The UC Riverside track and field team brought home five individual championship titles over the weekend as they competed in the Big West Track and Field Championships on May 10-11 at Cal State Northridge. Televised live on FSN Prime Ticket, the two-day event featured the best track athletes in the conference with the winners advancing to the NCAA First...
“Flopping" is defined by the NBA as any physical act that appears to have been intended to cause the referees to call a foul on another player. This season we have been treated to a NBA theatrical production that rivals all Broadway plays. With arms flailing in the air, hands clutching untouched limbs and bodies crashing to the floor,...
May 10, 2013
Gauchos 1 – Highlanders 0
The Riverside softball team was looking to bounce back from a sweep at the hands Cal State Northridge last weekend when they hit the field in Santa Barbara on Friday. The Gauchos, however, had a different plan, defeating the Highlanders 1-0 in the first game of a doubleheader.
The lone run of the game...
May 7, 2013
Aztecs 6 – Highlanders 2
Along with being forced to vacate eight wins in the 2013 season, the UC Riverside baseball team extended its current losing streak to five after dropping a 6-2 contest to San Diego State.
UCR was able to get on the board first at the bottom of the opening inning, but San Diego State would...
The UC Riverside baseball team has been taking heat these past few weeks for using an ineligible player. Eddie Young, who was sidelined for weeks while his team tried to get his eligibility sorted out, has now been denied his fifth year by the NCAA. Young got injured in his freshman season in 2009 and the proper paperwork for...
May 4, 2013
Matadors 5 – Highlanders 1
Coming off a two-game winning streak, the Riverside softball team looked to continue its streak on the hostile field of Cal State Northridge, but fell to the Matadors 5-1.
After three scoreless innings, the Matadors struck first in the bottom of the fourth thanks to Mikayla Thielges’ homer off UCR starting pitcher Alyssa Razo....
The men’s golf team couldn’t come back from a lackluster sixth-place, first-round performance in the Big West Championship and wound up finishing eighth overall out of 10 teams with a final score of 912. CSU Fullerton and University of the Pacific were tied after the final round and went on to play a one-hole playoff, in which Pacific came...
Jazmine Lewis stated in her UCR biography that her goal as a UC Riverside athlete was to set the record in the heptathlon. And on Saturday, May 4 she achieved her goal as the senior shattered the university’s heptathlon record and finished in second place at the Big West Track & Field Multi-Events Championship. As the lone competitor for...
"I'm a 34-year-old NBA Center. I'm black. And I'm gay." Simple, poignant and daring words. Jason Collins, a 12-year NBA veteran, became the first man to acknowledge being gay while still active in one of America's four major professional sports. But Collins' statement was much more than words, it was a small shift in American sports popular culture: the...
April 30, 2013
Rebels 20 - Highlanders 6
Riverside baseball traveled to Nevada and battled against the UNLV Rebels in what was a brutal slugfest for the Rebels. It was a lopsided game as the Highlanders allowed 20 runs, the second-largest amount of runs ever allowed by the Highlanders, en route to a 20-6 defeat.
Riverside had to dig deep into its...