Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Nguyen-er’s Circle: Just Pay Them!

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,...

Bueno’s Buzz: More Than Words

"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...

Bueno’s Buzz: Clash on the Clay: My French Open Preview

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...

Nguyen-er’s Circle: The eSports phenomenon

On Friday Oct. 4, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Riot Games hosted a world championship match for their PC game, League of Legends. LoL, as many gamers call it, just so happens...

Bueno’s Buzz: Blade Gunner?

Sometimes the entertaining spectacle of sports clashes with the harshness of reality. The trial of Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius fits that bill. Winning the hearts of millions, the South African dubbed "Blade Runner" gained...

Nguyen-er’s Circle: Don’t count out fate

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...

Bueno’s Buzz: The Wild West

The landscape of the NBA has certainly changed since the first tip-off all the way back in October. Back then Metta World Peace boldly proclaimed that the newly equipped Lakers would rival the Bulls'...

Bueno’s Buzz: The Dwight Saga

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...

Who can stop these Denver Broncos?

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...

Nguyen-er’s Circle: A Year to Remember

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...