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How Covid Destroyed the Hopes of Aspiring College Athletes

Gunner Clark February 27, 2023
Covid affected many different people in many different ways. However, when looking at college athletes, some feel like they've wasted four years of their life.

Vaccinations are now mandatory for college athletes

Natalie Gutierrez September 3, 2021

Here is the information behind why this decision was made. College officials have now come to a point where they have made a decision to mandate all college athlete's receive the vaccine before...

Brackets for the 2021 NCAA men's basketball tournament. (Tribune News Service)

March Madness Upsets

Jake Koehler March 25, 2021
There has been a large number of surprise winners through two rounds of the March Madness tournament.
Thanks for nothing: NCAA leaving athletes hurt and hungry

Thanks for nothing: NCAA leaving athletes hurt and hungry

Monica Navarrete October 1, 2018

Actions of the NCAA and the treatment of student athletes has long been a major issue. The rise of the NCAA from a small overlooked office into the most powerful, non-profit governing bodies in the...

Palomar's Kali Pugh (l) nd Summer Evans. (Dirk Callum/The Telescope)

Softball pair turns game into valuable life lesson

Christopher Bullock May 11, 2015

It’s not often that a school has two players so dominant, that by the time the opposing team steps on the field, they know they’ve already lost. When shortstop Kali Pugh and pitcher Summer Evans...

Schools have forgotten the order of the ‘student-athlete’

Schools have forgotten the order of the ‘student-athlete’

Christopher Bullock April 13, 2015

Being a student-athlete is a privilege, and not a right. But some colleges apparently have forgotten what that means. Look at the term again ... “student-athlete.” Which word comes first? If...

A male basketball player does a lay-up with his left hand holding a basketball. An opponent tries to block him with his right hand over his head. Black and white photo.

As the NCAA turns

Christopher Bullock April 20, 2014

The soap opera known as the NCAA Tournament has drawn its curtains for another year. Never one to lack drama, this year’s tournament had plenty of amazing story lines: from the collapse of Duke,...

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