With yesterday’s enormous victory over St. Joseph’s at the most hallowed of collegiate basketball halls, the Palestra, it got me thinking. Do any of you remember past Palestra days!? Yesterday was a triumph, but the Owls have seen plenty of heartbreak. Was anyone there in 1998 when then-No. 6 Temple, who eventually lost in the [...]

Remember Creed? Of course you do. Well, in 1998, while Creed was at its peak, the band came to Philadelphia and TTN was there, with a review, interview and plenty of love. Rock it out, my friend. Yes you read that headline right, ‘Creed continues to rise!’ That’s a byline for Michael Christopher, then Managing [...]

Another email from a former TTN staffer has brought up another issue we need to address.Photographs!We’ve done a poor job in the past of holding onto staff photographs. Believe me, we have hundreds of pictures taken of campus, administrators and news stories (thank you staffs of the 1990s for leaving us boxes and boxes to [...]

           The opening day of this alumni blog brought a whole lot of traffic to this site and more than ten new emails to my address book. Something that Andrew Goldstein, Class of 1999 and former Editor in Chief, mentioned got me thinking. Goldstein, who is now a New York City-based television writer, wrote me a quick note [...]

Well, it is finals week here at Temple University. What that means is production has finished. The semester’s last printed edition of The Temple News came out last Tuesday. Still, there is plenty of newsroom activity, as staff members are applying for internships, scholarships and several collegiate journalism competitions. What is more, a couple staff [...]