Patrick O’Grady Staff Writer Orchestral cicadas greet the rhythmic footfalls of skeletal twenty-somethings on a muggy July dawn. Out here, there are no lectures, no wolfed-down meals between classes, nor is there, in fact, any notion of obligation outside of placing one colorfully shod foot in front of the other. This symphonic moment of training is just one small piece of what … Continue reading Summer College Athlete
Bryan Davis Staff Writer While many students spent this summer catching up on sleep, scrolling through Netflix, or maybe squeezing in a few more credit hours, our Spartan athletes were performing impressively in various summer competitions and achieving some honorable academic distinctions. Three UNCG baseball players were drafted into the MLB this June; Outfielder L.J. Kalawaia was picked in the 21st round … Continue reading Spartan Student Athletes Flourish in Summer Competition
Andrew James Staff Writer UNCG women’s soccer team played in a tight contest against High Point this past Friday night, on a rain-glazed field. It was the first game of the 2016 season and the stands were filled with students excited about the upcoming semester and the new season. Early on in the campaign, the head coach, Michael Coll, had his team focused on … Continue reading High Point and UNCG Opener Ends in Tie
News I am Zachary Weaver, Carolinian news editor, and English major with a minor in Sustainability. I am a senior this year, and it will be my busiest (and hopefully most rewarding) year yet! Rather than pursuing academia or creative writing with my major, I hope to go into journalism as a career, though the day I write clickbait will be the day I die … Continue reading Editorial Introduction
Garrison Pulley Staff Writer The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio came out to a strong start with an entertaining opening ceremony on August 5th, 2016 and ended even stronger with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe accepting the 2020 Tokyo Games with an homage to Mario. Four years of anticipation and controversy for these Summer Olympics has been building and it had finally arrived. These … Continue reading The Recap of the Past 14 Days of the Summer Olympics
Will McGarty Staff Writer It is official, summer is ending and fall rapidly approaches. The semester has begun here at UNCG and with it, another season starts for the Men’s Spartan Soccer Team. With a season of glory in the dust behind them, the defending Southern Conference Regular Season Champions look to hold the throne as they enter the 2016-2017 season. Fortunately for the … Continue reading Men’s Soccer is “Right Back at It Again”
Daniel Johnson Sports Editor The 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games included twenty-eight different sports and over three hundred different events split up between those 28 sports. And while some sports, such as soccer, b asketball, and tennis feature popular athletes we see in commercials and advertisement and generates enough interest in the nation for television networks to develop massive amounts of time and … Continue reading The Olympic Effect
Daniel Johnson Sports Editor For any Olympian or athlete for that matter, the value of a strong start can not be underrated. The point is to start off the competition one is in with forward momentum out of the gate and just as importantly, not having to play catch up during the rest of the game. Pressure sets in the middle of the competition with … Continue reading Rio 2016: Four Years of Controversy, 2 Weeks of Sports
Daniel Johnson Sports Editor Athletes, particular black athletes, have been looked upon to be guiding forces for social justice for their people since Joe Louis and Jesse Owens “defeated” the Nazis in the 1930s and Jackie Robinson integrated baseball in the 1940s. There is real anger and betrayal when African American athletes fail to speak out against racism. Jackie Robinson was angry at Willie … Continue reading What Athletes Can Do in Today’s World
Daniel Johnson Sports Editor My dad does not eat at pizza chain restaurants. Anytime we go out for pizza it is at a small, family restaurant that serves classic New York style thin crust pies. That pattern does not stop me from trying to convince him to go to a place like Little Caesars, Dominos, and Hungry Howies (but not Pizza Hut because … Continue reading June has been One of the Best Months of Sports
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