LeBron James' return to the Cleveland Cavaliers was by far the biggest sports story of the summer, sending expectations for the Cavs soaring even before the NBA season began. Now that the new "big three" of James, point guard Kyrie Irving and power forward Kevin Love has sputtered out of the gate to a 3–3 start, it is evident that...

The Occidental women's basketball team is back on the hardwood for a 25-game journey through the regular season. After posting a 13–12 record and falling short of a SCIAC playoff birth last season, the team rejuvenated itself with an influx of new, young talent. This year's team is composed of nine first-years, all of whom are looking to take the...

After two years of recruiting and adjusting to a new, fast-paced offense, the Occidental men's basketball team is finally ready to run. Despite the loss of last season's leading scorer, Kris Montoya '14, the team will still sport a roster of 10 guards, five of which played at least 17 minutes per game last season. This added depth should allow...

Coming into Saturday's regular season finale against La Verne, the members of the Occidental men's soccer team (13–5–1 overall; 10–5–1 SCIAC) knew that—for the first time in the history of the program—the senior game would not be their last meaningful match. Instead, they will continue into the postseason after clinching a SCIAC playoff spot last week in a 3-1 win...

Julie Khil & Michaela Tsuha: Michaela Tsuha (junior) and Julie Khil (sophomore) teamed up to score Occidental women's soccer's lone goal in their final match of the season Saturday. The Tigers lost 2-1 to Redlands and fell one game short of the postseason. Midfielder Tsuha found Khil, an attacker, in the 51st minute to even the score after the Bulldogs...

Taryn Ng (senior) is a four-year starting defender and three-year captain for Occidental's women's soccer team, but she almost never suited up for the Tigers in the first place. Her belated decision to join the team is one that has so vastly shaped her college experience that she has trouble imagining life without it. Now, Ng recalls her first college...

For the 11th straight season, Occidental football (5–2 overall, 4–1 SCIAC) kept the coveted drum from Pomona-Pitzer at Saturday night's rivalry game win. The Tigers clinched a 41-17 victory in their last home game of the season and went out with guns blazing, shutting out the Sagehens the entire second half. Although it was not the last game of the...

The Occidental women's volleyball team (6–20 overall, 4–12 SCIAC) honored the team's lone senior, Megan Olayinka, before their dominant three-set victory over Caltech in the last game of the season. Accompanied by her family, Olayinka received flowers and a commemorative framed team picture from head coach Heather Collins. "I have been here for three years, and it still does not...

We live in an era of baseball in which pitchers are coddled, shut down after a set number of innings and rarely allowed to throw more than 100 pitches in a game. This setting makes San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Madison Bumgarner's achievements during the 2014 postseason even more remarkable. But his manager Bruce Bochy's choice to push him to...

Seven Occidental alumni joined the Athletics Hall of Fame class last Friday at the college’s third annual induction banquet. This year's class brings the select group of Hall of Fame honorees to just 23, out of over 10,000 athletes who have played as a Tiger at some point or another. The official induction ceremony took place at Occidental's Jack Kemp...