Coach Rick Byrd probably said it best during Thursday night’s postgame press conference after Belmont’s loss to Arizona – losing wasn’t all that fun. Nevertheless, Bruin Nation loves that the men’s basketball program is led by such a genuine coach, and Byrd’s trip back to the hotel after the game [...]
As far as Belmont athletics are concerned, there’s no doubt that basketball is king. The men’s program has earned postseason tournament invitations in seven of the past nine years, including a berth in the NCAA Tournament in five of the last seven years. But as the old saying must go, [...]
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 [...]
As a daughter of the South, I’ve grown up learning to love SEC football and the entire culture surrounding it. From time to time, part of this culture involves raising cane when your team is having a poor season. Tennessee Vols fans have turned this into an art form. Three [...]
Chipper Jones has never been my favorite Atlanta Brave. He’s been a little too friendly with the disabled list the past few years, and the bulging wad of tobacco lodged between his gums and cheek never ceases to repulse me. But in a day where athletes jump teams for money [...]
As a Towering Traditions leader herding freshmen around Belmont’s campus, attending the Welcome Week events for the third year, I feel more than qualified in considering myself an expert on Belmont tradition. I know that the bell tower has stood the test of time. It was a source of irrigation [...]
It seems that most male dominated sports today actually have a pretty even female counterpart — baseball and softball, men’s and women’s basketball, track, golf, cross country. The list goes on. Notice how football didn’t make the cut. An extremely physical contact sport, football demands a certain physique—bulky biceps and [...]
Being the impatient person that I am, standing in line on a rainy Saturday in Franklin waiting for an autograph of a semi-famous Atlanta Braves pitcher was not my definition of fun. But when you promise your little brother you’re going to get him a signed baseball, by golly, you [...]
04/19/2012
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