BY MADISON SCARSELLA VN SPECIAL WRITER I’ve been playing softball since I was 10 years old, and for a long time I had the best fan anyone could ask for: my grandpa. He was a full-blown Sicilian man who didn’t know one single thing about softball (or any American sport, […]
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For the love of their game
BY ANTHONY OCCHIUTO VN SPECIAL WRITER Ever since childhood, I have enjoyed sports. I grew into in naturally, surrounded by athletes within my family. The most noteworthy of them was my grandfather Antonio Occhiuto, who played professional soccer in Italy. He grew up very poor in Italy, and his family […]
For the love of their game
BY ANTOINE DAVIS VN SPECIAL WRITER I frequently get asked, “Why did you move to Detroit?” or “Why did you choose to go to Detroit Mercy?” – especially when someone sees my Texas driver’s license. At times, I would like to reply with a question. Something like, where would you […]
Sharing the lessons of four years on campus
GERALD BLACKSHEAR / VN STAFF WRITER In my four years at Detroit Mercy, I’ve witnessed and experienced a lot. Even though I’m not far from home, the four years here have truly been an adventure. I started off as a freshman in Shiple Hall. Reflecting back on freshman year, it seems […]
Drama of b-ball tournament doesn’t disappoint this year
BY BRANDON WENNER / VN STAFF WRITER Virginia turned the humiliation of 2018 into immortality on Monday. About a year ago, Virginia became the first and the only number-one seed to lose to a number-16 in tournament’s history, as falling to the UMBC Retrievers, 74-54, in the first round of the […]
NFL off-season better than Super Bowl
BRANDON WENNER / STAFF WRITER Super Bowl 54 may have been uneventful but the free agency season, which opened March 13, has been anything but. The Pittsburgh Steelers have lost arguably the automatic one and two picks in fantasy football. Antonio Brown is now an Oakland Raider after Pittsburgh received third- […]
Freshman phenom Antoine Davis lights up Calihan Hall
BY GANNON PACIONI / VN NEWS EDITOR Pouring in a sizzling 124 points in his first four games as a Titan, Detroit Mercy’s Antoine Davis went from an unknown 6-foot-1, 150-pound, lightly recruited freshman to the second overall point scorer in NCAA Division I basketball. Now at 640 points and averaging […]
Sign up for intramural soccer, basketball, more
ikelball play was underway last week in the Fitness Center. it's just one of several intramural activities being offered this semester. VN photo / MARISSA BARRIUSO BY ISAIAH WARREN / VN STAFF WRITER Winter Intramural Sports have returned to the Detroit Mercy campus, hosted by the Fitness Center on campus. Registration is […]
Sigma Pi brings back football to campus
BY PEYTON THOMAS / VN STAFF WRITER It has been well over fifty years since the University of Detroit witnessed its own Division 1 football team take the field on its own campus. 1964 was the team’s final season, and, despite occasional rumors to the contrary, there are no plans of […]
NEW COACH, NEW START
BY BRITTNEY JACKSON / VN SPECIAL WRITER After the sudden removal of Bacari Alexander as head basketball coach last spring, Detroit Mercy launched a national search for its new men’s coach. Though the hunt took longer than expected, the Titans landed Mike Davis in June. Davis has already served as head […]
