At the start of Winter Break, just weeks before entering the heart of conference play, the state of the 5-3 men's basketball team looked in flux. With Sunshine State Conference play presenting one of the most grueling schedules in Division II Basketball, the team entered into a crucial transition period for their season.

It has been a very up and down year for Coach Paul Honsinger and Lady Tritons basketball . Going into winter break, the Lady Tritons were 6-1 and looked impressive in a dominating 71-55 conference win over the Nova Southeastern Sharks. Since then, the Lady Tritons have been streaky, at times winning three in a row despite going 6-6 overall and 4-5 in the Sunshine State Conference as of Feb.

Tritons guard Wayne Sears Jr. still remembers his first dunk. It was a long summer's day at an outdoor park in his hometown of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where the 9th-grader honed his game. "Every single day I would go out and…at the end of the day, I'd probably try to dunk like 25 times, something like that," he remembers, "just to put it in the rim.

Sophomore Greg Reilly is a college athlete, but it wasn't always that way. Drive by drive, chip by chip and putt by putt, he has honed his craft. In the gym and on the links, he has conditioned himself to play a game that many have tried and few have mastered.

Men's rugby returned home for their first on-campus matches of 2012 last weekend with a two-day rugby jamboree that brought together teams from Florida Gulf Coast University, University of North Florida and the University of Miami. Day one of the rugby weekend featured an early game between UNF and Miami.

Eckerd's men's rugby side has tallied another epic road victory.  On Saturday, Dec. 3, they crushed the Tampa Barbarians, an independent club for Tampa-area boys under the age of 19, by the score of 70-0.  The Tritons fielded their youngest and least-experienced players against the Barbarians, and these up-and-comers far exceeded the expectation of their veteran teammates.

The Eckerd Men's Rugby team welcomes a new coach in their bid for a championship season. Coach David Hedges joins the team this fall, bringing along a rare combination of playing and coaching experience dating as far back as 1975. Hedges's playing accomplishments begin in 1975 when he played for "Diggers Kitwe," the eventual national league and championship cup winners in Zambia, Africa.

Tritons from the Eckerd College varsity sailing team are recognized for their respectable rankings, having made it to the coed and the women's national championships last year. This semester, the team finished first in the South Point District Series.

Caroline Bond, a junior goalkeeper from Huntington, N.Y., was born 100 percent deaf in both ears. Bond, who started playing soccer when she was 5, has endured her share of setbacks on and off the field before making it to Eckerd. Despite being deaf, Bond communicates after 15 years of speech therapy, along with the help of hearing aids and reading lips.

The Eckerd College volleyball team served up an upset special on Friday night by handing perennial powerhouse and newly-ranked No. 1 University of Tampa its first loss of the season in a five-set thriller, 3-2 (25-23, 23-25, 25-21, 17-25, 15-13). Freshman Ali McAlvany hammered down 17 kills and reigning Sunshine State Conference Offensive Player of the Week Lindsay Biggs added 16.

Eckerd College hosted its own women's volleyball tournament this weekend, the Eckerd College Classic. Fans at the Mac saw high-flying, hard-hitting action in the Lady Tritons' Saturday night matches against UNC Pembroke and Millersville on September 10th, but the one to watch was their 5-set thriller against the Sailfish of Palm Beach Atlantic University on Friday the 9th, a struggle that was hotly contested right down to the last few points.

With the Super Bowl each year comes possibly the most widely anticipated part of the game, the Super Bowl commercials. Here is a look at the elite eight from 2012 in my opinion. I judged them on a funny scale from 1 to 10. Skechers - Dog Racing This commercial starts out at the beginning of a greyhound race, where they announce that a french bulldog named Mr.

The town of State College, PA was a mess Wednesday night as students and local supporters of Joe Paterno flocked to the streets. Reports of riotous behavior began streaming in shortly after the sun went down and included an instance of a news van being flipped and all of the windows broken out.

Game Seven: truly the greatest two words in all of sports. In the last ten years, six Stanley Cup Finals, four NBA finals , and two World Series have been decided in this winner take all game. After Friday October 28, 2011 add one more World Series to that list.

After a long offseason, it is once again time for the NHL season to begin. To start off with, the Atlanta Thrashers are no more. With the sale of the franchise shortly after the season ended, it was announced that they would move to Winnipeg and be renamed the Winnipeg Jets.

UFC welterweight fighter Jake "The Juggernaut" Ellenberger's bite matched his bark at the recent Ultimate Fighting Championship's Fight Night 25, billed as the "Battle on the Bayou." Under the bright lights of New Orleans' Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, the 26-year-old up-and-comer needed just 53 seconds to drop multi-league champion Jake Shields to the canvas with a brutal knee to the jaw.