Lutes softball unfazed after coach change

LACEY NICHOLSON; Sports Writer; nichollb@plu.edu Brandi Gordon Bennett will begin her twelfth season as a college softball coach and embarks on her first season as a head coach. The Pacific Lutheran University softball...

Santoro Speaks… Domestic abuse rampant in professional sports

By Giancarlo Santoro, Sports Editor As we start to get into the tail-end of October, it may surprise many of you to know that October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Unfortunately,...

Whitman falls 3-1 against a resilient Lutes volleyball team

By Nick Barene, Sports Writer Whitman proved to be a pesky opponent for the Lutes volleyball team last Friday night. The visiting Missionaries played tough, and the game featured many...

Sports media needs to stop its tunnel vision

By John Tveter, sports writer The Seattle Seahawks much publicized 2013 season has ceased, but sports media insists on giving the team, and the NFL, exponentially more coverage than they...

Golf teams fight weather conditions but wind up succeeding

By Nick Barene, Sports Writer The Pacific Lutheran University golf teams took to the course this weekend, competing in the Northwest Conference Spring Classic. Both the men and women's team...

Women’s basketball steals one from Western Oregon University

By John Tveter, Sports Writer The Pacific Lutheran University women’s basketball team has a motto this season — “Mission Possible.”  This helps the team keep the attitude that it can do anything....

An Athlete’s Perspective: D.J. Winter

D.J. Winter, Guest Writer You never want to start out the season off with a loss but that is how the first game played out for us. We traveled down to...

Top-ranked Whitman too much for lowly Lutes

By Giancarlo Santoro, sports writer Looking to build off of their first Northwest Conference win of the season the previous week, the Pacific Lutheran University men's tennis team came up...

Santoro Speaks…Senseless act should remind us to be grateful

Sometimes, no amount of words can do any situation justice. Sometimes, no amount of words can fix what has been done, and no amount of words can stop the pain. Words,...