Category: Sports

It’s tough to say exactly when performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in sports first entered public consciousness. There’s the home run chase of 1998, which, in retrospect, appears to have been between one admitted…

2014 Sochi Olympics As we approach the end of January, we hockey fans are in for a treat. Why? Because all of our favorite hockey players will be competing against each other…

A season will bring highs and lows for any team and the Saint Xavier University men’s basketball team faced some adversity for the first time in this young season.  The team recently…

Disappointing Trip to Milwaukee The women’s basketball team took on the No. 15-ranked Cardinal Stritch Wolves on Nov. 20, playing a close game but losing 71-61 It was the second time in…

Second down-and-seven at the Vikings’ 30-yard line.  Overtime.  Sudden death. Try for more yards?  Settle for a tough 47-yard field goal? Marc Trestman, the Bears’ head coach, faced this decision on Sunday. …

It happened to me again this past Saturday. I sat in my chair in front of my TV watching another mind-boggling heart warming heartbreaking, heart attack inducing day of college football in…

The Chicago Blackhawks are red hot right now! In the last week and a half they have accumulated a six game winning streak. All of these wins came from Western Conference opponents…

The 2013 regular season of football ended for the Cougars with a 34-7 win over Olivet Nazarene University on a gray, gloomy day in Bourbonnais. The Saint Xavier University football team, which…

Home Opener After a ceremony to dedicate the main arena floor at the Shannon Center to head coach Bob Hallberg (for more, see pages 1 and 2), the Cougars defeated the Trinity…

The Saint Xavier University Men’s Soccer team saw their season end in Bourbonnais, Ill., after a 5-1 loss to Olivet Nazarene University in the semifinals of the CCAC Tournament on Wednesday. The…