Subject: Atlantic 10 Conference

• Larry Hughes: URL All-Star

  January 8, 2008

• SLU Basketball Billikens: Misery Loves Company (and Media Scrutiny)

  January 14, 2008

• SLU Loses to Xavier, Death Wish Defeats Teen Wolf

  February 8, 2008

• Rick Majerus: Is Nothing Sacred? Not Even Underwear?!

  March 25, 2008

• Rick Majerus: Is Nothing Sacred? Not Even Underwear?!

  March 25, 2008

• SLU Loses to Xavier, Death Wish Defeats Teen Wolf

  February 8, 2008

• SLU Basketball Billikens: Misery Loves Company (and Media Scrutiny)

  January 14, 2008

• Larry Hughes: URL All-Star

  January 8, 2008

• SLU B-Ball: Young Ballers and Better Cheerleaders

  Watching the SLU basketball last night for the first time this season, one thing became very obvious: It's going to be awhile before anyone not named Kevin Lisch or Tommie Liddell leads the team in scoring. During the first half of last night's match-up against Kent State (which the Bills lost 76-74 on a buzzer beater in overtime) only one other player scored and just two others even attempted field goals.

  November 20, 2008

• SLU Stomped By 16th Ranked Xavier

  While every college sports fan on the planet was busy nodding off to the most boring BCS National Championship in recent memory, SLU basketball got their asses handed to them by 16th ranked Xavier in their A-10 conference opener, losing 70-44.Luckily for them, even though the game was nationally televised nobody saw the beat-down. Not only were most people tuning into Florida-Oklahoma, the game was carried on CBS College Sports, which isn't available on any Charter cable package. Pretty sweet TV

  January 9, 2009

• Local College Hoops: A Rundown on The Rundown

  So what if March is still two months away? It certainly hasn't stopped ESPN's Joe Lunardi from updating his highly addictive Bracketology feature and projecting the entire 65 team NCAA tournament field despite the fact that most teams have only played one or two conference games and perhaps a pushover like "Lugnut Tech State A&M."Working off a combination of Lunardi's projection, the AP and ESPN/USA Today polls, and pure speculation, here comes the first ever Rundown ranking of the top ten l

  January 13, 2009

• SLU Beats UMass, Realizes It Has Experienced Players

  There's been much ado in the land of SLU about the youth of the Billikens. When the season started, there were seven true freshmen on the roster and, thus far, freshman have played about half of the team's minutes. With an average player age of just older than 19 years old, they are the fourth youngest team in the country.No one likes to point out this fact more than head coach Rick Majerus, who blames his squad's inexperience on just about everything that goes wrong. Poor defense? Freshmen don'

  January 15, 2009

• Show Review: Tony La Russa's Stars to the Rescue with Huey Lewis & the News, Vince Gill & Amy Grant, REO Speedwagon and more, Chaifetz Arena, Sunday, January 19

  It was a big weekend at Saint Louis University's Chaifetz Arena. On Saturday night, the long-suffering Billikens basketball team beat George Washington 63-59 in a to-the-wire game (which almost erased the memory of last year's humiliating 49-20 loss to GW). The atmosphere wasn't quite as high-energy on Sunday night for Tony La Russa's Stars to the Rescue, a concert to benefit his Animal Rescue Foundation, but it was an intimate, relaxed night of rock, country and comedy. Slide S

  January 19, 2009

• SLU Gets an "Old-Fashioned Butt-Kicking," and Other College Hoops News

  The Billikens' woes on the road continued last night when they were manhandled by Temple, losing 65-40. Tom Timmermann at the Post-Dispatch was in Philly to watch the massacre and came through with some very colorful reporting and this quote from the always-upbeat Bills coach Rick Majerus:"We didn't come out and play purposely or with passion," coach Rick Majerus said before heading off to the hospital to join Mitchell. "Case closed. Game over. We just got our butt kicked. They did it

  January 23, 2009

• SLU Ski Team Loses to Richmond

  Just when I point out that SLU needs to give "veteran" players like senior Barry Eberhardt and sophomore Paul Eckerle more minutes, a game like the one yesterday against Richmond happens. SLU fought hard in their 70-62 loss, but with freshman point guard Kwamain Mitchell out with a concussion, they never really had a chance. Not only was Eberhardt completely lost on defense, coach Rick Majerus was forced to give significant minutes to SLU's incredibly inexperienced and overmatched freshmen

  January 26, 2009

• This Week

  December 16, 1998

• SLU vs. Duquense: A Rundown Diary

  SLU defeated Duquense at Chaifetz Arena last night, 78-74 in overtime. Here's a log of the game, updated this morning to include a few pictures and the highlights from coach Rick Majerus' post game comments.  Pre-game notes: The Billikens are coming off an impressive 88-58 at Fordham in which they shot a remarkable 63 percent from the floor. SLU may not be going to the postseason anytime soon but at least they're not the doormats of the conference anymore. How much does Fordham have to suck

  February 5, 2009

• SLU vs. La Salle: A Not-So-Special Senior Moment

  photos by Keegan HamiltonThe Saint Louis University basketball team tried hard on Saturday against La Salle, they really did. They clawed for every rebound, dove for every loose ball and hustled themselves to exhaustion on defense, erasing any lingering doubts about whether they have bought into Rick Majerus' grind-it-out, wear-em-down style of hoops.Unfortunately for them, effort only counts when the final score is in their favor. And for all their heart and desire, a simple lack of ability&nbs

  March 9, 2009

• How About Those Billikens?

