Devon DeRaad*In the final game of the three game series against Chapman University Saturday, outfielder and pitcher Devon DeRaad (junior) went 2 for 3 with a home run, two RBIs and three runs scored in the team's commanding 14–4 victory. "Our team finally believed that we deserved to be on the field with a team like Chapman in the third...

For the second time in three years, 37-year-old Bubba Watson won the Northern Trust Open at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades. The victory marked Watson's ninth win on the PGA Tour — all since 2010. His growing resume even includes two major championship victories, both at the Master's Tournament in Augusta, Georgia. Surprising to many golf traditionalists, Bubba continues...

Team houses are more than just the places where current and former members of Occidental’s athletic teams live together. They are where groups of Tiger athletes have weekly wine nights, eat pre-Thanksgiving "Chicken Day" dinners, play games of knife toss and run naked laps whenever anybody loses anything of any kind. They are more than houses: They are gathering places,...

Reeling from last season’s losing records, the men's and women’s tennis teams face uncertain futures as they approach the spring season with a new coach and revamped lineups. But the teams' undaunted positivity, stemming from Head Coach Ghia Godfree’s rousing leadership, the captains' motivation and the new players’ ambition, gives fans hope for a robust season. The women’s team began...

The Occidental women’s softball team (1-1) split a pair of knock-down drag-out games at Bell Field in their season opener against the Lewis and Clark Pioneers, taking game one 7-6 and falling 10-1 in the second. Game One started out a bit unsteadily for the Tigers, with a series of errors that cost a Pioneer run early in the first....

Prior to the start of the fall semester, Occidental Athletics announced that men's and women's golf head coach Andrew Larkin would be leaving the position for the men's golf assistant head coach vacancy at UCLA. As head coach, Larkin brought talented players into the program and saw them develop into savvy competitors. His replacement, head coach William Morris, looks to...

The John Force Racing team, which includes 16-time Funny Car champion John Force, his daughters Brittany, Courtney and Ashley and son-in-law Robert Hight, has not found their usual success over the past few seasons. But they remain the most popular drag racers on the circuit, known collectively as the "First Family of Drag Racing." The Force sisters, following in the...

As the final buzzer rang at Redlands Jan. 2, the Occidental women’s basketball team came off the court with a victory — only to head back to their locker room to find that many of their belongings had been stolen. Phones, laptop computers and other personal belongings were all taken from the team’s supposedly secure space. Redlands took responsibility for...

Jack Brancheau In just the third game of his collegiate career, outfielder Jack Brancheau (first-year) had a massive day at the plate. In the second game of a three game series against Willamette, Brancheau went 3 for 5 and drove in three runs. The first year from Scottsdale, Ariz. also came up clutch in the sixth inning, providing the tie-breaking...

Last spring, the Occidental Men's Rugby Club — to put it gently — struggled. Normally a stalwart program (recent accolades include a Sevens national Championship in 2014), the Tigers lost every game but one — and that lone victory came by forfeit. According to Philip Grove (senior), last season was a learning experience for the young players and a humbling...