Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases involving same-sex marriage: Hollingsworth v. Perry, dealing with California’s Proposition 8, and U.S. v. Windsor, dealing with the Defense of Marriage Act. A ruling on what constitutes the definition of marriage, equal protection under the law and Constitutional rights may have an impact on […]
The summer is fast approaching. The weather is heating up and the local public pools will soon be open. Some of us will head our ways back home from Washington to New York. Others will have the luxury of going on a cruise for a few weeks or “visiting” family in Hawaii and Puerto Rico. […]
College sports are unique. Whenever a tournament comes to town, anticipating a national champion to be crowned, there is some magic and mystique in the air. March usually holds strong for basketball with all the madness going on, but what most people don’t know is around the same time, wrestling also holds a tournament to […]
The Great West Conference is in the rearview mirror. Next stop: the Western Athletic Conference. “We talked to the girls and told them that the bar is being raised,” said UVU women’s basketball Head Coach Cathy Nixon. “It’s being raised for all of us and our job as coaches is to prepare ourselves for that […]
Brian Whatcott, a junior from Springville, Utah majoring in exercise science, has been nothing but solid this year for the baseball team as a relief pitcher. In 8.2 innings played this season, Whatcott has recorded five strikeouts and two saves. He hasn’t allowed a run, and batters are only hitting .219 against him. Being the […]
The young Wolverine baseball team is weary of playing distant away games. Dropping five straight games will emotionally fatigue any team. A short stay at home and a pit stop to play in Provo against in-state rival BYU is in order to revitalize the team that consists of only eight seniors. UVU then end its […]
Utah Valley’s softball team hit the road again as they traveled all the way from the west coast back to the Beehive State, taking on three of their very own in-state rivals, hungry for more victories. The Wolverines began their latest journey to Moraga, Calif. where they took on Saint Mary’s, leaving the Sunshine State […]
The road can be hostile and unfamiliar to visitors. As UVU began its 15-game stretch, visiting Salt Lake and Provo for one game in each city before heading to the west coast and then bouncing to the east coast, it experienced some of the unwelcoming effects of travel. “There’s always that sense of urgency playing […]
After a hard-fought game in the first round of the Great West Conference Tournament, seeing 16 ties, 17 lead changes, and two overtimes, Utah Valley University fell to Houston Baptist in the final seconds of the game. Coming into the tournament, the Wolverines knew what they had to do to beat the Huskies this time […]
As I sit in front of my computer, wrapping up my final bracket of the season, I can’t help but notice that only one team from the Western Athletic Conference made it into the NCAA Tournament this year, and it was because they won their conference tournament. New Mexico State, who will be in the […]