From start to finish the Pomona-Pitzer women’s basketball team showed they would not be intimidated, would not be out-hustled, and would not be embarrassed on their home floor. No matter that CMS had previously routed them 60-44, that CMS led the SCIAC standings, or that the Sagehens entered the game with a two-game losing streak.

It didn’t feel much like the fourth day of February when the Sagehen women’s lacrosse team hosted University of San Diego for their league opener the Sunday before last. Neither team was prepared for Sunday’s heat, and players from both teams looked flushed by the first timeout. However, the Sagehen defenders managed to stay cool, as most of the first half was played around the USD goal. In the opening 20 minutes, the Sagehens scored three unanswered goals on the way to a 6-2 halftime lead.

Last Thursday, on a terribly lonesome night alone with an eighth of vodka, I convinced myself that there are some things in life that just are not supposed to happen. For one, I will never get a girlfriend, no matter my efforts. A Green Party candidate will never be president. And most of all, the East will not beat the West in the NBA All-Star game this year. I whispered these over and over. Accept it, I said. It’s a fact.

The Pomona-Pitzer men’s golf team opened their SCIAC season with a win over the much-feared Cal-Tech Beavers, with a score of 311-375. It was not the playing ability of the Cal-Tech squad that worried the team, but rather their lack thereof. As player Ben Hochstein ’04 put it, "It is hard to focus on your own game when the guys you are playing with are so bad"..

In our quiet vista we call Claremont, it is not often that celebrities come to town, parading in with their rakish smiles and expensive drug habits. Now, I do not mean bona fide, "pa, get your camera!" sort of celebrities. Not like Gary Coleman or whoever it is that runs Taco Bell. But celebrities, nonetheless.

he World Tennis Tournament (WTT) was held right in our own backyard last weekend. Originally intended to be a two-day tournament, the first day of competition was cancelled due to so-called "inclement weather." That is the fancy term for what the rest of us call "rain."