Playing collegiate baseball gave me the most rewarding and influential years of my life.
The best part of my day started after 1 p.m., when I would head down to the baseball field and put in my athletic...
Director Rob Bliss of Rob Bliss Creative recently partnered with Hollaback, a campaign to end street harassment, to create a PSA that highlights the impact of catcalling.
To create the video, Bliss,...
The 2014 United States Senate campaign season is drawing to a close. Doors have been knocked, homes have been called, debates have been scored and the polls are all over the place. The same candidate...
I am the youngest in my family — the youngest of not just my nuclear family, but of my entire extended family in America.
That means that as I was the last to be born, I was also the last to reach...
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Josh Beckett threw the first no-hitter of the season last Sunday against the Philadelphia Phillies, the 21st in Dodgers history and the 283rd in baseball history, but as...
Ten games. Ten straight losses. They were embarrassed. I was embarrassed. Late inning collapses. Lackluster offense. Poor pitching performances.
For 10 straight games, I watched horrific baseball. SportsCenter...
In this exact moment, dozens of UC Santa Barbara students are mourning the shooting deaths of six of their classmates; thousands of Bosnians, Croatians and Serbians are displaced from their homes and...
“I am not an empty dress, I am not a rubber stamp and I am not a cheerleader. I am a strong Kentucky woman.” The rest of Alison Lundergan Grimes’ statement is drowned out by a swell of roaring...
“Fresh Off the Boat,” or “Fob,” is a common term for Asian-Americans. I'll use it to describe international students, or anyone or thing that is more connected to its origins' culture than...
I suppose one could say that I’ve been up in the air for a long time. The pressure up there is different, and so whenever I touch back down to Earth, like clockwork, my ears pop. Before too long I always...
Ever since the November release of Disney’s “Frozen,” no one can seem to let it go. The lyrics of Idina Menzel’s beloved ballad have gotten stuck in many a head, and the question “Do you...
We currently live in a world where gang rape blankets the news, where 48 women are raped every hour in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and where 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted in college in...
