By Steven Eggert A special event will take place Saturday during the intermission of Rider’s club ice hockey game against Monmouth. Not only will the Broncs take the ice for their game, but during the first intermission they will host a fifteen minute sled hockey game featuring the Virtua Wings of Steel. The members of the
Dr. Millen finds time to meet up with friends in the streets of Boston after the Boston Celtics won the NBA Championship in 2008. Dr. Jonathan Millen Associate Dean, Liberal Arts My son cried himself to sleep on October 17, 2003. He was 8 years old. The Yankees had just defeated the Red Sox in
David Pavlak pavlakd@theridernews.com Dynasty. That is the only way to describe the field hockey team throughout the last couple of years. Winning the NEC championship this past season with a 2-0 victory over Monmouth was just icing on the cake for the Broncs who could be found regularly at the top of the NEC standings. Even though
Dr. Jonathan Millen Associate Dean, Liberal Arts Last Sunday I was in San Diego for a conference. It’s a great city, though my thoughts today really have nothing to do with southern California. Or maybe they do. Shortly after arriving in the Mission Bay, I did what most people would do: I checked in on
By Steven Eggert For my first sports article, I wanted to write about something fun, exciting and intense. What could be better then Rider hockey? A friend on the team told me that their previous game against Temple had been exciting, even though the Broncs were on the losing end of the score. This is
By David Pavlak It began with a letter. Spring break was finally here, and after searching for ‘The Rider News’ paper ideas, the sports editors had come up with one that seemed too good to be true. Would the well-known ESPN analyst and Rider alumnus, Richard “Digger” Phelps, really want to do an interview
By David Pavlak The Super Bowl is the pinnacle of professional football, as any true fan of the sport would know. The Lombardi Trophy has similar allure to that of the Stanley Cup, the NBA championship trophy and the World Series trophy. With all these different sporting events coming and going throughout the
By Jordan Hall halljo@theridernews.com The Rider men’s basketball team isn’t your traditional three-point shooting team. The Broncs possess high-level athleticism, a quality you wouldn’t expect three-point snipers to come from, but when Rider is hitting from deep, they sure are tough to beat. In recent years past, the Broncs have been as streaky as
By Josh Veltrie veltrie@theridernews.com Tommy Dempsey, the head coach for the men’s basketball team, believes in challenging his team to prepare them for conference play. Dempsey’s way of challenging his team the past two seasons has been scheduling very tough non-conference games. Last year, Rider knocked off a ranked team in Mississippi State, giving the
By Jordan Hall halljo@theridernews.com With the field hockey team’s storybook season coming to a close, now is a time to look ahead at the 2011 squad and its chances at defending its throne. The NEC Champions ended the year with a gritty 2-1 loss at Albany, the 19th ranked team in the country, on Tuesday
By Josh Veltrie Both the field hockey and women’s soccer teams are in their respective conference championship tournaments, but the paths these two teams took could not have been more different. Field hockey came into the season as the overwhelming favorite and have had a season of streaks: three-game winning streak followed by a three-game
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