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The fall of Creighton football

Nov 09, 2021

Creighton football's program came to its end abruptly, then very gradually.

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Students make an 1,100-foot-long sandwich in the KFC gym in 1988.

World record easier bread than done

Oct 20, 2021

That time high winds foiled Creighton’s attempt to make the world’s longest sandwich.

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Memorial service outside St. John's on 9/11.

Community of prayer, community of hope 

Aug 13, 2021

We spoke with alumni and staff who were at Creighton on Sept. 11, 2001. They recalled a campus coming together in the face of crisis — with faith, hope and prayer.

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The smells of Creighton

Jul 01, 2021

Father Larry Gillick, SJ, is blind. But every day, he says, he "sees" Creighton. To show us what Creighton looks like to him, he gave us a campus tour like no other — a tour of touch and sound but mostly of smell.

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Willard Schmidt

The Creighton giant who helped invent the slam dunk

Jun 29, 2021

The story of Creighton University's lithe giant, whose team played the muddiest game of basketball in Olympic history.

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Carl Vinciquerra

The Olympian who worked at Kiewit Fitness Center

Jun 29, 2021

Five nights a week for several years in the 1980s, the man who worked the front desk of the Kiewit Fitness Center was a former Olympian.

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1991 Creighton baseball team at the CWS

Creighton's College World Series moment turns 30

Jun 04, 2021

To celebrate the 30-year anniversary of Creighton's first and so far only CWS appearance, we caught up with several players to talk about the magical season.

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Creighton's primetime TV-movie moment turns 25

May 27, 2021

That time 17 million people saw Creighton Hall because of a Shannen Doherty movie.

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The evolution of the Billy Bluejay mascot costume

May 13, 2021

Here is the definitive story of Billy Bluejay — the logo, the costume, the spirit of Creighton.

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Alumni talk about the game-changing experience of playing Billy Bluejay

May 13, 2021

We caught up with a few alumni to talk about how being Billy Bluejay colored their Creighton experience and even, in at least one case, defined the rest of their lives. 

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