The UC Irvine men’s basketball program recently experienced two crucial separations. Junior forward Eric Wise walked out on the family, metaphorically serving Head Coach Russell Turner with divorce papers. Losing freshman center Maxime Chupin and UCI stings in a different way; the promising Chupin has not played a single minute in an Anteater uniform in his college career.
The ’Eaters opened up a three-game series against Cal State Bakersfield on April 29. In the opening game, Matt Summers led the charge, pitching eight scoreless innings, striking out four and walking one. Going into the bottom of the ninth, Summers looked to record his first complete game shutout, but the Roadrunners had other plans.
Over the last year and a half, the Irvine faithful has grown accustomed to career-bests and record-breaking performances. In the Asics/Scott Steve Invitational, the trend continued; however, this time none were set by junior Charles Jock.
Matt Summers has known what he has wanted to do since he was in elementary school – play Major League Baseball. When his career is all said and done, the 6-foot-1, 205-pound ballplayer might have to be dragged off the diamond, because he sure as hell won’t walk away.
The last week of April is, for those in the know, Shakespeare Week: the week when the Bard of Avon was baptized (on April 26, 1564) and died (on April 23, 1616). To my mind, no film released this Shakespeare Week does more to honor his legacy than Justin Lin’s “Fast Five,” the fourth sequel to 2001’s “The Fast and the Furious” and the latest since 2009’s “Fast & Furious.”
Recently, the PlayStation Network, or PSN, was compromised and shut down. All users of the service, past and present, had their personal information stolen, possibly including their credit card information. This story has been constantly evolving since it began, and while some functionality may return by the time this is published, the numerous multifaceted effects of the PSN Blackout will be felt for years to come.
Of the seemingly innumerable new bands that have burst onto the music scene over the past few years, perhaps none was as prone to the stereotypical sophomore slump as Fleet Foxes. Their self-titled debut album, released almost three years ago, generated a profuse amount of buzz and sales to match, going platinum in the UK and topping almost every notable best-of-the-year list.