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Donald Trump in Burlingame this week By Kali Persall

MANAGING EDITOR Republican presidential nominee frontrunner Donald Trump will make an appearance in the Bay Area as a speaker at the California Republican Party Convention on Friday. The convention will be at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport in Burlingame from Friday through Sunday. According to officials, Trump will kick off the convention with a keynote speech at the lunch banquet. Republican candidates Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz will also make guest appearances on Saturday and Sunday. The event is open to the public and requires a registration fee. It will feature various workshops that will address local government campaigns, grassroots movements and national security matters, to name a few, according to the convention schedule. Several groups in the Bay Area have begun organizing peaceful protests geared specifically toward Trump’s appearance in the Bay that are planned to take place outside of the event. One particular group that mobilized on Facebook has attracted 8,500 interested people, 2,400 of whom have said they will attend. The candidates’ visit comes on the wings of Tuesday’s primary elections in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Trump led the votes in each state by at least 30 percent over his opponents, according to the April primary results. Results list Trump with a total of 949 delegates, Cruz with 544 and Kasich trailing with 153. The number of delegates needed to secure the Republican nomination is 1,237. There are only 10 states left that have yet to hold primaries, the next being Indiana on May 3, according to the GOP. The California primaries will take place on June 7.

Hayward jazz festival takes over campus By Devon Hanna CONTRIBUTOR

Renowned jazz saxophonist Brad Leali jammed side by side with Rhythm section combos and the Jazz Orchestra at Cal State East Bay’s 31st Annual Jazz Festival, a three-day event, held at the University Theater on campus earlier this month. The festival kicked off on April 14 and featured Irvin Mayfield, Grammy and Billboard Award-winning New Orleans jazz trumpeter, as well as Leali, the former musical director and lead alto saxophonist for the Harry Connick Jr. Orchestra, who also received a Grammy for his solo work with the Count Basie Orchestra in 1999, according to the CSUEB Department of Music.

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Money makeover: The new face of $20 is female By Kali Persall

MANAGING EDITOR The bills in your wallet will soon be receiving a makeover more symbolic than a new watermark or color-changing ink. For the first time in more than a 100 years, a woman will be featured on a U.S. bill. On April 20, Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew announced in a press release that Harriet Tubman, famous former

slave-turned-abolitionist, will take a front seat on the $20 bill, bumping Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the United States and commandant behind the Indian Removal Act of 1830, to the back. A public outcry began a few years ago, led by several women’s organizations according to the office of the Treasurer. The outcry eventually led to several congressmen proposing the change, which eventually passed with a majority vote.

According to Lew, several other women and people of color are being considered for other forms of currency, which was spurred on by a huge backlash from social media. Lew also acknowledged that his office took into consideration many of the opinions voiced online and in surveys with who should replace Jackson with, eventually selecting Tubman. The conversation is not a new one, and some oppose the idea of Tubman appearing on the bill. Writer Feminista

Jones presented a controversial stance in an essay last year that went viral, stating that there’s no place for women, especially women of color, on American currency. “Tubman was an abolitionist and an integral part of the Underground Railroad, so ahead of her time and defiantly resisted compromising her agency," said CSUEB Professor of Sociology Vibha Puri, who specializes in gender and

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Men’s soccer coach leaves for Las Positas

CSU's, community colleges smoking bill passed

By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Cal State East Bay has lost a coach for the second time in just a week’s span. This time it was men’s soccer Head Coach Andy Cumbo, who stepped down from his position on Monday to accept a full-time teaching position in the kinesiology department as well as Head Coach at Las Positas College in Livermore. “A special opportunity presented itself and despite how much I enjoy coaching my team here at CSUEB, the opportunity to me to work at LPC is only going to happen once in my lifetime,” Cumbo said. “It was just too good of an opportunity for me [not] to pursue.” Cumbo spent seven seasons at the helm for East Bay after coming from Humboldt State, where he held the same position for the men and women’s teams. According to CSUEB Athletics, Cumbo has more than 140 victories and has produced 70 all-conference players at the NCAA Division II level. Cumbo took over at CSUEB in 2009, the first year that the school was made an NCAA Division II competitor. Since 2009, Cumbo has led his teams to a 26-90-14 record and produced 30 California Collegiate Athletic Association Conference All-Academic team members. The Pioneers men’s soccer team has achieved a cumulative grade point average of 3.05 over the past five years. Cumbo has a master’s degree in kinesiology with an emphasis on teaching and coaching at the collegiate level. “This new job suits my personality and my background the best, it really is a dream job for me,” Cumbo said. Last season the Pioneers finished 5-12 overall and 3-9 in CCAA Conference games while Las Positas finished their season 7-13-1 overall and 5-8 in conference play. Cumbo will have a full cupboard at Las Positas who have 19 players listed as returners on their current roster. East Bay also has a strong cast of returners, 20 players total, most of whom are listed as freshman. There has been no timetable set to select a replacement for Cumbo at publication time.

