Freshman Evan Gordon making an impression for Liberty

Aldreakis Allen lined up behind quarterback Tommy Beecher last Saturday at Charleston Southern, like he does any time Liberty sets up in the power-I formation.

This week’s inspirational message at Liberty’s football operations center: “Leave nothing to chance.”

It’s plastered all over the walls on sheets of white copy paper, accompanied by Charleston Southern logos. The point is to remind Liberty’s players that they essentially hold the key to the rest of their season. The Flames have been the dominant team in the Big South since 2006, winning 12 straight league games.

Liberty has outscored today’s opponent, Charleston Southern, 72-0 in the last three halves between the two teams and 92-10 overall.

The pictures are undeniable. When Liberty’s players look at the video from the Flames’ last two games against Charleston Southern, all they see is the Flames taking the Buccaneers to the woodshed. Liberty beat the Buccaneers 42-0 last October at home, and two years ago in South Carolina, the Flames blasted CSU 50-10.

Aldreakis Allen ran for three touchdowns and Liberty routed Coastal Carolina 58-13 on Saturday.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Considering the staggering personnel losses and the offseason drama Liberty’s men’s basketball team endured, it’s not surprising at all that the Big South’s coaches and media picked the Flames to finish seventh in the league race this season.

It’s been something of a strange season for the Virginia men’s soccer team. Trying to predict what George Gelnovatch’s crew will do on any given night is kind of like guessing who will win the next Nobel Peace Prize.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Considering the staggering personnel losses and the offseason drama Liberty’s men’s basketball team endured, it’s not surprising at all that the Big South’s coaches and media picked the Flames to finish seventh in the league race this season.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Art Parakhouski’s first impressions of America were formed in the snowy, windswept hamlet of Twin Falls, Idaho. Tucked about halfway between Boise and Pocatello near Interstate 84, Twin Falls is home to about 40,000 people and the College of Southern Idaho, a community college that regularly pumps out Division I basketball players.

The “Beat JMU” t-shirt that Danny Rocco wore in the week leading up to Liberty’s game with James Madison late last month received plenty of pub in the greater Harrisonburg area. Rest assured, though, JMU wasn’t the first school to be featured on a shirt at a Liberty practice. That distinction goes to Coastal Carolina.