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Tennis takes charge At the beginning of the season, all the coaches from the West Coast Conference voted the Pepperdine men’s tennis team to finish first in the 2013 WCC. Our 2012 reigning WCC champs also have several players listed on the preseason all-conference team: senior Sebastian Fanselow, 2012 WCC Player of the Year, and senior Finn Tearney, 2012 All-WCC First Team for … [Read more...] about Waves teams gather momentum

Who even pays attention to the Super Bowl these days, especially when your favorite team isn’t competing? It was all about the commercials and Beyonce’s halftime show for Super Bowl XLVII. I mean, who doesn’t want to sneak out of a nursing home and go to Taco Bell? Whether or not you’re tired of the E-Trade baby, he’s back again this year! Though the baby is still as witty and … [Read more...] about Imaginations and allegations run wild about Super Bowl blackout

How do you show your spirit? To show my Wave spirit, I just show up. That’s 95 per- cent of the equation — filling the stands. Then when I’m there, I try to stand for the whole game — just to show support for the athletes. I also love yelling and making noise. What can Pepperdine fans do to get more involved in games? Other people can get in- volved by going to games, … [Read more...] about Fan Central: Chris Hostetler

From lockouts to receiving records, Andrew Luck to RG3, the Saints and their sanctions to Ray Lewis and deer antlers, this year in the NFL has been filled with feel-good stories and controversy. Here are a few of the headlines from the season. This NFL season had a rocky start with the referee lockout that began in June. The football community was in an uproar as memes and … [Read more...] about NFL 2012-13 major highlights since September

Football is a much-loved sport in this country despite its short history and, arguably because of, its rough-and-tumble nature. Devotion to the sport has been a hallmark of the United States at the high school, collegiate and professional levels. In an attempt to provide a clearer account of this complicated sport, I first turned to Wikipedia, which quickly proved too … [Read more...] about Sports for dummies: football