Time runs down, the buzzer rings and the crowd cheers. The players go back to their locker rooms, the fans file out and the cleaning crew gets to work. The lights fade to black, game over, season over. The clock is winding down on my time at Murray State, and the season has already ended Read More
The OVC finals are over, and the team is definitely not sitting in the spot I had hoped for. Those last couple minutes of overtime in the game against Belmont were hard to watch, especially that last basket made by Kerron Johnson to make the score 70-68. I wanted to cry for our team. It Read More
It was recently announced that wrestling would no longer be an Olympic sport. The 2020 Summer Olympics will be the first games not to have the sport offered. Members of the International Olympic Committee voted in a secret ballot to drop the sport from the competition in order to have room for more modern sports. Read More
Last semester, I wrote a column containing my top two male professional athlete crushes. There are definitely more than two people in the sports world that I crush on. Since Valentine’s Day was Thursday, I thought I would dedicate this column to a few more of my favorites. However, these three athletes are a little Read More
I didn’t realize how much I had missed hockey until I sat down to watch the game. I had been looking forward to this game since I first heard about the lockout. Sitting alone in my room, decked out head to toe in the Chicago Blackhawks’ team’s colors, the anticipation was overwhelming. When the puck Read More
For as long as I can remember my dad has always been a coach. He has coached many different types of sports and many different levels, including my YMCA league soccer games, high school basketball and assisting at the college level. I remember growing up when he came home late from practice and told my Read More
At Murray State we have a huge batch of talented players in a wide variety of sports. Everyone knows about our successful basketball team, but rifle and golf have had very strong starts to their seasons, and track is expected to do well also. Many of these players will go on to play at the Read More
These sports men are attractive to the eye but also have hearts of gold. A few of them may have bad reputations, but if you look a little closer, you can see they are actually decent guys. Well, as much as one can tell from an interview. Here are a pair of my favorites, though Read More