Preseason Basketball Registration Dates: Jan. 4-16 Competition Dates: Jan. 19-25 Basketball Registration Dates: Jan. 4-22 Competition Dates: Feb. 1-25 4v4 Flag Football Registration Dates: Jan. 18-28 Competition Dates: Feb. 4-25 Racquetball Registration Dates: Jan. 4-22 Competition Dates: Jan. 26
Year: 2016
Athlete of the Week: Casey Carroll
As the son of a Division I basketball coach, basketball has always been a big part of Casey Carroll’s life. Due to his father’s involvement in the sport, Carroll was exposed to basketball at a young age and has played ever since. He said, “I grew up around basketball and I just fell in love […]
Winter break sports recap
While most students spent their winter breaks catching up on sleep and watching Netflix, a number of NSU’s athletes were hard at work. Catch up on some of the action that happened while you were away. Women’s basketball The women’s basketball team competed and were victorious in four games over winter break. The Sharks are […]
Storm Water Waste 101: Why you should care
In South Florida, as in many other parts of the nation and the world, people rarely do not stop to consider where all the water that washes off roadways and buildings end up. While walking back to the residence halls on a rainy day, I was shocked to see some trash being washed down into […]
New year, same you
Lose weight, find a boyfriend, get a better job; all of these have been one of my New Year’s resolutions at one point or another; however, just like for many others, my ambition to keep these resolutions typically dies off around mid-February, leaving my resolutions as a distant memory until Jan. 1 of the next […]
Shark Speak for January 12, 2016
How do you think NSU could improve its retention rates? “I was going to transfer out my freshman year, but I got more involved with student organizations and stayed. I feel like those students that leave want to be involved. So by promoting student organizations.” — Tiffany Kelly, senior sport and recreation management major […]
White has its privileges
Our social media platforms and television screens have been inundated with news and imagery of minorities being savagely attacked or even killed by those who are supposed to protect and defend them. Racial discrimination is prevalent in our society, and even though we have elected a black president, nothing has changed since Obama was sworn […]
And the miserablest country in the world is…
The Huffington Post reported that the annual WIN/Gallup International Association global end-of-the-year survey found that Colombia is the happiest country of the world with 87 percent of Colombian participants answering that they were happy with their lives. A arbitrary and non-partisan research and polling company conducted a survey of 80,445 people from 65 countries and […]
She’s too young for you, bro
It’s no secret that people tend to judge those closest to them the harshest when it comes to controversial topics because the actions of family, friends and neighbors tend have a more direct effect. So in the case of underage dating, one might be quicker to scold his or her relative than to frown upon […]
Race to Presidency
On Nov. 19, the House of Representatives passed a bill that, if passed by the Senate, won’t allow Syrian and Iraqi refugees into the country until national security says they are not a security risk. The vote was passed 289-137. Because of the majority vote, it could override President Obama’s veto power. On whitehouse.gov, Obama […]