The Matadors seemingly had nothing left in the tank and Pepperdine overwhelmed them in a 30-23 fourth-set win. The Waves won three straight sets and won the game 3-1 to advance to the MPSF championship game. Pepperdine win 30-23: Eric Vance got himself one last kill, but the Matadors lost the set and their season comes to an end. Pepperdine leads 29-22: In about two seconds, the great CSUN career of senior Eric Vance and the 2009 Matadors’ season will… Read more

The Waves took the third set behind Paul Carroll’s seven kills. Pepperdine didn’t trail and CSUN now trails 2-1. The Matadors must win the next set to keep their season alive. Pepperdine wins 30-26: The Waves led from beginning to end and won the set with relative ease to put the Matadors a set away from saying good bye to the 2009 season. Pepperdine leads 29-26: The Waves took a timeout. I can’t really hear what their coach is saying,… Read more

Early Thursday morning authorities responded to an apparent suicide on the 9600 block of Etiwanda just outside the campus.

The California State University system (CSU) is in a state of crisis.’ The latest California state budget leaves the CSUs with $600 million below operational needs for the 2009-2010 academic year.

A thrilling second-set loss was the difference for the No. 2 Matadors men’s volleyball team, who lost 3-1 in the semifinals of the Mountain Pacific Sports Tournament at the Bren Events Center on Thursday night.

It is rare when you get a championship-type match-up in the semifinals of a competition, but today’s match of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Tournament between the No. 2 Matadors men’s volleyball team and No. 3 Pepperdine at the Bren Events Center in Irvine will have that type of feel to it. Follow the live action from Irvine at ‘the Matador Score.’

The Cal State Northridge softball team (27-17, 7-8 Big West) showed signs of life last weekend when they swept UC Riverside, but this weekend they will face an even harder opponent as they head to Orange County to face Cal State Fullerton (23-19, 11-4) in a three-game series.

A Cal State Long Beach student received a ‘probable positive’ test result for swine flu.
The Long Beach Health Department informed the university of the affected student late Tuesday, and early Wednesday morning CSULB Beach President F. King Alexander sent a campus-wide e-mail with information about the student, symptoms of swine flu and a hotline for anyone to call if they have any questions specific to swine flu.

Fire stations have been used as collection sites in the past four years that the event has been held, said Matt Myerhoff communications director for councilman Greig Smith.