May 8, 2021 WESTERVILLE — The Ohio Northern baseball team erupted for 27 runs and 37 base hits in a 20-5, 7-2 doubleheader sweep at Otterbein on Saturday at Fishbaugh Field. The Polar Bears run their winning streak to eight games and improve to 20-13 […]

May 8, 2021 Gradates include All-Americans and professional athletes ADDITIONAL INFO Online Release COLUMBUS, Ohio — Sunday, 172 current and former Ohio State student-athletes receiveD their Ohio State degrees. Spring commencement ceremonies, split into two sessions at Ohio Stadium. The complete list of athletics graduates can […]

May 9, 2021 Four current Buckeyes graduate; list also includes Bradley Roby through the Degree Completion Program COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State spring commencement ceremonies returned to Ohio Stadium for the first time in two years Sunday, May 9, and among the 12,345 degrees conferred were 10 […]

5/8/2021 The third time was definitely the charm. After a pair of losses in its first two national semifinal appearances in 2017 and 2018, the South Dakota State University football team will play for a Football Championship Subdivision national title for the first time following […]

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Dean and Markel Families Men’s Head Basketball Coach Tony Bennett announced Tuesday (April 13) the addition of Armaan Franklin (Indianapolis, Ind.) to the Cavaliers’ program. Armaan (pronounced Ar-mon) Franklin has signed a financial aid agreement and is transferring to Virginia after playing the […]

April 27, 2021  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Dean and Markel Families Men’s Head Basketball Coach Tony Bennett announced Tuesday (April 27) the addition of forward Jayden Gardner (Wake Forest, N.C.) to the Cavaliers’ program. Gardner has signed a financial aid agreement and is transferring to Virginia after […]

4/30/2021  COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina women’s basketball head coach Dawn Staley announced that 2021 ACC Freshman of the Year and co-Defender of the Year Kamilla Cardoso has signed a financial aid agreement to attend the University and play for the Gamecocks. Cardoso, who played for Syracuse in 2019-20, will be […]

4/30/2021 DURHAM – Blue Devil head coach Kara Lawson announced Friday morning that six transfers have signed scholarship agreements to attend Duke and suit up for the women’s basketball team in 2021-22.   Lawson has inked Elizabeth Balogun (Louisville), Lexi Gordon (Texas Tech), Amaya Finklea-Guity (Syracuse), Imani Lewis […]

4/30/2021 The Texas Southern men’s basketball team made headlines once again as one of only eight NCAA Basketball programs with 150-plus conference wins over the past 10 years in a stat provided by Fox College Hoops. Since 2010-11, TSU has won 10-plus games in SWAC […]

April 21, 2021 CINCINNATI – The University of Cincinnati men’s basketball team will join three other storied programs, Arkansas, Illinois and Kansas State, in the 2021 Hall of Fame Classic Powered by ShotTracker Nov. 22-23 at T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri. The four programs have […]

 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2021 KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Arkansas, Cincinnati, Illinois and Kansas State – four men’s basketball programs that have combined to win three NCAA titles and reach 21 Final Fours – will compete at the 2021 Hall of Fame Classic Powered by ShotTracker Nov. […]

ROBERT B. THOMAS’S BIRTHDAY Founder of The Old Farmer’s Almanac. Born in Grafton, Massachusetts, nine years before the start of the American Revolution, Thomas was brought up on a farm in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. He was fascinated by science and at age 16 read Ferguson’s Astronomy, […]

Every Year WORLD BOOK AND COPYRIGHT DAY ST. GEORGE’S DAY (N.L., CAN.) 1530s 1533: CHURCH OF ENGLAND ANNULLED THE MARRIAGE BETWEEN CATHERINE OF ARAGON AND KING HENRY VIII 1560s BORN 1564: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (PLAYWRIGHT) 1610s DIED 1616: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (PLAYWRIGHT) 1790s BORN 1791: JAMES BUCHANAN […]

EARTH DAY Earth Day is April 22 of every year. April 22, 2020, will mark 50 years of Earth Day! On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans—10% of the U.S. population at the time—protested to bring attention to the very concerning environmental issues of the […]

Every Year SAN JACINTO DAY SAN JACINTO DAY (TEX.) TRADITIONAL DATE WHEN ROME WAS FOUNDED BY ROMULUS, IN 753 B.C. 1500s DIED 1509: KING HENRY VII OF ENGLAND 1550s DIED 1552: PETER APIANUS (ASTRONOMER) 1780s 1789: JOHN ADAMS SWORN IN AS THE FIRST VICE PRESIDENT […]

1810s DIED 1812: GEORGE CLINTON BECAME FIRST U.S. VICE PRESIDENT TO DIE IN OFFICE 1830s 1832: HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION (NOW NATIONAL PARK) WAS ESTABLISHED IN ARKANSAS 1850s BORN 1850: DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH (SCULPTOR) 1900s 1902: FRENCH SCIENTISTS PIERRE AND MARIE CURIE ISOLATED RADIUM CHLORIDE FROM […]

PATRIOTS DAY By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, from “Concord Hymn” Patriots Day commemorates the events of April 19, […]

ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1906 SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE At 5:12 A.M. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, an earthquake woke up residents of San Francisco and tossed them from their beds. Little did they know that it was going to be one of the deadliest natural disasters […]

4/13/2021 LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Senior Hope Trautwein has been named the Wilson/NFCA Co-Pitcher of the Week, the National Fastpitch Coaches Association announced on Tuesday. This is the first time in Trautwein’s career that she has earned such a weekly distinction. The Pflugerville native earns the distinction after […]

4/12/2021 DALLAS – Senior Hope Trautwein has been named the Conference USA Pitcher of the Week, the league office announced Monday afternoon. Trautwein earns the honor for the ninth time in her career and second time this season (Feb. 15) after tossing the program’s first ever perfect game, […]