Developing Story: NCAA investigates DePaul Athletics
Shane Rene, Sports Editor
April 2, 2018
The NCAA is investigating DePaul University’s athletic department for violations of NCAA rules and regulations, according to sources close to the men’s basketball program. The precise nature of the investigation and the conduct being investigated is currently unknown. Sources say current and past...
Red hot, ice cold
Shane Rene, Sports Editor
April 2, 2018
Loyola-Chicago’s men’s basketball program ended their spectacular NCAA tournament run Saturday night with a 69-57 loss to No. 3 Michigan in the Final Four, and the DePaul Blue Demons watched from home for the fourteenth consecutive year. That drought was even longer for the Loyola Ramblers, who wo...
Loyola fans storm DePaul’s campus, local bars
Timothy Duke and Benjamin Conboy
April 2, 2018
During a Cinderella-style tournament run, Loyola’s men’s basketball fans took to bars around Chicago to cheer on the Ramblers in the Final Four on Saturday, March 31. The Loyola Ramblers competed fiercely in the NCAA championship, establishing themselves as the premiere Chicago collegiate basketball te...
Women’s tennis grapples with injuries in search of another Big East title
Evan Sully, Staff Writer
March 30, 2018
“Adverse” doesn’t even begin to describe the type of season it has been for the women’s tennis team. Sitting at an overall record of 5-5, the Blue Demons have been short-handed with injuries. However, that hasn’t halted the team’s spirit or level of optimism for the remainder of the seas...
DePaul advances to second round of the NCAA Tournament with win over Oklahoma
Andrew Hattersley, Asst. Sports Editor
March 16, 2018
The name of the game in March is win and advance and that’s exactly what No. 23 DePaul (27-7) did with a 90-79 win over Oklahoma to advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament in College Station, Texas Friday afternoon. DePaul will face fourth seeded Texas A&M who beat Drake 89-76 ...
Big East programs implicated in FBI probe into NCAA hoops
Andrew Hattersley and Shane Rene
February 26, 2018
Just before the 2017-18 college basketball season tipped off, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York broke headlines when they charged four active assistant basketball coaches with fraud and corruption charges for their role in paying athletes and influencing their college...
Providence stuns DePaul with 22-0 run in second half
Paul Steeno, Sports Reporter
January 13, 2018
For 23 minutes of game time, it looked like the DePaul Blue Demons would leave Wintrust Arena with a second consecutive Big East victory to their name. But, the Providence Friars (12-6; 3-2 Big East) had other plans. The Blue Demons (8-9; 1-4 Big East) found out the hard way that it's difficult to...
DePaul’s late game struggles continue in 90-81 loss to Georgetown
Paul Steeno, Sports Reporter
January 3, 2018
A winnable Big East game slipped through the DePaul Blue Demons (7-8, 0-3 Big East) fingers as the visiting Georgetown Hoyas (11-3, 1-2 Big East) absorbed run after run in the second half to escape Wintrust Arena with a 90-81 victory. "[We need] better belief in our system and better belief in each...
Men’s Basketball dominates in exhibition tuneup
November 5, 2017
The provocative question of who would score the first basket at Wintrust Arena has finally been answered. On the first possession of the DePaul Blue Demon’s dominating 121-65 exhibition victory against NAIA opponent Indiana University Northwest at Wintrust Arena on Sunday afternoon, junior forward Eli Ca...
DePaul men’s golf welcomes a new era
October 9, 2017
DePaul men’s golf team members Joe McCarthy, Bobby Thomas and Freddy Thomas say the team’s goal for the season is simple: bring home the Big East Championship title. “I think (winning the Big East) is our unequivocal goal,” fourth-year junior Bobby Thomas said. “We’ve been close — we’...
NCAA death penalty punishes fans the most
October 2, 2017
Sports scandals at Penn State, Baylor and Louisville, on multiple occasions have posed questions about whether one of these schools should become the first since Southern Methodist University in 1986 to receive the NCAA’s harshest form of punishment: the death penalty. Read More »...
Men’s basketball adds Courtney and Anderson to staff
September 18, 2017
Men’s basketball will see a largely new coaching staff for the 2017-18 season, as head coach Dave Leitao announced he’s bringing Bill Courtney and Tim Anderson into the program. Courtney and Anderson are the second and third additions to Leitao’s staff after former La Lumiere head coach Shane Hei...
Herbert G. McCann, Associated Press
July 18, 2019 • No Comments
The Chicago Police Board on Thursday fired four police officers for allegedly covering up a white officer's...
Woman slashed in face, neck near DePaul Lincoln Park campus
July 18, 2019
A recent DePaul graduate was slashed in the face and neck early Thursday morning...
Chicago police investigators confirm alligator in lagoon
July 11, 2019
Chicago police investigators have cracked the case: A 4-5 foot alligator is...
DePaul College of Communication dean named interim provost
June 23, 2019
DePaul’s Board of Trustees voted to appoint Salma Ghanem, a professor and...