Pick’em Week Six
It was a rough week, but Executive Editor Matt Doyon and Alex Dynan made the most of it, tying with 11 wins each. The two remain tied on top of the standings as well. Associate Sports Editor Jerome Foster finished 9-11 and is three games back in the standings while Sports Editor Howard is still in the cellar, five games back, after an abysmal 8-12 week.
Sports briefs
MEN’S GOLF
Junior Lanto Griffin (Blacksburg/Blacksburg) won his second CAA Golfer of the Week award after finishing in a three-way tie for third place at the VCU Shootout at Hermitage Country Club. He finished one shot out of first place.
FIELD HOCKEY
VCU lost its second straight overtime game to Delaware this past Sunday.
This week
MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
Fri., Oct. 3, @ Paul Short Invitational, Bethlehem, Pa.,
1 p.m.
WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
Sat., Oct. 4, @ George Mason Invitational, Fairfax, TBA
FIELD HOCKEY
Fri., Oct. 3, vs. Hofstra, Cary Street Field, 3 p.m.
Sun., Oct. 5, vs. Drexel, Cary Street Field, 1 p.
Hosts finish second in VCU shootout
Junior Lanto Griffin (Blacksburg/Blacksburg) shot 11-under, good for a third-place tie, to lead the VCU Rams to a second-place finish at the VCU Shootout. The tournament took place at Hermitage Country Club in Manakin-Sabot.
“Lanto has played well all year, he’s really starting to believe in himself,” said VCU golf coach Matt Ball.
Weekend Calendar
Thursday 10/2
A Raisin in the Sun”: Directed by Jennifer Nelson and written by Lorraine Hansberry. TheatreVCU presents its adaptation of this long-lasting Broadway play. Runs through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 5 at 3 p.m. Raymond Hodges Theatre W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts.
‘Burn After Reading’: Contrived Coens or deceptive deviation?
With the release of “Hudsucker Proxy” in 1993, Ethan and Joel Coen garnered immediate praise as both masters and imitators. Entertainment Weekly famously remarked, “How can a filmmaking team be this smart and clever, this restlessly, vivaciously imaginative, and this soulless?” The point was well taken.
Cupcake decorating 101
VCU students proved they could not only have their cake, but decorate it too, Tuesday night at MCV’s Bear Hall. Not afraid to get into the Halloween spirit, students enthusiastically created spooky-themed cupcakes.
Anne Zielinski, assistant recreational sports director instructed students on the art of cake decorating.
Charlottesville’s ‘The Falsies’ endearingly absurd
With the release of their second EP, “We’re More Rock n Roll Than You!,” The Falsies can say that Charlottesville’s rock scene is thriving despite losing terrific venues in the past few months.
The ridiculous yet fun album shows this quartet’s deep understanding of pop and punk rock backgrounds and conversational Spanish.
Alum jams with Weezer at MSG
A little over a month after moving to New York City, a jazz studies alum found himself standing next to Weezer on stage at Madison Square Garden last week.
Saxophonist Jason Arce, who graduated in the spring, studies saxophone in New York University’s jazz graduate program.
The sky is not falling, it’s just stumbling a little
Currently, I am looking for a vacant lot to build my Hooverville.
For those who aren’t familiar with that era in history, when the stock market fell in 1929 and officially kicked off the Great Depression, people who lost their homes built shacks to live in.