Field hockey has seen everything go wrong after a NorPac championship last year After winning the NorPac Championship last season and returning nearly every player, Lady Flames field hockey would never have imagined starting the year 1-3. But a mixture of a challenging schedule, an injured star and uneven play has led to their worst start in program history. Still, […]
Read moreThe Liberty Flames football team improved to 1-1 on the season as they shutout the Norfolk State Spartans (1-1) 17-0. This was the first time the Flames had seen the Spartans since Liberty fell short 31-24 in 2012. Spartan quarterback Terrance Ervin drove the offense all the way down to Liberty’s 18-yard line when the senior cornerback and team captain […]
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Lady Flames score in final minutes to defeat the Charlotte 49ers With only one minute to go in the final overtime period, freshman forward Jennifer Knoebel drove to the right side of the goal and placed a hard shot into the bottom left corner to give the Lady Flames soccer team (2-2) the 1-0 win over the University of North […]
Read moreAfter a seven-month wait, the NFL is up and running It is finally upon us. After a long summer of practices, training camp, and the preseason, week one of the NFL regular season arrived. The Green Bay Packers and defending Superbowl champion Seattle Seahawks kicked things off Thursday night, and the rest of the NFL’s thirty-two teams got into the […]
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This column is about the FIBA World Cup. That probably means nobody is reading by this point. FIBA recently rebranded their World Championships, calling it the World Cup in an attempt to raise the profile of international basketball. The Olympics have been the most important international basketball tournament pretty much since James Naismith hung up that peach basket more than […]
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Student Mark Bowman spends his summer with MLS team Liberty student Mark Bowman is entering his senior year and is two semesters away from graduating with a sports management degree. As he prepares to graduate, he had the opportunity to get valuable experience in his preferred job field. Bowman spent this past summer interning for Major League Soccer (MLS) team […]
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Baseball team thrives in summer leagues around U.S. While most students look forward to summer for a break, the Liberty Flames baseball players all went into the three-month hiatus from school knowing it would be anything but a break. As the players dispersed to collegiate summer leagues across the country, including the Cape Cod Baseball League, Valley Baseball League and […]
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The recent growth and success of athletics warrants big time media attention USA Today reporter Dan Wolken wrote an article Aug. 19 headlined “At Liberty, FBS dreams and a high-resource reality.” Within the article, Wolken explained the overall state of Liberty athletics. He wrote about Liberty’s financial preparedness, state-of-the-art facilities and ultimate support from the president. He also wrote about […]
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Men’s and women’s cross country look to continue Big South dominance For years it has been the goal of the men’s and women’s cross country teams to qualify for Nationals, and 2014 is no exception. Past teams have come close to reaching this goal, but none have been successful thus far. “I think we were all in agreement coming out […]
Read moreEverybody daydreams. It takes us away from our normal lives into a pseudo-reality where we make up the rules. This comes from the human condition of loving to have power, even if it is inside our own heads. So, it is only natural that fantasy football has taken over America. As much as sports fans may want to, we cannot […]
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24 players make the final cut for the men’s Division 1 Flames hockey team Approximately 100 hockey players laced up their skates at the Lahaye Ice Center this fall in hopes of making one of the three Liberty University men’s club hockey teams. Two weeks of skates, scrimmages, coach evaluations and nightly cuts later, three quarters of the competitors are […]
Read moreLiberty’s men’s soccer team (1-0) defeated Bluefield College (0-1) 2-1 in its season-opener Friday night in front of a home crowd of over 400 fans. Khalil Karl, a transfer from St. Louis, was playing in his first game as a Flame. In the 47th minute, Bluefield’s Nick Rivadeneira was ejected from the game after receiving a red card, leading to […]
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Jacob Hagen had just taken the breath out of Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill, returning a fumble 27 yards to give Liberty a 22-21 lead over Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) foe North Carolina (UNC).
And then it all fell apart.
Four minutes and 28 points later, the Flames found themselves down […]
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Flames are in full preparation mode for No. 23 Heels By the time the Liberty Flames kick off against the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill on Aug. 30, they will know the Tar Heels fight song, word for word. The reason? Flames head coach Turner Gill has been playing it throughout practice as part of last week’s switch to “full […]
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Softball’s new, state-of-the-art stadium is almost complete Construction on the new Liberty Softball Stadium is reaching the final stages. Students, faculty and passers-by can see how the piles of dirt and closed roads from last spring have transformed into, as Athletic Director Jeff Barber says, a “first-rate stadium.” Liberty broke ground on the softball stadium October 19, 2013. It is […]
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