It’s a week of celebration for the UCR women’s tennis team as this past Saturday they took on Biola with a sweeping victory of 7-0. The Highlanders haven’t achieved such a win since January of last year against Whittier with Chloe Pham leading on both occasions. This marks the second victory of the season for the team, a welcome...
Coming off a 1-6 loss to UNLV, the UCR men’s tennis team won their third overall, and first home game, of the season against the Point Loma Sea Lions last Friday, Feb. 12.
In singles play, Sean Yun, Kyle McCann, Sean Robles and Calvin Ngo all won their respective matches for the Highlanders. Notably, Robles dominated Point Loma’s James Tenbroeck,...
With the riveting 2016 NBA All-Star weekend coming to its glorious end and the extended break now underway, NBA general managers have ample time to prepare for another significant date that is fast approaching: Thursday, Feb. 18 at 12 p.m. PT — better known as the NBA trade deadline.
As is almost always the case, the days leading up to...
The dream of every soccer player in America is to eventually hit the professional league, or Major League Soccer (MLS). That dream, however, is one that is highly improbable. About 1.9 percent of NCAA seniors get drafted to the MLS. Despite this, UCR men’s soccer star Michael Salazar has achieved that improbability by recently being the fourth pick in...
The year wasn’t supposed to be like this for UC Riverside men’s basketball.
By early February, this team was supposed to have it figured out, contending among conference powerhouses UC Irvine and Hawaii, looking to send senior stars Taylor Johns and Jaylen Bland out ceremoniously. And yet, what was for this team, has not evolved into what is. Following a...
When you talk with those around the UC Riverside women’s basketball program about the current season, you get a sense of apprehension. A calm hesitance, of sorts, in which the group is well aware of their accomplishments thus far but unwilling to acknowledge that this season is on pace to be a historic one for the program. Rather, they...
It is no secret that the UCR men’s tennis team hasn’t been performing in the realm of success for quite some time now. With the program being founded eight years ago, they have yet to reach their full potential. One of those people making that claim is new head coach Mattias Johansson. Coach Johansson’s prestigious career at Vanguard University...
The Big West Conference play returns this year for UC Riverside women’s tennis. This past week, UCR faced off against CSU Northridge on Saturday, Feb. 6 in the opening match of conference play. With Northridge having a winning pedigree in the history of the conference (ending last year with a record of 5-3), it was bound to be a...
The Broncos can’t win it all
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I’m going to retreat into the masses and say that, barring any major catastrophes, the Carolina Panthers will be standing atop the massively erected podium on the 50-yard line of Levi’s Stadium in receipt of the league’s 50th, and the team’s first Lombardi trophy.
Don’t get...
UCR will be in the conference tournament come March. Though, given that CSU Northridge voluntarily imposed sanctions that will prohibit them from participating, the remaining Big West teams’ fates were never in question. The real question, as it pertains to UCR, was always how high would they be ranked? And would they prove to be truly formidable competitors among...