Football: Home for the last time

One quarterback started the game, but another finished it.
In all but two of its games this season, the football team has had two different quarterbacks behind center. In the Owls’ 37-7 loss at Clemson on Saturday, coach Bobby Wallace yanked his newest starting signal-caller for reasons other than trying to win a game.
Freshman quarterback Joe [...]

Volleyball: Tired squad gets split against A-10 best

Battling fatigue and a tall Dayton front line, the volleyball team lost its first home game of the season Saturday. The Flyers eked out a 3-2 victory over the Owls in the second of a set of games with possibly broader implications.
The matchup with the Flyers, which came one day after a 3-2 win over [...]

Field Hockey: Another day at the office in overtime win

Faced with their second overtime situation in two weeks, the field hockey team pulled out another close victory. The Owls (10-9, 5-1 in the Atlantic Ten Conference) gained a 2-1 victory over A-10 rival Massachusetts on Sunday.
Coach Amanda Janney said she was happy with how the team played.
“We played great in the first half and [...]

Baseball: New coach brings full resume

Eager to get started and confident he can continue his recent success as coach of Gloucester (N.J.) County College, Rob Valli was named the new baseball coach last Wednesday.
Valli, who led GCC to the National Junior College Athletic Association World Series Championship last season, succeeds Skip Wilson, who retired in August after 46 years as [...]

Men’s Soccer: Feisty fans boost rain-soaked Owls

Spirit in the stands was not lacking on City Avenue on Saturday night, as the men’s soccer team rode the energy of the visiting Owls’ fans to a 2-1 victory over Saint Joseph’s. Despite a steady, pounding rain throughout the second half, the majority of fans remained passionate and stayed until the final buzzer.
“Whenever it’s [...]

Wide field of pressures afflicts student-athletes

On the afternoon of Oct. 8, University of Pennsylvania running back Kyle Ambrogi scored two touchdowns while helping the Quakers dominate Bucknell, 53-7.
Football was not the only thing Ambrogi had success with in his life. Ambrogi, a finance major, held a 3.4 grade point average at the world-renowned Wharton School of Business. He had recently [...]

Do not visit Elizabethtown

Elizabethtown looked like the place to go. Even if you couldn’t make it to the town – you could at least make it to the closest theater to see Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst attempt to take on American and Southwestern accents. Frankly, your best bet is to travel to the town, even if it [...]

Alcohol: the new secret behind jazz?

Ingredients for a Jazz-tini to soothe a rainy day: A little strum of guitar, a drop of sultry vocals, a dash of a swinging beat and…a silver flask?
Watching jazz guitarist Joseph Federico play, you would think he was in another world; smiling away, as if he was in a subliminal and untouchable world of his [...]

Walk to the theater in someone else’s shoes

With an opening scene of Cameron Diaz having sex in the bathroom, a viewer may be tricked into thinking that Curtis Hanson’s In Her Shoes is not your typical chick flick. However, a story about two sisters who are opposites in every sense of the word, who both transform only to grow closer in the [...]

CD Review

Thrice
Vheissu
(Island)
HHIII
Well, it finally happened. Thrice has sunk too far into a pit of their own high mindedness.
For three albums, this California-based outfit has pumped out fast punk rock mixed with some Iron Maiden metal-style riffing and surprisingly tender melodic moments.
They have also attempted to expand the political awareness of all of their listeners. A cut [...]

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