by Carly Bergthold | Sep 4, 2014 | News Slider, Sports
Lipscomb University is in the spotlight once again because of the upcoming film My Many Sons. The movie, former Bison Casey Bond’s tribute to legendary basketball coach Don Meyer, has been filming in and around campus since mid-August, and several of Lipscomb’s own were involved. Mark McGee, Lipscomb Athletics’ media relations director and adjunct professor in the communication department, offered some insight into his experience. “I play Chuck Ross, Lipscomb’s number one fan,” McGee said. “Chuck was at all of our events, and he was usually very vocal.” McGee didn’t get the part by accident. His imitation of Ross’s signature slogan, “beat ‘em and beat ‘em bad,” prompted his co-workers to record it on a camera phone and send it in as an audition. That day McGee got a call from Bond asking him to play Ross. McGee is a featured character, meaning that he has no lines. However, he will have some close ups in crowd scenes, which are close enough for an interesting wardrobe. “The wardrobe lady gave me a plastic bag and a couple of hangers with Chuck’s jacket and t-shirt on them,” McGee said. “The bag had his shoes, his shakers, his megaphone, plus his hat. Everything I had on was Chuck’s.” The combination of McGee’s authentic clothes and Ross’ imitation impressed those on set. “On filming days, people I didn’t even know came up to me and said they wanted a picture made with Chuck,” McGee said. “They didn’t want to pose with me, they wanted to pose with Chuck.” The life of a featured character isn’t all fun and games, though. “It’s a...
by Logan Butts | Nov 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
Fifty years since the assassination of John F. Kennedy – a trauma that sparked the first “wall-to-wall” television news coverage, so generations captivated by the young president and his family could view the events – the cruel reality still resonates with those who lived through it. Similar to how most people who are alive today know exactly where they were when the events of 9/11 occurred, anyone who lived during President Kennedy’s assassination knows exactly where they were when the news was broke to them early in the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963. “I was in Madison Street Elementary School in the first grade class,” said Mark McGee, Lipscomb Athletics media relations director and adjunct professor. “And our teacher, Mrs. Beachboard, came into the class and told us that the president had been killed.” “I remember exactly where I was,” said Alan Griggs, associate professor and chair of the department of communications and journalism. “I was in the seventh grade, and I was in a civics classroom. We were being taught by Mr. Basset, the civics teacher. All of the sudden, the door opens, and in comes the assistant principle with a very worried look on his face saying that the president had been shot. We were all just stunned.” For the next four days, Americans sat glued to their televisions watching all the events unfold. From the assassination of the President on Friday to Jack Ruby’s shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald on Sunday and Kennedy’s funeral on Monday, all of America saw the events unfold in their living room, right in front of their eyes. “It took over TV,” McGee said. “I...
by Brianne Welch | Nov 15, 2012 | Sports
Vanessa Medina, a senior softball player from Bakersfield, Calif., came to Lipscomb University to experience a different world. “I wanted to challenge myself,” she said. For four years, softball was Medina’s life. According to Medina, the sport provided her with some of her favorite memories. “One of my best memories was winning conference my sophomore year,” Medina said. “We danced to ‘Baby’ on the field.” Medina was injured her sophomore and senior years, which limited her playing time. She was offered a medical redshirt but decided not to use it. Instead, Medina said she is enjoying being a regular student during her last semester of college. “I do love being a normal student,” Medina said. “I also like being busy though, so I don’t think I could handle all this free time for more than one semester.” While softball was Medina’s job and took up the majority of her time, it was just a means to a desired end. Medina is majoring in public relations and wants to use her degree to remain involved in sports. “Maybe I’ll be a sports broadcaster or the person setting up the press conferences,” Medina said. “I want to do something in sports.” Medina’s dream is for that “something” to be a job in Major League Baseball. Though her favorite team is the New York Yankees, Medina has interviewed for a position with the Minnesota Twins, among other types of jobs. “I’ve had a couple of interviews, but nothing is set in stone.” Medina said sports helped her learn valuable life skills. “I learned a lot of time management because of softball,” she...
by Jeremy Keck | Nov 4, 2010 | News Slider, Sports
For the first time in 10 years, Lipscomb will be taking on former rival Trevecca Nazarene in an exhibition game Thursday night at Allen Arena. With so much time having passed since the last time these two teams matched up, some people say this installment might not match up to the storied games of yesteryear. Former star player and current athletic director Philip Hutchinson thinks differently. “A lot of people who go to school in Nashville stay in Nashville,” said Hutchinson. “There [are] a lot of loyalties to both schools. A lot of Lipscomb and Trevecca fans in Nashville were around whenever the rivalry was at its peak; this game should be a lot of fun.” Mark McGee, Lipscomb instructor and sports information director, who covered the games for Lipscomb when the rivalry was at its peak and Hutchinson both described the battles as “intense.” “It was every bit of the Belmont rivalry we have today and then some,” said Hutchinson. “A lot of the players grew up playing against each other, so bragging rights were always at stake each time we faced them.” “The fans were not ugly,” said McGee. “But it would get so loud that you couldn’t hear yourself think. The Lipscomb-Trevecca rivalry was edgier and grittier back then in some ways than Belmont games get today.” Andy Lane, who broadcast the Lipscomb basketball games during the 1980s, proclaims the meeting between these two schools was “The Game.” “Back when the games were played in McQuiddy, each time Trevecca would come to our place it would get packed,” Lane said. “It was a hot, loud, crowded atmosphere. The games would be...
