The Santa Monica College athletic department has been put on probation and the women's soccer head coach Aaron Benditson has been fired due to a recruiting violation he committed. Benditson was found by the Western State Conference to have broken California Community College Athletic Association Bylaw 2.3.1, which limits the area a coach can recruit from to the school's immediate...

Volleyball is a game of situation and control. The setter gives an outside hitter, or opposite, a good set which allows the kill to go to any of the opposing players. The blockers read the play of the opponent and put the wall in a spot to send the ball back from where it came. After a victory over the...

Two young boys watch baseball on TV while mom cooks dinner and dad tinkers in the garage in Rancho Cucamonga. The two boys, Dominic and Isaac Larson, eight and six years old are watching the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim's starting pitcher Hector Santiago strike out Colorado Rockies infielder Troy Tulowitzki on TV while dad, Keith Larson, 40, listens to...

Lasting five hours and eight minutes, the Associated Students board met for their final meeting of the semester and school year to approve and deny petitions for funding for clubs, events, and their own activities. The meeting proved so long that during an hour long period, AS Director of Budget Management Hasun Khan took over chair duties from his brother,...

Santa Monica College Corsairs men's volleyball head coach John Mayer couldn't remember exactly when he knew that the 2015 edition of the blue and white could take the state championship. It was somewhere in the preseason non traditional tournaments when two of the returning sophomores Taylor Tattersall and Luis Palos showed their growth over the offseason."You could see Tattersall, who...

Rarely in sports, as in life, does the perceived narrative line up with reality. The bad guy is not always the one who wears the black hat, the girl of your dreams turns out to be a snobby brat and rarely does an event live up to its hype. However, the good versus evil storyline that followed fight fans as...

It's rare that one gets to have a second chance to be victorious. However, the Santa Monica College Corsiars men's volleyball team will have that opportunity when they face the Orange Coast College Pirates, the team that defeated them in last year's California Community College Athletic Association State tournament finals, in the CCCA state tournament semi-finals on Thursday. In last...

As Daniel Limo came down the final mile of the Los Angeles Marathon on Sunday, he had Ocean Avenue all to himself. The 31-year-old Kenyan took the lead from fellow countryman Edwin Koech at the 22 mile mark, just past the Veteran’s Administration building in Westwood and by the time he reached the Santa Monica city limits, he had no...

Participants in the 30th Annual Los Angeles Marathon this Sunday are expected to arrive on Ocean Avenue at approximately 9:30 a.m., but Santa Monica residents will feel the effects of the race all day. The marathon will shut down San Vicente Boulevard to Ocean Avenue and Ocean Avenue to California Street. The closures will extend one block south and one...