With Prince Fielder signing a nine-year, $214 million deal last week, the commonplace argument on every sports talk show was whether athlete’s salaries today are fair or blown out of proportion. Let’s start with some numbers. By year, the highest contract in North American sports is held by Alex Rodriguez, […]
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Awesome places third in national competition
Awesome Eagle placed third in the Universal Cheerleaders Association’s annual mascot competition in Orlando, Fla., Jan. 13. Awesome placed third out of 12 in the qualification round in November. The top five mascots were given the opportunity to compete. “We may not have gotten first place, but it was our […]
Senior Murphy’s NCAA season-high 50 points garners national attention
Tech men’s basketball player Kevin Murphy scored a career-high and school-record 50 points Monday in a 98-80 win against Southern Illinois-Edwardsville. Murphy’s total was also a Hooper Eblen Center record. That total was also the highest single-game output for any NCAA player in Division I this year. Head coach Steve […]
Tech baseball prepares for tough schedule
Tech baseball has a lot to look forward in preparation for the upcoming season with 30 home games, nine nationally-ranked opponents and two new assistant coaches. The 2012 season will be the eighth year for head coach Matt Bragga at Tech and he said he expects this season to be […]
Flag football team heads to nationals
Tech’s top flag football players will compete for the national title in their sport Dec. 29-31 in Pensacola, Fla. The team earned an invitation to nationals at the Battle of the Bluegrass Flag Football Regional tournament at Western Kentucky University Nov. 18-20. The team, comprised of students from Tech ranging […]
Fitness Center hours reduced for TSSAA, remodeling, winter break
As the semester wraps up, the fitness center has many new improvements planned to for the new year. There are changes in the hours the fit is available as the semester ends, along with the appearance, as another year rapidly approaches. Due to the limited amount of parking during the […]
Tech cross country teams win OVC Sportsmanship Award
The Ohio Valley Conference Team Sportsmanship Award was given to the Tech Golden Eagle men’s and women’s cross country teams for the 2011-12 season after a vote by student athletes and coaches from their sport. Presented annually since 2005, the award goes to the team that best exhibits sportsmanship and […]
Tech football team caps successful season with multiple honors
Despite a disappointing loss this past weekend, the Golden Eagles 2011 season will go down as the most successful in recent memory. Tech earned several honors and records both as a team and as individuals. The Golden Eagles finished the regular season with an overall record of 7-3, the most […]
On senior night, everything is on the line
A conference championship, a share of the Sergeant York Trophy, and Tech’s first-ever playoff appearance are on the line as the Golden Eagles (6-3, 5-2 OVC) host the Austin Peay Governors (3-7, 2-5 OVC) in a high-stakes game Saturday afternoon at 1:30 at Tucker Stadium. A win in this game […]
The Extra point
409 career victories. 37 bowl appearances, 21 bowl victories. 2 national championships, 5 undefeated seasons. One of the greatest FBS coaches of all time. And now, this perhaps will all be overshadowed, not because of something Joe Paterno did, but something he failed to do. I have read the 23-page […]
