Winning isn’t everything

The road to success is never a simple one. The failures and triumphs that lead to the end of the season are what make a team, and memories and champions.

A trophy doesn’t make a you champion, and the lack of a banner doesn’t make you a loser.

It’s about heart, gratitude, humility and the experience.

Last week the Lady Marshals basketball team missed making it to the regional tournament finals.

In fact, they missed the semifinals.

Marshall County lost in the first round of the Region One tournament to Paducah Tilghman, but the real loss came to four seniors, who for the first time in their high school school careers, were not crowned region champions.

Marshals defeat McCracken County Mustangs

Victory is sweet. Redemption is sweeter.

At the start of the game between Marshall County and McCracken County in the Gunner’s Magic Train Classic, the Marshals could not put a team together. But after being down by 12 at one point in the game, the Marshals started to pick away at the Mustang lead until the game was tied 49-49 at the end of regulation. The Marshals rallied in overtime to defeat the Mustangs 51-50.

On-the-job training

By Meghann Richardson

Sports Editor

sports@tribunecourier.com

During the past six weeks I have gone to every home Marshall County basketball game. I know the names of the players without looking at the roster and I am slowly but surely getting people in the county to know my name.

When I was originally offered the job of Sports Editor at the Tribune-Courier, I turned it down. I was a news writer. I didn’t cover sports – that was my husband’s job. But after some consideration and the hope for something new and exciting, I found myself one week away from HoopFest, trying to learn all of the rules of basketball and how to take a picture of someone running for a basket.

Welcome to the sidelines

The most simple sport in all the world is by far my favorite.

You see, I’m a runner. Running is my thing. The pounding of my feet on asphalt and the pain in my lungs; the feeling of death and the feeling of being so incredibly alive – I love it.

Another passion of mine? Journalism. Ever since I was in high school (which was only 5 short short years ago) I have loved journalism, newspapers and photography.

A day for Murray State presidents

An interim president was honored and a new president was chosen at the Board of Regents meeting Wednesday.

Robert Davies will begin his tenure as president July 14 and will receive a yearly salary of $300,000. Former President Randy Dunn made $257,088 annually.

This announcement came after Interim President Tim Miller was named the 12th president of the University. The board voted to remove interim from his title and Miller will finish his tenure at Murray State as president.

Miller said he was surprised by the decision.

Students prepare for flu season

Students wasted no time getting sick. On the first day of the spring semester, Health Services received its first case of the influenza.

Judy Lyle, interim director of Health Services, said after a week into the spring semester she had only seen one student case of the flu.

“We have tested a few others who had significant symptoms,” Lyle said. “While they were negative for flu, the tests are not 100 percent.”

@COLLEGEFESSION: Thousands of followers and ‘real confessions’ from Murray State students

“I tripped acid with my professor and cooked grilled cheese sandwiches for 3 and a half hours.”

This tweet is one example of the tweets that can be found on collegefession.com and @collegefession, supposedly submitted by a Murray State student.

The Twitter account, which has more than 456,000 followers, tweets about alcoholic adventures, sexual exploitations and inappropriate actions; all supposed confessions from college students.

UK student testing Google Glass

Since Thanksgiving, Evan Whitmer has been seeing things a little different. Literally.

Whitmer, who studies computer engineering at the University of Kentucky and is originally from Central City, owns a beta testing pair of Google Glass.

City, University strive for safer roads

Earlier this year, the University and the city completed a study on 15th and 16th streets and the safety of its pedestrians and drivers. The abundance of crosswalks on 16th Street and the lack of crosswalks on 15th Street led the city and the University to this study.

WHAT WE LOST – Death, destruction affect students hours away

Students anxiously followed Sunday night’s storms that tore through the region, leaving several dead and many without homes – concerned for friends and family members.

Hundreds of homes were destroyed from the storms that ravaged the Midwest Sunday night, including Anna Tignor’s, senior from Washington, Ill. She was driving back to Murray after her grandmother’s funeral when she got a phone call from her mother.