The news couldn’t have come at a worse time for Martin St. Louis.
With his New York Rangers facing a 3-1 series hole against the star-studded Pittsburgh Penguins, the realizations went from bad to worse as St. Louis received the tragic news of his mother’s death on May 8, just three days before Mother’s Day and one day before a...
Over the past week, UC Riverside Athletics announced that it would send its lovable mascot Scotty the Bear all around the city on RTA buses to select one rider every month as a prize package winner, which includes four tickets to an athletic event, four T-shirts, a parking pass and pre-game hospitality. Functioning as an effort to get the...
Over the past six weeks, Peyton Manning and his squad have been unleashing a path of destruction in the NFL world, scoring over 40 points per game and defeating their opponents by an average of 18 points.
What’s even more amazing is how Peyton Manning, 2 years removed from the neck surgery that ended his remarkable run in Indianapolis, is...
As the seasons for many sports are drawing to their respective closes, it doesn’t take much to realize how much we as fans have been treated this year to the performances of a lifetime.
We’ve seen it all this year: Miracle comebacks that defy the odds, records broken, teams on a roll slicing through the competition like a hot knife...
It’s slow, slippery and arduous: the red clay of Roland Garros. It brings out unpredictability on the women’s side and complete dominance from a special Spaniard on the men’s. Over the weekend, the second grand slam of the tennis season began in the city of love with 128 players competing for the championship in each field, but who will...
Where will Dwight Howard land next season? Will he erase the memories of a disastrous campaign in Los Angeles and re-sign with the Lakers? Or is a trip to the good ol’ state of Texas on the table? The mystery that swirls around Howard’s thought process throughout free agency is frustrating for fans and teams alike. The latest rumours...
It's the dance that has been sweeping the nation and even our own university campus. Now add the Miami Heat to the Harlem Shake craze. The NBA's best team recently released a video of their own ode to the gyrating shimmy, but not without media criticism. Whispers of a lack of focus and intensity have surfaced this past week,...
College sports is a $900 million industry, with the net worth of some schools’ teams also valued in the hundreds of millions. Of that money, how much of it do the players earn?
None. Well, legally speaking.
The NCAA continues to prevent athletes from receiving almost any compensation for their work by claiming it is “amateurism” in college sports. According to...
Caught in the midst of America’s greatest pastime is the fact that 33 players in the National Football League have been arrested this year. By comparison, just seven people have been arrested for felonies in the history of the National Hockey League, and 16 in the National Basketball Association.
Of the arrests in the NFL, the most consistent (nine) have...
UC Riverside’s Athletics hosted its eighth annual “99 For Title IX” fundraiser event Friday, May 19 and it was quite successful. The event was attended by donors, athletes, alumni and administration on the roof of the Riverside Art Museum, and by the end of the night, the goal to raise $200,000 dollars raised was finally achieved after an eight-year-long...