Sports

  • Baseball trumps Taylor

    The Butler baseball team scored early and often against Taylor on Tuesday in the team’s final contest before a seven-game trip to Florida. The Bulldogs (4-4) scored six runs in the first three innings and put the game away with seven more in the eighth inning, as they toppled the Trojans (2-4), 16-5. Butler received…

  • Davies suspended for sex

    Brigham Young starting sophomore forward Brandon Davies was suspended by his school for the remainder of the 2010-11 college basketball season. While academic shortcomings and intra-squad fights are not uncommon reasons for temporary suspensions during the college basketball season, the reason for Davies’ suspension is unique to BYU and perhaps alien to the rest of…

  • Third time’s a charm: Win earns team automatic NCAA berth

    The Butler men’s basketball team won its seventh Horizon League tournament championship, a conference record, with a 59-44 victory over the Milwaukee Panthers Tuesday to secure an automatic NCAA tournament berth. The win was the Bulldogs’ first against the Panthers in three meetings this season and was Butler’s 30th conference tournament victory, also a league…

  • Butler defeats Cleveland State, rides eight-game win streak to finals

    The Butler Bulldogs will ride an eight-game winning streak into the final game of the 2011 Horizon League Men’s Basketball Championship where they will face host Milwaukee. Butler has tied Xavier’s record of six consecutive Horizon League appearances in the league championship game. Senior guard Shawn Vanzant scored a season-high 18 points, all in the…

  • PHOTO GALLERY | Senior Day at Hinkle Fieldhouse

    Check out these photos from Senior Day at Hinkle Fieldhouse after the men’s basketball game! [imagebrowser id=15]

  • Women’s golf finishes second at first spring competition

    The Butler women’s golf team began its spring season in strong form with a second place finish among a 10-team field in Birmingham, Ala. Three Bulldogs—sophomore Julia Porter, junior Clare Cornelius and junior Michele Nash—finished in the top 10 at the two-day Ann Rhodes Invitational, which was played at the Oxmoor Valley Golf Course February…

  • Women’s tennis picks up four wins, momentum

    The Butler women’s tennis team will enter its Saturday match on a five-match winning streak after capturing four wins in five days. Two of those wins were against schools the Bulldogs (5-3) had never defeated before. Xavier (4-6) was one of those foes, and the Musketeers fell 5-2 on Feb. 23. “This match definitely means…

  • Senior Day win clinches byes

    The Butler men’s basketball team earned a share of its fifth consecutive Horizon League regular season title Saturday, when it defeated Loyola, 63-56, in front of a sold out crowd. However, tiebreakers will send the Bulldogs (21-9, 13-5 HL) to Milwaukee as the No. 2 seed, which grants them a first- and second-round bye in…

  • Trees remind of sports traditions

    What if a Wright State fan burned down Hinkle Fieldhouse? Or a Valparaiso fan rented a wrecking ball to knock it down? An equally devastating event happened at Auburn University a few weeks ago when Harvey Updyke Jr., a 62-year-old University of Alabama fan, allegedly poisoned  two sprawling oak trees at “Toomer’s Corner” with an…