Erik Schmidt

This Week in Marquette History

Published Tuesday, September 27, 2011

He was the greatest player to ever don the blue and gold. And this was the day he was immortalized.

SCHMIDT: The day the running back died

Published Thursday, September 22, 2011

Columnist Erik Schmidt mourns the loss of what used to be a football institution: the running back.

This Day in MU History

Published Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Sept. 19, 2006 Five years ago yesterday, Marquette extended the contract of then-men’s basketball coach Tom Crean’s through 2017. This is memorable for a lot of reasons, but mostly because of the press release related and seeing some of the ill-advised words thrown around by then-school president the Rev. Robert A. Wild. Wild stressed that [...]

SCHMIDT: Futile NBA locks out its fans

Published Thursday, September 15, 2011

Columnist Erik Schmidt explains why the ongoing NBA lockout isn’t hurting anybody but the fans.

This Week in Marquette History

Published Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Sept. 16, 2005 It was the start of a beautiful relationship. The Marquette women’s soccer team, now one of the perennial powerhouses in the Big East and the two-time defending American Division champion, recorded its first ever win in the conference with a 4-1 victory over South Florida. The victory was one of the most [...]