Category: Sports

Liberty University graduate and New York native Benjamin Fuller races home from work on weekends to catch Syracuse University basketball games. “I bleed orange, man,” Fuller said. “I love the emotion of the college game, and I love the tradition of the Syracuse Orange because I grew up watching them.”

Virginia Military Institute’s operational order for Thursday’s game was simple: outshoot Liberty. Win. What they didn’t expect was a battery of long-range missiles tagged David Minaya, Gordon Evan and Jeremy Anderson and a hand-grenade point guard classified Jesse Sanders. In Liberty’s first home game back in front of a freshly returned, raucous student body, Liberty stunted the nation’s leading offense […]

The women’s basketball team won five out of the six games they played over winter break. The Lady Flames played the Presbyterian College Lady Blue Hose Jan. 8 in a conference game. With help from sophomore Devon Brown’s 13 points, the Lady Flames beat the Lady Blue Hose 51-40.

Warley’s 15 points clutch win over CSU After Monday’s disappointing loss at home to Radford University, 53-62, the Lady Flames basketball team reclaimed their territory with a 63-40 win over the Charleston Southern Lady Buccaneers, Saturday. The Lady Flames held the lead the entire game, scoring 30 points the first half and 33 points the second half. Redshirt junior center […]

Mkimbiaji is the Kinswhahili noun for “runner.” For instance, native Kenyan and Liberty senior cross country sensation Sam Chelanga is a mkimbiaji. For the second year in a row, Chelanga was named national cross country Athlete of the Year after winning NCAA championships in 2009 and 2010.

Every January, the summation of a season comes to its climax in the pitting of the BCS No. 1 team and the BCS No. 2 for the NCAA National Championship. After Saturday’s action, the top two teams in the country were decided and the BCS championship all but officially balloted.

The Liberty Flames track and field team hosts a meet each December in order to prepare for the official season that will take off in January. The purpose of the meet — which is not a scored meet — is purely diagnostic.

If the 2010-11 NFL season had to be summed up in one word it would almost certainly be “controversy.” Before the season was even under way, there were scandals brewing, and almost every week there was something to talk about that habitually had very little to do with the actual game of football.

The Radford Highlanders cut the Flames men’s soccer team’s season short with a 2-1 victory in the Quarterfinals of the Big South Tournament. “I felt we were prepared to win.  It just (was not) our day,” Flames head coach Jeff Alder said. The Flames ended its regular season with a home win over UNC-Asheville.  This tied them in third place […]

Stadium lights draw thousands of fans to Liberty University’s campus on Saturday nights.  On certain weekends students have trouble finding parking spots at LaHaye as traffic spills over from the Ice Center’s lot. Mainstream sports such as football and hockey are most commonly patroned by students, but Liberty tries to offer students a wider variety of recreational opportunities mostly unknown […]

In the afternoon sun of Conway, South Carolina, a tale of two offenses unfolded as Liberty dropped its first Big South game 31-45 to rival Coastal Carolina.

Saturday’s game was a must win for both teams. A win for Liberty would keep them in contention of the bottle-neck for the Big South championship. Likewise, a loss for Coastal would essentially eliminate them from playoff contention. Both teams had a banner to play for. Coastal capitalized, Liberty capsized.

After losing two straight games, the Flames men’s hockey team hosted the Stony Brook Seawolves Nov. 12 and 13.   The Flames entered the game ranked No. 15 in the ACHA, while Seawolves were ranked No. 19. In their first meeting, Stony Brook came out on top, defeating Liberty, 6-3. Although the Flames outshot and held the possession longer than the […]

When travelling around Liberty University’s campus, several modes of transportation can be seen, like running, biking and even riding scooters.  But an up and coming mode of transportation is longboarding — a special type of skateboard. A group of about 25 longboarders met off campus on the James River Heritage trail Saturday for a 3-mile race. “I really wanted to […]