Photo courtesy of: Baseballhall.org Recently, the National Baseball Hall of Fame (HOF) announced the 2017 class that included players Jeff Bagwell from the Houston Astros, Tim Raines from the Montreal Expos and Iván “Pudge” Rodríguez from the Texas Rangers. These elite classes of professional baseball players are inducted through a […]
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Kansas City Chiefs’ AFC West Opponent Moves Up The Road
Photo courtesy of: Dean Spanos's Twitter The San Diego Chargers are moving to Los Angeles, where they will join the Los Angeles Rams football organization. The Chargers chairman, Dean Spanos, announced the move via Twitter on Jan. 12, 2017. “San Diego has been our home for 56 years. It will […]
NFL Championship Weekend Predictions
Photo Courtesy of: www.click2houston.com It’s that time of year when many people are anticipating the first Sunday in February, most popularly called Super Bowl Sunday. This past weekend, Jan. 14, the National Football League’s (NFL) divisional winners prevailed with the chance at another Sunday matchup in the Championship weekend with […]
Renovations Underway At Dick Peters Sports Complex
Photo by: Ashley Alonzo Renovations at the Dick Peters Sports Complex, home of the Ottawa University baseball and softball teams, have been underway for over a month now. Construction crews have been working hard to remove trees, demolish both dugouts at the softball field and install fresh sidewalks. A continuing […]
‘We Are Going to Nationals’
Photo by: Ashley Alonzo On Nov. 1, the Ottawa University women’s soccer team battled to get a 6-2 win over Friends University. This victory gave the Lady Braves an opportunity to win conference and an automatic bid to nationals. During the whole season, the women’s soccer team worked hard with […]
World Series Preview
Photo by: Reddit Inc. 2016 On Tuesday, Oct. 25, the Chicago Cubs take on the Cleveland Indians in the World Series. Game time is 7 p.m. CT on Fox as Cub’s southpaw Jon Lester will toe the rubber against 2014 Cy Young winner Corey Kluber. Lester has continued his run […]
Volleyball Conference Dominance
Photo by: Ashley Alonzo On Monday night the Ottawa University Lady Braves Volleyball team took on York College in an effort to maintain their undefeated record in conference play. In spite of a late-arriving crowd at Wilson Field House, the Lady Braves did not falter. After a bit of a […]
Major League Baseball Preview
Photo by: Ashley Alonzo The MLB regular season is over, so the calendar turns to October. All eyes are on the National League’s Chicago Cubs as they rolled through the regular season with 103 wins and will await the winner of the San Francisco Giants and New York Mets National […]
Kneeling For a Greater Cause
Photo by: Chris Carlson / Associated Press "The Star-Spangled Banner" was originally a poem written by Francis Scott Key on Sept. 14, 1814. It later became recognized as the country's national anthem on March 3, 1931. The purpose of the anthem is to illustrate the values, traditions and beliefs of […]
Women’s Soccer Off to the Races
Photo by: Ashley Alonzo The Lady Braves soccer team is well into their preseason schedule: off to a start of wins and losses. For the last eight years, they have had winning seasons. Last year’s season ended with 14 wins and only four losses as well as a conference championship […]