A fire broke out on the second floor of University Park Apartment building 12 Wednesday at around 9:30 p.m.

One of the most exciting games the Northridge community ever watched was between its underdog Matadors and basketball powerhouse Memphis in the first round of the NCAA Tournament two weeks ago. Even though the Matadors lost, they played inspiringly and students of the commuting state institution were finally locked in emotion, cheering for their school.’ That a first round game accomplished such a feat tells us all one thing: March Madness is superior to the NBA playoffs.

In recent weeks, it has been difficult to get away from stories about Alex Rodriguez testing positive for steroids.’ This hasn’t helped the already limping reputation of baseball as the number of athletes involved with performance enhancing substances increases.

Palestinian students were set to hold a protest against the Israeli government yesterday until around 40 students for Israel gathered in a counter protest.’ The Palestinian students decided to not to hold the protest after discovering they were outnumbered, but the Israeli rally continued with chants of ‘no mas Hamas’ and ‘we want peace, we don’t want war.’

After navigating through traffic, one-way streets and long lines at the metal detectors, nothing gets a hockey fan more excited than feeling the cool breeze from the rink blow through tunnel on their way to take their seats.

Originally Published October 29, 2007 Matt Liff, 22, began the morning of Oct. 21 watching football. He had caught reports of the fire that had broken out in Malibu, but wasn’t watching the news. Blue sky was nowhere to be seen in the Santa Clarita Valley that day. Very little could be seen past the thick cloud of smoke from the fires that combed over Southern California.

Originally Published November 15, 2007 Sometimes, even rivalry games can have blowouts. The CSUN men’s hockey team extended its win streak to four games after beating the College of the Canyons Cougars on their own ice 15-4 Friday. The games between these two teams are usually more anticipated than this season.

The Matadors ice hockey team ended the first half of their season with a 4-2 loss to UC Irvine at the Valley Ice Center on Saturday. The game was the lowest scoring of the season, beating out CSUN’s previous match against UCI which the Matadors won 5-3. CSUN managed only two goals Saturday, resulting in their weakest offensive outing against a Pacific Division team all season.

Sometimes, even rivalry games can have blowouts. The CSUN men’s hockey team extended their win streak to four games after beating the College of the Canyons Cougars on their own ice 15-4 Friday. The games between these two teams are usually more anticipated than this season.