Early in the week, the UCR women’s tennis team faced off against Loyola Marymount at the Student Recreation Center. The matchup was the Highlanders’ first since suffering a 1-4 loss to conference opponent Hawaii. The team was looking to recover, but they were met with an even more devastating 0-7 loss at the hands of the Lions.
The match...
If there was one absolute word to define the UC Riverside men’s basketball team’s 2015-16 season thus far it would be as follows: Welp.
Additionally, if there were a meme to accurately depict the outcome of their season it would likely be that of the infamous “crying Jordan.”
That word and image alone would serve well to capture just how...
The UC Riverside women’s basketball team was slated to have an easier portion of the schedule coming up with games against the Cal Poly San Louis Obispo and Cal State Fullerton Titans — two bottom feeders in the Big West Conference. The slate initially proved easy as the team crushed the woeful Titans on Thursday, 90-43. However, the Highlanders...
There are few weekends off for the UC Riverside track and field team and this past weekend they competed in the Don Kirby Elite Invitational in New Mexico on Friday, Feb. 12 where the men earned two first-place and the Husky Classic in the state of Washington. In the women’s results, thrower Vesta Bell took home first place, 21.76...
The UCR men’s golf team had a shaky start to the Farms Intercollegiate Invitational last Monday, Feb. 8 as the team finished the first round in sixth place with Junior Sam Gillis being tied for eighth. The Highlanders (300, 12-over-par) were 10 shots off pace while heading into the final day of the competition and it was uncertain as...
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...