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Energy chews can be bad news: student athletes replace sleep and rest with small candy-like chews

May 28, 2013

Student athletes who are getting fewer hours of sleep due to demanding academic loads and athletics are combating lethargy by turning to gummy-type energy supplements to get them through daily practices...

Tape one for the team

March 28, 2013

Reporter Shannan Lum Varsity basketball player Senior Gina Domergue is one of the growing number of athletes whose game-day uniform goes beyond a singlet and shorts and includes a new piece of...

Remembering athletes’ true purpose

February 28, 2013

Claire Fahy Editor-in-Chief The case of Oscar Pistorious has sadly proven an addendum to my previous column (http://z5.sacredsf.org/~broadview/?p=5926) on the troubling trend of athletes who see themselves...

Athletes need to play by the rules

February 28, 2013

Claire Fahy Editor-in-Chief Katie Hnida. Yeardley Love. Charlottesville. Boulder. And now Steubenville. The names of small towns and close-knit communities rocked by scandals involving athletes’...

Athletes’ decisions off-court affect performance

January 25, 2013

Tatianna Guiterrez Senior Reporter “The OC,” a popular teenage television show that ended its run, shows varsity athletes passing out from the alcohol they consumed at parties after celebrating...

Team’s State title remembered

December 11, 2012

Claire Fahy Editor-In-Chief The clock expired and Convent history was for- ever changed. The horn not only marked the end of the 2003 State Championship game, but also the realization of the improbable...

Taking on the sea: A look into the CSH sailing program

September 28, 2012

As the sailors rigged their boats at the St. Francis Yacht Club, the sails tousled as they fought with the wind. The crisp smell of the San Francisco Bay was in the air as the Convent and Stuart Hall sailing...

Good Call: Awarding Olympic honor

September 12, 2012

Claire Fahy Editor-in-Chief In an event as widely watched as the Olympic Games, there are a lot of moments. Usain Bolt’s dazzling defense of his 100 and 200-meter gold medals, Michael Phelps’s...

Good Call: Ordinary Olympians

May 25, 2012

Claire Fahy Sports Editor Although the Olympic Games have evolved since their mythological founding by Hercules and Zeus, their participants are still widely viewed as gods. When I was younger,...

Good Call: Even the fan field

April 5, 2012

Claire Fahy Sports Editor The team’s center aggressively secures the rebound, creates space, recollects and surges toward the rim for a powerful one-handed dunk over intimidated and cowering opponents. Momentum-changing...

Improper iPad use can cause injury

April 4, 2012

Tati Gutierrez Reporter While doing homework, freshman Franny Eklund says she experiences pain in her back and neck after 15 minutes. Eklund, like many students, sits with her shoulders and neck hunched...

Daring to Dream

March 13, 2012

Claire Fahy Sports Editor Dreams are powerful. They begin as fantasies, planted when we are young. As we grow, they are cultivated, growing stronger and more purposeful, or become weeded out, too...

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