Tag: basketball
Women’s sports are not second-tier, NCAA must do better
Men’s National Basketball Association. Have you ever heard that phrase? How about MNBA? I hadn’t heard of the MNBA, but I have definitely heard of the WNBA....
Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (EADA) data analysis shows trends in...
Every year, Occidental submits the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (EADA) to the Department of Education to evaluate gender equity in sports. The reports...
Adding insult to illness: Why the NBA should cancel 2021 All-Star...
Over the past several years, the NBA has been a beacon of success in supporting its players and embracing progressive movements in the U.S.,...
Team traditions sow success for Occidental athletes
Before local meets, Occidental cross country runners gather to make pasta together. After games, the Occidental womxn's rugby team eats dinner with the team...
Winter break dining leaves student athletes seeking alternative options
During winter break, Occidental’s campus remains open for select students, including members of the men's and women's basketball and swim and dive teams. Due...
‘He was always kind of superhuman’: Occidental athletes react to Kobe...
Over quiet Marketplace breakfasts and late-morning practices on the field, iPhone news alerts and Twitter notifications lit up the screens of Occidental students across...
Maylene Hughes and Caleb Yellin-Flaherty score The Occidental’s Athlete of the...
Caleb Yellin-Flaherty Occidental forward Caleb Yellin-Flaherty (senior) led the Occidental men's basketball team to an 87–73 win over Pomona-Pitzer Jan. 25. The game was a rematch of last...
The Kobe Dilemma: How should we remember the Mamba?
Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault In 2003, Kobe Bryant was charged with one count of felony sexual assault following an alleged rape of a 19-year-old hotel employee in...
Winter sports athletes take center stage as this week’s Athletes of...
Sydney Shipp Occidental men's basketball guard Sydney Shipp (first year) scored 15 points off the bench in Occidental’s 88–76 win over West Coast Baptist University...
Tough on and off the field, student athletes work and heal...
When Kulaea Tulua (sophomore) is not busy in class, playing on Occidental's women's basketball team or running with the women's track and field team, she...