Upcoming events
Men’s basketball Saturday Jan 30, Georgia State, Stuart C. Siegel Center, 8 p.m. Wednesday Feb. 3 at UNC Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, 7 p.m. Women’s basketball Thursday Jan. 28, UNC Wilmington, Siegel Center, 7 p.m. Sunday Jan. 31 Georgia State, Siegel Center 2 p.m. Men’s track and field Saturday Jan. 30, Penn State Invitational, State College, Pa. Women’s track and field Saturday […]
‘Avatar’ now biggest film ever
Sean Collins-Smith Staff Writer It took James Cameron five years and $400 million to create “Avatar.” It took audiences only 39 days to make it the world’s highest-grossing film of all time. “Avatar,” the 3D sci-fi epic that premiered on Dec. 18, has amassed $1.85 billion as of Tuesday, vaulting it past the prior record-holder, […]
The twelve best films of the decade
Sean Collins-Smith Staff Writer It was the best sometimes, it was the worst sometimes: What better way to describe the past decade in film? In that 10-year period, we saw the fruition of Peter Jackson’s talents in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy and the degradation of George Lucas’ in the “Star Wars” prequels. We […]
Punch out: Men’s Basketball rolls to 59 point victory over Towson on Wednesday night, moves back in to CAA picture
Taylor Howsmon Sports Editor Follow The CT Sports on Twitter In his heyday, Mike Tyson was known for beating opponents who were supposedly on his level to a pulp in abnormally short amounts of time. Wednesday night didn’t see any bitten ears or face tattoos, but VCU men’s basketball managed to resemble Tyson in their […]
Bring on the filibuster
Zack Budryk Contributing Writer I think gay marriage should be legalized. I think everyone in America should have guaranteed health care. I think both a War on Drugs and a War on Terror are by definition un-winnable. So living in America can get frustrating sometimes. You can imagine how upset I was when last week’s […]
Go Go Power Dems! Republican Zord is destroying the health care bill!
Eric Hill Opinion Editor Political parties have a startling similarity to the Power Rangers. They do a lot of theatrical fighting, puff themselves up, damage just about everything they touch and then declare a victory when they use a heavy handed method to solve a problem. They also both take direction from giant talking heads […]
Giant gym makes locals’ heads swim
In only its second week of operation, Cary Street Gym attracted the highest number of users for a facility at VCU on Jan. 19, but for some Oregon Hill residents the new facility merely picked the scab of a 42-year-old wound. Much of the opposition to the gym’s building was voiced by the Oregon Hill […]
Comics
Pizza from Scratch by Bill Lemmond Forgotten Fairytales by Christine Stoddard
Rams fall to Northeastern for third straight time, 74-62 By Scott Day VCU Director of Athletic Communication
One of the biggest hits for legendary band Poison was “Every Rose has a Thorn.” Brett Michaels and company might have been writing about the VCU men’s basketball team and their recent history with the Huskies of Northeastern University. The Rams (13-5, 5-4 CAA) dropped their third straight meeting against Northeastern (13-7, 8-1 CAA) with a […]
Drexel hits shot with 2 seconds left to give VCU first season conference loss By Mitchell Moore VCU Athletics Communications Assistant
For the second game in a row, VCU learned its fate in the final seconds of regulation. On Sunday, however, luck was not on the Rams’ side as Drexel senior Gabriela Marginean hit a jumper with two seconds left and VCU dropped a 55-53 decision to the Dragons at the Daskalakis Athletic Center. With the […]