In a week 5 game versus Vanderbilt, Christion Abercrombie, linebacker for Tennessee State University, suffered from a head injury and collapsed on the sideline. He was rushed to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center for a CT. When the results came back, he was rushed into emergency surgery. He remains in critical condition but is showing […]
Are College Athletes Overworked?
As we know from the previous blog post, college athletes work hard, and that is what they ‘signed up’ for. However, it is not fair to torture these athletes. In season athletes should expect to be working their hardest, to be busy, and to have a lot on their plate. However, in the off-season, do […]
Balancing Academics and Athletics
According to the NCAA, approximately 480,000 of the nearly 8 million graduating high school athletes will go on to compete in college. I am not a college athlete and I don’t know if I would ever be able to pull it off, either. Although I played sports in high school, the commitment to school and […]
Corruption @ Creighton
In 2017, 5 star basketball recruit, Brian Bowen, claimed that Creighton offered him money to play at their school. On Thursday, October 4, 2018, Creighton was implicated in the college basketball scandal. In his testimony, Bowen’s father stated that aspiring sports agent Cristian Dawkins relayed information that assistant coach Preston Murphy of CU wanted to […]
PSU v. OSU
Many students, faculty, residents, and visitors are anticipating the long awaited game this Saturday, September 29th, 7:30 pm at Beaver Stadium. It will be a matchup between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Ohio State Buckeyes. Saturday’s game with be the 34th time PSU and OSU meet on the field. The first time the […]
Should College Athletes be Paid?
The debate of whether or not college athletes deserve to be paid has been going on for years, and there is yet to be a solid answer. A college athlete’s main concerns are sports and school. As long as they are striving in both, they should not worry much about anything else. They should be […]