The UC Riverside men’s tennis team played a doubleheader on Wednesday, Jan. 18 at the SRC tennis courts facing off against Hope International and The University of Nevada.
The first match against Hope International was an easy victory for Riverside as they took the match 7-0. Every player won their individual match, but one stood out because of a valiant...
With the 2017 Big West Conference Championship in the books, the UCR cross country program has its sights set on their next meet, the NCAA West Regional Championships in Seattle, Washington. The 40-team field of competition will feature every Division I school on the west coast, including powerhouses like Oregon, Stanford and Washington, but Assistant Coach Rob Hansen and...
UCR’s women’s soccer team (8-11-2, 5-3-0) finished up its season on Thursday, Nov. 2 with a loss against Cal State Northridge (9-4-8, 4-1-3) in the Big West Tournament Semifinals. The Highlanders were able to hold the Matadors scoreless throughout the first half, but their defense could not hold them off in the second.
CSUN was first able to break through...
Prior to meeting UC Riverside’s newest athletics director (AD), Tamica Smith Jones, I was quite unsure of what to expect. I had heard she was a “ball of energy” but still, I wondered. Is she genuinely of the high-spirited mold of which many in the athletics department have described her? What if this side of her is only accessible...
Former all-star shooting guard Kyle Korver was traded to the defending champion Cavaliers on January 7. With Korver on the roster, Cleveland is looking a lot more dangerous.
The defending champs hadn’t made any trades coming into this season. When the Cavaliers starting shooting guard J.R Smith went down with a thumb injury that required surgery, the team decided...
The UC Riverside men’s basketball team (1-0) opened their season with a road win against UC Berkeley (0-1) of the Pac-12 on Friday, Nov. 10, scoring the first 10 points of the game en route to a 74-66 win.
Adding on to their opening run, the Highlanders went on a 14-2 run late in the first half, going into halftime...
UC Riverside’s volleyball team (9-16, 1-12) was on the road against Cal State Long Beach (8-19, 5-9) on Friday, Nov. 10 for game two of the Highlanders’ three-game road trip. Going into the game, the Highlanders were looking to snap their six-game losing streak, but the 49ers had other plans.
The first set did not go the Highlanders’ way as...
The UC Riverside women’s basketball team (1-3) finished one of the hardest weeks in their schedule by playing against both the University of Southern California and Stanford.
The Highlanders dug themselves in a hole early on against the Trojans, and were unable to recover, losing 64-46. After a little over five minutes into the game, UCR already found themselves down...
RIO-SIDE
Many of us have heard the infamous phrase that has been echoed throughout our campus countless times: "UCR football — undefeated since 1975."
A self-referential phrase that is meant as nothing more than a simple joke, this quote makes fun of the fact that we haven’t had a football team in four decades — therefore we haven’t lost a game...
The game of lacrosse has long been dominated by those on the East Coast. From high school teams all the way to the professional level, the East Coast states have overwhelmingly outperformed other states across the nation. For decades, the best high school players came from states like Delaware, Pennsylvania and New York. The best college teams included Maryland,...