It’s going to be hard for some of the Matadors to not get a big head after this one.
The Cal State Northridge men’s basketball team was selected to finish on top of the Big West Conference in the 2008-09 season by Lindy’s College Basketball Magazine. UC Santa Barbara was picked behind the Matadors, followed by Long Beach State and Cal State Fullerton.

Sometimes one realizes that nothing in this section matters all that much. Days like Sept. 12, in which a CSUN student took a trip that she’ll never return from, can sure do that to you.

The Matadors had UW-Milwaukee on its heels, reeling back, making its goalkeeper tired of intervening time after time. Then, the Panthers scored a goal and, despite maybe even deserving the win, CSUN’s once three-game winning streak had turned into a two-game losing one.

Two minutes was all it took for the Matadors’ season-best three-game winning streak to come to an end.

(This is an unedited first draft of reporter Michael Harrington’s game story) For the 2007-2008 New England Patriots, their bid for a perfect season ended in their 19th, and final, game of the year. For the 2008 Cal State Northridge Matadors, it ended in their fifth. The Matador’s (4-1-0) suffered their first defeat of the year on Friday with a 1-0 overtime loss to the California Golden Bears (4-1) in the first match of the Saint Mary’s Fall Classic in… Read more

On a sad day like today with the deaths of those Metrolink passengers, it’s hard to talk about sports.  I had a scare when I thought a loved one was there, fortunately it was just that, a scare. But for many people around, it’s more than just a scare, it’s sad reality. The world of sports is a way of entertainment. Us sports fanatics many times get so emotional, crazy, irrational; all due to the outcome of a sporting event…. Read more

The Matadors will take their three-game winning streak to the East coast this weekend to face Wisconsin and UW-Milwaukee in their third and final tournament of the 2008 regular season, the 35th Annual Panther Invitational.

The men’s soccer team will be in Wisconsin for a tournament. The women’s soccer team will be in Moraga also for a tournament. The women’s volleyball team will be in Arizona for an Invitational. All three teams are posting excellent records so far, hopefully it stays that way by the end of the weekend.

Key Matadors midfielder Rafael Garcia and senior forward Devin Deld’oacute; both have torn ACL’s and will miss the rest of 2008.