May 21, 2013
This week, the Weber State University women’s soccer team announced the recent signing of Shalee Davis to a National Letter of Intent. Davis, a 5-foot-2 forward, will join the Wildcats out of Weber High School in Pleasant View, Utah. In high school, she was a four-year letter-winner for the Warriors. Davis led WHS in scoring [...]
This is a difficult column for me to write. It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time. I need to make a confession: I’ve committed sports bigamy. A lot of people look at switching sports teams similarly to cheating on a girlfriend. So, with that in mind, here’s my breakup letter to my [...]
Continue reading …The Weber State University football team saw 25 student-athletes commit to the university on Wednesday as part of National Signing Day. Bo Bolen and Helam Heimuli will rejoin the Wildcats after returning from missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bolen spent two seasons at WSU and was a two-time All-Conference player [...]
Continue reading …It was revealed recently that match-fixing is apparently rampant in professional soccer. On Monday, Europol, a European police agency, said that a 19-month investigation revealed a widespread occurrence of match-fixing. The agency listed 680 matches as suspicious. Included on the list were 150 international matches, games in the World Cup and European Championship qualifying rounds, [...]
Continue reading …Once again, the Weber State University women’s soccer season ended with a loss on penalty kicks. Last year, the Wildcats fell to the University of Montana in the conference final. This season, they lost to Idaho State University in the semifinal round of the Big Sky Conference Tournament at Davis Field. At the end of [...]
Continue reading …Technology has created a way for people thousands of miles away to be connected. It gives me an opportunity to interact with soccer fans in England and connect with likeminded people around the world. There’s also a darker side of social media, which has become evident to me in the last few weeks. Last week, [...]
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