Valparaiso Crusaders

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| College Softball--Alabama-Birmingham at Central Florida, 10:30 a.m. (FXSP) Men’s College Basketball--Virginia Commonwealth at Temple, 11 a.m. (CBS); Big South Conference Tournament Championship, 11 a.m. (ESPN2);...

VALPARAISO, Ind. — The dream of a Horizon League tournament championship vanished for Illinois-Chicago Friday night. UW-Green Bay junior guard Sultan Muhammad sank a 3-pointer with a second to go to win the game 64-63 as his coach — Brian...

Cully Payne first made news as an eighth-grader by committing to DePaul, and seemed to fulfill his promise with a solid freshman season at Iowa in 2010. Then the All-Stater from Schaumburg stepped out of the spotlight for a while, just like Loyola....

CHICAGO (AP) — Will Bogan scored 16 points, grabbed four rebounds and Valparaiso nearly coughed up a big first-half lead to eventually put away Loyola of Chicago 85-76 on Tuesday night. Valparaiso (21-7, 11-3 Horizon) led by as many as 17 points...

Valparaiso was 12-19 and going nowhere fast when Spencer Mahoney returned from a knee injury. Few could have predicted the turnaround the freshman shortstop out of Lyons would spark. With Mahoney hitting a team-high .355 and stabilizing the middle of...

WEST LAFAYETTE - The weight of expectation literally smacks him right in the face on a daily basis.  Walking into the Purdue baseball office for the past 14 years Doug Schreiber has taken a look at an old photograph on the wall. "There's a picture of...

Another impressive pitching performance by sophomore Brittany Gardner of Sandburg has put the Loyola University women's softball team into the final of the Horizon League tournament for the first time since 2004. Should second-seeded Loyola win the...

The Indianapolis-based Horizon League is losing its highest profile institution as Butler is moving to the Atlantic-10 Conference. Fox 59 has learned that the school officially notified the League Wednesday morning of its intentions will indeed join the...

TV SPORTS Men's College Basketball-Big East Conference Tournament, second round, 11 a.m., 1, 6 and 8 p.m. (ESPN); Pac-12 Conference Tournament, first round, 2, 4:30 and 10:30 p.m. (FXSP); Northeast Conference Tournament Championship, 6 p.m. (ESPN2); Big...

TV SPORTS NFL Football-Denver Broncos at Minnesota Vikings, Noon (FOX); Kansas City Chiefs at Chicago Bears, Noon (CBS); Green Bay Packers at New York Giants, 3:15 p.m. (FOX); Detroit Lions at New Orleans Saints, 7 p.m. (NBC) Women's College...

TV SPORTS SUNDAY NFL Football-Cincinnati Bengals at St. Louis Rams, Noon (CBS); New Orleans Saints at Minnesota Vikings, Noon (FOX); New England Patriots at Denver Broncos, 3:15 p.m. (CBS); Baltimore Ravens at San Diego Chargers, 7 p.m. (NBC) Women'...