The Santa Monica College Corsair football team is coming off of one of their toughest losses of the season this past Saturday, losing a thriller in the waning moments of the fourth quarter to LA Harbor College 33-27. Though SMC’s conference win streak is still intact at 23, the loss dropped their overall record to 2-3. If the Corsairs are...

Note: Due to an error in design, this story did not appear in Issue 5 of the Corsair print edition as it was scheduled to be. The Santa Monica College Corsair football team is coming off of back-to-back wins in an attempt to get their season back on track after a rough start to the 2014 season. After starting 0-2,...

The Santa Monica College Corsairs are coming off their biggest win of the season after dismantling the Antelope Valley Marauders this past Saturday 66-7. After a deflating loss to Southwestern two weeks prior, it would have come as no surprise to see a team like SMC with high expectations suffer from something of a hangover going into their next matchup....

The Santa Monica College Corsairs got back on the winning track Saturday afternoon, as they dominated the visiting Antelope Valley Marauders 66-7. It appeared the Corsairs might have their hands full early on, when quarterback Jake Dashnaw fumbled on the one-yard line during the Corsair’s first trip to the red zone, less than five minutes into the game. With most...

Taylor Tattersall just led the Santa Monica College men’s volleyball team to the state championship just one year after finishing an abysmal 1-10. A year ago, he was a red-shirt freshman focused on elevating the reputation of the team through a grinding offseason and relentless practice. But before Tattersall could even begin his offseason regimen, the unthinkable happened. Santa Monica...

When the infamous shooting occurred at Santa Monica College last June, Jace Ng had just moved to Santa Monica, and had not even considered competing for the SMC swim team. Raised in Singapore, Ng shouldn’t have had to think about anything except getting good grades and chasing the girls around Santa Monica Beach. But instead of hanging at the beach...

Jessica Goldbeck is the captain of the Santa Monica College women’s tennis team. She’s a big time foodie, and might even go on to play Division 1 tennis some day. But on that dark day last June, she was just another student at SMC trying to make sense of such a heinous and sadistic act of terror. “I wasn’t on...

When you rack up conference championships and accolades like the Santa Monica College football team has done the past three seasons, that's when they come calling. Coming off their third straight Pacific Conference championship, and having several players take home All-conference and All-defensive honors, many four-year football programs have taken interest in the Corsairs."We've had 20 players get scholarships from...

Born in Thailand and raised in Australia, freshman tennis player Thanapha “Bess” Bencharongkul, first picked up a racquet at the age of nine. She has not taken the average path to Santa Monica College, but since arriving in Santa Monica, she has made the most of her time. In fact, her time in Santa Monica actually gave her the nudge...

Two men entered the ring at The Fabulous Form on Saturday night, carrying with them the weight of their countries. Viktor Postol brought with him the turmoil of his native Ukraine that forced the WBC Super Welterweight eliminator to be moved from his hometown of Kiev to the corner of Manchester and Prairie. Selcuk Aydin, who hails from Trazbon, Turkey,...