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Rain on the Lions’ Parade: Men’s Soccer Season Soon Comes to an End

After a grueling game that lasted almost an hour longer than the expected duration — stretched out due to overtime and a broken sprinkler showering Sullivan Field in the middle of the second half — the Lions faced…

If You Can Take It, You Can Make It

“If [I] can take it, [I] can make it,” Louis Zamperini echoed the words of encouragement he received from his older brother while training to qualify for the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He never could have imagined that several short years later, he would cling to those…

“He Got Game” Predicts the Future of College Basketball

“He Got Game” Predicts the Future of College Basketball

“He Got Game” is a sports drama from 1998, written and directed by Spike Lee at a time when illegal recruiting in college sports was becoming more…

Sports and Politics

Sports and politics are both a part of everyday life and can be intertwined. Politics play a role in sports and this is especially prominent today. A specific example is NFL player, Colin Kaepernick and the new Nike campaign. Kaepernick’s political view on inequality in the United States…

Armstrong Gets the Final Word

Lance Armstrong became a catalyst for hope and an inspirational icon in 1999, when he battled back from a potentially fatal strand of metastatic testicular cancer to win the Tour de France. He also went on to establish the Livestrong Foundation, a nonprofit organization…

Writing Assignment #1

Why sports are political

Sports and Politics

The integration of sports and politics is a conversation that is prevalent today as we are witnessing more political and social justice issues being talked about in regard to…

‘The Armstrong Lie’

The documentary “The Armstrong Lie” is extremely interesting and sheds light on Lance Armstrong’s story. The way it started with Armstrong confessing to taking performance-enhancing drugs to Oprah Winfrey set the stage for the movie to build up to that point. The documentary showed Armstrong’s…