Bagpipes and Pickle Juice: Ultimate Frisbee at Covenant College

The ultimate frisbee club at Covenant, run by co-captains Luke Cary ’21 and Luke Ragan ’21, is, like ultimate culture, quirky and slightly insane. Yet there is a place for everyone on the team, no matter their skill level or experience. Cary, a junior who helped start the club, spoke to The Bagpipe about the ultimate frisbee scene at Covenant and its development during his time here. According to Cary, he and Ragan grew up in the same neighborhood and played on the same high school ultimate team. Both have had a life-long love for the game, so when they came to Covenant, they were both eager to see what the ultimate scene at Covenant was like.


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Josh Jacob's Improbable Run to the Las Vegas Raiders

For a vast majority of people, sports are just games, something to pass the time. Then there are those who love the game and put sweat and tears into proving that. But there also lies a tiny group of people outside of this, for whom sports transcend the notion of simply being a game and cement themselves as their only reality. For players like Josh Jacobs, sports become not only their outlet but also their lives.


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The Rise of Rugby Abroad and at Home

There is an old saying that goes, “football [soccer] is a gentleman's game played by hooligans, and rugby is a hooligan’s game played by gentlemen." This quote has somewhat reinforced the stereotype of rugby as a barbaric form of American football played without pads. Of course, there may be some truth to this; however, like many people around the world and at Covenant have recently noticed, there is more to rugby than that.

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Covenant Cliff Hangers

Forty feet up a sheer cliff, body sweating, forearms pumping, I pull my waist toward the wall for better balance, and stretch out my left arm, reaching for the next hold. I grasp it and stretch my left leg toward the next ledge for my foot. I find a minuscule notch in the rockface and wedge my toe onto it. I scan the wall for my next right-hand hold when suddenly, my left toe slips. I quickly push off the wall, as I fall feet first into the warm water of the river.


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NBA 2K and the Olden Days

I, similar, I’m sure to many of you, spend two hours each Sunday night glued to the television. In a time where much of what we view can be paused and fast-forwarded, the thrill of bolting up from the couch to go to the bathroom or get a nice pan of nachos cooking has, for the most part, been lost. But I simply cannot miss a moment of “The Last Dance.” Michael Jordan’s jeans, Scottie Pippen’s voice, Phil Jackson’s shoulders, or Dennis Rodman’s explanation of how one learns to rebound a basketball. Sure, due to advances in technology, I could pause if my break is a bit longer than the commercial break, but then I would not be watching in real time and the tweets rolling hot off the presses would whoosh right over my head. 

But this is not an article about “The Last Dance.” That would be low hanging fruit. Articles on “The Last Dance” are a dime a dozen, with talk of it dominating the sports news world. No, this is an article about what “The Last Dance” has made me realize about basketball as a whole, and more specifically, NBA 2K. 

I’ve always been a huge fan of the throwback teams part of NBA 2K, allowing me to play as teams that I was, for the most part, not able to watch live because I was not alive. Nothing beats shooting a terribly inefficient game with Allen Iverson, as he is wont to do, and maybe sometimes winning. Or coming to the pleasant realization that yeah, Clyde Drexler is super good. Or lamenting the absence of Reggie Miller and Charles Barkley between each game. 

“The Last Dance” has brought about a certain sense of nostalgia—or an equivalent word that can be used on something that I actually never experienced—regarding the last 60 years of basketball. And while this has, in turn, increased my use of NBA 2K historic teams, it has also reignited my disdain for NBA 2K20. 

NBA 2K20 is a trash game with impossible post-play and stupid moves. And that, combined with my roommate owning our copy and taking it home with him during Coronavirus—but mostly because it sucks—has got me playing 2K19, a far superior game with manageable post-play and more fluid moves. 

Typically the new 2K comes out, and I never look back. But this step back into 2K19 has got me wanting more from the 2Ks of years past. Maybe the celebrities of NBA 2K13, such as Brian Baumgartner, the man behind Kevin Malone of “The Office.” Or maybe a Career mode with much less story. But mostly, and I would take this over anything else in a heartbeat—bring back the historic team courts. Let us play as historic teams on their original courts, no three-point lines, with the camera all grainy-like. 

It’d be a blast. So, ride the high of “The Last Dance” and all the classic highlights myself and so many other basketball fans are watching right now, and 2K, go all in on historic teams and make a game that doesn’t suck. 

Tampa Tom

Tom Brady, arguably the greatest quarterback in NFL history and owner of the greatest sports glow-up (sorry, Gordon Hayward), signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this off-season. After number one overall pick, Jameis Winston, left the team, a hole was left at the quarterback spot. And who better to head on down to Tompa Bay, then Tom Brady himself.

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At Home Exercise

In this time of social distancing and self isolation, the feeling of being cooped up can affect people’s morals, productivity, and gains. In this article, I will give a brief at-home exercise routine that can be done with or without weights, and has the ability to give you guys a quick break from school work and studying.

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NFL Street

PlayStation 2, home of the iconic NFL Street 2 video game, turns 20 years old this month. The PS2 is the best-selling video game console of all time and has given our generation of gamers some of the greatest games ever. Games such as Battlefront II, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Tony Hawk's Underground, Lego Star Wars, and MVP Baseball 2005 all originated on this console. However, none of these compare to …

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Intramural Basketball

Basketball is underway! At least for most of us, because we can’t all be college athletes, and the only thing that beats watching people shoot hoops is shooting hoops yourself. This year there will be three leagues, as is usual: men’s A and B leagues, and a women’s league.

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Max Out Barnes

Max out Barnes. Burn down Barnes. Whatever you want to call it, it delivered. The Covenant Scots came out on top, 72-70, in an overtime thriller against the Maryville Scots. Covenant has played a strong season thus far, coming into their game against Maryville with a 12-7 overall record and 9-3 in the USA South Conference, leading the West division.

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College Football Wrap-Up

On January 13th, Clemson faced off against LSU in the College Football Playoff National Championship. Clemson started the game off strong by forcing Joe Burrow and the historically great LSU offense to a few quick three-and-outs before Burrow adjusted and dominated the rest of the game.

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