April 17, 2014
Hall of Fame baseball player George Brett famously said that “losing was as pleasant as kissing...
April 9, 2014
The second-longest-tenured coach in the Goshen College athletic program is gone. After 13 seasons at...
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April 2, 2014
Nearly two months ago, the GC athletic department announced plans to drop the men’s and women’s...
March 12, 2014
The calendar suggests that it will soon be time for the Maple Leaf baseball and softball teams to...
February 19, 2014
In a way, the Goshen basketball teams have spared themselves one of the stresses of March: when the...
February 5, 2014
One of the postulates of sports’ quantitative analysis is that “numbers never lie.” Of course...
January 22, 2014
The Goshen College men’s basketball team had a Western-movie feel to it this week. Saturday...
December 7, 2013
It was 26 degrees with wind gusting to 20 miles per hour when the gun sounded to begin the NAIA...
November 15, 2013
The wintry winds of Winona Lake may have slowed the Maple Leaf cross country team at the Crossroads...
October 22, 2013
Opportunity may knock more than just once. But whatever the number, its knocks are finite. Goshen...
October 6, 2013
Ryan Smith’s college cross country career is off to an auspicious start. A 33-year-old Goshen...
September 25, 2013
Goshen outshot Spring Arbor by a factor of three Saturday night, but the Cougars found a goal and...
April 18, 2013
“The most important thing … is not to win but to take part.” Monday afternoon,...
April 10, 2013
The digital revolution has not been kind to dead-tree books. As I’m sure the bookstore has...
Sports • baseball • softball • technology
April 10, 2013
April 10, 2013
The Goshen College softball team snapped a 17-game losing streak against local rival Bethel on...
April 3, 2013
April 3, 2013
The twenty-day interregnum between Goshen men’s basketball coaches is over. Neal Young, an...
March 13, 2013
BASEBALL (1-8, 0-0 CL) Saturday, March 9: vs. Concordia (Mich.) (2), canceled Wednesday, March 13:...
March 13, 2013
If you’re keeping score at home, it’s Mother Nature 4, Maple Leafs 0. Four, as in the...
March 13, 2013
Men’s basketball head coach Gary Chupp announced his resignation Wednesday, ending a six-year...
March 7, 2013
BASEBALL (1-8, 0-0 CL) Sunday, Feb. 24: at Northwood, lost 15-13 Monday, Feb. 25: at Northwood, lost...
March 7, 2013
The close of winter sports brings with it the beginning of competition for spring teams. Along with...
February 21, 2013
Multiple Internet sources reported this week that the University of North Carolina may be on the...
February 13, 2013
For the past month, I’ve had the privilege of watching thrilling basketball finishes in the...
February 13, 2013
MEN’S BASKETBALL (8-20, 1-16 CL) Saturday, Feb. 9: lost 79-67 at Spring Arbor Tuesday, Feb. 12:...
February 7, 2013
The Goshen women’s basketball team couldn’t shake its shooting woes in a 72-33 conference loss...
February 7, 2013
January 30, 2013
MEN’S BASKETBALL (7-15, 0-11 CL) Saturday, Jan. 19: lost 87-71 vs. Taylor University Tuesday,...
January 30, 2013
MEN’S BASKETBALL (7-17, 0-13) Saturday, Jan. 26: vs. St. Francis, lost 93-86 Tuesday, Jan. 29...
January 23, 2013
Where are Goshen’s athletic teams based? For basketball and volleyball, many of the Leaf faithful...
January 17, 2013
College is one of the few places we can set aside grade-school proverbs. “Don’t judge a...
January 17, 2013
MEN’S BASKETBALL (7-13, 0-9 CL) Thursday, Jan. 10: lost 75-50 vs. Huntington University...
December 6, 2012
I love losing. To be clear, that’s not a reference to any team — believe me, as a Cubs fan,...
December 6, 2012
MEN’S BASKETBALL (7-4, 0-3) Saturday, Dec. 1: at St. Francis, lost 70-67 Tuesday, Dec. 4: vs....
November 29, 2012
MEN’S BASKETBALL (6-3, 0-2) Friday, Nov. 16: at Wisconsin-Platteville, lost 82-53 Saturday,...
November 29, 2012
The Goshen women’s basketball team dropped a road game to Bethel College Wednesday night in...
