After going 2-2 on the road, including a 7-1 upset victory over No. 18 San Diego, the Matador baseball team will have their home opener on Friday when they host Pepperdine. Some of the Matadors feel that the win over San Diego may springboard them to more victories. “What the (San Diego) game provides us is a frame of reference for success,” said head coach Steve Rousey. “Similarly you could take our UCLA experience and utilize that as a framework… Read more

After giving up 30 runs in their first three games of the season, Cal State Northridge held the No. 18 San Diego Toreros to one run in its 7-1 upset victory at San Diego. Justin DeMarco, who went 3-for-4, and Ridge Carpenter, who went 3-for-6 with 3 RBI’s, led the Matadors. San Diego was able to get a run in the bottom of the first, CSUN then responded by scoring 4 runs on San Diego starting pitcher Casey Schmidt in… Read more

The Cal State Northridge baseball team opened up their season scoring 32 runs in three games during the MLB Urban Invitational; unfortunately they gave up 30 runs and came away with a 1-2 record. The Matadors got off to a solid start defeating Bethune-Cookman 18-4 on Friday. CSUN suffered a 12-9 defeat to Southern University on Saturday and closed out the invitational with a 14-5 loss to UCLA on Sunday. “We did really well in spurts,” said Matador head coach… Read more

With the 2010 season starting this Friday against Bethune-Cookman, from Daytona Beach, Fla., at the MLB Urban Youth Academy in Compton for the MLB Urban Invitational, the Matadors baseball team is hoping that a second straight top-40 recruiting class by head coach Steve Rousey, and the playing experience the young Matador team got last season, will lead to an improvement on last season’s 24-32 record. Last season’s young Matador squad suffered 12 one-run losses. This Northridge team features 13 combined… Read more

For the last couple of seasons the debate in basketball has been who the better player is: Kobe Bryant or LeBron James. However, this season there is no debate, as James has separated himself from Bryant to establish himself as the game’s best player and a lock as this seasons MVP. There have been questions in the past as to what the MVP award means. Does it really mean the player who is most valuable to their team, or does… Read more

Prior to Super Bowl XLIV there were many people claiming that Peyton Manning, with a Colts victory in the Super Bowl, would have a legitimate case to be considered the greatest quarterback of all time. Now with Indy coming up short in the postseason once again, it could be argued that Peyton Manning chokes when postseason pressure is on. Now we are not talking about the regular season here, strictly the postseason. Before anyone points to the fact that Manning… Read more

The New Orleans Saints have become a symbol of hope for the city of New Orleans, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina just four and a half years ago. Because of this most football fans across the country are rooting for the Saints to win their first Super Bowl in franchise history, however, four-time MVP Peyton Manning and the Colts will not be denied, as they will be the ones hoisting the Lombardi Trophy at the end of the game…. Read more

What Brett Favre wanted and why he came back to the NFL to play with the Minnesota Vikings was all set up in the NFC championship game for, a chance to play in Super Bowl XLIV. Despite six fumbles by the Vikings, three of them lost for turnovers, an earlier interception, and getting knocked down all game long by the New Orleans Saints defense, Favre had the Vikings set up for a trip to South Beach. He had his opportunity… Read more

When former Matador defender Chad Borak took the field last week at the 2010 Adidas Player Combine in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to compete against some of the best college soccer players in the nation, Borak showed no fear. “I was just as good, or even better than the other players,” said Borak in a phone interview. Thanks in part to the solid showing at the combine, and his CSUN career, where Borak was named to the All- Big West Conference… Read more