Ashley WennersHerron Managing Editor Published: April 2, 2009 It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Super Man—no, wait, it’s a cell-phone. While Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) students can attest to the lack of cell-phone reception in both McMahon and Lowenstein, Finland has decided to actually do something about their cellular frustrations. Hosting the Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships [...]
ASHLEY WENNERSHERRON Managing Editor Published: February 26, 2009 For all of the beauty queens hoping for world peace, air guitar may be the answer. At least, that’s what the creators of the Air Guitar World Championship (AGWC) believe. Working with the philosophy stated on the AGWC Facebook page, “Wars would end and all bad things would disappear, if all the [...]
Fordham Students Reflect on Alex Rodriguez’s Steroid Use and What May Happen Next By Erik Thompson Staff Writer Published: February 26, 2009 There was once talk of Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire being the best in the game. Fans called Rafael Palmeiro a natural. They once said Barry Bonds could be the greatest ever. But now the secrets of the [...]
By Ashley Wennersherron Managing Editor Published: January 29, 2009 Plastic-wrapped ironing boards and brand new irons find their way into Fordham College at Lincoln Center’s (FCLC) McMahon Residence Hall at the start of every fall semester. Usually, the boards and irons are packed up and moved out of the dorm without ever seeing the light of day. That may soon change with [...]
Gravity Is the Only Real Winner This Very Strange, Very British Game By ROB BEATSON Sports Co- Editor Published: December 11, 2008 There is a three-pronged combination of reasons why cheese rolling should take the NHL’s place on SportsCenter: (1) A very steep incline (2) Lots and lots of injuries and (3) the employment of an actual dairy product. Cheese [...]
Supposedly Sober Competitors Risk Life, Limb and Package to be Crowned “King” BRENT NYCZ Sports Co-Editor Published: November 20, 2008 Some sports are deemed offensive because the violence involved before, during and after a match is won. Some sports are shocking simply because of the danger they invoke. However, there is one sport that accomplishes all those things while simultaneously [...]
By ROB KELLY Contributing Writer Published: May 1, 2008 Kickball was definitely a beloved staple of gym class from the early elementary years all the way through the end of middle school, and everyone seemed to be able to agree that it was more fun than dodgeball. Dodgeball resulted in too many bloody noses and shattered egos, but kickball was [...]
By ROB KELLY Staff Writer Published: April 17, 2008 Mid-game entertainment is a fairly common theme that runs through most of our sports. Whether you’re singing “Sweet Caroline” during the seventh inning stretch, waving desperately at those idiots with the tee shirt cannon in an attempt to score some free swag or watching 10-year-old hockey players scrimmage uncomfortably on the [...]
By ROBERT KELLY Staff Writer Published: April 3, 2008 Our lives are rife with stereotypical characters, from the moment we fall in with the kids who are good at hopscotch in kindergarten to dying, surrounded by no less than 22 cats. Some of these characters are rich and meaningful, helping to bring color to our everyday lives. But others leave you [...]
By ROB KELLY Contributing Writer Published: Febrary 14, 2008 First, to clear the air, hurling is definitely, absolutely, unequivocally, not curling. Hurling does not involve sweeping ice to make a stone travel faster or slower, and hurling is certainly not an Olympic sport. Hurling is, in fact, really only played in Ireland, and when examined in a broader scope, hurling [...]