November 15, 2012
Entering the Crossroads League conference meet in Marion, Ind., the Goshen College men’s cross...
November 15, 2012
VOLLEYBALL (16-22, 8-10 CL) Thursday, Nov. 8: at Bethel, lost 3-0 MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY Saturday...
November 8, 2012
1,461 more days. 2.1 million more minutes. Four more years. Come Nov. 8, 2016, America will vote for...
November 8, 2012
History, the axiom says, repeats itself. For this, the Maple Leaf volleyball team could not be...
November 8, 2012
VOLLEYBALL (16-21, 8-10 CL) Saturday, Nov. 3: vs. Indiana-South Bend, lost 3-2 Tuesday, Nov. 6: at...
November 1, 2012
The Goshen men’s basketball team was picked to finish tenth in the Crossroads League preseason...
November 1, 2012
MEN’S SOCCER (6-9-2, 1-6-2 CL) Saturday, Oct. 20: vs. Taylor, lost 3-0 WOMEN’S SOCCER (5...
October 18, 2012
Relative to Goshen’s recent performance, the women’s soccer team may have felt like it...
October 11, 2012
MEN’S SOCCER (6-6-1, 1-3-1 CL) Saturday, Oct. 6: at Indiana Wesleyan, lost 1-0 Wednesday, Oct...
October 11, 2012
If 2011 was a spark for the Goshen College Men’s Cross Country Team, then 2012 has turned into...
October 4, 2012
MEN’S SOCCER (6-5-1, 1-2-1 CL) Saturday, Sept. 29: at Grace, lost 3-0 Tuesday, Sept. 2: vs....
September 27, 2012
MEN’S SOCCER (5-3-1 +1, 0-0-1 +1 CL) Saturday, Sept. 22: at Spring Arbor (Mich.), tied 1-1...
September 27, 2012
Five goals. Five different players. A win and a draw. In short, that was the story of the Maple...
September 27, 2012
The Maple Leafs volleyball team reached the halfway point of the Crossroads League season this...
September 20, 2012
The starting gun has fired on the Maple Leafs’ cross country seasons. The men have yet...
September 12, 2012
At first glance, the Goshen volleyball team has a young roster. Last season, the Maple Leafs made a...
September 12, 2012
Men’s Soccer (2-2 [+1], 0-0 CL) Wednesday, Aug. 29: at Siena Heights (Mich.), lost 1-0...
March 28, 2012
I miss the ’90s. And I don’t mean Vanilla Ice, Windows 3.1, Rugrats or presidential sex scandals...
March 28, 2012
Despite a five-week hiatus, the track teams scored 33 top-ten finishes Saturday at the Dick Small...
March 28, 2012
After Goshen’s baseball team won four of its first six games, the Maple Leafs hoped that winning...
March 28, 2012
Baseball Thursday, March 22 @ University of St. Francis: L 3-1, L 9-4 Saturday, March 24 vs. #RV...
March 15, 2012
Seven innings were not enough for the Goshen College baseball team on Saturday afternoon. With the...
March 8, 2012
Baseball Hall of Famer Ernie Banks might be best known for his catchphrase, “Let’s play two!”...
March 8, 2012
The Goshen College baseball team did something on Tuesday that they hadn’t done since 2010: score...
February 23, 2012
The indiana Wesleyan women’s basketball team is ranked no. 1 in the country. Saturday, they...
February 23, 2012
Two seconds. That margin would have been enough for a pair of Maple Leafs to qualify for nationals...
February 16, 2012
A pair of double-digit scoring totals were not enough to keep the Maple Leafs in the game as Goshen...
February 16, 2012
Two school records fell. Two race walkers won their meets. And a high jumper qualified for nationals...
February 9, 2012
On an evening when most of the Goshen track and field team was in action two counties from home,...
February 2, 2012
Despite a balanced scoring attack that saw five players score at least eight points, the Goshen...
January 26, 2012
On the first possession of Tuesday night’s Mid-Central Conference contest, Goshen jumped to an...
January 12, 2012
Before the game on Saturday afternoon between the Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats and the Goshen Maple...
November 30, 2011
Among the leading scorers for the men’s basketball team this year include first-year Kody Chandler...
October 11, 2011
Indiana Wesleyan University moved itself into the top half of the Mid-Central College Conference on...