Each season, every MLB team plays a guaranteed 162 games. If two teams are tied for a playoff spot, a one-game play-in game is played at the end of the regular season to determine who advances to the playoffs. […]
Stanley McNeil, a Memphis native and 2011 Union graduate, is now one of the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters. […]
Union’s athletic program is completing the first year of candidacy status in the transition to the NCAA, and administrators say the process continues to run smoothly in this change. […]
The sun shined down on the freshly-cut grass, fans filled the stands and tension hung in the air. Union’s softball team faced off against Bethel University March 26.
Bubba Wade, 28, of Memphis, sat behind home plate with a huge smile on his face. This was the first game this season he was able see the Lady Bulldogs play live. He was beaming with excitement because softball ranks among his favorite sports. In between the games he got to see the catcher, who came up and gave him a Union bag that he now keeps on the back of his wheelchair. […]
Spring break has ended, and the calendar flipping to April means one thing — the start of the Major League Baseball season. […]
For the 2010-2011 school year, 3,439 players participated in intramural sports. This number counts individuals once for every sport they play. The latest count for this school year — 1,669 — only includes the fall semester’s players.
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The last thing Derek Roof was thinking about when he threw the final pitch in the 2011 TranSouth Conference Tournament championship game was how sore his arm was. Instead, teammates exchanged high fives and congratulations after advancing to nationals for the third straight season.
Roof did not get concerned about the soreness in his arm until the ride home that day, when he realized he had pitched 14 innings in just two days, including a 9-inning complete game effort in the championship.
Fast forward to the 2012 season and Roof, junior exercise science major, is redshirted and sidelined by Tommy John surgery, a common elbow surgery among pitchers […]
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