After five straight losses, the Western Carolina men’s basketball team has bounced back and won two straight in conference play. The Catamounts took on both UNC-Greensboro and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga over the past week and was able to get wins in both games to hopefully turn around […]

Currently, the Catamounts are 5-2 in the Southern Conference after having won six of their last eight games. With four juniors, and only two seniors, the young Catamounts believe that this could be the year they return to the top of the SoCon and to the NCAA Tournament.One of the […]

Last season Western Carolina did not get their 9th win until the conference tournament against Appalachian State. This season, Western got their 9th win against the exact same team, but less was at steak this time, none the less Western used a strong free-throw showing (30-of-37, 81 %) to knock […]

On Monday, January 8 the much-maligned Western Carolina football became a part of history. With the University of Florida’s 41-14 victory over Ohio State in the BCS National Championship, the Cats accomplished a rare piece of history in losing to two National Champions in one season. Western Carolina played both […]

The Western Carolina men’s basketball team stayed at home between December 18 and 21 and came away with a win and a close loss to an upper-echelon conference opponent. With Christmas Break going on, the basketball team had little to no students left to cheer them on but they performed […]

The Western Carolina men’s basketball team recently traveled to South Carolina to take on the state’s finest, Clemson and the University of South Carolina. Unfortunately, the trip didn’t show off the Cats too much as Western was no match for either team. The Cats were blown out against #22 Clemson […]

The Western Carolina men’s basketball team traveled west during the holiday break, but unfortunately, they came back winless. Competing in the Saint Mary’s Shamrock Office Solutions Classic, the young Cats were not able to win either of their two games. The Classic started with a match up between WCU and […]

The adjustment period is over for the Lady Catamounts. Totaling just 9 wins last season, Western has surpassed that win total and it is only January. This time a year ago, Western Carolina and Chattanooga needed overtime to settle their 1st meeting (that game was in Cullowhee). The circumstances were […]

Looking at the Western Carolina men’s basketball schedule at the beginning of the year, it was easy to see that the stretch of three non-conference games between December 2 and 16 just might be the toughest stretch of three games the Cats have all year. The Cats would have to […]

Freakonomics, by economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner, is an exercise in strange comparisons by using examples, anecdotes, and data. Unfortunately, this book doesn’t have much going for it. The writing has many clumsy segues between the numbers, percentages, stories, and figures, and reads in a formal […]