opportunity arises. That would be the…
The Missouri Valley Conference’s media day last week was supposed to get fans ready for basketball season. Instead, the fans were treated to MVC TV broadcaster Mark Adams making some odd and flat out wrong statements about the state of college athletics. The luncheon started…
As the Bradley men and women’s golf teams break from competition for winter, the teams hope their momentum and confidence are in full swing when they tee off the spring season. The women’s golf team is coming off a sixth place finish at the Pat…
Bradley’s “official” basketball teams may be tipping off, but basketballs have been bouncing on the Hilltop for a while. The women’s club basketball team is coming off of a weekend tournament at Illinois State University in which they went 4-1. It was the team’s second…
Derrick Rose The Most Valuable Player race in the NBA is more like winning a spot on a high school homecoming court than an objective, statistically-motivated decision. It’s a popularity contest that favors whomever is making the biggest splash in the mind of today’s “what-have-you-done-for-me-lately”…
On Thursday night, in front of a small gathering of communication students, Athletic Director Michael Cross announced Bradley University as a frontrunner in a potential partnership between the Missouri Valley Conference and ESPN. The deal, which has been in the works for a year, is…
Bradley’s soccer team has been through its fair share of bumps and bruises. Earlier in the season, the Braves lost sophomore J.T. Kotowski to a season-ending knee injury and now Coach Jim DeRose fears his team may have lost junior goaltender Shay Niemeyer yet another…
College athletics is a fast-paced and crazy business that has individuals moving from institution to institution regularly. As such, for the second time in two years, Director of Athletics Michael Cross found himself without an Athletic Director (AD) for External Affairs, as Heidi Wegmueller announced…