This week, I will attempt to defend one of the most successful and respected coaches in all of sports. Bold, huh? Well, after the New England Patriots went down to the Indianapolis Colts Sunday night, 35-34, blowing a 17-point fourth quarter lead, defending Bill Belichick might not be such an ...
The Pomona-Pitzer men’s water polo team finished Sunday in a place none of the seniors had ever been: watching the SCIAC tournament final from the bleachers. An unceremonious end to a decorated career, the senior class failed to capture a third straight SCIAC championship and a spot in this weekend’s ...
When Alicia Freese PO ’10 began the women’s cross country season hobbled with an injury, she knew that she needed to keep in shape as best as possible to prepare for the end of the year and a possible berth to the National Championship.< ...
Tim Donaghy, the former NBA referee who just finished a 15-month sentence for his involvement in fixing games, spent his time in prison quite productively. Donaghy used his months in the joint to pen a book revealing the nefarious underbelly of the NBA.
Last Saturday, the Pomona-Pitzer men’s cross country team finished in a disappointing fifth place at the West Regionals Meet on Pomona’s campus. The results mean that the team will not advance to the NCAA National Meet next weekend in Cleveland, Ohio.
Part of the excitement of a cross country race ...
The Sagehen-Stag football game lived up to its hype and then some. After a hard-fought, back-and-forth game, it came down to one final drive. With 1:30 left in the fourth quarter, the fans got the exciting finish they were waiting for.
Down one touchdown, the Sagehens were able to advance ...
Elbows colliding with faces and screaming coaches and fans. Bodies entangled, ripping, shoving and battling. Ejections, tactical substitutions, a down-to-the-wire finish. I am of course describing the unmitigated melee that was the 2009 Intramural Inner-tube Water Polo Championship.< ...
Continuing its long march of pre-season games before SCIAC competition begins, the Men’s Water Polo team hosted Fresno Pacific and Iona this past Saturday, Sep. 26. All day Saturday, Haldeman pool was Ryan Balikian PO ’11’s world, and we were simply living it. Balikian scored 11 goals in the two wins combined and led the Sagehens to victories of 10-8 and ...
Elbows colliding with faces and screaming coaches and fans. Bodies entangled, ripping, shoving and battling. Ejections, tactical substitutions, a down-to-the-wire finish. I am of course describing the unmitigated melee that was the 2009 Intramural Inner-tube Water Polo Championship.Haldeman Pool was teeming with frenzied, pugnacious, well-defined (I’m looking at you, Peter Chinman PO ’12) and altogether rabid student-athletes Tuesday night, as ...
Elli Seo PO ‘10 fights for the ball against an Occidental opponent in the Sagehens’ 2-0 loss to the Tigers on Wednesday. The team has only one win and one tie in its past eight games, all SCIAC competitions, to fall to a tie for 5th place with La Verne in the conference. The Sagehens’ last victory came in a ...
Last Saturday, the Athenas and Sagehens met on the CMS field for a doubleheader. CMS, tied for the division lead and coming off four straight wins, looked like the favorite going in, especially with the Sagehens losing four in a row up to this point. After a routine 8-0 victory for CMS, P Mackenzie Smith PO ’09 carried the S...
Zach Mandleblatt Baseball Year: Senior Hometown: Lake Oswego, OR This Weeks Stats: Mandelblatt’s batting helped the Sagecocks to a three game sweep of the Whittier Poets in last weekend’s series. He had a total of 6 hits for 13 at bats, an impressive 0.463 from the plate. Mandelblatt had scored 2 runs, and he recorded 5 RBIs. In Saturday’s ...
After starting with a 5-0 win against Whittier in the opening round of the SCIAC tournament last Friday, the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens ultimately finished in fourth place Saturday following an 8-1 loss to CMS, the eventual champion, in the semifinals and a 6-3 loss to the Cal Lutheran Kingsmen in the third-place consolation game.Uday Singh PO ’12 played the mo...
In the past ten years, so the saying goes, the NFL has seen a vast increase in parity. Popular belief holds that every team has a chance to win any given week, in part thanks to free agency, the salary cap, and the league’s ability to draw from a vast pool of talent and athleticism. However, this season there seems ...
The men’s cross country team finished second this weekend at the West Region Preview meet with an average team time of 26:25.The team was led by senior Brian Gillis PO ’10, who finished second in the race with a time of 25:37. Gillis was the first SCIAC finisher, and last year’s cross country SCIAC champion Eric Kleinhauser, from Occidental College, ...
