Tag: basketball
Aug. 8, 2014
Cost of injury a big risk for NBA teams, owners
On Aug. 1 in Las Vegas, the heartbreak was tangible. There was a special silence; one intensified by the sudden transition from boisterous cheering to…
Jul. 7, 2014
Hinkie, Sixers play waiting game in drafting Embiid
As NBA Commissioner Adam Silver approached the podium to announce the beginning of the 2014 NBA Draft, the fates of a number of franchises were…
May. 9, 2014
Men’s basketball changing guard
On a campus with no football team, it’s never too early to think about hoops. The Drexel men’s basketball season ended just under nine weeks…

Mar. 14, 2014
CAA WOMEN’S BBALL TOURNEY PREVIEW
The Drexel women’s basketball team will head into the Colonial Athletic Association Championship as the No. 4 seed with a quarterfinal matchup against the No.…

Mar. 14, 2014
A season-long lesson in humanity via basketball
I texted my editor, Bryan Fyalkowski, Sunday night because I didn’t know how to write my weekly story about the Drexel men’s basketball team. I…

Mar. 7, 2014
MEN’S CAA TOURNEY PREVIEW
“Everything That Happens Will Happen Today” — the title of a 2008 album from David Byrne and Brian Eno, and the perfect description for the…

Mar. 7, 2014
Women’s basketball routs Towson on Senior Night
After a brutal loss March 2, the Drexel women’s basketball team responded with a blowout victory against Towson University March 5 to head into the…

Feb. 28, 2014
Men’s bball seniors go out with 56-45 win
Fall 2010 was as important a three months as the Drexel men’s basketball program has ever seen. In the three years preceding that fall, the…

Feb. 28, 2014
W. bball defeats UNCW to end brief losing streak
This past week, the Drexel women’s basketball team lost an overtime heartbreaker to slip into a three-game losing streak, but recovered a few days later…

Feb. 21, 2014
Inconsistent scoring plagues men’s basketball team
The Drexel men’s basketball team runs a guard-oriented offense based on the personnel available to head coach James “Bruiser” Flint and his coaching staff. This…
