By Zach Waltz Sports Assignment Editor The National Football League playoffs are proving to be the most entertaining in recent years. With myriad intense play-in games, the playoffs seemed to start a week early this season. Next, the wildcard round provided matchups like the Chiefs against the Colts and the 49ers against the Packers. Last…
By Taylor Nigrelli Sports Assignment Editor It’s not uncommon for students to have a litany of grievances about the college or university they attend. You can see it every day here at St. Bonaventure. We complain about the food at the Hickey and lament poor class registration times. It seems there’s always something for us…
By Taylor Nigrelli Sports Assignment Editor It’s long been a hobby of mine to try to decide who the title of biggest villain in sports belongs to at a given time. At the present moment, the title unquestionably belongs to Lance Armstrong. In the days leading up to his interview with Oprah Winfrey, support for…
By Anthony Gannon Sports Editor Every semester at the Bona Venture, editors are added to the staff to take their turn at the job. After three on the job, it’s my turn to step down from sports editor and pass the torch on. Since joining the staff of The BV a couple of weeks into…
By Skye Tulio Sports Assignment Editor A Nov. 27 Time magazine article debated whether or not college athletes should major in the sports they’re playing as opposed to a regular academically approved program of study. The idea does seem interesting, but I think it would be challenging to get those classes approved for a university’s…
By Anthony Gannon Sports Editor The Bonnies are 2-0 for the first time in four years. Tomorrow the Bonnies travel to Canisius to face former SBU Coach and player Jim Baron in his first season for the Golden Griffins since leaving Rhode Island earlier this year. The early season excitement is as high as can…
By Taylor Nigrelli Assistant Sports Editor The men’s basketball team begins its Atlantic 10 title defense tonight as they host Bethune-Cookman in the Reilly Center. They will attempt to defend their A-10 crown without a certain Mississauga, Ontario, native patrolling the paint for the first time since 2008. However,this should come as no surprise, as…
By Anthony Gannon Sports Editor If you throw a rock around the corner, you’ll hit basketball season. In two, yes, two short weeks the Bonnies hit the hardwood for their first game of the 2012-2013 season. Some would say exhibition games against Edinboro for the women’s team and Mansfield for the men’s team don’t matter…
By Taylor Nigrelli Assistant Sports Editor As Yogi Berra once said “it’s déjà vu all over again!” For the third time in 18 months North American sports fans face the possibility of a lockout. This time the perpetrators are the players and owners of the National Hockey League. Every time a labor dispute occurs in…
By Kyle Zamiara Promotions Editor With two weeks now gone in the NFL season, fans, coaches and players have pointed out one critical flaw this season: replacement officials. Footballs have been wrongly placed, pass-interference calls missed, and unsportsmanlike-conduct calls have been given out like Skittles. Reviewed plays have been called unreviewable after reviewing. Every NFL…
By Anthony Gannon Sports Editor Bonaventure athletics have had a rough early showing so far in their pursuit of maintaining the momentum from last year’s basketball success and subsequent windfall of pro-Bona publicity. Well Bonaventure fans don’t need to be worried. Conference play is always where Bonaventure teams prove their mettle and this year the…
By Skye Tulio Sports Assignment Editor My annual trek back to Bona’s for a new school year felt different. It wasn’t just the normal memories of my previous year that came flooding back. Something sweeter still lingered in the air. The fizzing embers of Basketball success suddenly sizzled to life again. The nail-biting moments and…
By Kyle Zamiara Sports Editor I think it was on the long 12-hour drive back from Nashville playing “The Price is Right” on a cell phone when I realized how lucky I was to have been the sports editor this semester. How many have gone through The Bona Venture and had the chance to see both men’s and…
By Skye Tulio Assistant Sports Editor In the shadow of the men’s and women’s basketball teams’ seasons to remember, the baseball team began its 2012 season. Such monumental Bonaventure moments are definitely memories I will cherish for the rest of my life. But as I stood in the Reilly Center parking lot waving to the…
By Kyle Zamiara Sports Editor In case you were living under a rock, March was a pretty busy month for both basketball teams. Since I’ve been at St. Bonaventure, it was my favorite month by far. With the women making the Sweet 16 and the men’s astonishing Atlantic 10 championship that put them in the Big Dance,…
By Tyler Diedrich Editor-in-Chief We can now resume our regularly scheduled lives, but what a month – what a year we’ve experienced at St. Bonaventure. Bonnies basketball fans had high expectations entering the 2011-12 season, and it’s fair to say the teams met them – in exhilarating fashion. It didn’t quite have a fairytale ending, but the glass slipper…