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 […]
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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 […]
Chatman explains his decision to enter the NBA draft
BY KAMERON CHATMAN / VN STAFF WRITER I recently announced that I would be entering the 2018 NBA Draft. For me, this is an exciting situation, specifically because I feel that I am getting closer to my lifelong dream. The process of entering the draft is somewhat simple – just lots […]
Titans staff hopes to pull off success NCAA tourney
BY PEYTON THOMAS / VN STAFF WRITER Detroit Mercy played host for the NCAA as part of the first and second rounds of the men’s basketball tournament held at Little Caesars Arena. With March Madness in the Motor City, many of Detroit Mercy’s crew that work the Titan home games were […]
Roster depleted, Titans step up, fan post-season hopes
Josh McFolley scored 30 points Sunday and moved up the Titan's all-time three-point list. (Photo courtesy of Detroit Titans Sports Info.) BY PEYTON THOMAS / VN SPORTS WRITER The Titans pulled out a 74-60 victory over the IUPUI Jaguars Friday night before dropping an afternoon game to the UIC Flames […]
World Wrestling Entertainment’s 25th conjures memories of Cena, Mysterio and fun with friends
BY GERALD BLACKSHEAR / VN STAFF WRITER “1 … 2 … 3 … Ding! Ding! Ding! It’s over!” These are the words that end a World Wrestling Entertainment match and get the crowd rumbling. WWE, a professional wrestling company recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, has brought joy to many childhoods over […]
