If the events which transpired in CSUN’s first and only men’s soccer exhibition match are any indication of what the regular season has in store, then Coach Terry Davila’s squad will be as competitive as ever. In the 89th minute of Friday game, redshirt sophomore Rafael Garcia stepped into a free kick from the right corner of the UNLV box and executed a picturesque hooking shot that found the right side of the net, giving the Matadors a 3-2, come-from-behind… Read more

Like a football team ready for its first game after a grueling summer of practices, the CSUN men’s soccer squad is boiling with anticipation to play a team other than itself. In a recent Tuesday team scrimmage, things got a little testy among Matadors players competing in one of their last tune-ups before the season gets under way. But it wasn’t a sign of team animosity or division – rather a display of anticipation for what awaits. And Friday the… Read more

Not every player who is taken in Major League Baseball’s amateur draft out of college or high school has the luxury of a multi-million dollar signing bonus staring him in the face. Players such as former San Diego State pitcher Stephen Strasburg, recipient of the 2009 Golden Spikes award — college baseball’s most valuable player — are the exception. After being drafted first overall in this year’s draft, the right-hander signed an unprecedented four-year, $15.1 million contract with the Washington… Read more

Cal State Northridge men’s soccer coach Terry Davila will not come out and say it. He won’t even go as far as predicting a better season than last year’s injury-plagued 8-7-4 record. “I’ll let our actions speak, not our words,” said Davila, who is entering his eleventh season as coach at CSUN. But for those in and around the Matadors’ program, the feeling in the air is that this year’s squad is poised to explode like dynamite in the Big… Read more