WNBA players’ recent advocacy and negotiations have made headlines, with some critics calling the progress and popularity a modern anomaly. Far from that, Ava Fleisher SC ’28 explores the rich history of women’s basketball at the 5Cs, dating back to Pomona’s groundbreaking 1903 team.
Tag: Sports
The NCAA has never marched closer to madness
For years, the men’s NCAA Division I basketball tournament — affectionately dubbed March Madness — has lived up to a simple promise: fans can always expect the unexpected. For three weeks every spring, America keeps one eye on the bracket, anticipating the next Cinderella run, the next buzzer‑beater or the next big upset. Talbott Chesley PO ’28 writes that this year, the competition has kept fans on their toes in a truly spectacular and historical fashion.
Trust in baseball: Summer is almost here
For much of the United States, Punxsutawney Phil and his famous walk on Feb. 2 is the anointed decider of the spring to come. Phil is cute, traditional and annoyingly pessimistic. Baseball, on the other hand, serves its role in the sports calendar admirably.
Get Your Head in the Game: How 5C chess players love the game Kasparov hated
Grandmaster Garry Kasparov compares chess to “mental torture” — a statement that at first glance seems overdramatized for a leisure activity enjoyed by seniors at the local park — but to budding competitive chess players, could be an emerging reality.
Seminars and scoreboards: Sports and politics
Every semester, the Claremont Colleges advertise nearly 2,700 courses across dozens of disciplines. This semester, course selections offer a whopping six sports courses taught by four different instructors across three colleges. In Jake Creelan’s PO ’29 new column, Seminars and Scoreboards, he dissects the contents of each course with the course’s instructors and students. First on the list is Sports and Politics taught by Tom Le of Pomona College.
Sixth Street rivalry photo series
TSL captured photos from this year’s Sixth Street matchups in football, women’s soccer and men’s soccer.
Let’s get local: How to admire more than just the headlines
In today’s competitive sports landscape, the tracking of young talent can at times seem overly transactional; athletes are assigned a given number of “stars” as an attempt to generalize the many factors that contribute to their value and potential in recruiters’ eyes. For journalist Eric Sondheimer, who has covered high school sports in Southern California for the past four decades, such an approach is an alarming indication of the rising pressure that high school athletes face from coaches and recruiters.
Sagehens football lose 3-21 in home opener against Lewis and Clark
On Sept. 20, the Pomona-Pitzer football team lost its home opener against the Lewis and Clark College Pioneers 3-21, marking its first defeat of the season. Though the Hens could not replicate their success from their previous game against the Willamette Bearcats, defensive captain Jake Sugawara PO ’26 emphasized that confronting resistance early on is what it takes for the Sagehens to fly higher in the future.
Sports or Piracy? The dilemma of live sports viewership in the modern age of streaming
Streameast’s shutdown spells trouble for millions of sports fans worldwide who cannot afford the price tags that corporate companies slap in front of their favorite games, and Noah Brewster PO ’28 has something to say about it.
A new voice on Sixth Street: MJ Newsom debuts as P-P’s full-time sports broadcaster
It’s well past midnight, and MJ Newsom’s still not asleep—in fact, he’s in the middle of memorizing the height, weight, hometown, grade and stats of Pomona-Pitzer’s (P-P) starting quarterback. Who is Newsom, and why does he even care? Well, he’s P-P’s new play-by-play broadcaster, making a spotting board for Grady Russo.