Thursday, November 14, 2024
Sometimes a person comes to a crossroad in life. I never really understood this until now. I have reached that proverbial crossroad and a difficult decision had to be made. Either I could stay and play my extra COVID-19 year here with my dad, brother and teammates or go into […]
COVID-19, retirements and personnel changes can catch anyone off guard. Ask Robert C. Vowels, Jr., who has dealt with all of these in just two short years. Vowels, the 14th Director of Athletics at the University of Detroit Mercy, has led the Titans athletic department for nearly nine years. Going forward, […]
The Detroit Mercy Men’s lacrosse team is on pace for its worst season record-wise since 2016. The Titans are sitting at 1-8 with two games left to go in the regular season, the team’s first in the ASUN conference after previously competing in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. Despite the struggles […]
The environment and conditions of an athlete can indeed affect their efficiency and playmaking ability. For a golfer, the ability to consider course and weather conditions is something they have trained for their entire athletic career. That would be some- thing that senior James Hill would conquer on March 29 through […]
Basketball season may be over, but the friendships formed by the Detroit Titans Dance Team continue. The 10 members of the univer- sity’s 2021-22 dance team have bonds that stretch beyond the hard- wood floor of Calihan Hall. One member, Lea Cook, decided to join after finding out a few of […]
We are currently nearing the end of the 2021-22 school year and grad- uation is around the corner. I am a senior and I will soon be graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Communications. I am extremely fortunate to be able to graduate from such a great school like the University […]
Critical race theory has become quite the hot button topic in the past year. At least, that is when I first heard of it. But what is critical race theory? Miriam-Webster Dictionary defines it as “a group of concepts (such as the idea that race is a sociological rather than […]
As a lifelong Catholic, my family and I had always participated in the tradition of Lent. In the past I have given up things such as chocolate and other forms of sweets, temperaments (like not being quick to anger) and other material goods. All of those “vices” that I had […]
The author, Mohamed Sylla, is a junior center on the men’s basketball team. Our season may have recently come to an end, but it certainly had its highlights. One of our most impressive accomplishments as a team was only losing a single game at Calihan Hall all year. Our goal […]
The Detroit Mercy softball team has had a tough start for the 2021-2022 season. Since starting play in mid-February, the Titans are 0-19. But the players aren’t deterred. “Obviously, it is not what we expected, but at the end of the day, we cannot let it affect the rest of […]
