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...
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Points in the paint: Points in the paint are going to be huge in this series. Both teams are equipped with deadly shooters who probably won’t have many off nights in the finals. Steph Curry and Klay Thompson have been to the finals plenty of times now, so it's unlikely they’ll have cold shooting...
Despite stumbling toward the latter half of the season, and a disappointing loss to UC Irvine in the Big West tournament at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on April 27 that marked another early exit, the team has much to look forward to. The UCR women’s tennis team finished with its highest win total in five years despite losing...
UCR men's tennis (14-21, 0-3) played their last match of the season on Friday, April 27 against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (17-7, 3-2) at California’s Indian Wells Tennis Garden in the Big West quarterfinals.
Riverside was only able to get a doubles victory from freshman Nabil Abdullah and sophomore Anderson Ju. This was the highlight of the day for...
With the Big West Tournament now over, sophomore Jakeishya Le and Head Coach Mary Ritchie have already begun gearing up for their next challenge: The NCAA Regionals in Lubbock, Texas. Le finished second overall in the Big West Tournament this year with a 4-under-par 68 on the final day of the tournament and she was only a single stroke...
After suffering a 7-5 loss to visiting Fresno State University Bulldogs (25-21, 13-10) of the Mountain West Conference on Wednesday, May 2, the UC Riverside baseball team (18-25, 4-11) took two games in a three-game nonconference series from Thursday, May 4 to Saturday, May 6 in Salt Lake City against the University of Utah Utes of the Pacific 12...
UCR softball (24-21, 6-8) took a trip to Northridge this Saturday, April 29 for a weekend series against the Cal State Northridge Matadors (28-18, 8-6). The series was opened with an afternoon doubleheader that the Highlanders split, falling 10-5 in the first game but picking up a 9-2 win in the second.
The Matadors jumped out of the gate...
UCR’s men’s baseball team (13-21, 2-9) played San Diego State University (28-11, 12-5) on Tuesday, April 18 at the Riverside Sports Complex. The Highlanders were looking to bounce back from a 7-4 loss against Hawaii University on Saturday, April 15.
San Diego State is ranked among the top 20 schools offensively, and their offense got going right out of...
Let’s clarify something first and foremost, being an overrated coach doesn’t necessarily mean that coach is bad. I personally still think Doc Rivers is a good coach, but shouldn’t be as highly lauded as people make him out to be.
Not too long ago, Rivers was being mentioned in the same breath as Gregg Popovich and Phil Jackson when it...
With the plethora of players and talent in this year’s NFL class and the questions at quarterback, analysts are all over the place in terms of draft position. We try to discern some of this chaos to determine what players are good, hot values and who we would not touch at their current projection
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Hot: Deshaun Watson, Clemson. Despite all...