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  • Opinion,  Sports

    Men’s basketball picked 8th pre-season–why they’re right and why they’re wrong

    Lipscomb Men's Basketball Stock Photo

    It may come as a shock to the system for fans of the Purple and Gold to see a disappointing 6th and 8th position in the ASUN Conference Coaches' and Media Polls, respectively. The rankings, announced by the league office earlier this week, represent what would be a season of stagnation rather than a return to recent dominance. What's yet to be seen is how true those rankings will turn out to be come March.

  • News,  Sports

    Lipscomb dining feeds Florida football team

    In the face of catastrophe two states over, the Sodexo dining staff at Lipscomb University has stepped up to the plate. While Daytona Beach, Florida-based Bethune-Cookman University is under evacuation and it surroundings continue to suffer due to Hurricane Ian, Lipscomb dining services have been offered to the uprooted football program and cheerleaders. The Wildcats of Bethune-Cookman are scheduled to face Nashville’s Tennessee State University in a football game this Friday, making Nashville an ideal location to stay and receive on-campus dining. At the head of the decision to welcome the Wildcats is Anthony Bates, the Sodexo General Manager at Lipscomb. Bates says that when approached with the situation, he…

  • Sports

    Newfound lunacy around Lipscomb sports

    Lippy Lunatics

    Duke has the Cameron Crazies. Ohio State has The Nuthouse. Texas A&M has the 12th Man. And this year, Lipscomb might just be forming their answer to great student sections at the biggest athletics programs in the nation. Behind a few friends who are new to campus, a simultaneous idea birthed in separate states, and pure passion for the Purple and Gold, an upstart fan base has quickly snowballed into an official student section. It’s complete with watch parties, trips to away games, and dreams of much more. They’re the Lippy Lunatics, and by the looks of things, they’re only getting started. Everything began with two student managers on Lipscomb’s…

  • Opinion,  Sports

    Volleyball prepared for ASUN play after tough schedule

    Lipscomb volleyball game against Belmont women.

    A suffocating non-conference schedule from Bisons head coach Brandon Rosenthal has Lipscomb ready for the conference slate In two decades as Lipscomb’s head volleyball coach, Brandon Rosenthal has become notorious for creating a non-conference schedule that will challenge his team. Even so, this year’s slate in particular is one he won’t soon forget. The Bisons just wrapped up their last match in non-conference play, falling short short three sets to none while facing the University of Central Florida Knights at a neutral location. UCF, a team receiving top-25 votes, was not the most difficult team they’ve faced ahead of ASUN play. In fact, that may be one of the more…

  • Opinion,  Sports

    Boulevard victory escapes men’s soccer again

    Men's Soccer game

    Battle of the Boulevard demons continue to haunt Lipscomb as they fail to score against their archrivals NASHVILLE – Over the past three and a half years, a generation of Lipscomb fans has watched their men’s soccer team accomplish just about everything imaginable for a mid-major program. The Bisons have packed Lipscomb Soccer Complex on countless occasions, reached the National Tournament, knocked off multiple top-25 teams, and even reached a #18 ranking nationally themselves. But the one thing they’ve never managed in this golden age of Bisons soccer is the holy grail for any Lipscomb sport–laying claim to the Boulevard and beating Belmont. There have been infamous almosts, from the…

  • Opinion,  Sports

    Women’s soccer’s slow start (and why we shouldn’t be worried yet)

    What do you get when you take an experienced, conference-winning squad, subtract no starting players, add two marquee transfers, and throw in three players who missed most of last season for injury? Just as many losses as wins, as of right now. Lipscomb fans might look at the 1-3 record their women’s soccer team put together in the first four matches of 2022 and feel that something doesn’t add up. Even after two wins and ten goals in the past week to bump them up to 3-3, there seems to be concern for the way things have gone, at least on paper. That said, there’s plenty of reason to look…

  • Multimedia,  Sports

    Pioneering women in sports

    Women in Sports

    Women are changing the stereotypes and gender roles in the sports world. This is even taking place on Lipscomb’s campus. The male-dominated industry is being reinvented like never before. “People are starting to see there are no limits to what we can do, and I love it,” says Dorie Harrison, Lipscomb University Women’s Basketball team player. Shawna Mann reports.

  • Archive,  Lumination Network,  Sports

    Lady Bisons sweep USC Upstate, improve to 4-0 in A-Sun

    Lumination Network mockup for archival pieces.

    Republished from Lumination Network, March 28, 2010. The softball team faced one the best pitchers in the nation on Saturday; that, however, would not slow them down on their way to improve their conference record to 4-0 Game 1 It was an old fashioned pitchers’ duel on Saturday afternoon as Lipscomb’s Whitney Kiihnl and Upstate’s Morgan Childers went head-to-head at Draper Diamond. Going into the weekend Kiihnl and Childers ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in hits given up per game. The two pitchers lived up to their rankings until the fourth inning when Lipscomb got on the board via a Mollie Mitchell single that brought in Kellie Sirus.  Sirus…