Category: Sports

By Edwin Blebu ASST. SPORTS EDITOR Last week Rutgers University came under substantial media attention as some very disturbing practice footage of men’s basketball coach Mike Rice went viral. The footage explicitly showed Rice verbally and physically abusing his players with a variety of homophobic slurs and other aggressive and […]

By Jackson Shannon CONTRIBUTOR Last weekend’s series was a big one for Torero baseball as we took on our conference rivals, the Pepperdine University Waves. The Waves entered the series at Fowler Park with an 18-13 record and an impressive resume with wins against the Texas A&M University Aggies and […]

By Edwin Blebu ASST. SPORTS EDITOR This year’s NBA Playoff race has been the topic of many discussions over the past few weeks. Although the Eastern Conference playoff race is not nearly as competitive, the playoff seeding in the West is far from set as the positions of various teams […]

By Alex Bullock SPORTS EDITOR As the school year begins to wind down, the Toreros baseball team finds themselves at the halfway point of their season. And like most students at USD, a lot of work must be done until they feel satisfied with the end of their term. The […]

By Alex Bullock SPORTS EDITOR There have been rumors lately swirling around ESPN and the rest of the sports media world that multiple NFL players would come out as gay in the near future. To me and to many others, having a gay teammate would be a non-issue. Not necessarily […]

By Alex Bullock SPORTS EDITOR The USD baseball team played a dramatic three-game series against the Brigham Young University Cougars last weekend in the opening series of West Coast Conference play. The Toreros won all three games against the Cougars, but it wasn’t easy. All three games saw the Toreros […]

By Connor Phillips CONTRIBUTOR Selection Sunday was this past Sunday, and with that, the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championships are set. Part of the excitement of March Madness are the intriguing matchups and the possibility of upsets, and this year’s version of the bracket does not disappoint. The four […]

By Alex Bullock SPORTS EDITOR After falling short of earning the West Coast Conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA women’s basketball championships, the women’s basketball team instead earned a bid to the 2013 Women’s National Invitational Tournament. Last season, the Toreros made it to the national semifinals of the WNIT, […]

By Alex Bullock SPORTS EDITOR Last week marked the end of the Round of 16 in the UEFA Champions League. The Champions League is one of the most prestigious tournaments in the world and the most prestigious club competition in European soccer. Among the teams moving on to the quarterfinals […]

By Alex Manessis CONTRIBUTOR Last Thursday with the NCAA tournament rapidly approaching, USD Athletic Director Ky Snyder announced that men’s head basketball coach Bill Grier would be back for a seventh season. The decision came five days after USD’s fourth consecutive losing season concluded with an exciting overtime loss to […]