Santa Monica Corsairs men's head volleyball coach John Mayer is the picture of a calm Friday night as the scene inside of Corsair Pavilion around him is not. The blue and white are behind two sets to one heading into the fourth set against their burgeoning rival the El Camino Real Warriors. In the huddle, Mayer speaks to his players,...

The Santa Monica College men's volleyball team, according to head coach John Mayer, has a mantra, "treat every game like it's a championship game."Friday evening's match against the El Camino Real Warriors may have been the best example of the Corsair men living up to its mantra, coming from behind to beat the previously undefeated Warriors 3-2. The fourth meeting...

It is difficult to believe a debate as passionate and historical as the one over the use of Native American mascots has a singular starting point. Yet, this argument has one flashpoint. After the fall of 1914, the Miracle Boston Braves, originally named for the foot soldiers of the Tammany Hall political machine, came back from last place on the...

It's 6:45 p.m. on Monday morning in Corsair Pavilion and Greta Schmittdiel is running suicides. She doesn't have to. Her scrimmage team won the game from the practice session earlier that morning. Yet, she joins in as the losing half runs in the cold of the Pavilion, even beating some of them to the finish. Schmittdiel is the leader of...

The Santa Monica Corsair men's soccer team repeated their performance from last month Tuesday afternoon as they ran away from Allan Hancock College, defeating the Bulldogs 5-1. Corsair sophomore forward Jonathan Navas notched his ninth and tenth goals as the Corsair front line had their way with the Bulldog defense through out the entire game. Corsair forward and captain Maurice...

Santa Monica Corsair women's volleyball freshman outside hitter Greta Schmiddtel was named the Western State Conference women's Player of the Week for week 5 last Friday. Schmittdiel led the Corsairs to a 2-0 record in the week and a 3-0 record including the weekend, leading the team through a five set match against Antelope Valley College and two straight game...

After the major scandal that was the Ray Rice domestic violence fiasco occurred and the National Football League administration had to answer for their inaction, all the NFL Commissioner Rodger Goodell could offer in his moment of crisis was, “I will get it right.”On Monday, National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman delivered a right hook Ray Rice style to Goodell....

Tuesday afternoon the Santa Monica College men's soccer team left their scoring boots somewhere in the cities of Helsinki, Tampere or Jyväskylä. After a string of multi-goal games, the Corsairs could not find the finish to stave off a shutout at the hands of the Oxnard College Condors, dropping their sixth game of the season 2-0. After Condor sophomore forward...

To have walked amongst the collection of humanity at the seventh annual Sunset Strip Music Festival was to sample the denizens of Hollywood. There were the men and women who had weapons grade spiked hair, there was the man with two red side pony tails who brought a pit bull to the concert, and there was the friendly cad who...

The corners of Roscoe Blvd. and Orion Street were turned into a car lover's paradise on Sunday. In the northwest corner, Mustangs were gathered like the cool kids in high school and the low-riders situated behind them stood as their Danny Zuko-esque foil. To their south were the custom rods, the wild children of cars. A truck resembling a World...