Sophomore forward Griffin McKenzie’s college basketball career has been anything but ordinary. The summer before McKenzie would begin his career at Xavier, he was badly beaten at a party following a Tim McGraw concert. The six-foot nine forward was beaten severely enough that he was required to have his jaw […]
Women’s soccer nets final win
The Xavier women’s soccer team defeated Saint Louis University 1-0 on Sunday’s Senior Day, to record their second Atlantic 10 victory of the season. Seniors Andi Meyer, Jessica Brooks, Chelsea Burns and Melanie McLaughlin were honored before the game. Junior Brett Sweeney scored the only goal of the game in […]
Split weekend for men’s soccer
The Xavier men’s soccer team experienced some highs and lows on the road in Atlantic 10 play this past weekend. On Friday night, the Musketeers fell 0-1 to No. 16 Charlotte in overtime. Xavier responded on Sunday with a road win over Saint Louis, improving its record on the season […]
You’ll be crazy for Like Crazy
You don’t have to be a film buff to have heard about the Sundance Film Festival, one of the biggest and most prestigious film festivals who celebrated its 27th annual competition on Jan. 20 – 30, 2011. One film in particular made the audience at January’s festival go crazy – […]
A Man’s Guide to Black Friday
Now that it’s November, it’s time to put away those Halloween costumes and start looking forward to the rest of the holiday season. Thanksgiving is just around the corner and Christmas songs will be a regular fixture on the radio before you know it. While men typically spend their Thanksgiving […]
The Rum Diary: “His” and “Her” Thoughts
Recently Patrick Clark and Britt Nygaard of the Xavier Newswire attended a prescreening of the movie The Rum Diary featuring Johnny Depp. In the spirit of fair and accurate movie reviews, here are the comic thoughts from both moviegoers. What was this movie about? Britt Nygaard: The movie focuses on […]
“The Nike Xavier Student”
After reading Andrew Bush’s opinion column in last week’s Newswire I thought for a moment that Nike had hired a new publicist based out of Xavier University, or at least this is what I hoped. In reading his article, which hails Nike as “a company breeding success,” and claims immense […]
Paying NCAA Athletes?
Just last week the NCAA passed two monumental measures that will no doubt have an effect on the college sports landscape in the future. The first change implements a regulation that would require individual teams to graduate enough of their players in order to compete in postseason competitions. The second, […]
Are you ready for the CROSSTOWN SHOOTOUT?
For the 68th straight year and the 79th time in history, the men’s basketball teams of Xavier University and University of Cincinnati will meet in what has become known nationally as the Crosstown Shootout. The match was first played in 1927, celebrating the opening of Schmidt Fieldhouse and the teams […]
A long road to Xavier for Amber Gray
Redshirt Junior Amber Gray started playing basketball at the age of six and always dreamed of playing for the University of Tennessee. After a year playing for the Lady Volunteers, her life was interrupted in a way she could not possibly have imagined. Gray, a native of West Chester, Ohio, […]