  Mardi Gras kept me from joining the sold-out crowd on Saturday at Chaifetz Arena, so when I saw that Saint Louis University's men's basketball team somehow managed to beat Dayton 57-49, my eyes nearly popped out of my mildly hungover head.Just from speaking to others who attended and reading the Associated Press and Post-Dispatch accounts of the game, it sounds like the Billikens finally put it all together in one game for the first time all year. As one colleague noted, "It finally looks l

  February 23, 2009

• Mizzou Wins, SLU Doesn't. What Else is New?

  Just when Rick Majerus' Billikens beat A-10-leading Dayton and lull you into thinking they might be able to win a game on the road against one of the worst teams in their conference, they go and get trounced by St. Bonaventure, losing 72-55 to the Bonnies last night in New York. It's one step forward, two steps back for SLU, who played their best basketball of the season over the weekend only to see their two best players, Kevin Lisch and Tommie Liddell, crap the bed last night. Quoth Majerus o

  February 26, 2009

• Hit Parade

  March 10, 1999

• Mizzou and SLU: Ending On a Low Note

  Over the weekend, both the Missouri Tigers and the Billikens of Saint Louis University closed out their regular seasons in ignominious fashion. The Billikens blew a commanding lead en route to a heartbreaking loss, while the Tigers just came out flat against a Texas A&M squad that was as jazzed as I've ever seen a basketball team. 

  March 9, 2009

• Redemption! SLU Defeats La Salle Wednesday

  photo by Keegan HamiltonAfter losing their final home game of the season to La Salle last week, Saint Louis University's men's basketball team exacted a little revenge and won a rematch against the Explorers Wednesday night in the first round of the A-10 tournament. Freshman Kwamain Mitchell made the winning lay-in with six seconds remaining in overtime.

  March 12, 2009

• The First Baseball Game of the Year at Busch Stadium

  photo by Keegan HamiltonIt wasn't played by the Cardinals (you'll have to wait till Monday, when the Pirates come to town to see the Redbirds in action) but by the Mizzou and SLU. The Tigers trounced the Billikens 19-6.If a confused spectator had wandered into the stands, there was zero chance of confusing this game for big league play. It was a sloppy, achingly slow-paced affair that included seven errors, thirteen walks, and six hit batsmen. But despite their mediocre records (SLU is 14-1

  April 2, 2009

• Rick Majerus: Have You No Decency?

  April 2, 2008

• The bench empties at controversial Milestone Christian Academy

  February 20, 2008

• Rick Majerus lips off? That's a spankin'.

  Unreal talks to a dominatrix and gets schooled in sherlocking.

  January 30, 2008

• Big Man on Campus

  October 17, 2007

• Buggers

  For once, Unreal is scared to get between the sheets. Plus: Anheuser-Busch gets buzzed, and the Francis Howell School District plans to take back Christmas.

  May 17, 2006

• Rebuilt to Suit

  June 20, 2007

• A Vashon cross-state rival cries foul over '04 championship game.

  March 7, 2007

• Basketball by the Book: A Riverfront Times Investigation

  November 1, 2006

• Big Game

  November 16, 2005

• See Me, Hear Me, Read Me

  October 5, 2005

• Unreal Fouls Out of the Final Four

  The beer-drinking, the game-watching, the east-side partying: We took it all in so you wouldn't have to

  April 6, 2005

• Fly Like an Eagle

  To Alton

  December 29, 2004

• Return of the Taller Ballers

  SLU's basketball season kicks off at Savvis

  November 3, 2004

• Bouton's Balls

  Are chin music for MLB

  March 3, 2004

• Shooting Stars

  Tommie Liddell plays tortoise to Darius Miles’ hare in the annals of East Side High basketball lore

  February 18, 2004

• Know News?

  The year in review: A quiz (For answers, see last page)

  December 31, 2003

• Worcester Booster

  Almost-Blues and faded Stars

  November 19, 2003

• Best Coach

  Brad Soderberg
  St. Louis University

  September 24, 2003

• Best High School Athlete

  Kevin Lisch
  Althoff High (Belleville)

  September 24, 2003

• Season on the Drink

  SLU's Blue Crew lives to harangue rival ballers -- and even the guys on the home team

  February 19, 2003

• Feed the Beast

  Everybody wants Hazelwood Central's Kalen Grimes and St. Louis' junior class of hoopsters. But recruiting in the city is a courtship dance and a high-maintenance affair.

  December 4, 2002

• Penalty Kick

  Faded soccer glory seen in a U.S. World Cup team without St. Louis talent

  June 19, 2002

• Phantom of the Opera House

  March 27, 2002

• Eat Drink Man Woman

  December 29, 1999

• A TEAM OF THEIR OWN

  December 8, 1999