Brayden Stamps Staff Writer This week, the NBA season begins following one of the most absurd and entertaining off-seasons in recent memory. With so many star players shifting teams and conferences, it was impossible to keep up with. It could be best described as “Manifest Destiny,” as almost everyone in the Eastern Conference migrated to the Western Conference, leading to teams in the west making … Continue reading NBA Season Preview
Andrew Salmon Staff Writer After a six month regular season, the Major League Baseball playoffs are finally set. In the American League, the defending pennant champion Cleveland Indians take the top seed at a record of 102-60, followed by division winners Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox. The two wild card spots belong to the New York Yankees and the Minnesota Twins. In the National … Continue reading MLB Playoff Preview
Alyia Hicks Staff Writer This past weekend the Spartan volleyball team squared up against two Southern Conference opponents at home. The first being versus the Mercer Bears, Friday night and the Samford Bulldogs on Saturday night. Both were highly competitive conference matches that ended in a split for the Spartans. Game One: UNCG vs Mercer The only Southern Conference team the Spartans loss to at … Continue reading Spartans Face Off Against Two SoCon Opponents
Hope Maske Staff Writer What better way to boost a team’s confidence after losing to conference rivals Furman than to beat another rival: Eastern State Tennessee University. UNCG’s women’s soccer team arrived on the field prepared to redeem themselves from last weekend’s conference loss. The first half fell flat for the Spartans, as they created few scoring opportunities against ETSU. While these opportunities came sparingly, … Continue reading Room for Growth, UNCG rolls ETSU
Andrew Salmon Staff Writer It’s now October, and we’re in the thick of club sports season at UNCG. Every night during the week, if you are walking on campus near the recreational field, you see the bright, overhead field lights shining on students from different club sports practicing and preparing for the upcoming weekend game. October is also the time of year when soccer fever … Continue reading UNCG Women’s Club Soccer Discuss Their Season
Isaiah Saint Hilaire Staff Writer Coach Rick Pitino will not be remembered as one of the best coaches in history. He won’t be remembered as one of the coaches who were able to ignite fire in players and recruit all the right athletes into the Louisville program. He won’t be remembered as the inspiration coach for a below .500 New York Knicks team, who by … Continue reading An Abhorrent Ending for an Overwhelmed Coach
Daniel Johnson Sports Editor Put up the Halloween declarations, sip the seasonal spiced drinks and put on a nice sweater for the cool Autumn breeze…Oh wait, it’s still hot. Never mind. The month of September has ended, and I woke up, so let’s look back on what was learned from the past thirty days. 5. Jon Milligan has been UNCG’s Soccer MVP The men’s … Continue reading Five Things I Learned in September
Alyia Hicks Staff Writer The art of yoga is more than stretching on a mat or sitting Indian style and mediating. Grab your pencils and notebooks: here’s a quick history lesson. Yoga can be dated back to India over 5000 years ago!. Traces of the Sanskrit word and its practices have been found in the Rig Veda – the oldest written book in the world. … Continue reading Stressed? Try Yoga.
Antre Stephenson Staff Writer There’s always some type of allure to wearing your favorite team on your chest. I personally like to wear sports apparel because, it represents my liking for that specific team. For instance, I am a New York Jets fan therefore I have a Jets’ toboggan, shirt and hoodie as well. I wear it to support that specific team that I like. … Continue reading Why do people wear sports apparel?
Andrew James Staff Writer It didn’t seem possible for the Aaron Hernandez saga to become any more tragic, nor for the NFL’s disastrous concussion problem to be magnified any more, but this past week proved that the downward spiral is only continuing. The researchers at Boston University, who have been responsible for the majority of the last decade’s most important chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) research, … Continue reading CTE: Aaron Hernandez Puts a Face on the Issue
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