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Former CSUEB men’s soccer Head Coach Andy Cumbo during a home game last season. Cumbo stepped down this week to take a full time position at Las Positas College in Livermore.

“It was just too good of an opportunity for me [not] to pursue.” −Former CSUEB men's soccer coach Andy Cumbo

The days of lighting up a cigarette and vaping could be a thing of the past at all 23 of the California State University system campuses, and 113 California community colleges. On Monday, the California State Legislature passed Assembly Bill 1594, 41-23, which would ban the use of tobacco, e-cigarettes and vaping devices on all CSU and California community college campuses. The bill will now go to the Senate, who will decide its ultimate fate sometime next month. The passing of the bill comes on the heels of a move to increase the smoking age in California to 21 from 18, a bill which passed in assembly last month and is currently awaiting a decision by Governor Jerry Brown. Currently, six of the 23 CSUs already are established as smoke-free campuses, which include San Francisco State, Cal State Monterey Bay and Cal State Fullerton. In 2014, all of the campuses in the University of California system became smoke-free campuses, leading the way for the CSU ban. Community colleges like Chabot College in Hayward and Laney College in Oakland will also be affected by the ban. Several of California’s community colleges have already implemented smoking bans. However, like the CSU’s, there is no system wide policy in place. The CSU Chancellor’s Office, led by Timothy White and the Board of Trustees, declined to provide a stance on the smoke-free campus issue, according to the Sacramento Bee.

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President Barack Obama, center, introduces Judge Merrick Garland, chief justice for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, right, as his nominee for the Supreme Court in the Rose Garden of the White House on Wednesday, March 16, 2016. Vice President Joe Biden looks on at left.

Merrick Garland nominated by president for Supreme Court Justice By Sean McCarthy CONTRIBUTOR In the wake of the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, President Barack Obama nominated D.C. Circuit, Court of Appeals justice Merrick Garland on March 16, 2016, as the next member of the Supreme Court. However, the Republican Party has sworn to deny any nominee that President Obama endorses. Many prominent cases have been decided by the difference of a single justice. Bill Chappell of NPR pointed out, for example, that gay marriage would still be banned today had it not been for the ninth justice who ruled in favor of overturning the lower court’s decision. Today, the Supreme Court is split in half (4-4) regarding President Obama’s executive order, shielding some four million undocumented immigrants from deportation, according to CNN. Merrick Garland has a centrist record in regards to how he has passed judgment on cases that have been presented to him in the past. Some people say that this makes Garland a fair judge, never too liberal and never too conservative. However, his Republican critics say he is too liberal, especially when it comes down to gun control. “Make no mistake: If Garland were confirmed, he would side predictably with President Obama on critical issues such as undermining the Second Amendment, legalizing partial-birth

abortion and propping up overreaching bureaucratic agencies like the EPA and the IRS,” said Ted Cruz. President Obama spoke for over twenty minutes about his nominee at the gathering at the Rose Garden of the White House on March 16. He shared that Garland was valedictorian of his class at Niles West High School and that he earned a scholarship to Harvard and later graduated with high honors. Garland worked in Washington D.C. as a clerk to Judge Henry Friendly and then Supreme Court Justice William Brennan in 1979. “You went to Friendly if you were the best Harvard student,” said Robert C. Post, now the dean of Yale Law School, in a New York Times article. “He was the gold standard among the clerks, his competence was staggering.” He was later employed for four years at the law firm Arnold and Porter, which specialized in litigation and pro-bono work for disadvantaged Americans. When they offered him a partnership, Garland refused, took a fifty percent pay cut and became a federal prosecutor, where “he investigated and prosecuted cases involving public corruption, drug trafficking, and fraud,” President Obama stated during Garland’s nomination speech on March 16. In 1993, he joined the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and was quickly promoted to principal associate deputy attorney general where he would oversee the biggest cases of his young career: The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Unabomber.

On April 19, 1995 in Oklahoma, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols detonated bombs inside of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people. After hearing about the bombing, Garland felt strongly about being present in Oklahoma, and expressed this to his boss and the deputy attorney general at the time, Jamie Gorelick. “He not only volunteered,” Mrs. Gorelick recalled, “he basically said, ‘You need to let me go.’” Garland helped run the investigation from a command center by “overseeing search warrants, interacting with other law agencies, and meeting with surviving victims,” according to the New York Times. However, not everybody believes Garland had a major impact on the case. According to The Atlantic, McVeigh’s lawyer, Michael Tigar said, “Garland shows up for a bail hearing… and that’s the only time I can remember him doing anything in the case. How he got the reputation as having a great deal to do with it — you couldn’t prove it to me.” Senator Bernie Sanders strongly supported confirming Garland this year, but believes that he is not the “most progressive choice,” and will ask President Obama to withdraw the nomination so he can make his own selection, if elected president. Garland takes a liberal stance on campaign finance and voting rights. Garland said in a 2015 Appeal Wagner v. Federal Election Commission, “The record offers every reason to believe that, if the dam barring contribu-

