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Belmont wins OVC opener

In its first game in the Ohio Valley Conference, the Belmont women’s basketball team came back to defeat SIU Edwardsville 66-52 Saturday night at the Curb Event Center. “It was nerve-wracking to be honest,” coach Brittney Ezell said. “I normally don’t get nervous, and the coaching staff doesn’t get nervous. [...]

Second half run puts Bruins past Jackrabbits
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Second half run puts Bruins past Jackrabbits

All the Belmont men’s basketball team needed was a three to get started. The second half shot from Kerron Johnson sparked the Bruins on an 18-5 run that gave them to a 76-49 win against the South Dakota State Jackrabbits Wednesday night. “That’s about as much as I can remember, [...]

Kansas creams Belmont by 29
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Kansas creams Belmont by 29

LAWRENCE, Kan. – When Kansas guard Ben McClemore completed an alley-oop dunk to end the first half, the Belmont men’s basketball team left the Allen Fieldhouse court before he could make a subsequent free throw for the Jayhawks after the play. In a way, the Bruins never returned, getting drubbed [...]

Bruins blast Blue Raiders in 15-point win
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Bruins blast Blue Raiders in 15-point win

With a one-point lead, an Ian Clark 3-pointer late in the first half was more than just the first long-distance shot the Belmont men’s basketball team made on the night. Clark’s basket sparked a 21-5 run that pushed the Bruins to a 64-47 win over the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders [...]

Just ‘tweet’ it: The curse of convenience of social media in sports
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Just ‘tweet’ it: The curse of convenience of social media in sports

We all know the power of social media, especially at sporting events. We can take a photo from our smartphone, apply a filter on it in Instagram and tag our location in FourSquare. From there we can tweet it or post it on Facebook. Whether it’s to vent or to [...]

The Week at Belmont– December 5, 2012
Blogs/Opinion

The Week at Belmont– December 5, 2012

December is here. The semester is coming to a close and the weather couldn’t be farther from Christmas. We here at The Week at Belmont felt that it’s time for a celebration of all the great things in life since we are all going to “Die Young.” Confused? Watch Host [...]

Magnolia preps for open, requires Bruin Hills demolition
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Magnolia preps for open, requires Bruin Hills demolition

Once she finishes exams, Diana Wells-English said she has some major packing to do before she can leave campus. After four months living in Bruin Hills, the junior nursing major will have to move out of her apartment that won’t exist when she returns to Belmont in January. Wells-English is [...]

Sports

Battle: Belmont-Lipscomb games go beyond hoops

Separated by less than three miles, the Battle of the Boulevard rivalry between Belmont and Lipscomb is one of the physically closest rivalries in the nation. For the past nine years, that rivalry came with more implications than bragging rights with both teams in the Atlantic Sun Conference. But starting [...]

Battle: Schools keep rivalry alive after OVC move
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Battle: Schools keep rivalry alive after OVC move

After surviving the jump from NAIA to NCAA Division I athletics and a move to the Atlantic Sun Conference, the Battle of the Boulevard rivalry has reached another crossroad as Belmont transitions into the Ohio Valley Conference. Touted by some, including ESPN, as one of the most heated mid-major rivalries [...]

Clark scores 30 in rout over Bisons
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Clark scores 30 in rout over Bisons

  Ian Clark couldn’t miss. The senior guard shot seven threes and scored in double digits for his seventh of eight games in the Belmont mens’ basketball team’s 34-point win over the Lipscomb Bisons Tuesday night. “Ian, over the course of the first eight games, has played better than any [...]

Battle: The branding of a rivalry
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Battle: The branding of a rivalry

Moments define legacies. In a fierce rivalry that began in 1953, the Belmont and Lipscomb men’s basketball programs are no strangers to each other on the court. But in that long history, two games launched the real start of the intensity: Belmont’s 1989 upset of Lipscomb and the 1990 Memorial [...]

Battle: Bout continues, business as usual, after hiatus
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Battle: Bout continues, business as usual, after hiatus

It has been said that all good things must come to an end. But in the case of the Battle of the Boulevard between Belmont and Lipscomb, sometimes that end only means a short break. For several years, the NAIA’s District 24 played host to a constant battle for supremacy [...]

News

Fisher talks Wedgewood, enrollment in Q-and-A

While the construction for the Wedgewood Academic Building may still be deep in a hole, President Bob Fisher said in a Q-and-A session Monday building will emerge into form quickly. “By the time students come back from winter break the parking levels will have been started and by the beginning [...]

The above photo shows the two consecutive emails sent by Belmont communications specialist Juanita Cousins. Above is the email that was sent to students connected to the Black Student Association, and below the original campus-wide email sent to encourage students to attend the filming of ABC's "Nashville." 
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BSA members offended by email for ‘brown faces’

Minutes after the entire campus received an email from Belmont Friday encouraging them to participate as extras in the filming of ABC’s “Nashville” on campus, another email — not officially from the university — was sent to members of the Black Student Association. “Producers want to use students as extras in [...]

ABC’s ‘Nashville’ films on campus
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ABC’s ‘Nashville’ films on campus

On Monday Dec. 3, the hit show Nashville filmed a concert scene among other things on Belmont’s campus.