Posts in Sports
Feeling Lucky?

Tommy Henninger, a business major at Santa Monica College, has decided he wants to become a professional sports better. "I am good at this and I understand the risks it comes with - I spend about six hours a week doing it," Henniger said. "I will be transferring to California University, Long Beach in the fall to earn my bachelors degree in business, but sports betting will still be something I still practice throughout my college career."

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RC Everbeck: SMC's 48-Year-Old Football Player

Many people in recent memory have had opportunities to make a name for themselves early on in their respective careers. The majority achieved great success in their prime, while others set theirs in motion during their later years. Rarely has anyone been able to do both in a gap of three to four decades apart, and that is what RC Everbeck has done at the age of 48, and he now is the oldest starting football player in the country.

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The Emotional Cost of Being a Student Athlete

Cyrille Njomo walks slowly from the Corsair Field to Starbucks, after practice, exhausted and weighed down by a huge backpack. Njomo is a member of the men’s soccer team at Santa Monica College, and like many other student-athletes, he sacrifices a lot in order to be part of the team. “I decided to be part of the team for the experience, my love for soccer and to be able to get a scholarship at the university," he said.

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