by Hunter Patterson | Sep 30, 2011 | News Slider, Sports
This week, anchors Clay Smith and Michael Fox tell you everything you need to know about last week, now and next week. Also, Lumination was able to catch Paul Monteiro after Pizza and Politics for a quick interview. Lumination has all that, plus a look at entertainment, sports and weather. Please upgrade your...
by Cory Woodroof | Sep 28, 2011 | News Slider, Sports
It’s not every day you get to talk to a guy who has acted alongside such major Hollywood talents as Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Chris Pratt. It’s also not every day that this person is a former Lipscomb baseball player. Moneyball actor Casey Bond came back to the place where he spent his senior year of college this week to talk about his role as Chad Bradford in the book-turned-movie blockbuster. Casey Bond, former Lipscomb center fielder, recently acted in the new film Moneyball (based on the book by Michael Lewis). In the film, Bond’s character is a relief pitcher who played for the Oakland A’s during the 2002 season where the film gets its focus. Bond said he always had dreams of being a baseball player. Ever since childhood, baseball has been his passion. He played college ball at Birmingham-Southern in Alabama for three years until the school dropped the division one program. Lipscomb coach Jeff Forehand arrived at the same time as Bond and offered him a position on the Lipscomb team as a captain and a center fielder. “I figured this was a great place to go for my senior year.” Bond remembers. In 2007, Bond was drafted into the major leagues with the San Francisco Giants. During the off-seasons, Bond would return to Nashville to take acting classes with The Actor’s School in Cool Springs and finish up school. After his time in the Major Leagues, Bond decided to venture into the world of Hollywood acting. “I loved movies, and I just decided it was something I wanted to do,” he...
by Cooper Torrez | Sep 26, 2011 | News Slider, Sports
With the Vols on a bye week this week the Commodores looked to keep their perfect record alive against the twelfth ranked Gamecocks. The Commodores took the lead after an early field goal. However, those were the only points the Dores would get. Vandy still looked to be in the game until South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore took a screen pass for 51 yards right before halftime to put the Gamecocks up 14-3. Vandy struggled to put together anything on offense. Unfortunately for the Dores, they racked up more penalty yards than total yards for the game. Quarterback Larry Smith only threw for 44 yards and leading rusher Zac Stacy had just 18 yards on seven carries. Lattimore would put the game away with a 22 yard touchdown run in the third quarter. The bright spot in the game was the Commodores defense. Vandy picked off South Carolina gamecocks QB Stephen Garcia four times and held Lattimore to less than 100 yards for the first time all season. Vandy coach James Franklin had this to say about the defense, “I thought our defense played extremely well. I think they played good enough to win. They held Lattimore to 85 yards on 20 carries, they picked off Garcia four times.” The Commodores schedule doesn’t get any easier. Next week they take on third ranked Alabama in Tuscaloosa and the Vols take on the University of Buffalo at Neyland Stadium. In the conference alignment news, the SEC announced Texas A&M as the conferences thirteenth member on Sunday. Here is a better look at Texas...
by Cooper Torrez | Sep 21, 2011 | News Slider, Sports
The start of the college football season has been full of surprises and disappointments. Both Tennessee and Vanderbilt started Saturday 2-0 and only one team ended the day 3-0. However, it was the team most would not have suspected. Vanderbilt beat Ole Miss by the final of 30-7 on Saturday. The Commodores scored 21 points in the second quarter in route to a rare, but easy, win at Vanderbilt Stadium. Quarterback Larry Smith started the scoring with a 19 yard touchdown run and then a minute later defensive back Trey Wilson put the Commodores up 14-0 after a 52 yard interception return for a touchdown. At the end of the third quarter, Vandy running back Zac Stacy put the game out of reach with a 77 yard touchdown run. The big win was strongly attributed to Vandy’s five takeaways. “By nature we are an aggressive defense. We do quite a bit of blitzing and movement and things like that,” Vandy defensive coordinator told the Tennessean on Saturday. “I thought our guys did a good job creating havoc up front and doing things like that so, that’s important to us to be disruptive.” The Commodores take their 3 game winning streak on the road next week as they look to go 4-0. They face the 12th ranked South Carolina Gamecocks Saturday in Columbia. The other SEC team in Tennessee did not fare so well on Saturday. The Vols took on Florida in “The Swamp.” The game didn’t start well for Volunteer fans as star wideout Justin Hunter left the game after the first series with an ACL tear and is...
by Leah Raich | Sep 14, 2011 | News Slider, Sports
Lipscomb’s reputation as a strong community of believers is taking a big step into the locker rooms. Recent grad Kayla Marsh, whose official title is “spiritual formation director,” has been hired with the goals of devising ideas and events that foster spiritual development among the university’s athletes. “My greatest expectation is to really create a community that is real and authentic with each other,” Marsh said, “because the truth is, we know the spiritual leaders, but they struggle just as much as the ones that aren’t.” An example of her program is the Bible study she is leading for the women’s basketball team. “This year we’ve rededicated our focus to spiritually develop our student-athletes,” said Philip Hutcheson, athletics director. “We are doing this through working with our coaches, team captains and members of the Lipscomb community who volunteer as team chaplains and mentors.” Another important aspect of Marsh’s new position is to find ways to create community between the athletes and the student body. Because the athletes are so busy with their respective sports, minimal time is left to interact with non-athletes. Many of the female athletes Marsh has met with have expressed a desire for spiritual growth. Marsh says she has great expectations for the future, with ideas such as beginning a discipleship-type program, in which former athletes (in the community) mentor the spiritual leaders on each team and invest in their...
by Emily Snell | Sep 13, 2011 | News Slider, Sports
Daniel Wakefield, president of the Student Government Association, sat down with Lumination to look ahead at what SGA is doing this year to improve the Lipscomb experience for each of its students. “What we want to do is look at student life, figure out how things can be better and then focus our efforts on working with the administration to communicate how things could be better,” Wakefield said. “Part of that is just listening; part of that is just being available. But the other part of that is also being a bridge between student voices and administration’s ears. “ Wakefield said that goal includes things like improving campus, bringing in guest speakers, showing documentaries and helping create great memories. “We try to listen to what students, teachers and generally anyone in the Lipscomb community thinks might add to the experience that is being a Lipscomb student,” Wakefield said. Already this semester, SGA has donated money to the SAC renovation and to installing lights at the intramural field. SGA also gave away tickets to the Hillsong concert and hosted the cornhole tournament. Wakefield said the organization plans to have a concert in the winter, and for a spring event, SGA and campus ministry have invited author Donald Miller to campus. As it did last year, SGA will sponsor Paint the Herd this semester. Paint the Herd is designed to be a fun, exciting on-campus event to keep students interested in having a good time at Lipscomb on the weekend. About 700 students attended Paint the Herd last October, in the basement of the east parking garage. During the paint rave,...
