Features

Lin-sanity: Bay area-born pointguard breaks the glass backboard

By Sean Wang
Mar. 22, 2012
Less than two months ago, New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin had just returned from the D-League, had just been waived by both the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets and was struggling for a spot on the third-string of the New York Knicks, seeming just days from being cut by the Knicks as well.

Coach adds another award to his mantle after years with Lowell's baseball team

By Michelle Hwang
Feb. 22, 2012
With its red-and-white diamond cut giving shape to the grassy field, baseball has been played, coached and loved by many Americans, including varsity baseball coach and physical education teacher John Donohue.

Insulted athlete disproves ignorant assumptions

By Jeffrey Wong
Feb. 25, 2011
As I sat in the library one ordinary day during my sophomore year, my friends hustled in with a most disturbing message: a peer of mine had disrespected the Lowell boys’ volleyball team. Struck with dis may, I felt personally attacked and reeled back in my chair, hyperventilating.

Reporter and former cheerleader muses upon her fruitful experience on Cheer

By Nancy Wu

Jan. 28, 2011

I take a deep breath. “Go Lowell, Cardinals, Big Red, Fire it Up, Pump it up!” As I shout a string of school-spirited cheers, I get a rush of adrenaline and giddiness and hope that my obnoxiously loud voice echoes across the field.

A Giant Obsession

By Elijah Alperin
Oct. 12, 2010
As an awestruck eight-year-old, I jumped up and down in my bleacher seat at the Oakland Coliseum when brothers Jason and Jeremy Giambi of the Oakland Athletics each hit grand slams. My dad told me that they hit those grand slams for me, and as a näive little kid, I believed him. I was sure of it then (and now) that those Oakland A’s had accomplished such rarities because I was in the stands cheering them on. From that moment on, I knew that baseball was the greatest game in the world.