Track and Field Cal State Northridge’s senior Sherrina Lofton captured her second Big West Conference heptathlon championship in the last three years Saturday at UC Irvine as she earned 5,371 points to claim the title as the conference’s top all-around athlete. Fellow teammate senior Desirae Gonder finished third and junior Alisa Jenkins was fifth as the Matadors attempt to win their sixth consecutive conference crown. On the men’s side, Matador freshman Carl Horsley was named the Big West Men’s Track… Read more

For the Los Angeles Dodgers, a storied franchise and iconic sports organization, it seems like the only two things worth celebrating lately is outfielder Andre Ethier’s hitting streak and the Major League Baseball’s takeover of day-to-day operations from owner Frank McCourt. “The Dodgers have been one of the most prestigious franchises in all of sports, and we owe it to their legion of loyal fans to ensure that this club is being operated properly now and will be guided appropriately in… Read more

Track and Field The CSUN women’s and men’s track and field teams reached the conference standard in six events at Cal State Los Angeles’ Tiny Lister Classic after having three women and three men post times or marks good enough to qualify for the Big West Championships. In the 200 meters, both Sierra Brooks and Jasmine Cox finished in the top-six and posted conference-qualifying times. Brooks ran a time of 24.66 seconds and Cox ran at 25.05. Shane Mullany-Banks ran a… Read more

If there is anything that jumps out about the 2011 NBA playoffs is that anybody can win. Okay well maybe not anybody, but there has been a growing trend where top-seeded positioning in the playoffs no longer equals an automatic ticket for the next round. Every team from first through eighth in both the conferences pose a different threat with different weapons to opposing teams. With so much parity in the NBA this postseason, it is not difficult to see…. Read more

Track and field The Cal State Northridge track and field women’s and men’s teams finished up a busy week when they participated in the Texas Relays, UCLA’s Rafer Johnson/ Jackie Joyner-Kersee invitational and Pomona-Pitzer Invitational. At the Texas Relays, jumper Thomas Johnson matched his career-high of 6 feet, 10.75 inches to finish third. At UCLA, Northridge’s group of pole vaulters had a good week as Tiana Webberley reached her lifetime-best on the women’s side with a clearance of 12 feet,… Read more

Virtually every year right around tournament season, college basketball analysts will go through each regional bracket in search of a team with a double digit seed from a mid-major conference that may have what it takes to pull up an upset or two and make a deep run at the tournament. The team that is able to accomplish this feat is referred to as a Cinderella team. The life of a Cinderella team usually starts out the same. The team… Read more

It is that time of the year again. The NBA and NHL seasons are in full stride as games become more and more meaningful as teams in both leagues look for good playoff positioning. MLB teams are fine tuning their rosters for opening day and, oh yeah, there’s a little thing called the NCAA men’s basketball tournament referred to as March Madness. The collegiate tournament is everything the name implies. In a single elimination tournament, the best teams in college… Read more

The NBA trading deadline has come and gone, and there were more trades this year than I could remember. Some teams filled their needs and some made trades for little more than what equates to salary dumps such as the Clippers and Bobcats. Others managed to trade its superstars in exchange for young talent, such as the Denver Nuggets and the Utah Jazz. Still, others managed to make trades that can actually bring home a title, if not this year… Read more

Tennis CSUN senior Brooke Doane is coming off her second career Big West Women’s Tennis Athlete of the Week honors on Wednesday as she registered a perfect 4-0 combined record in singles and double play matches against Cal State Fullerton and Long Beach State. Doane and teammate Jennifer Sher helped claim the first point of the match against the nationally ranked 49ers in their No.1 doubles 8-5 win over Deborah Armstrong and Anais Dallara. Doane and Sher are now a… Read more