The New York Giants are now one game away from winning their second Super Bowl in four years. This team seems to be a team of destiny, a team that thrives when the world underestimates them.
A dejected Elon Phoenix bench, usually more supportive when a player is subbed out, mostly stared forward, or at the floor.
The Elon Phoenix men’s basketball team went into Cullowhee, N.C., Thursday night and took care of their proverbial business, defeating the Western Carolina Catamounts 71-63. The Phoenix (10-9 overall, 5-3 Southern Conference) got 26 points and six rebounds from sophomore guard Jack Isenbarger, who has replaced senior guard Drew Spradlin in the starting lineup and produced, averaging 20 points, five rebounds and three assists in the past three contests for Elon. His best game of the season came against the Catamounts (9-12, 3-5 SoCon), as he shot 7-13 from the field and 7-8 from the free-throw line.
The Elon Phoenix stand atop the North Division of the Southern Conference at 4-3. Not even close to the perfect conference record of South Division leader Davidson College. But after a stretch where Elon lost seven of eight games, including five straight, ended Jan.
It was at a pregame shootaround Monday morning when Ali Ford made a statement. The junior guard decided she would heave a basketball from half-court.
Jack Isenbarger picked a good time to notice something wrong in the Chattanooga defense. With Elon University trailing by a point and just over a minute remaining in the game, the sophomore guard noticed a Mocs defender "sleeping" in the post and threw a pass up to Lucas Troutman. The sophomore forward didn't see the ball until it was halfway on its path near the basket.
With the losses piling up and nothing seeming to work, Elon University head coach Matt Matheny is doing anything he can to change the Phoenix's fortunes. On Thursday night against Samford University, that meant trotting out a different starting lineup.
The Academic Village is just the latest site of construction on Elon University's campus. This week, a team broke ground on the Numen Lumen Pavilion, the final building in the village which will serve as a Multi-faith Center. The Numen Lumen Pavilion was formally dedicated at a ceremony in November and will include a multipurpose room, prayer room and meditation garden.
The Student Professional Development Center, formerly known as Career Services, is now located in Moseley Center and incorporates new services reflective of student's post- graduation plans.
Everything started out simply — protest the wealthiest 1 percent in America at a location where some of the wealthiest people in the world work, New York City, particularly, Wall Street. On Sept.
Allowance of liquor by the drink increases diversity in bars and restaurants in the Town of Elon, according to Jeff MacKenzie, co-owner of The Fat Frogg.
The Gerald L. Francis Center, home of the School of Health Sciences located on Haggard Avenue, opened this month. The department of physician assistant studies moved into the building Jan.
As Susan Klopman prepares for retirement and reflects on a 27-year career at Elon University, it's clear she has seen and spearheaded extensive changes at the institution.
If the first few weeks of 2012 are any indication, it's going to be a crazy year.
#Elonproblems: A phrase that every student is fast becoming familiar with. If you're an Elon student on Twitter, you may have noticed a recent increase in parody accounts focusing on #elonproblems. Spurring from the popular first world problems meme (and its many, many variations), Elon now has its very own Twitter accounts focusing on the problems on campus.
Phoenix athletes had some big events in 2011. The baseball and men's tennis teams won regular season championships.
After studying for up to four months at universities all around the world, students who were abroad for the fall semester have returned to Elon, and feelings about being back vary. Kenton Porter couldn't be happier to be back.
Whether it's learning about the true definition of money or paso basico, steps from the Argentinian style of tango, Burst the Bubble classes provide extra fun and educational opportunities during Winter Term.
Tim Tebow's famous prayer pose has brought God into sports conversations across the United States, and Elon University is no exception. Several Phoenix athletes are members of Campus Outreach, a national collegiate ministry that serves university communities.
A Elon alumna is at the forefront of the vaudeville movement, which is making a comeback from its glory days of the last century. Amanda Hulon-Coyle, under the stage name Virginia Scare, is the founder of The VaudeVillian Revue, a neo-vaudeville and burlesque troupe that played its first show in Raleigh in November 2011. "The VaudeVillian Revue pays homage to the history of vaudeville stylistically, and by occasionally reprising classic acts," she said.
