by Emily Snell | May 16, 2012 | News Slider, Sports
ESPN’s SportsCenter rated a Lipscomb baseball catch as number 3 on its Top 10 plays list today. Chris Nunn, a junior left-handed pitcher from Memphis, made a no look, behind the back catch in a game against Jacksonville at Dugan Field over the weekend, landing him in the spotlight. The catch ranked number 9 initially and then moved up to the third spot at lunch time today, according to Mark McGee, media relations director for Lipscomb Athletics. The Bisons (25-27, 10-14 A-Sun) swept Jacksonville in an Atlantic Sun Conference doubleheader Saturday, May 12, winning the first game 6-1 and the second 6-2, on “Ken Dugan Day.” According to lipscombsports.com, “Nunn kept the Jacksonville offense off balance to pick up his first win of the season tossing five and two-thirds innings. Nunn scattered seven Dolphins hits, walked only one batter and fanned one Jacksonville hitter.” The final home regular season game was Tuesday, May 14 against Tennessee Tech. The Bisons lost 5-4. The last Atlantic Sun series of the year starts Thursday, May 17 at 5 p.m. at Belmont. The Atlantic Sun Tournament begins Wednesday, May...
by Hunter Patterson | Mar 10, 2012 | Opinion
Rumor has it, before High Rise’s water problem on Thursday that classes have not been cancelled for a non-weather related event in over 30 years! During the news meeting on Friday, Lumination Network staff compiled a Top 10 list a la David Letterman. Staff members Emily Snell, Hunter Patterson, Whitney Jarreld, Nicci Carney and Cory Woodroof all contributed to the list below. 10. The bison statue’s head is cut off, prompting a student-led search party headed up by Garner Goode dressed as the LU Bison 9. Belmont students litter campus with cups from Bongo Java 8. A group of High Rise freshmen organize a campus-wide simultaneous toilet flushing, causing the campus to overflow 7. Student leads a revolt after being turned away from singing praise chapel in Shamblin for third time in three weeks 6. Fire Marshal shuts down campus after trying to attend singing chapel in Shamblin with his daughter, a prospective student 5. Nicolas Cage discovers the Ark of the Covenant in the LU cave system 4. All students get chapel credit on time, prompting the university to give the students a day off 3. Network frame crashes after absurd amount of Blackboard and Academic Workshop emails 2. Squirrels invade student center before storming the Campus Life office, holding Dean McDowell for ransom 1. Professors run out of paper to use in classes after security fills year-long parking ticket quota in a single day Have one better than ours? We think you can probably do better. Comment below or tweet at us at @LuminationNet with your suggestion. We’ll publish the...
by Hunter Patterson | Dec 20, 2011 | News Slider, Opinion, Sports
It’s that time of the year again. You know, the end of it. And with the end of the year comes lists! On the front pages of CNN, ABC News, Yahoo! and other news sites there will soon be “The Best of 2011” or “The Biggest from 2011.” At Lumination Network, we opted for the latter. 2011 was a year of surprises. When the year began, we were all shocked by what happened to Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona. In March, Charlie Sheen ranted about “winning” and “Tiger Blood,” capturing the attention of the world…and ending his sitcom career prematurely. But 2011 was also a year of tragedy. On top of Senator Giffords being shot in her home state, one of the largest tsunamis in history hit Japan, which sent three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into meltdown, the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. In April, tornadoes ripped through the states just south of us.There were more than 170 twisters on one day, leading to a death toll of nearly 300. And 2011 was a year of love. In the biggest wedding of our lifetimes, William and Kate got hitched. Prince William, of course, tied the knot with his wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, got married outside Westminster Abbey in London on April 29. Over 23 million Americans watched the wedding from their couches. Undoubtedly, though, the biggest story of the year was the death of Osama bin Laden. As most of you remember, bin Laden was killed during a firefight in Pakistan nearly a decade after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and set off patriotic celebrations...
