Part of the beauty of college sports is the anonymity; on any given day, we can pass Gannon’s best athletes on campus or in class without even knowing it. What sets them apart as big men or women on campus is what they do wearing the Gannon uniform. So without any further ado, I present [...]
Cleve Wright seldom backs down from a challenge. His Gannon teams played the same way. Many Gannon University women’s basketball backers will remember Wright for the banners that decorate the Hammermill Center. There were many. But I’ll remember Wright for his commitment to molding not just championship-caliber players but model student-athletes, all the while embodying [...]
Consider one broken collarbone, an eight-game suspension and a couple of one-game suspensions to be enough damage from Friday’s Dodgers-Padres brawl. Let’s not make baseball’s credibility another casualty by being overzealous in disciplining just one-half of the responsible parties involved in the first donnybrook of the season. When Los Angeles’ Zack Greinke nailed San Diego’s [...]
Tiger Woods enters Thursday’s Masters tournament as the favorite to win with 5-2 odds despite having not won a major since 2008. But the real number Las Vegas oddsmakers should be focusing on this week is the over-under on how many strokes Tiger will win his fifth green jacket by. For the first time since [...]
Kudos to Mark Richard, Dan Teliski and everyone in the Gannon athletics department who made the Atlantic Regional a smashing success this weekend at the Hammermill Center. Coaches and players couldn’t stop raving about the red carpet treatment they received during their time at Gannon, which passed with flying colors in its dress rehearsal of [...]
While the inevitable break-up of the Big East doesn’t rival that of the Beatles in 1970, it seems like only yesterday that its problems were so far away. On Saturday, the conference took one step closer to its self-inflicted obsolescence when heavyweights Georgetown and Syracuse met for the final time at the Carrier Dome, closing [...]
Residents of Goodyear, Ariz., may have been surprised last week when a group of high-profile sluggers and recognizable names disguised as Cleveland Indians descended at the Tribe’s spring training facility. And while a mirage in the desert isn’t an uncommon occurrence, the sight of Nick Swisher, Michael Bourn, Brett Myers and Mark Reynolds in Indians [...]
Don’t break out the cheesehead yet, but what was as icy cold as a playoff game at Lambeau Field five years ago might finally be showing the first signs of thawing. The Green Bay Packers and Brett Favre are in a position to reunite and finally let bygones be bygones, according to Favre’s successor, Aaron [...]
OK, enough football. Enough Harbaugh brothers. Enough Ray Lewis and Colin Kapernick. Enough pistol formation, power outage and bad commercials. Heck, they weren’t even the most interesting storylines of last week. In case you haven’t noticed, and judging by the attention, you haven’t, the PGA Tour season is under way. And it has every bit [...]
When faced with a situation in which I have to decide whether to fish or cut bait, I subscribe to theory put forth by the patriarch of the Harrison family of Pawn Stars fame. A matter-of-fact 71-year-old with a sharp tongue, the “Old Man,” as he is referred to affectionately, has one basic philosophy. “If [...]