Apr 26, 2013

With the combination of sports and siblings, usually there is a respectful, yet adversarial construct, such as Eli and Peyton Manning. It is not very often that you get two siblings playing together on the same team. The Cowgirls’ soccer team is one of those rare cases. Sara and Jennifer Paul have been playing together since they were young, growing up in...

Apr 23, 2013

The UEFA Champions League semifinals have arrived, and fans have been gifted with matchups featuring the top two teams from both the German Bundesliga and Spanish La Liga. Today, the first of the two-legged semis kicks off, with last year’s runner up Bayern Munich hosting the perennial contender F.C. Barcelona. Then, on Wednesday, up and coming German...

Apr 5, 2013

A large crowd of students gathers around a large flat screen TV just past the University Store in the Wyoming Union on specific Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons every year. The noise is noticeable, both from the TV and the crowd of soccer fans itself. The play-by-play announcers bellowing their interpretations of the action, the chants from the crowd on the TV,...

Mar 7, 2013

March is here, and with it comes a new season in Major League Soccer. This will be the first season since 2005 that the league has not expanded to add new franchises, but there are still major story lines to be addressed as the 18th season of the MLS gets underway. The biggest story lines of the off-season surrounded the current champions the Los Angeles Galaxy....

Mar 1, 2013

Though not fully eliminated, racism has become less and less of an occurrence in the American sports realm. This is a good sign, considering the stigma associated with the United States because of our well-known history filled with many events of overt racism. We as a nation have come a long way since the likes of baseball and football stars Jackie Robinson and...

Feb 28, 2013

Sydney, Australia native Amy Sarandopoulos has come a long way in her collegiate career, excelling in the classroom and on the soccer field. Sarandopoulos, a sociology major, has been honored as the 2012-13 Flittie Award recipient presented by the UW Department of Sociology. Although she has already moved back to Sydney, she still manages to make marks while...