The author is a member of the team. This March, SUNY Cortland Track and field team sent ten members to the NCAA D3 Track and Field National Championships in Birmingham, Alabama, putting out promising performances, including one All-American finish. Cortland qualified eight athletes for individual events: Brett Morse, 60m hurdles; Coltrane Goring, 400 meters; Zach […]
Scoring in the NBA: Watered Down?
Scoring has always been the main attraction in basketball. It is the first stat in the box score and determines who wins and who loses at the end of every contest. For many casual fans, scoring is basketball. Yet, at the game’s highest level, it seems to be getting way too easy. For instance, Damian […]
Athlete Profile: Alhagie Sesay
If you go to a Cortland track and field meet, you might see a young man with long red hair flying down the lane, leaping through the air, and gracefully crashing down into the sand pits. Blink, and you might miss him. That’s Alhagie Sorie Sesay donning those locks, the senior jumper/sprinter for the men’s […]
Two Blockbuster Trades: One Massive Mistake
The Brooklyn Nets have officially concluded their grand superteam experiment, and the results: complete and overwhelming failure. Over the past week, the Nets moved both of their superstar talents before the NBA’s February 9th trade deadline by trading Kyrie Irving to the Dallas Mavericks and Kevin Durant to the Phoenix Suns. The blockbuster trades shocked […]
Austin Grunder Reaches Uncharted Territory
One thousand, five hundred and twenty-six. Last Friday, Austin Grunder reached that point total, making him the only man in the history of SUNY Cortland basketball to score that many points in their career. During the January 27th game against SUNY Potsdam, the star guard scored 24 points en route to eclipsing the previous all-time […]