The Bulldogs’ Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament run ended on March 5 with an 82–69 defeat at the hands of the Findlay Oilers.

Ferris trailed Findlay by nine points at the half, despite shoot­ing 60 per­cent from three-point range. The Bulldogs were down 53–41 with 13:21 left in the game, but trimmed the deficit to four points with less than seven min­utes to play. (more…)

The Ferris men’s bas­ket­ball team earned its first GLIAC Tournament vic­tory since the 2005–2006 sea­son with a win over Saginaw Valley State on Tuesday.

Ferris lost the two reg­u­lar sea­son meet­ings with the Cardinals, but won a defen­sive bat­tle 65–59 in University Center in the GLAIC Tournament Quarterfinals. The vic­tory marked the first win at Saginaw Valley since the 2006–2007 sea­son. (more…)

The Ferris women’s rugby team won the 16th Annual Snowball Tournament in Kalamazoo on Feb. 13 in com­mand­ing fashion.

Unlike tra­di­tional rugby matches, the con­tests were played on fields 30 yards long instead of 100 yards and played with 10 peo­ple instead of 15. The tour­na­ment was set up in a bracket style and each team was guar­an­teed to play at least three games.

Sophomore Andrea Dooley, a tele­vi­sion pro­duc­tion major from Grandville, said the Bulldogs were the only team to go 4–0 through­out the tour­na­ment. The Bulldogs defeated Wayne State, Saginaw Valley State, Central Michigan and Western Michigan. (more…)

As Ferris suits up to play their final reg­u­lar sea­son games Friday and Saturday night, the Bulldogs will still need to be aware of what may lie ahead of them in the CCHA post-season.

Miami locked up the No. 1 seed in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association two weeks ago, but the sec­ond through fourth seeds are still open.

Ferris State and Michigan State remained tied for sec­ond in the CCHA with 46 points after split­ting their series last week­end. The Bulldogs bat­tle Western Michigan in a home-and-home series and the Spartans play Bowling Green State in the final two games of the season.

Alaska is fourth in the con­fer­ence with 45 points and Nebraska-Omaha is fifth with 44 points. Nebraska-Omaha and Alaska have com­pleted their con­fer­ence sea­sons and can­not advance their posi­tions. Ferris can­not fin­ish worse than fifth or bet­ter than sec­ond in the CCHA stand­ings.
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Senior Alicia Thomas will start her pro­fes­sional career as an account exec­u­tive in the sales depart­ment with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Thomas, an adver­tis­ing major from Greenville, knew she wanted to work with a pro­fes­sional sports orga­ni­za­tion and her first choice was the Cavaliers due to their award-winning mar­ket­ing and sales team. (more…)

Ferris State University com­ple­ments its edu­ca­tion with job expe­ri­ence oppor­tu­ni­ties not often found at over­sized universities.

Any col­lege stu­dent under­stands that high grades are valu­able toward attain­ing a desir­able job upon grad­u­a­tion. Academics are not the only attribute employ­ers are look­ing for, how­ever. An intern­ship or work expe­ri­ence of some kind is more often than not what sets one stu­dent apart from another. (more…)

The 2010 Winter Olympic Olympics began with a trib­ute to 21-year-old luge racer Nodar Kumaritashvili, who died in a train­ing crash on Feb. 12.

A native of the Republic of Georgia, Kumaritashvili was trav­el­ing 90 mph when he lost con­trol of his sled and crashed into an unpadded pole out­side of the track. He was rushed to the hos­pi­tal at the bot­tom of the moun­tain where he died shortly after. (more…)

With 287 career vic­to­ries, Ferris State hockey coach Bob Daniels ranks 11th among active NCAA Division I hockey coaches.

Daniels is the win­ningest coach in Ferris State hockey his­tory and has the longest tenure of any Bulldog hockey coach. Ferris State’s only Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) Regular-Season Championship and NCAA Tournament appear­ance came in 2002–2003 under Daniels’ tenure.

Daniels played for three sea­sons at Michigan State under Ron Mason, the all-time win­ningest coach in NCAA Division I hockey his­tory. However, Daniels was recruited by MSU leg­endary coach Amo Bessone dur­ing his final sea­son
at MSU.

The term “upset” has been thrown about care­lessly and has lost its lus­ter over the years.

The term has been overused in both col­lege and pro­fes­sional sports. When a No. 5-ranked team defeats a No. 2-ranked team, that’s not an upset. When a 13–3 foot­ball team defeats a 14–2 team, it should not be con­sid­ered stun­ning. (more…)

Northern Michigan senior goalie Brian Stewart earned his third shutout of the sea­son as he stopped all 51 Bulldog shots in the 4–0 victory.

Ferris out­shot Northern Michigan 51–21 in the game, includ­ing a 21–4 shot advan­tage in the sec­ond period. Including the 4–3 shootout vic­tory by the Wildcats on Friday night, Stewart saved 94 of the 97 shots he faced in the series. Ferris head coach Bob Daniels said Stewart was the dif­fer­ence in the game.

“We had plenty of point-blank chances, we just couldn’t find a way to solve him,” said Daniels. (more…)