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Chris Hawkins cherishes being a co-captain, and takes the role to heart.
Senior defender Moriah Earley understands that balance is key for student-athletes. She also understands that balance is the key to biology. As a human biology major, Earley has been able to achieve success on and off the field with support from her teammates, family, and from a few Oxford professors.
The Trojan senior is as close as can be with her father.
I'm a New York Mets fan. My dad is a Met fan. My dad's dad is a Met fan. For as long as I can remember, the only thing that mattered over the summer was the boys in orange and blue, from Shea Stadium to Citi Field.
With mere weeks until the start of training camp, the unfathomable summer football drought is almost over. While most football fans are likely passing the time chasing down Pokémon in the streets, New York Jets fans are still impatiently waiting to see if Ryan Fitzpatrick will be the starting quarterback come September.
While everyone was still buzzing over LeBron James' superhuman Finals MVP performance, New York Knicks' GM Phil Jackson and Chicago Bulls' GM Gar Forman put together a blockbuster deal that made the Jeff Teague trade look like a box office bomb.
When the clock struck 4 p.m. on Friday, it looked like the New York Jets had missed their shot at a long-term deal with Muhammad Wilkerson. It seemed like Wilkerson would play one more year with the Jets under the $15.7 million franchise tag, and then he'd pack his bags and find another team willing to give him the money he deserves.
If I told you ten years ago that in 2016 the Chicago Cubs would be the best team in baseball and potentially on their way to ending their historic championship drought and the New York Yankees could be finishing below .500 for the first time in 24 years, you'd probably insist that I urgently check into a mental institution.
The New York Mets are finally beginning to look like the reigning NL champs once again. After a hot start to the season, the Mets got back to being Mets-y with an injury parade of epic proportions and a decrepit offense.
The New York Knicks are notoriously prone to picking up players that are four to five years removed from their heyday. Between Stephon Marbury, Jalen Rose, Amar'e Stoudemire, and now Derrick Rose, it's a trend that has caused decades worth of anguish in Madison Square Garden.
In the first day of NFL Free Agency, the NFL turned into a real-life fantasy football league. Blink once and you might've missed a game-changing trade or signing. In true Darrelle Revis fashion, the number one cornerback in the league waited until the hype from the Nick Foles-Sam Bradford trade had settled down to announce his five-year, $70 million with $39 million guaranteed contract with the New York Jets.
In the 2015 draft, the New York Giants selected Miami Hurricanes' tackle Ereck Flowers to hopefully become a long-term solution to the Giants' woeful offensive line situation. After William Beatty's injury moved Flowers to left tackle and Marshall Newhouse to right tackle, the line continued to struggle and was only the 24th best pass-blocking line in the league.
After six days and 52 games of pure madness, the Sweet Sixteen is set. Once again, the tournament left no shortage of intrigue and provided us with an abundance of narratives to rattle our brains during this short breather.
After setting a major league record with homers in six straight postseason games and leading the New York Mets to their first pennant in 15 years, it wasn't easy for fans to say goodbye to former longtime Met Daniel Murphy.
As the New York Jets and Ryan Fitzpatrick continue to prolong this asinine contract circus, New York has certainly seen better days at the quarterback position.
Trea Turner was placed in a very peculiar position in December, baseball purgatory they've called it. A three-team trade that sent Wil Myers from Tampa Bay to San Diego and Steven Souza Jr. from Washington to Tampa Bay, while a "player to be named later" would become a part of the Washington Nationals.