Sports in Brief
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
The Lady Rams overcame a seven-point halftime deficit to defeat UNC Wilmington 76-64 Thursday night. Krystal Vaughn (Baltimore, Md./Lake Clifton-Eastern) led all scorers with 25 points. Quanitra Hollingsworth (Chesapeake, Va./Great Bridge) recorded her ninth double-double of the season and the 23rd of her career with 16 points and 15 rebounds.
VCU Baseball
VCU track: a broken record
Standing a mere 5’5 (with shoes on) and weighing 145 pounds (fully dressed with winter jacket on), Davion Lambert (Richmond, Va./Varina) doesn’t look like your typical record-breaking athlete. But when assistant track and field coach Ron Jones notices Lambert wearing a pair of Air Jordan sneakers, well known for the Jumpman logo on the back, he chuckles and says, “how fitting.
VCU seniors go out with a win
VCU overcame a four-point halftime deficit to win 78-67 against Georgia State Sunday. The Rams had three players score in double figures, led by junior Brittany Pinkney (Clinton, Md./The Patterson School), who scored 12 of her career-high 21 points in the first half.
Rams are CAA regular season champions
Jesse Pellot-Rosa (Richmond, Va./George Wythe) showed what makes him a leader on this year’s Rams team.
With four seconds to play and VCU leading 68-67, Michael Anderson (Virginia Beach, Va./Landstown) was fouled and went to the free-throw line for two shots.
Weird News
Long life over sex
A 107-year-old Hong Kong man attributes his longevity to decades of sexual abstinence.
The man says he has gone without sex since he was 30. He still smokes occasionally, but is trying to quit. He eats a low-fat diet and exercises regularly.
Strolling down memory lane with ‘The Baddest Man on the Planet’
If you watch one video on YouTube this week, and one only, make it the “Funniest Mike Tyson Interviews.” It’s true that Tyson is more than certifiably insane, but it is also true that he has said some of the most original and classic one-liners that could be said in interviews.
‘A Girl Like Me’
In 2005, Kiri Davis, then a high school student in New York, created and produced “A Girl Like Me.” The seven-minute film features young black girls discussing stereotypes they routinely encounter based on their skin color. The video, which has sparked online debates throughout the country, also shows several black children select white dolls over black dolls, saying the white dolls are “nice” and the black dolls are “bad.
‘VCU Dance Now’ showcases wide variety of modern dance
Ten dancers fill the stage, while some overflow into the audience. Wearing tight textured white cotton tops and pants, they shake and manipulate each other slowly and methodically. The movement is acrobatic and explosive, repetitive and spacey.
This is dance department faculty member Scott Putman’s new work “Transcending Chronology,” which premiered this weekend at the “VCU Dance NOW” performance of faculty and student works.