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The State Hornet

The student news site of Sacramento State University

The State Hornet

Student news without fear or favor

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Heartbreaking losses cloud inspiring season

Javone Tavares
November 12, 2002

At first glance, the Sacramento State football team's 3-7 record may seem like a lost cause. But upon a closer inspection of the season thus far, it's apparent that the Hornets have made significant strides...

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It’s time for instant replay in college football

Javone Tavares
November 5, 2002

After viewing numerous college football games this season, including several games with controversial endings, I have now drawn two conclusions. First, the officiating has been nothing less than atrocious....

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King-sized task awaits Sacramento ‘Queens’

Javone Tavares
October 22, 2002

With the basketball season right around the corner, Sacramento Kings fans are beginning to gear up for what should be one of the most exciting seasons in franchise history. Last year's loss in Game 7 to...

Who is the baddest man on the planet?

Javone Tavares
October 15, 2002

Should Roy Jones Jr. be considered the baddest man on the planet? For a long time Mike Tyson fit the moniker perfectly. But since his crushing loss to Lennox Lewis, even I, a skinny 150-pound (when soaking...

When does fan intensity cross the line?

Javone Tavares
October 9, 2002

The Causeway Classic is one of the top collegiate rivalries in Northern California. To nobody's surprise, the fans at Saturday's game did nothing to discredit that status. In a game that was as hotly contested...

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Jones, Dawson out for semester, possibly season

Javone Tavares
September 25, 2002

Last year the Sacramento State basketball team gave us a sneak preview of the promising future that is to come. Although the Hornets lost their chances to make the Big Sky Tournament in the final week...

Should nation’s top-collegiate athletes get paid?

Javone Tavares
September 18, 2002

In light of the recent indictment of Sacramento King all-star, Chris Webber, the question has to be raised, should collegiate athletes be getting some sort of compensation for their services? Ok, I know...

Football returns nucleus of strong 2001 passing attack

Javone Tavares
September 4, 2002

Coming into the 2002 college football season, the Sacramento State football program was like the proverbial college student that has had too much to drink, hung over. After a successful 7-4 season in 2000,...

Hornet hurdler flies past adversity

Javone Tavares
May 15, 2002

Generation X has been tabbed with a moniker of being selfish and irreverent. It has been described as the baggy-pant wearing, rap music bumping, heavy metal listening, marijuana smoking youth who are responsible...

Cal Poly takes down Sac State,Mayhorn plows over catcher

Javone Tavares
April 30, 2002

If you ever wanted to know what the definition of a dominating pitching performance was, then you wouldn?t have needed to look any further than the effort that Sacramento State?s Nicole Deatherage turned...

Hornets hung out to dry in wild Big West

Javone Tavares
April 23, 2002

The California State University, Northridge Matadors proved why they are among the elite teams in the Big West Conference, completing a three-game sweep of the Sacramento State?s baseball team this weekend...

Hornet pitching kills Aggies

Javone Tavares
April 16, 2002

On Saturday at Shea Stadium, the Utah State University Aggies were given a first hand orientation on what it feels like to receive the broom treatment, as they were swept by the Sacramento State Hornets...

Sac State has strong showing at Crew Classic

Javone Tavares
April 11, 2002

It?s amazing how the thrill of victory and the agonyof defeat can be separated by just a fraction of asecond. Unfortunately, Sacramento State Universitieswomen?s varsity rowing team was on the bitter end...

Hornets split vs. UOP, Bivert comes up big

Javone Tavares
April 2, 2002

In what amounted into two well-pitched games, the Sacramento State women?s softball team was victorious in the first game of its doubleheader, 1-0, while dropping the nightcap 2-1 to No. 19 ranked University...

Selle leads Hornets at Cal Poly,Hornets still depleated by injury bug

Javone Tavares
March 20, 2002

One week after a dominating performance at the Drummond Invitational, the Sacramento State track and field team found that it is extremely difficult to duplicate supremacy in consecutive weeks. At the...

First Annual Sawtooth Film Fest Today

Javone Tavares
March 18, 2002

Sacramento State?s Recreation and Leisure Studies department will be hosting the First Annual Sawtooth Film Fest today. The event will take place from 6 to 9 p.m. in Hinde Auditorium of the University...

Hornets declaw wounded bears

Javone Tavares
March 6, 2002

Junior Toni Peterson led the Sacramento State gymnastics team to its sixth win of the season Sunday at Hornet Gym, defeating a depleted University of California, Berkeley squad 193.175-151.450. Sac State?s...

Davis takes title, Hornets limp into outdoor season

Javone Tavares
February 26, 2002

The Sacramento State men placed seventh while the women placed eighth at the Big Sky Indoor Championships in Pocatello, Idaho. Jonathan Davis captured the Big Sky Title in the 55-meter dash as the Hornet...

Sac State swarmed by Lumberjacks, seek seasons first win in Montana

Javone Tavares
February 20, 2002

The Sacramento State women?s basketball team learned that it?s hard to keep up with a team that likes to run, especially when it shoots itself in the foot. The Hornets shot just 27.8 percent from floor...

Hornets vault by Davis

Javone Tavares
February 6, 2002

Toni Peterson?s clutch performance on the balance beam secured a Sacramento State gymnastics team victory over Causeway rival, University of California, Davis Saturday at Recreation Hall. The Hornets?...

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