Brendan Ploen, Assistant Sports Editor
• December 1, 2017
There is a new set of eyes on men's soccer players this season, and it is not just coaches, scouts or supporters – it's satellites.
Data analysis has been one of Marquette's cornerstone pieces this season. College soccer is going through a data revolution, and it's helping teams change the way they train one download at a time.
Marquette is using Catapult, a global positioning system monitoring device that measures various internal and external statistics, helping coaches understand how hard a player is working and how well they are standing up to the pace of a given practice or game.
John Steppe, Assistant Sports Editor
• November 30, 2017
Five years ago, tensions were boiling between football and non-football members in a once-proud basketball conference.
“The last several years prior to the basketball schools breaking away, we had a lot of tension in our conference meetings,” BIG EAST associate commissioner John Paquette said. “And the tension was clear.”
Fed up with football-centric decisions tarnishing the conference’s superb basketball reputation, the seven Catholic non-football members, dubbed the “Catholic Seven,” split with the rest of their former conference and formed the new BIG EAST.
As the conference enters its fifth season of play in 2017-’18, similar tactics to what put the BIG EAST on the map originally are leading its resurgence into the college basketball landscape.
Five years ago, Superstorm Sandy made landfall and decimated my hometown. I was stuck inside my home as the second-costliest storm in United States history displaced my neighbors, destroyed landmarks and...
Sexual assault on college campuses is pervasive. The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network reports 11.2 percent of all students have experienced some form of sexual violence, and a study published...
Walking down Wisconsin Avenue can be a little ruff day-to-day, and it's safe to say most of us get excited, or maybe even homesick, when we see a dog roaming the streets of campus.
Luckily for us, there's...
The former Jesuit Residence, which was located in the 1400 block of West Wisconsin Avenue, was demolished late in August 2016. The new residence opened before then, with the Jesuits settling at the West Wells Street location around Oct. 20, 2015.
Like many policies similar to the nuisance property ordinance, they are initially enacted to prevent violence and help the greater community. But there are many unintended consequences to these policies that often go unaddressed.
So, if some of the rocks along sidewalks on campus look different than usual, it’s because they’ve been painted with bright colors and positive messages.
For many long-time Marquette faculty and staff, they have seen colleagues come and go, with few remaining from when they began. Some have left Marquette for other career opportunities, or have transferred...