Tackling the biggest issues in sports from sports media students at Seton Hall
The Texas Rangers got off to a slow start in the 2011 World Series against Saint Louis and the hopes of capturing their first title in franchise history seemed much slimmer following their disastrous 16-7 loss in game three. Things started to look brighter for the Rangers after taking games four and five against the…
When looking through the Seton Hall women’s softball team roster, one may notice that more than half of the players are from outside New Jersey, particularly from California or Texas. Of the 21-player roster, more than 47 percent of the players are from California or Texas with less than one percent from New Jersey. “California…
It’s a beautiful spring afternoon at Mike Sheppard, Sr. Field in South Orange, New Jersey. The Pirates look for their second win today against the Lehigh Mountain Hawks after a late comeback win. Join us here for live updates on game two now! Lehigh's 6-0 win over Seton Hall this evening is #️⃣8️⃣0️⃣0️⃣for @frantroyan! Congrats…
March Madness is a great time for anybody who loves basketball. Like many sports, people pick teams they believe will make a run to the final and try to predict the outcome of every game. A lot of sports have fans who try and guess the final score of games, but college basketball takes it…
By Jose Feliciano Selection Sunday was full of excitement and surprises. Gonzaga held on to a No. 1 seed despite being upset by Saint Mary’s in their conference final. Mid-major teams like No. 7 Wofford and No. 7 Nevada were under-seeded, and Villanova got a lower seed than Marquette despite winning the regular season and…
By Andrea Keppler After graduating four starters from last season, the Seton Hall men’s basketball team’s 2019 campaign was looking more like a transition year rather than a year to reclaim the Big East championship title. With an eighth place preseason projection in the conference, the standards were low for Kevin Willard’s squad, but the…
Seton Hall fans did not expect the season that the Pirates gave them: finishing 3rd in the Big East, a 20 win season, the runner-up in the Big East Tournament, and two players on the All-Tournament Team. As Myles Powell puts it, “No one expected us to be here.” Seton Hall has taken an unlikely…
By Andrea Keppler In her 10th year as Seton Hall’s Faculty Athletics Representative in academic support services, Dr. Laura Schoppmann heads a department of five members who assist student-athletes with academic advising, scheduling and pacing with overall academic performance. Schoppmann is a professor in the mathematics and computer science department at the Hall, but has…
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J.- It’s a brisk, windy, October morning- the last days of October, to be specific, in those days shortly before Daylight Savings Time when it is quite dark in the early mornings. By now, many of the trees lining Ward Place have lost their leave. Up in South Mountain Reservation, the trees that…
Over the last two years, no two words have reverberated around Walsh Gymnasium more than “JaQuan Jackson.” The words became calling cards for a momentum-shifting three-pointer, or better, a dagger that secured a win for Tony Bozzella’s side. On May 7, still two weeks away from receiving her Bachelor’s in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Jackson…