Alex Jones scored 21 points to lead the Redhawks Saturday night. Photo by Joshua Lynch | The Spectator

Seattle University eked out a win last night in front of its largest home crowd of the season, barely defeating the California State-Bakersfield Roadrunners 76-72.

4,756 fans turned out for the Hoops for Haiti event, donating a hefty sum to the Haitian relief effort.

View an audio slideshow of the game here.

The first half started out slowly enough with Cervante Burrell finally putting the Redhawks on the board nearly three minutes into the game. Enter Chuck Garcia and Mike Boxley, and the musical chairs began.

Impressively deep, the Redhawks’ bench has been putting up big numbers all year—posting 42 points last night. Yet to start a game this season, the team’s current high scorer, Alex Jones, explained: “I like coming off the bench. I go in when everyone else is tired.”

Seemingly referring to his own team, he also finds the opposing defense ripe for the picking. On a recent scoring tear, yesterday was no different for Alex Jones, with a game total of 21 points. Surprisingly, more than half those points came from the line, where he shot 12 of 16 on the night.

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In a game that came down to the wire, the Seattle University Redhawks pulled out a major road win in San Jose. Fighting for every last point, the Redhawks sealed the deal in the final seconds to beat the Spartans 90-88.

A three-point shot from the corner, and Seattle U’s Taylor Olson bagged the first game-winning shot of his college career.

With just 10 seconds left on the clock, the Spartans were up by one after Mac Peterson sunk both from the line. Finding himself with the ball and the shot, Taylor Olson put it up for three and never looked back.

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On Friday, the University of Washington’s Director of Athletics Scott Woodward announced the school will be discontinuing their men’s and women’s swimming programs in this press release, effective immediately. Due to the huge budget cuts that UW suffered, Woodward said the school must take steps to reduce expenses and increase revenues.

The UW will continue to honor swimmers’ athletic scholarship agreements. Additionally, they have given permission for other universities to contact those athletes that wish to transfer.

With the elimination of the UW’s swim teams, only five schools in the Pac-10 will have men’s swimming programs, none in the Pacific Northwest. Eight schools in the Pac-10 will still have women’s swimming programs. UW will still offer 21 sports.

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TOMS Shoes, a company that makes “vegan” shoes, is sponsoring today, April 16, as One Day Without Shoes. 

They are encouraging everyone to go barefoot at some point today to raise awareness about the issue of shoeless-ness in developing nations and the health problems that come along with it.

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I knew it, I knew it all along that there was something bad about this whole Twitter thing. This is one Internet social networking tool I’ve refused to jump on board with. Isn’t it just like Facebook, minus all of the good stuff? Also, the words/verbs that Twitter has spawned are ridiculous. “Oh I’m just tweeting.” “You know who tweeted me today?” How can you say that with a straight face?

Now let me stop my rant and say that Twitter does have it’s advantages. It’s a great way to stalk people. Okay, that was the last jab I had to get in. Twitter can be useful, as it has been for The Spectator, to keep people up to date on important things happening in our world. Read more…