DePaul’s Timeline of Fame
Zoe Barnes, Focus Editor
September 17, 2018
Filed under Focus
Have you ever been sitting on the freshly mowed grass of the Quad, maybe you have been ordering a mediocre cup of coffee from The Bean while simultaneously running late for your 9:40 lecture in the SAC, and you wonder, what celebrities have passed through these hallowed halls on their way to stardom? With...
Chicago startup aims to pay apartment seekers, build community
Evan Sully, Staff Writer
September 10, 2018
Filed under News
Looking for an apartment isn’t always the most glamorous task, especially for college students. Rentgrata is a new service aimed to ease that process and get apartment seekers paid for signing their lease. The Chicago-based company, incorporated in October 2016, is an iOS app and web-based pla...
Blue Demon basketball adds another transfer player
Paul Steeno, Sports Reporter
September 8, 2018
Filed under Basketball, Men's Sports, Sports
The depth chart at the shooting guard position became a little more crowded today for the DePaul Blue Demon men's basketball program. DePaul announced the addition of 6-foot-3-inch graduate transfer Lyrik Shreiner who will become immediately eligible for the 2018-2019 season and will have two tota...
Too good to be true: Shannon Jr. reopens committment
Paul Steeno, Sports Reporter
August 19, 2018
Filed under Basketball, Men's Sports, Sports
A lot can change in a week. Last Sunday, the DePaul Blue Demons received their second verbal commitment from a top 100 guy in the class of 2019 when Lincoln Park High School wing Terrence Shannon Jr. announced his commitment to DePaul. Just one week later, Shannon Jr. has had a change of heart, telling 247Sport...
Blue Demons strike gold again on recruiting front
Paul Steeno, Sports Reporter
August 12, 2018
Filed under Basketball, Men's Sports
The recruiting gods are finally smiling down on the DePaul men's basketball program. After whiffing on their top two targets in the class of 2018 last spring, DePaul Blue Demon head coach Dave Leitao landed local four-star recruit Terrence Shannon Jr. today to pair with fellow four-star recruit Romeo...
Lollapalooza 2018 Recap: Saturday
Lacey Latch, Arts & Life Editor
August 5, 2018
Going to three days of Lollapalooza in a row is an accomplishment in itself, but to do so in almost 100 degree weather? That’s something else entirely. But that’s what thousands of people did on Saturday, and I was among them. Under the blistering sun, most Lolla goers remained unfazed by the heat, b...
Former DePaul video coordinator accepts assistant coaching job at CCSU
Paul Steeno, Sports Reporter
July 20, 2018
Filed under Basketball, Men's Sports, Sports
On Dec. 6, 2017, Central Connecticut State head basketball coach Donyell Marshall watched his Blue Devil boys bow out 85-57 against the DePaul Blue Demons at Wintrust Arena. Between bouts of nostalgia from coaching against his former college coach Dave Leitao, Marshall must have been impressed with the ga...
McCallum’s agent hopes his scoring spices up in Switzerland
Paul Steeno, Sports Reporter
July 14, 2018
Filed under Basketball, Men's Sports, Sports
The newest member of the Swiss Basketball League-affiliated Pully Lausanne Foxes will bring Chicago flavor to the lakeside suburb of Lausanne, Switzerland. Even though it's an Americanized city with Subways and McDonald's dotting the streets, maybe former DePaul Blue Demon forward Tre'Darius McCallum could bring over some more American culture in the form of Giordano's pizza to endear himself to his new teammates. With or without the pizza, he will bring a professional basketball ready makeup to his new team when he boards his plane and makes the 4,384-mile journey from the Windy City to Lausanne. ...
Blue Demons name new softball coach
Paul Steeno, Sports Reporter
July 5, 2018
Filed under Softball, Sports, Women's Sports
Will Adix-Zin be a win for the Blue Demons? The DePaul University athletic department announced this afternoon that it has named former star Blue Demon student athlete Tracie Adix-Zins as its new head softball coach. She will replace Eugene Lenti after the veteran coach of 37 seasons retired in a...
Henry selected to try out for Team USA World Cup qualifying team
Paul Steeno, Sports Reporter
June 11, 2018
Filed under Basketball, Men's Sports, Sports
Myke Henry has come a long way since he donned the DePaul blue and red from 2014 until 2016. After graduating from DePaul, he didn't hear his name called in the 2016 NBA draft. But, he latched onto the Oklahoma City Blue of the NBA D League. Then, he went south to play professionally in Mexico. Las...
Greenwood Named Google Cloud Academic All-American
Paul Steeno, Sports Reporter
June 6, 2018
Filed under Softball, Sports, Women's Sports
DePaul Blue Demon softball player Morgan Greenwood now has an exclamation point to conclude her school year on. On Monday, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced that they had selected the Blue Demons third baseman and catcher to the 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-America...
DePaul finds true love with their Romeo
Paul Steeno, Sports Reporter
May 22, 2018
Filed under Basketball, Men's Sports, Showcase, Sports
The DePaul Blue Demon men's basketball team just received a verbal commitment from a potentially program-changing recruit. On an Instagram live video taken in his high school gymnasium, class of 2019 four-star small forward Romeo Weems picked the Blue Demons over Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State,...
