By Daniel Johnson, Sports Editor After losing its season opener to the University of Central Oklahoma, an ACU win against Texas State in week two was possible but unlikely. Then ranked at No. 24, the Wildcats were coming off of a loss to an unranked UCO team in week one and were facing a nationally ranked Division I-AA team at Texas State's home ... [Read More…]
Sept. 11 anniversary amplifies mistakes in Iraq
By Daniel Johnson-Kim, Sports Editor One day before the sixth anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the head of United States forces in Iraq declared progress was being made on the war front. Gen. David H. Petraeus released his report on the result of President George W. Bush's troop surge and promised congress the additional 30,000 ... [Read More…]
ACU upsets Texas State 45-27: Wildcats’ offense too much for upper division opponent
By Daniel Johnson, Sports Editor Just like its season opener against the University of Central Oklahoma, ACU took an early lead against its week two opponent Texas State. But unlike week one the Wildcats kept scoring. ACU rebounded from its season-opening loss to UCO by upsetting Football Championship Subdivision opponent Texas State 45-27 in ... [Read More…]
Texas State offers challenge for 0-1 Wildcats
By Daniel Johnson, Sports Editor The nationally ranked ACU football team was challenged by and lost to the unranked University of Central Oklahoma in its season opener. But in its second game of the season, the Wildcats will face a challenge that no modern Lone Star Conference team has been able to overcome: NCAA Football Championship Subdivision ... [Read More…]
Empathizing with a murderer
By Daniel Johnson-Kim, Sports Editor Seung Hui Cho's Korean immigrant parents didn't know how to help their son. According to the Washington Post, the college student who killed 32 students and himself on the Virginia Tech campus on April 16 led a troubled life, and the violent tragedy was the culmination of a lifetime of isolation and ... [Read More…]
Wildcats upset in season opener
By Daniel Johnson, Sports Editor They may have been unranked and in the midst of a coaching scandal, but the University of Central Oklahoma upset the nationally ranked ACU football team in its season opener Saturday. ACU lost 27-17 to UCO after the Bronchos took advantage of a handful of ACU mistakes and penalties. UCO, whose former head coach ... [Read More…]
Different expectations
By Daniel Johnson, Sports Editor At ACU's season opener in 2006, the Wildcats were the underdogs. They were picked to finish sixth in the Lone Star Conference South Division, hadn't won a season opener since 1998 and hadn't posted a winning season in three years. Nobody knew how good the ACU football team could be, not even its players. "We ... [Read More…]
Residents fed up with Sherrod
By Daniel Johnson, Sports Editor The Shockley family returned from their summer vacation to find a hoard of crickets filling the bathroom shower and covering the kitchen floor of their apartment in Sherrod Hall. The crickets slipped through the holes and cracks in the walls and doors of their apartment while the Shockleys were gone, and Troy ... [Read More…]
Iraqi blog gives new perspective on war
By Daniel Johnson-Kim, Sports Editor A nameless Iraqi dentist opened my eyes to the daily tragedies of the Iraq War. He doesn't disclose his name, and his English isn't perfect, but his blog, "The Last of the Iraqis," is an insightful and mindblowing account of a life surrounded by death. In his blog, the dentist who lives in Baghdad, Iraq, ... [Read More…]
Summer with the line
By Daniel Johnson, Sports Editor Their names aren't on a stat sheet, and they're not the players usually quoted in the paper, but without its offensive linemen the ACU football team wouldn't gain a yard. And after a summer of Schlitterbahn, s'mores and 7 a.m. workout sessions, starters Nathan Young, Cody Savage, Matt Raesner, Joseph Thompson and ... [Read More…]
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