Flames continue to rack up indoor season victories The men’s and women’s track and field teams’ success extended beyond state borders this weekend, Feb. 13-14, as four men and two women brought home event victories at meets in Virginia and Alabama. In the two-day Liberty Quad, a home meet, both the men and women succeeded in the multi-events. Senior Tevan […]
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Men’s basketball wins first conference game of the season over Campbell The drought is over. Liberty men’s basketball finally tacked a conference victory onto its record with a 73-60 home victory over Campbell Tuesday, Feb. 10. Redshirt freshman guard Ryan Kemrite’s onslaught of three pointers early in the second half sparked the Flames (7-20, 1-13 Big South), and they never […]
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Charles Billingsly takes on students at LaHaye The Liberty University racquetball team started the semester with a bang as it held a student tournament to celebrate the opening of the new courts at the LaHaye Student Union. The event was held Feb. 10 at 3 p.m. with special guest Charles Billingsley. Along with a successful career in the music industry […]
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Men’s Division I hockey comes out victorious in a physical weekend matchup Liberty men’s Division I (DI) hockey team swept West Virginia University (WVU) off its feet in a two-game series on Valentine’s weekend. Unranked and already out of the playoff race, the Mountaineers played like a team with nothing to lose, forcing the 13th-ranked Flames to earn their 3-0 […]
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Losses to Charleston Southern and High Point increase losing streak to 10 games After losses to the High Point University (HPU) Panthers and Charleston Southern University (CSU) Buccaneers Thursday and Saturday, Jan. 29 and 31, Liberty’s conference losing streak extended to 10 games. The Flames are now 0-10 in the Big South and have an overall record of 6-17. Liberty […]
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Daily LFSN show ‘Game On’ continues after 261 episodes on faith and sports A long-anticipated vision became reality last year on Feb. 3, as the Liberty Flames Sports Network (LFSN) launched the first ever daily sports and faith show called “Game On.” It started as a vision and an empty Sears building with only three staff members, but in six […]
Read moreLast-minute miracles define a close, Sunday-night matchup In a game full of its share of controversy, hype and plenty of big plays, The New England Patriots came out victorious over the reigning Super Bowl Champions Seattle Seahawks in what turned out to be an instant classic, Super Bowl XLIX, 28-24. The matchup between the Patriots high-octane offense and Seattle’s historic […]
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Super Bowl XLIX ended up being one of the best, most dramatic Super Bowls ever, once again proving one thing — Hollywood has nothing on sports. The Super Bowl does everything big — extravagant commercials, mechanical lion-enhanced halftime shows and the actual game. But lately, when the lights are shining on the biggest stage in pro football, it has been […]
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Men’s wrestling wins NCWA National Duals Championship The Liberty men’s wrestling team recently won its second NCWA National Duals Championship in the last four years Jan. 23-24. However, the journey is not yet over for the Flames. The Liberty Flames went to Dalton, Georgia, and left as champions. In all of their duals, only Central Florida came close to beating […]
Read moreMercedes Cox joins LAX after four years of field hockey Many young people dream of being able to play college sports, but only for a select few does that dream become a reality. In the case of Mercedes Cox, that dream has been realized not once, but twice. The Manassas, Virginia, native was a member of Liberty’s field hockey team […]
Read moreMaria Khval’s journey from Belarus Maria Khval had a choice to make — continue with her education or commit to tennis. When she came to North America, though, she was able to do both, and do them well. Khval was born and raised in Minsk, Belarus, an eastern European country that lies between Poland and Russia. She began playing tennis […]
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Men’s volleyball hosts first late-night game in Vines Center In front of a crowd of nearly 3,000 people Friday night, the Liberty men’s volleyball team took to the court inside the Vines Center in their inaugural “Blackout” midnight match against the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers University. Becoming the first club sports team in Liberty history to play a match in […]
Read moreMen’s tennis has sights set high in 2015 In the Big South preseason poll, the head coaches of the conference predicted the Liberty Flames men’s tennis team to finish fifth in the pack. The team had the month of December off for the holidays to rest, but according to Head Coach Chris Johnson, the players came back in good shape, […]
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One quarterback who takes the field in Super Bowl XLIX may go down as the best to ever play the position. The other quarterback is Tom Brady. Before you laugh, rip up this page of the paper and burn it, just read a little more. Three years into his pro career, Russell Wilson is doing things nobody has done before. […]
Read moreIn case you have not figured it out by now, the New England Patriots are basically the evil Galactic Empire. Bill Belichick (a.k.a Emperor Hoody) is the hooded, droopy-faced Emperor, Tom Brady is Darth Vader and the rest of the Pats and their deflated footballs are the stormtroopers. If there is evil in the world of the NFL, it resides […]
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