Some men are lucky enough to teach the game they love as a career and some kids are lucky enough to be talented and play the game they love. Sometimes, the men lucky enough to coach are also lucky enough to have sons who are talented enough to play the game. The athletes lucky enough […]
Category: Sports
Stretch into something new – It’s National Yoga Month
Everyone is trying to live a healthier lifestyle. Young people in particular are always on some sort of new fitness or diet kick, and now more than ever, yoga seems to be one of those trends. It’s hip, college-aged girls love it and it’s an almost artful way to get in shape. But if you […]
Out of the Shark Zone: September 1, 2015
100-meter world champion Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt became the 100m world champion after beating his rival Justin Gatlin by 0.01 seconds last Sunday at the World Athletics Championships held in Beijing. IndyCar driver Justin Wilson dies The 37-year-old Verizon IndyCar Series driver died last Monday night from a head injury when a piece of debris […]
Out of the Shark Zone: August 25, 2015
The line drive that broke Bryan Mitchell’s nose Yankees rookie Bryan Mitchell took a line drive off his face Monday, which caused a small nasal fracture. The injury forced him to be removed from the team’s 8-7 win over the Minnesota Twins with two outs in the second inning. Not everyone in James Harrison’s household gets trophies James Harrison, the Pittsburgh Steelers outside […]
On the Bench: If male athletes can’t play for a female coach, that’s their problem
The NBA’s Sacramento Kings and NFL’s Arizona Cardinals have added to the recent surge of female coaches in men’s pro leagues. Some people are not happy about having a feminine presence in an otherwise masculine environment. Nancy Lieberman was hired as the assistant coach for the Sacramento Kings, making her the second full-time female coach […]
Athlete of the Week: Sierra Lelii
Since she first learned how to kick the ball, Sierra Lelii has been one of the best soccer players on the field. “I actually grew up playing with boys until I was eight. Since I never played with girls my age, I didn’t realize how much faster I was until my dad put me on […]
Coach’s Corner: Marquise Kiffin
Most people think that being a coach means being a boss, when it’s really a position of servitude in which coaches strive to enhance their athletes’ experience each day. This is what coaching for almost 13 years has been like for Marquise Kiffin, assistant coach of the men’s basketball team. He started his undergraduate studies […]
Rise of a boxing champion
Last weekend, junior marketing major and boxing champion Lance Singleton and two of his teammates, Brandon Jean and Will Champagne, participated in the United States Intercollegiate Boxing Association’s (USIBA) National Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Singleton won the tournament of the 152 pound weight group by the judges’ unanimous decision. Singleton and his teammates are […]
Athlete of the Week: Teft Hill
For Teft Hill, sophomore business administration major, the life-changing aspect of baseball is not the game itself but rather his teammates. Four months after Hill was born in Colorado, he was diagnosed with a rare liver cancer. After going through an eight-hour surgery and more than a year of chemotherapy, Hill became cancer free. “I […]
Athlete of the Week: Krista Colburn
It takes real passion to play the sport of failure, softball. Krista Colburn, senior marine biology major, was able to get over the failure part of the game at a very young age and enjoy it as it is. “I started playing when I was 6; my family is a big sports family,” said Colburn. […]