THE ITHACAN

How IC Sports: Junior volleyball player Tara Stilwell

By Kendyl Bennett, Podcast Editor • November 8, 2017

On this week's episode of "How IC Sports", Samantha Cavalli and Nick Friend sat down with junior libero and defensive specialist Tara Stilwell to talk about the volleyball team's success and their...

How IC Sports: Jesse Chen and Matt Hornick

By Kendyl Bennett, Podcast Editor • October 30, 2017

On this week's episode of "How IC Sports", we welcome back senior Ithacan writer Matt Hornick and bring on Jesse Chen from ICTV's "Hold That Thought". This week's topics include Cam Newton, World Series...

Club softball team in midst of historic regular season

By Vinica Weiss, Staff Writer • April 29, 2014

Staff writer Vinica Weiss breaks down the club softball team's road to a possible National Club Softball Association World Series berth.

Shocker alert: Happy Valley is happy

By Andrew Kristy • October 22, 2012

Sports blogger travels to Penn State for a weekend.

Syracuse

By Alex Holt • November 29, 2011

If there was any doubt that the scandal at Syracuse University was the college basketball equivalent of the one in football at Penn State University, it disappeared completely this past week. We already knew that longtime Syracuse assistant coach Bernie Fine was, like former Penn State defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, accused of the most horrific…

With a bang and a whimper

By Alex Holt • November 10, 2011

Few coaches have shaped Division I-A college football as much as Bobby Bowden and Joe Paterno. Not counting Bowden's junior college-coaching days or 12 NCAA-vacated wins, these two coaches have combined to date for four national championships, 786 wins, 19 conference titles and 45 bowl game wins. Paterno's been employed by Penn State University as…

Now THIS is a scandal

By Alex Holt • November 8, 2011

I've always kind of distrusted all the talk about the "crimes" committed by the athletes and coaches caught up in scandals at schools like Memphis, Auburn, Ohio State, USC and the University of Miami. And now I know why. For the most part, big time college sports scandals seemed more like violations of often fundamentally…