Share: Men’s basketball had a short yet memorable spring session, including playoff thrillers and multiple accolades awarded to several players. All SCC awards were handed to Deen Abdur-Rahmann and Myles Watkins. Watkins had an incredible stint at Pasadena, starting all 31 games in his sophomore season while posting 18.2 points per game, granting him a spot on the Bellarmine University basketball squad, a D-1 university in Louisville. Deen Abdur-Rahmann will also continue his career at Azusa Pacific University. Abur-Rahmann posted 13 points per game, while …
Copa America comes to AMERICA!!!
Share: The tournament only comes once every 4 years. The prestige is the highest in all of Southern America. That honor will once again be up for grabs to a handful of North American squads, as for the second time in the history of the sport, the Copa America comes back to the United States. The quadrennial soccer tournament has been rightfully dominated by South American teams despite CONMEBOL inducting North American teams since 1993. Neighbors Argentina and Uruguay have controlled the trophy for decades, …
Oregon’s decriminalization tactics failed its people and now it’s too late to fix
Share: After becoming the first state in the nation to decriminalize drugs, the governor of Oregon has signed a bill to reimplement jail time for possession of small amounts of drugs that are used for personal use. The bill was signed after an increase in deaths caused by overdose. Oregon truly never had a real grasp on how to manage a decriminalized drug climate, as they didn’t give enough time to let change happen, they failed in training police in their role of addressing addiction, …
Diddy sucks, and so does the statute of limitations
Share: The recently deserved onslaught Diddy has been receiving from the media seems to only worsen as a video attained by CNN depicts Sean “Diddy” Combs senselessly beating his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a hotel. Diddy issued an apology two days later, a minute and a half of empty words and false claims of being a changed man. “My behavior was inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video… I’m so sorry” Cassie Ventura would issue a lawsuit against the artist in …
Culture week cookin’: Try an Italian professor’s veggie meatballs
Share: As part of International Week at PCC, Italian professor Laura Godio prepared two different recipes for her students, a classic Italian meatball dish and a zucchini-based “meatball” inspired by her vegetarian students. International Week aims to expand students’ knowledge of foreign cultures and to celebrate the arts of different nations. “I enjoy doing this for my students,” Godio said, referencing the meatball dishes she crafts for her students, “It helps them better understand vocabulary when they’re participating in something physical like cooking. My students …
Hornets sting Lancers in 8-2 baseball playoff loss
Share: The Lancers traveled to Fullerton College on Friday for a CCCAA playoff matchup against the Hornets. Fullerton would set the tone of the game early on, putting up seven unanswered runs by the 4th inning, which would be answered by a 2-run homerun by freshman center fielder Tyler Garcia in the 5th, accumulating Pasadena’s only runs of the game as PCC would go on to lose 8-2. Pasadena struggled offensively, putting up only 4 hits throughout the game, their lowest hit total in a …
Pasadena Hilton hotel workers won’t give up fight to unite
Share: Pasadena hotel staff have been on strike since July 2023 fighting for a new contract agreement that would grant them health care benefits, livable wages, and policies to protect workers rights that would benefit their long-hour commutes and heavy workloads. As the largest hotel worker strike in the history of the United States rages on, The fight for workers rights at the Hilton Pasadena pushes further. Signs in front of the hotel read “¡EN HUELGA!”, “ON STRIKE!” in protest of unfair labor rights. The …
Badminton blanks Compton, stays undefeated
Share: The Lancers badminton squad has been on a tear recently, capitalized by a 21-0 rout against a depleted Compton side this past Friday. A team-centered mentality has kept the program thriving this season as no team has come close to beating the Lancers, in the past three matches they have outscored their opponents 57-6. “I feel like we work well as a group and I hope that we can continue this success (going into playoffs).” said sophomore Lesie Lien. There is a profound confidence …
Lancers softball ‘grinding through it’ in loss to Santa Ana
Share: The rough stretch continues for the Lancers softball squad, as they give up five runs in the 6th inning to Santa Ana and lose 6-4, their 16th loss in 17 games. Pasadena would struggle to find consistency, as the defense held the Dons to a one run showing for five innings, and held the advantage for most of the game due to a pitcher error that would bring in three runs. “You’re seeing kids that didn’t have success [in batting] the first couple of …
The spotlight is finally on the women this March Madness
Share: The most electric tournament in all of sports returns for its annual display of Cinderella teams, buzzer-beating heartbreaks, and historic upsets. March Madness is the annual single-elimination basketball tournament in place to crown the NCAA national champion. The competition is held for both mens and womens basketball programs, though it seems the men’s teams are always in the spotlight, while the women are often overlooked on the national scale. This year though, has been a different story. This season has seen a boom in …