Last week, the Google war-machine released its latest weapon in the microblogging turf-war. Its name, Google Buzz, sounds less like a jolting juggernaut and more like a bothersome insect. As many GMail users are already aware, the new Buzz feature can be found under the “Inbox” category in the email service. Similar to Twitter competitor Friendfeed, Buzz has an area for comments and can import other data from services like Twitter, Flickr and Google Reader. However, the service has been… Read more

In an ESPN BracketBuster game, Cal State Northridge took more than just a break from its Big West schedule to host Drake University  Saturday night. Apparently, to head coach Bobby Braswell, the Matadors also took a break on defense against the Bulldogs. “I’m glad we could accommodate Drake and let them come down and have a scrimmage against us tonight,” Braswell said sarcastically after his team lost 90-80 to the Bulldogs. “That’s what it felt like defensively, we were awful…. Read more

WESTWOOD, Calif. — Looking to avenge an earlier loss in the season to No. 6 UCLA, No. 1 CSUN lost a heartbreaking 3-2 match (30-27, 30-28, 28-30, 14-30, 12-15) to the Bruins Friday night at Pauley Pavilion after being up two sets to none. Senior middle blocker Kevin McKniff had an outstanding hitting night with 13 kills on 14 swings. Fellow senior Theo Edwards led the Matadors in kills with 14, while senior middle blocker Jacek Ratajczak finished with 11…. Read more

Going into Saturday night’s contest against Cal Poly, the Cal State Northridge women’s basketball team (4-20, 2-10 BWC) was giving up 72.1 points per game. The Matadors arguably had their worst defensive performance of the season after losing to the Mustangs 100-78 at Mott Gym. The Matadors at least brought offense, with center Jasmine Erving recording a career- high 31 points. Also, the team did a pretty good job hanging in with the Mustangs in the first half.  The score… Read more

California State University (CSU) has introduced a graduation initiative that will help increase graduation rates amongst the 23 campuses by eight percent by 2016. Erik Fallis, the media relation’s specialist for the CSU system said the CSU has taken the  step of setting targets for addressing both the issues of graduation rate and achievement gap. According to the CSU Web site, the six-year graduation rate is about 46 percent and the goal is to ultimately raise that number to 54… Read more

A group of male parishioners from a local church stood outside the Plaza Del Sol Performance Hall holding up images from the Bible and praying the rosary in a peaceful protest against a performance of the “Vagina Monologues.” Guy Coulombre, Our Lady of Lourdes event organizer, said the church is protesting because the “Vagina Monologues” is “a lewd activist feminist play.” “It encourages deviant lifestyles through deviant sexual practices through verbal feminine pornography,” Coulombre said. The church sent out flyers… Read more

The Cal State Northridge women’s basketball team (4-18, 2-9 Big West) is tied with Pacific for the eighth and final spot to get into the Big West Tournament. However, in order to keep pace with the Tigers, CSUN needs to get an upset victory over first place Cal Poly at Mott Gym on Saturday. The mighty Mustangs (16-8, 9-3) are led by a great defense and Big West player of the year candidate junior Kristina Santiago. The defense records 8.3… Read more

The Matadors have made it a habit to play in nail-biting games and failing at the end but fortunately for them they were able to pull out the 73-68 victory over Cal Poly Wednesday night at the Matadome. “It’s good to be on the other end of it,” CSUN head coach Bobby Braswell said. “We have been on the bad end on few of these close losses. It’s good to see the guys respond and step up to win this… Read more

The Matadors road unbeaten streak came to an end Wednesday night at the Bren center as No. 13 UC Irvine pulled off a huge 3-1 upset of No. 1 CSUN . Senior outside hitter Theo Edwards lead four players with double digit kills with 17, junior opposite hitter Tanner Nua finished second with 15 while senior middle blockers Jacek Ratajczak and Kevin McKniff added 13 and 11 apiece. “They are coached really well, they have great players and huge guys… Read more