Category: Sports

During the third quarter of Liberty’s football game against Gardner-Webb, 2007 Liberty alumni and Jacksonville Jaguar running back Rashad Jennings stopped by press row for an impromptu interview with Chris Lang of the News and Advance and Nate Brown of the Liberty Champion. Q: On injury? A: It’s a long season. You have to make sure you come back right. […]

The Lady Flames wowed the crowd on senior night Friday at home against Presbyterian College and edged out a 1-0 victory. Tied 0-0 going into the last five minutes of the game senior Maria Owen scored the goal (4) that put the Lady Flames up and sealed the deal.

“It was a great feeling to score the winning goal especially on senior night,” Owen said.” The beginning was a little shaky starting all of the seniors in the line up, but we adjusted.”

The locker room was tense and silent as each player’s mind raced about the upcoming game. In the middle of it all stood David Sills, the world’s greatest eighth-grade quarterback. On a college campus, the excitement of a high school football game under Friday night lights is forgotten in the wake of Saturday’s collegiate games. For the students of Liberty […]

It is 5 a.m.  The sun is has not risen over the mountains.  The forest is quiet.  A hunter sits in his tree stand, braving the cold for a possible adrenaline rush.  The hunter could sit in his stand for hours and leave empty handed.  But the chance of a trophy compels him to wait. With the beginning of fall […]

With the start of the 2010-11 wrestling season quickly approaching, the Flames wrestling team continued preparation last week with the annual intrasquad wrestle off. The wrestle off gave the team the opportunity […]

Liberty entered the Big South Conference Cross Country Championships with the opportunity to tie records, end droughts and win big. Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams had significant goals to meet going into the competition in Blacksburg, Va., Saturday morning. The women’s team was looking for its second consecutive Big South cross-country title. Liberty’s women’s cross country aimed […]

Brad Perkins is a senior at Liberty University and regularly attends athletic events on campus.  Last year he purchased a $50 season pass to watch hockey games at LaHaye Ice Center. “I understand why we have to pay for hockey games because (that is) the way they have to cover costs,” Perkins said. “I [do not] mind paying because I […]

Since opening the new Snoflex ski and snowboarding complex last year, Liberty University has attracted a new brand of audiences from around the country. Founders of the Liberty Ski and Snowboard club team, […]

In the dusk twilight light of a waning Friday evening, men’s soccer coach Jeff Alder told his men that this game would be won upon the backs of two principles, efficiency and consistency, and stressed goals, goals, goals.

Senior Thad Taylor and a dominant Liberty midfield provided the efficiency needed for a consistent barrage of redshirt sophomore Darren Amoo goals that propelled the Flames to a 7-0 victory over NAIA opponent Southern Virginia.

The NFL is beginning to take a more stringent stance on what it calls “devastating” hits­, most notably helmet-to-helmet hits, following several vicious hits during the Sunday, Oct. 17 games. After reviewing several questionable plays, the NFL announced fines to three players totaling $175,000. Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison was fined $75,000 for two dangerous hits against the Cleveland Browns […]

Many people at Liberty play Ultimate Frisbee on the intramural fields and various other places, but few are aware that Liberty has its own club Ultimate Frisbee team that debuted in Myrtle Beach Oct. 23rd and 24th.

Fans were treated to a one-sided affair Friday night as Flames men’s hockey team defeated the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). UMBC’s defense could not contain the Liberty Flames speed or passing. The game got off to a quick start with the UMBC Retrievers scoring the first goal of the night within three minutes of the game. With a […]

Tex rocks in his chair and lets the creak of the boards beneath him be the only conversation. He scratches at his perpetually stubbly cheek, takes a sip of his lemonade and turns up the volume dial on an old bunny-eared radio on the table stand next to him. “And so Major League Baseball has to do something about this […]

When athletes are talked about in the news, it is usually for broken records, career performances or criminal accusations.  But lately, a hot topic in sports news has been violation of league social media policies, which is no surprise in our technology-driven society. The rise of social media has happened so rapidly over the past few years, making league social […]

The Lady Flames Volleyball Team improved their winning streak to seven consecutive wins after a dominating week of three conference wins. The Flames hosted the High Point Panthers Tuesday in an even matchup.  Both teams had a 7-1 record entering the match.  The Flames took the match, winning 3-1. “We clicked together great tonight,” sophomore Hannah Anderson said. “Fighting on […]