A Once-in-a-Century Season
Randy Ollie, Sports Editor
March 4, 2016
Filed under SPORTS, Sports Editorials & Features
With the Major League Baseball preseason in full swing, baseball fans across the country are gearing up for what looks to be another competitive and exciting year for America’s favorite pastime. Along with the excitement and jubilation that precede the start of the regular season this summer, another...
Player Of The Week: Michael Drougas
February 26, 2016
Filed under SPORTS, Sports Editorials & Features
Fresh off of a North Coast Athletic Player of the Week selection earlier in the month, sophomore Michael Drougas had an impressive weekend against Division II University of Findlay. The Salem, VA, native helped the Yeomen clinch an early 2–1 lead Sunday afternoon when he and his doubles partner sophomore...
Bye Bye, Blatter
Sarena Malsin, Sports Editor
February 26, 2016
Filed under SPORTS, Sports Editorials & Features
This Friday, it will finally be time for FIFA to elect a new president to replace Sepp Blatter at the special FIFA congress in Zurich. Finally. FIFA, arguably the world’s most powerful international sports organization, has developed a reputation for corruption and dysfunctionality with incredibly...
NBA in Golden Limbo
Randy Ollie, Sports Editor
February 19, 2016
Filed under SPORTS, Sports Editorials & Features
As another NBA trade deadline came and went on Thursday, the NBA rosters officially cemented for the rest of the season. Barring a few possible exceptions, teams will remain virtually the same until after the NBA Championship this summer, when trades become legal by league guidelines once more...
NO MORE Not Heard
Sarena Malsin, Sports Editor
February 12, 2016
Filed under SPORTS, Sports Editorials & Features
Many nodded in tentative approval at one of the Super Bowl’s many long-awaited ads on Sunday, which featured an iMessage conversation between two friends trying to make plans to watch the game. One of the friends is clearly being coerced by her partner at home not to leave the house, indicating...
“Beauty” Over Backhand?
Randy Ollie, Sports Editor
February 5, 2016
Filed under SPORTS, Sports Editorials & Features
Last week, the tennis world was lucky enough to witness another highly anticipated matchup: the United States’ Serena Williams and Russia’s Maria Sharapova in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. The pair are undoubtedly the world’s most celebrated female tennis players both on and off...
Turf Wars
Sarena Malsin, Sports Editor
December 11, 2015
Filed under SPORTS, Sports Editorials & Features
As far as soccer is concerned, turf sucks. Granted, it’s definitely a better surface than the lumpy, rocky, unkempt mini-forests that high school, premier (and even, ahem, college-level) leagues often have as alternative or backup fields. But when it comes to professional soccer, where resources...
Dawn of a Dynasty
Randy Ollie, Sports Editor
December 4, 2015
Filed under SPORTS, Sports Editorials & Features
The Golden State Warriors are legit. Starting the 2015–2016 NBA season on a record-breaking 20–0 run has not only validated their rank as former NBA champions but has also revealed the possibility of many more potential championships in future seasons. The Warriors currently rank first in the NBA...
Vegan Athletes Bust Protein Myths
Alexa Corey
December 4, 2015
Filed under SPORTS, Sports Editorials & Features
“Isn’t it hard to be a vegan athlete?” “Where do you get your protein?” These are the sorts of incredulous questions Sustainable Technology Coordinator Samuel Hartman and Sustainability Coordinator Bridget Flynn set out to answer once and for all in their second talk of the year on vegan athleticism...
Doping Ruins Trust
Sarena Malsin, Sports Editor
November 20, 2015
Filed under SPORTS, Sports Editorials & Features
Call me a biased athlete and sports editor, but sports competitions are one of the last bastions of positive and wholesome interaction between countries. They provide this incredible escape for everybody to care about something within a smaller scope than global politics. They serve as a funnel for...
Raunchy Recruiting
Randy Ollie, Sports Editor
November 13, 2015
Filed under SPORTS, Sports Editorials & Features
With a new college basketball season just around the corner, this coming winter looks like it’s going to be filled with the drama, controversy and entertainment that has traditionally gone hand in hand with Division-I college basketball. In October, basketball fans got a small preview of what looks...
In The Locker Room With Shelby Raynor, Leah Cohen and Joey Velez
Randy Ollie, Sarena Malsin, Sports Editors
November 13, 2015
Filed under In the Locker Room, SPORTS, Sports Editorials & Features
This week, the Review sat down with captains of the Rhinos — Oberlin’s women’s and trans’ rugby team — junior Shelby Raynor and sophomore Leah Cohen. The Review also spoke with captain of the Gruffs — the men’s rugby team — junior Joey Velez and senior player-coach Dustin French (not pict...