Spring semester is finally coming to a close, so it?s time for spring sports to get final grades. The criteria consists solely of my jackass opinion. Men?s Basketball Jerome Jenkins and his squad started...

Last year at a Sac State tennis match, bystanders watched as Sylvain Iff made light work of his opponent. After scoring a point, Iff turned to his teammates and exclaimed in his Swiss accent, in what seemed...

During her lecture dealing with discrimination in sports on April 1, syndicated columnist and author Mariah Burton Nelson asked the audience "how many of you here are athletes?" Of the half-filled University...

Spring is here, and the best thing about spring is that soon, the crack of the bat will be heard. Yes, major league baseball will soon begin. It?s true that Sac State baseball has been playing nearly the...

How many Sac State athletes have gone on to the pros, signed aguaranteed multi-million dollar contract, then lived in the lap ofluxury because they are good at sports? The answer can be counted onone,...

Before I get started, I?d just like to thank God for aiding me, with every word I write, every verb and adjective that I conjugate, and especially for the punctuation required in putting together a coherent...

If there is one thing that the past couple of years at Sac State have taught me, it?s that women?s sports rule our campus. It?s not just a generalization, just look at the facts. The only winning men?s...

While the year 2000 gift-wrapped two victories in the early stages of the Sac State men?s basketball team, the winter break put a startling cold chill to its hot start, and the turn of the calendar into...

Junior Wendy Baisdon and sophomores Toni Petersen and Jenny Ball paced the Hornet gymnastics team to a resounding 194.125 to 190.175 win across the causeway against the UC Davis Aggies. All three won their...

When the Sac State men's basketball team returned from their 0-2 road trip through Colorado State and San Diego State, head coach Jerome Jenkins' "to-do" list was very short: Learn to win on the road....

As the holiday atmosphere takes over your winter break, family stress and the pressures of consumer commercialism are bound to take hold. To relieve those pressures, a good remedy may be to pack your snow...

Ricky Glenn scored the games first five points, and the Sac State men's basketball team never looked back as the beat Bethany College 103-48 on Friday afternoon at Hornet Gym. Defense and turnovers is...

In its second and final exhibition game of the season, the men's basketball team continued to put up big numbers on Saturday, beating Oracle by a final score of 93-78. Senior Ricky Glenn paced the Hornets,...

Attention everybody! There?s a new sheriff in town. Her name is Carolyn Jenkins, and the aura of victory for the Sac State women?s basketball team is the gun on her hip. Jenkins is no stranger to winning...

The 2000-01 men?s basketball team took the court for the first time Saturday, in an exhibition game against the Bay Area sports club, "Tribe Called Sweat." TCS proved to be little competition for Sac State...

Ever since its inception into Division I, the Sac State men?s basketball team has tried diligently to catch fire. But in order to start a fire you must first produce a spark. Enter newly hired coach Jerome...

It certainly wasn?t the blockbuster shoot-out that was promised on paper, but the 2000 Causeway Classic was anything but a disappointment. Well, it?s disappointing that Sac State couldn?t pull off a win,...

A capacity crowd filled Hornet gym Friday night to initiate the men?s and women?s 2000 basketball season at this year?s "Late night at the nest." The event began at 11:00 p.m., and consisted of an hour...

Basketball The Men?s and Women?s basketball season kicked off with a "Late night at the nest," on Friday. Both squads were introduced, performed lip sync routines, and scrimmaged in front of a packed crowd...

During the next couple of weeks, when you?re sitting at home flipping through the channels, don?t be surprised if you come across a familiar face when the batteries in your remote run out, and you realize...

Cross Country Melissa Madeson, the Big Sky Runner of the Week in each of the past two weeks was at it again this weekend, taking another second place finish at the Aggie Invitational in Davis. Madeson...

It just struck me as odd. Its not something that I've ever heard anybody talk about since I've been at Sac State. I'm referring to a quote by Sac State's newest linebacker Santi Hall. Hall, before ever...

While many rowing coaches take time off in the summer, Sac State women?s rowing coach Bill Zack spent his off-season working with the U.S. National Team as an assistant coach. Zack recently returned to...

Last Friday, those who decided to get off the couch and go watch the Sac State women?s soccer game were given an up-close look at why they should have stayed on the couch. They were treated to an intimate...

Volleyball Having dropped two of three matches a weekend ago, the Sacramento State volleyball team traveled to San Marcos, Tex. to take action in the B&G Properties Classic and came home with three victories....