Chelsea McBay Staff Writer UNCG Spartan soccer is in their beginning stages of the season. Last season the women went 7-11-2 and 4-4-1 in Southern Conference play as the men went 11-7-2 and 6-4-0 in SoCon matchups. The men lost six departing seniors after the end of the 2016-2017 season, Logan Rohde (goalkeeper), Ricky Chavez (midfielder), Damien Thomas (midfielder), Rouven Wahlfeldt (midfielder), Quin Lema (midfielder/defender) … Continue reading UNCG Soccer Preview
By Sports Staff With the summer coming to an end and the fall semester starting up, the sports section likes to look back and recount their favorite moment in sports throughout the past three months, whether it be a personal experience or something they watched from the comfort of their homes. Daniel July 18, 2017. That entire day was my sports moment of the … Continue reading Favorite Sports Moment of the Summer
Andrew James Staff Writer Former MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent believes that the gates to sports gambling will soon be broken open. His supporting evidence? The recent sale of the Miami Marlins for a staggering $1.2 billion. The franchise was previously bought for $158 Million in 2002. “I know that [gambling] is precisely why these prices are going up,” Vincent said in a recent ESPN interview. … Continue reading Fay Vincent Believes New Owners Are Gambling on Gambling Itself
Tripp Hurd Staff Writer If you see what appears to be tiny UFO’s zooming across your screen when you tune into ESPN, the company is betting that you will find it entertaining. This past June, ESPN began televising the Drone Racing League, which is in its second season. Over 30 countries worldwide have hosted some sort of drone racing, and the popularity is expected to … Continue reading Will Drone Racing Fly For ESPN?
Daniel Johnson Staff Writer The most famous and influential baseball player in the earliest days of professional baseball, and when I said earliest days, that literally means a few years after the Civil War ended, was Cap Anson. Anson is said to be the first player to record 3,000 hits, although poor record keeping and a clear definition of “professional baseball” can put his mark … Continue reading Stories and the Legacy from the Negro League Museum
Jaives Lundy Staff Writer The NBA’s Free Agency of 2017 to say the least, has been the craziest to occur since, well, last year’s free agency period. The biggest free agency signings have caused seismic changes, but it was this summer’s blockbuster trades that shook the NBA to it’s core. The biggest signing of this free agency summer has to be without a doubt Gordon … Continue reading NBA Free Agency and Off Season
Andrew James Staff Writer You have seen it on the TV before: four guys sit around a long black table, NFL scores rolling on the bottom of the screen. Three of them are icons, former football virtuosos that have been reduced to mostly unfounded opinions. The fourth guy is a broadcaster with a subtle TV smile that maintains an air of professionalism while the former … Continue reading Concussions: The American Dilemma
Daniel Johnson Sports Editor The MLB postseason push can officially begin now. With the trade deadline passing this past Monday afternoon, teams both fighting for a spot in the MLB postseason and fighting to win Commissioner’s Trophy at the end of the season. And aside from the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Washington Nationals holding a double digit lead in their NL West and East … Continue reading Five Best Deals of the Trade Deadline
Salwa Majeed Web Manager Randy “Macho Man” Savage. Ric Flair. Hulk Hogan. The Undertaker. Stone Cold Steve Austin. These professional wrestlers had bulging muscles, could swiftly body slam their opponents, and let’s not forget they were some good trash talkers. Sure, Bleacher Report said they were the top 5 greatest professional wrestlers of all time, but that was six years ago. It’s 2017, and one … Continue reading “The Revolutionary”: An Origin Story
Daniel Johnson Staff Writer The All-Star Game has come and past in Major League Baseball, marking the end of the end of first half of the MLB season and the beginning of the postseason push for many teams over the final two months of the regular season. And the first three and a half months of the baseball season saw teams from both the National … Continue reading MLB First Half: Looking Back and Forward
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