Athletics legend reflects on dual-sport career

Frank Bishop played basketball and baseball at Temple. Upon entering the practice of Frank Bishop. in Norristown, Pa., collages of athletic competitions and posters of Philadelphia Phillies players occupy parts of the wall in the patients’ room. Moreover, a portrait of Connie Mac Stadium overlooks Bishop’s office. Bishop, 70, devotes his passion of baseball and works [...]

Foley takes to admin

Kristen Foley adapts after switch to administrator. Many college coaches develop a love for the game they teach at a young age. They played their sport as children, then in high school and maybe in college or professionally. Then one way or another, they become a coach as a way to stay connected to their [...]

McCarthy goes undrafted, hopes to keep playing

Kristen McCarthy hopes to continue her basketball career. Senior guard Kristen McCarthy sat at home in La Puenta, Calif. with family waiting to hear those words. But they never came. McCarthy watched the Women’s National Basketball Association’s 2012 draft expecting to hear her name called, but never did. “I’ll just continue to work out, hopefully [...]

Peddy goes pro

The Chicago Sky select Shey Peddy in the second round. A nervous Shey Peddy played on her phone and pretended not to have the Women’s National Basketball Association’s Draft on her mind. Peddy told The Temple News that she knew the WNBA’s Chicago Sky had been taking a look at her. When the 23rd overall pick [...]

End of an era

The women’s basketball team lost its WNIT Sweet 16 matchup to Syracuse, 82-68, on Thursday, March 22 at McGonigle Hall. Seniors Shey Peddy, Kristen McCarthy, BJ Williams and center Joelle Connelly never got the swan-song season they were looking for. The women’s basketball team’s 6-2 run with five minutes left in the Women’s National Invitational [...]

Men’s basketball team: Season in review

The Owls’ season was spoiled by an early exit in the postseason. The men’s basketball season that was riding high for a one-month stretch from mid-January to mid-February came to a crashing end as the Owls lost back-to-back games, one in the Atlantic Ten Conference tournament and one in the NCAA tournament, for the first [...]

Women’s basketball comes up short in WNIT Sweet 16

The women’s basketball team said goodbye to one of the most talented senior classes in school history as the Owls’ dropped their Women’s National Invitational tournament Sweet 16 match against Syracuse. Despite getting 20 points from senior guard Shey Peddy and a double-double of 11 points and 10 rebounds from senior guard Kristen McCarthy Temple [...]

Owls await WNIT Sweet 16 opponent

Women’s basketball defeats Harvard and Quinnipiac in WNIT. The women’s basketball team has reached the NCAA tournament in each of the previous eight years. But when the tournament committee didn’t call Temple’s name on March 12 during the Women’s NCAA tournament Selection Show, things got a whole lot different for the Owls, and coach Tonya [...]

Seniors disappoint in season’s conclusion

The Owls’ seniors didn’t show up for their final game. NASHVILLE, Tenn. – As the horn sounded on South Florida’s 58-44 win against the men’s basketball team in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Friday, March 16, Temple fans could only sit back and wonder, “What happened?” There was a time this season [...]

Owls blow chance in A-10 semis

Women’s basketball lose in A-10’s to Dayton. The final 10 seconds of the women’s basketball team’s loss in the Atlantic Ten Conference tournament semifinals to eventually champion Dayton could have been the season’s defining moment. Instead, with 10 seconds left, junior center Victoria Macaulay – looking to cap off her resurgent season – got the [...]

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