It’s finally over. After the time I spent covering the NFL draft for the last four months, watching hours of film and sitting through three days of actual selections, the NFL draft has finally come to a close. In my last column of the school year, I’ll be breaking down three teams that I think had good weekends and three […]
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At a university that trains Champions for Christ, two of those champions and student-athletes are using their know-how and connections to build something special. Sophomore Owen Moore and freshman Matt Torrell, two members of the Liberty University Flames men’s soccer team, have started creating their own sports apparel and are beginning to take steps to turn it into something truly […]
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Welcome back to another week of Palsgrove’s Points. This week we’re covering the first round of the NBA Playoffs and who I think will come out on top of each of the eight series, and I’ll be pairing that prediction with each team’s Achilles’ heel or what might cost them the series. Also, if you’d like, you can turn past […]
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Welcome back, y’all. In last week’s issue, I wrote about how the transfer portal has messed with the Flames roster; if you want to read that, you can either grab a copy of Issue 8 or read online. This week, we’re going to continue that conversation about how the Flames’ roster is being shaken up as we head into the […]
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Since basketball season is over, it’s time for my seasonal tradition of breaking down and grading the Flames’ transfer portal wins and woes. Today, we’re looking at Liberty University men’s basketball and the changes to its roster since its season ended in Huntsville a few weeks back. Before we start, remember, the transfer portal is an ever-moving and ever-changing whirlpool […]
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In the last few weeks, seven different Liberty teams were eliminated from their postseasons in heartbreaking fashion, including men’s and women’s hoops, men’s Division I, II and III hockey, and women’s Division I and II hockey. For this week’s column, I’m going to hand out end-of-season grades for each of those seven units on the normal A through F scale, […]
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The Lady Flames Division 1 hockey team began its tournament run with a 3-2 overtime victory over the No.10 ASU Sun Devils. The Flames entered the postseason as the No. 1 seed in the ACHA Women’s Division 1 bracket, and with the win are just two victories away from hoisting the ACHA National Championship trophy for the sixth time running. […]
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After a back-and-forth game that coaches and players called the “true national championship,” the Flames men’s D2 team fell in overtime to the Lindenwood Lions. The 4-3 loss was the Flames’ final game of pool play and would decide who would exit the pool victorious and advance to the ACHA Nationals Semi-Finals. With the loss, the Flames’ 2023-24 season has […]
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The Men’s D2 hockey team began its run in the ACHA National Tournament with a 4-3 victory over the Providence Argonauts in game one of three in pool play. The win was a welcome one for the Flames, who had been praying for it after the disappointment of their opening match in last year’s tournament. “All year we’ve been […]
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The NFL Combine is freaking weird. Imagine you’re about to leave college and you need a job, so you are asked to attend a career fair with 32 potential employers who all want to interview you, allow the American media to interview you and have their team’s doctors give you a complete medical evaluation where they actively look for anything […]
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The Flames men’s lacrosse team came out alive after a grueling eight-day, four-game stretch, sweeping its weekend back-to-back against the UConn Huskies and the West Virginia Mountaineers. Liberty scored a combined 30 goals in its Saturday and Sunday outings, defeating UConn 17-2 and the Mountaineers 13-10. The Flames ended the whole of the four-game stretch 3-1, with their sole loss […]
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Here’s how this is going to work — the playoffs are coming up quickly for all five (!!!) of Liberty University’s hockey teams, and I want to give them all an honest appraisal of their chances going into the tournament. For simplicity’s sake, I’m going to assign each team their own odds as if I were a sports book. I […]
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Man, that was rough. I’m writing this with the stink of that game (if you can even call it that) radiating off me in waves after watching three hours of that hot garbage that Adam Silver wants me to call the NBA All-Star Game. The two teams combined took the most threes and scored the most points in All-Star history, […]
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The NFL season has come to a close after an absolutely thrilling overtime victory by the Kansas City Chiefs, defeating the San Francisco 49ers 25-22. There is a ton of storylines floating around the ether of sports media, and we’re going to discuss a few of those today while we look at some of my winners and losers from the […]
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The Senior Bowl has officially wrapped up down in Mobile, which means we are officially entering the greatest season of all. No, not the holiday season, deer season or any of the four actual seasons. We’re talking NFL Draft season, baby. There’s a whole other commentary that needs to be had about the worshipping of a draft that elevates young […]
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