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Sports Column: The Problem with Hype
By Charles Jardine Assistant Editor If you are a sports fan of any capacity, you are familiar with the word hype. It is a term that can be loosely defined as the emphasizing of one’s performance or potential. It is a word that has become ever more prevalent in broadcasting these days and is simultaneously […]
Sports amid a global pandemic
Teresa Dulac Sports Editor As a new semester of school begins in the midst of a global pandemic, we begin to see the major changes made to our usual busy school schedules. One of these major changes is the absence and changes made to the sports on Franciscan University of Steubenville’s campus. As the Presidents’ […]
Students Sports Column: When it’s over
JOHN GALLAGHER SPORTS EDITOR Every time I remove my jersey post-match, it becomes just slightly more difficult. I’m reminded that for as much adoration as I have for the sport of tennis, just like the admiration so many athletes on campus have for their respective sports, there will come a time when I have to take […]
Intramural sports sponsor community among students and athletes
KETRINA CLEMONS STAFF WRITER The Finnegan Fieldhouse echoes with sounds in the evenings, and the fields are full of students who are not competing in the NCAA brackets. Why? Because it’s intramural season. Intramural athletics is an individual experience to each athlete that participates. For one athlete who does not feel fit enough for a […]
Intramural America
JOHN GALLAGHER SPORTS EDITOR Intramural athletics is a strange wonder to an athlete. An authentic athlete, one dedicated to his sport to the extent that he or she will augment form and endurance with supplemental workouts, ice baths, correct nutrition, conditioning sessions and the like, finds himself now in a novel setting. With specific regard […]