Jays hover just short of victory, remain optimistic

Seven points. That was Creighton’s total deficit in a four-set loss to Northern Iowa Saturday. “It was a heartbreaker,” junior outside hitter Alicia Runge said. “I really wanted to beat UNI; they’re one of our biggest rivals.” The 23-25, 22-25, 25-22, 26-28 match was all too familiar to the Jays, who are 4-8 this season. […]

Omaha native has his work highlighted

This week there was an interesting article about entertainment news in Omaha. The story that caught my eye was an article about Alexander Payne, a native of Omaha and his next hollywood project. Payne has directed such movies as “Election”, “About Schmidt” and “Sideways”, some of my favorite films. Its been five years since his […]

Men’s soccer falls to Missouri State

The Missouri State Bears beat the Jays 1-0 in Saturday night’s match. The loss was the team’s first home loss in MVC play since 2004 and the team’s first loss in Valley play since 2006. The loan goal of the match was scored by Jordan Hoffman with 46 seconds left in the first half. The […]

Volleyball tops Bradley

The Creighton volleyball team started off Missouri Valley Conference play with a 4-set (25-9, 19-25, 25-23, 25-14) win against Bradley Friday at Sokol Arena. A crowd of 1,013 turned out for the Jays’ first home game since the Bluejay Invitational Aug. 28-29. The Jays started off strong in the first set, but Bradley got out […]

Buy “Retreat in the real World” today!

Pictured here are Maureen Waldron, associate director of the collaborative ministry team and the Rev. Andy Alexander, S.J., director of the collaborative ministry team, the primary authors of the book “Retreat in the Real World.” This does not include Fr. Larry Gillick, S.J. who also contributed, or Fr. Don Doll, S.J. who contributed photos for […]

Creighton, get ready to run

The 2009 Omaha Corporate Cup is coming up on Sunday. This year there is a CU/CUMC team running or walking the 10K or two-mile course. There are 164 individuals who registered as part of the CU/CUMC group, including myself and Creightonian advisor Carol Zuegner. The Corporate Cup was started in 1981. The event was started […]