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    Bradley Scholarship Grid

    Yes, Timoty van der Knaap and Gus Rugaard will get one additional year. But, Thornbrue and Williams are not the same. Ben Thornbrue spent 3 seasons at juco- redshirt year in 2023-24 at Snow College, played 2024-25 at Lane Community College, and played 2025-26 at Southern Idaho CC. So Ben has...
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    Bradley Scholarship Grid

    Despite a couple recent wins for the NCAA. there are still dozens of active lawsuits against the NCAA's new eligibility rules, involving hundreds of athletes. So the Bradleyfans.com governing council has opted to wait a little longer to see how these are resolved and what effect they have...
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    Other Valley teams' schedules

    Speaking of preseason intersquad scrimmages.... Indiana used to fill their arena for preseason scrimmages. But maybe the fan interest is starting to drop a little. They have had only one winning Big Ten season in the last 10 years, but regular season attendance has stayed strong. But, here is...
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    Congratulations to Bradley Volleyball

    After a tough loss to 1st place UNI (3-0) on Friday, The Braves bounced back to beat Drake in 5 sets (3-2) tonight- https://bradleybraves.com/sports/womens-volleyball/stats/2026/drake-university/boxscore/22956 Bradley improved to 3-1 in Valley play and 8-8 overall. MVC standings-...
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    US Senate passes NIL bill

    Pardon me for a short rant... That article is a bit of a distorted and biased interpretation of what the bill is intended to do. First, the writer tries to paint this Protect College Sports Act as some kind of draconian set of unfair rules created solely by Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. He suggests...
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    Bradley Pink Classic Cross Country Races

    Great photo Red#185. For a guy who has to be in his 80's, he looks like he could still compete!
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    Bradley Pink Classic Cross Country Races

    Thanks for the report, scoretable! It looks like another terrific year ahead for the CC teams, after last year's historic successes. Both the men's and Women's teams swept the 2025 MVC Championships for the second year in a row, and for the men it was the 3rd time in the last 4 years...
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    Another interesting lawsuit - you knew this was coming....

    The NCAA releases a statement tonight that is essentially a victory dance with these two rulings today that went in their favor, upholding their age-based eligibility rules. www.x.com/JonRothstein/status/2106169997215084733
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    Another interesting lawsuit - you knew this was coming....

    The case in Ohio that initially ruled a bunch of athletes were entitled to an extra year of eligibility received a temporary injunction in August, on the NCAA's appeal. And today, the First District Court of Appeals in Ohio has reversed the original trial court’s injunction, which means the...
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    Coaching Carousel

    Yeah, DePaul has had only ONE winning season in Big East men's basketball (in 2006-07 they were 9-7, 20-14), their only revenue-producing sport, since they left the CUSA and joined the Big East in 2005 . They have been at or near the bottom of the league virtually every year since then...
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    BU women

    The Bradley women's team is also posting a series of "Get to know our team" videos-
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    Coach Wardle interview in Greg & Dan this morning, Friday 8/28

    Contrary to some reports, Greg Batton is still hosting the morning WMBD radio show. They still don't have a new name for the show, but it was Batton and Phil Luciano this morning, who I can't stand listening to. In fact, nobody I know likes listening to Luciano, so I have to believe their...
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    Bradley Hall of Famer and great BU basketball fan Joe Napoli passes away

    PJ Star article about Joe Napoli (via Yahoo.com)-- https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/former-college-baseball-star-had-212050174.html
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    Coach Wardle interview in Greg & Dan this morning, Friday 8/28

    The Peoria Journal Star reports about Dan DiOrio being "let go" by WMBD https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/longtime-peoria-radio-host-let-195439860.html A friend of Dan's posted this a few hours ago on Facebook-- "he's available" But note that WMBD made no mention of Greg...
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    Murray State gets a $2.5 million dollar donation for their Athletic Department

    Murray State announces another $1.25 million donation to their Athletic Department.
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