Last week, the Los Angeles Sol, a team in the women’s professional soccer (WPS) league, announced it was folding after only one season. The Sol were considered one of the top, if not the best, team in the league, posting a 12-3-5 regular season record, leading them to a berth in the WPS championship. They [...]
Imagine a professional sporting league where only white males are allowed to compete. A league where differences aren’t accepted. Now imagine this league existing in the year 2010. It’s not a joke people. The All-American Basketball Alliance (AABA) is a league that prohibits blacks, people born outside of the United States and women from joining. [...]
I’ve spent the past 12 weeks complaining about everything I hate about sports. I talked about players who were annoying me, stadium prices and gender tests on a South African runner. From those 12 posts, you’d think I hate sports, but the truth is that I love them so much I expect better from them. [...]
Remember Marion Jones? She’s the Olympic gold medalist who won the hearts of fans after her valiant performance at the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics. Then seven years later, Jones admitted to using steroids and agreed to give back her medals. The sports world was shocked, appalled and angry at Jones for disgracing her sport and [...]
Okay, I’ve been putting off this subject for a bit, but now is as good of a time as any to discuss. I’m talking about the responsibilities that come with sex. You can stop groaning now. Seriously, I can hear you through this paper. Our generation has seemed to bring on the death of dating. [...]
I’ve always had a qualm with the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Call me crazy, but I don’t think that women posing in bathing suits, famous athletes or not, constitute something a sports magazine should cover, unless of course, they are a professional swimmer/diver. Now ESPN the Magazine has outdone the swimsuit issue with their body [...]
In celebration of the cultural diversity present in Glassboro, the borough held the 14th annual Glassboro Unity Day along College Avenue last Saturday. The festivities were largely made up of numerous vendors and informational booths from the area, ranging from an animal cruelty prevention booth to a girl scout troop raising money for an upcoming [...]
In my almost-four years at Rowan, I’ve only been able to attend a few field hockey games. I’ve got nothing against the field hockey team; in fact, one of my roommates is on the team (#1 Jenna Lombardo, in case you were wondering). It’s just that the team plays most of their games at the [...]
When I was in second or third grade, I had a life-size Herschel Walker poster on my door. I’m not sure why, but I think it was given to me by a friend who knew my love for the Dallas Cowboys. I kept him taped up there until long after Walker retired from the NFL. [...]
Anyone who knows me knows my feelings about Twitter. I’m obsessed with it and have been pretty much since a friend convinced me to join the social networking site. As an athlete, I’ve used Twitter to talk about practices, injuries, games and other things related to sports. However, unlike Texas Tech linebacker Marlon Williams, I’ve [...]