Baxter Gill Staff Reporter Subcompact cars are in an interesting development stage. They’re appeal has traditionally been in their low cost, and their fuel economy. But with fuel costs rising, mature customers are looking at fuel economy with heightened interest. The Japanese have traditionally offered sub compacts for the mature; inoffensive styling with bland driving [...]
Baxter Gill Staff Reporter Nobody knows what an Alfa Romeo is, nobody remembers Cord, and nobody bought a Prowler. But everybody knows Honda. A Honda Salesperson once told me, “Everybody knows somebody who’s had a Honda with over 250,000 miles on it.” And for a good reason- people like Hondas. In the days of yore, [...]
Bryan E. Paas The Broncos rolled past Duquesne to for their biggest win of the year. The Broncos prevailed in what would prove to be a hard fought battle against the Dukes. For the first time all season WMU managed push back. The Dukes came out with some physical play in the first half that [...]
By Miles Baxter The thing to remember about horror/suspense films is that they have quite a few bills to pay in the mere hour and half they have to pay them. Films like this have only a short time to make us care about the characters before they start getting picked off one-by-one by monsters, [...]
By: Bryan E. Paas After their four game win streak was snapped at Duke, the Broncos are looking to get back on track against Milwaukee. The Broncos (5-8) will host the Milwaukee Panthers (10-5) tonight at 7 p.m. inside University Arena. The game will be the Broncos last before opening up the season in conference [...]
By: Bryan E. Paas The Broncos led by two with 18 minutes to go in the first half before Duke stepped on the gas and never looked back. After four straight wins, including their 91-76 victory on the road against Oakland, the Broncos season looked to be headed in the right direction after their initial [...]
By: Bryan E. Paas Western’s hot streak continues as they defeat Oakland on the road winning their 4th straight game. The Broncos got out in front early with a Nate Hutcheson three-pointer in the corner on their ensuing possession and never looked back in their 91-76 win over Oakland. The Broncos would never trail in [...]
By: Bryan E. Paas The Broncos face off against Winthrop Tuesday night in what could prove to be a crucial game as the season progresses. Western has won three of its last four including a big win last Saturday against a 6-5 Duquesne team 85-71. Winthrop 4-7 sits in a similar situation as the Broncos. [...]
By Miles Baxter Let me start by saying that Hugo was an utter masterpiece. A film like Hugo was something a little different from a typical Scorsese film, but he succeeds in making Hugo a wildly imaginative adventure that delivers a kind of joyful warmth that we scarcely get from the cinema these days. Hugo [...]
By Miles Baxter J.Edgar takes us through the life of former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio), and spares us none of the gritty details. No matter how you end up feeling about Hoover’s less-than-legitimate way of running the FBI, it cannot be denied that this look at Hoover’s life leaves us with a [...]
By: Bryan E. Paas As the news broke yesterday morning that long time defensive coordinator and assistant coach to Penn States Joe Paterno, Jerry Sandusky was being charged with 40 counts of sexual abuse involving young boys one couldn’t help but wonder where was Paterno? Jerry Sandusky coached at Penn State from 1969-1999. In his [...]
By: Miles Baxter Why do we see movies like Rum Diary? Are we provoked by the thought of some psychedelic, rum drunken romp through Puerto Rico? If you’re like, well, anyone who is aware of Hunter S. Thompson really, then most likely you were. And if you were one of these people, then you’ll be [...]
By: Jason J. Koole Happy no-shave November everyone. So this is my first post, I’m going to be doing the gaming blog, so bare with me. I’d figure I’d give a little bit of background before going into what I wanted to talk about. For starters I am a copy editor at the Western Herald. [...]
By: Bryan E. Paas Yahoo.com’s Michael Silver’s article on Monday exposed what many are seeing as an evil element among the Lions team and most notably their defense. In a 45-10 demolishing of the Bronco’s the Lions have caught heat for their “dirty” play along with their post play antics such as what went on [...]
Bryan E. Paas Staff Reporter A recent USA Today poll asked its pollers whether or not they are interested in the 2011 World Series. A staggering 60% of those polled said they are not interested. What has happened here is that baseball has become insignificant among average people in the United States. It is sad [...]
Bryan E. Paas Staff Reporter While the NBA continues Collective Bargaining Agreement talks on Thursday, Bryant Gumbel voiced his own thoughts about NBA Commissioner David Stern on HBO’s Real Sports. Gumbel had this to say Tuesday night about the NBA commissioner, “Stern’s version of what has been going on behind closed doors has of course [...]
Bryan E. Paas Staff Reporter Immediately following yesterdays 25-19 loss to the San Francisco 49ers in what can only be described as a bizarre misunderstanding Lions Coach Jim Schwartz and 49ers Coach Jim Harbaugh nearly went at it heading into the tunnel of Ford Field. Watching the last quarter of the game from the press [...]
Bryan E. Paas Western Herald Entering a three game series with Cleveland on Tuesday the Tigers were riding a wave of success winning 6 of their last 10 and leading the Central Division by four games. That lead has now been cut to just 2 games after a 10-3 loss to the Indians and their [...]
Bryan E. Paas Western Herald The Tigers have won six of their last ten games while Cleveland has lost six of their last ten games to give the Tigers a four game lead in the Central with a chance for it to be seven game lead, or cut to a one game lead when the [...]
Bryan E. Paas Western Herald With the Tigers recent acquisition of SP Doug Fister and RP David Pauley, the Tigers look to further the gap in the AL Central, and now they can. Casper Wells and Ryan Furbush were given up to acquire the duo from Seattle in what could turn out to be a [...]
Bryan E. Paas Western Herald It took 136 days for the NFL and the NFLPA to come to an agreement on revenue sharing that gave the owners 53% of the $9 billion pie while the players received the remaining 47%, 136 days later the world has forgotten and all is good, or is it? With [...]
Chris Willis Western Herald Chris Willis: How do you stay focused on conditioning throughout the off-season? Jordan White: When you’ve got the main goal at hand, and that’s winning as many games as you can during the season, if you don’t condition you’re gonna come into camp not at your peak. Then you’re gonna [...]
Bryan E. Paas Western Herald With the Tigers a half game up on the Indians, could this be the year the Tigers break through back into the playoffs for the first time since their storybook run in 2006? The Tigers defeated the Kansas City Royals on Sunday with a 2-1 win, giving starting pitcher Justin [...]
Bryan E. Paas Western Herald The mid way point of the summer has passed and despite the talks between the players association and the NFL, a deal still has not been worked out. With training camps scheduled to start in late July, and the Hall of Fame game scheduled for August 7, why should any [...]
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After a record setting round at Congressional Country Club, McIlroy has the golf world talking.
McIlroy won the U.S. Open Sunday at sixteen under par and winning by eight strokes over Jason Day. McIlroy’s victory comes after a disappointing run at the Masters in April in which McIlroy lead the first 3 rounds only to come up short on Sunday.
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The U.S. Open started on Thursday, and despite the massive amount of stars like Luke Donald, Martin Kaymer, Dustin Johnson, and Rory McIlroy there is something missing.
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With the Dallas Mavericks winning game six and the NBA Finals, the question the Heat organization is asking itself now is, where do we go from here?
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Despite posting a triple double, the ridicule of LeBron continues after scoring only two points in the fourth quarter of Thursday night’s loss to the Mavericks.
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After being criticized for soft play in the Heat’s playoff series with Boston, Chris Bosh comes up big again with a game winning shot against the Mavericks to put the series at 2-1 in favor of the Heat.
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Civilizations rise and fall with time as we’ve seen throughout the course of history, and so do major college football programs.
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