tions were broken, more money in exchange for contracts would flow through the same channels already on display.” Garland acknowledges that financial corruption is present in politics, where politicians are being funded by businesses and businesses are getting federal contracts in return. Garland upheld a “Clinton Administration effort to store gun-buyer’s records” in 2000, and called for a review of a 2007 ruling which invalidated Washington D.C.’s handgun ban. The District of Columbia v. Heller ruling determined that the ban on handguns was unconstitutional. Republicans believe that Garland is against the 2nd Amendment and, if confirmed, will take guns away from citizens, according to The Washington Times. According to Charlie Savage of The New York Times, Garland generally sides with law enforcement agencies instead of the defendants. In 14 cases identified by The New York Times, when Garland voted differently from at least one fellow judge, he came down in favor of law enforcement 10 times. There were no occasions in those cases in which he favored a criminal defendant. In 1995, Bill Clinton nominated Garland to the U.S. Court of Appeals, but he was not confirmed until 1997. Republicans and Democrats in Congress voted 76-23 in favor of Garland, according to The White House.

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A fight without fists: McGregor vs. White for UFC 200 By Kali Persall MANAGING EDITOR Even in the world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), the old adage is true: “the show must go on.” On July 9, thousands of people will be flooding to Las Vegas — or at least busting out the credit card to watch UFC 200 on pay-per-view. Predicted to be the biggest draw since UFC 100 in 2009, which pulled in 1.6 million pay-per-view buys, an attendance of over 10,000 and over $5 million at the gate, according to the MMA Manifesto. UFC 200 is sure to eclipse that. However, Conor McGregor, “The notorious” quick-witted powerhouse and featherweight champion, will not be fighting. That’s right: The fight everyone’s been talking about for months — McGregor vs. Nate Diaz rematch, aka the main card — has completely fallen apart, and this time it’s not due to an injury. Thanks to a shocking decision by UFC President Dana White, not only won’t McGregor fight in the main event, he won’t fight in 200 at all. And because of this, his opponent Nate Diaz has dipped out too, leaving two huge, glaring question marks in the blank silhouettes where the profiles of the fighters once stood in the event lineup. Last week, McGregor tweeted a cryptic message announcing that he would retire young, much to the shock and bewilderment of fans, myself included. After two days with no explanation, McGregor released a Facebook statement that gave his followers a clue that there was more to the story, namely a conflict between him and UFC President Dana White. Providing peace of mind to thousands, his statement simultaneously confirmed that his earlier retirement threats were false: “I am just trying to do my job and fight here,” McGregor wrote. “I am paid to fight. I am not yet paid to promote. I have become lost in the game of promotion and forgot about the art of fighting. There comes a time when you need to stop handing out flyers and get back to the damn shop...I AM NOT RETIRED.” A sigh of relief was heard around the world. However, much to fan’s dismay, White hasn’t wavered in his decision to rip the fighter off the main card, a

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José Aldo, left and McGregor, right pose for photos during the UFC 189 press conference in London, March 2015. Aldo ended up pulling out of the bout 11 days before UFC 189 due to rib injury. short-sighted move on his part, considering that McGregor is the current cash cow of the industry and the golden ticket to making UFC 200 monumental. On Monday, McGregor tweeted that he was back on the card and even tagged and thanked White in the post. Later that day, White told the media that the announcement wasn’t true. So what is the truth? We fans are dying to know, and we’re getting whiplash by the exhausting back-and-forth argument. You could say that the whole fiasco really began with a one-punch-knockout in UFC 194 last December. In one of the biggest upsets of the year, McGregor defeated Jose Aldo, ten-year Brazilian featherweight champion of the world in the fastest title fight KO in UFC history; a record 14 seconds. From that point on, McGregor developed a taste for blood, and he wasn’t going to give up until he secured not one, but two title belts in two different weight classes. Fast forward to 196 in March: Mc-

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Gregor bumped up from his featherweight class of 145 to take on lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos at 170, a risky move that landed him paired with Diaz after dos Anjos backed out last-minute due to an injury. Two ruthless bad-mouthers adored for their unfiltered, quick-witted comebacks, the McGregor/Diaz pairing turned out to be a match made in heaven for the media. However it didn’t end well for McGregor. Diaz, who only had three weeks to train prior to the fight, submitted to McGregor in an impressive rear-naked choke. Fans have been screaming for a rematch ever since. From what followers have pieced together about the White/McGregor conflict, McGregor refused to fly to Las Vegas last Friday for obligatory fight promotion, something all fighters are required to do, which White wasn’t going to tolerate. According to White, ten million dollars has been allocated for fight promotion for this event. Admittedly, it appears that the UFC

isn’t unreasonable about the press obligations it demands of fighters. As White pointed out on Friday, the promotional events are scheduled months before fights so as not to encroach on crucial practice time. White “didn’t want to go there” when asked on Friday whether McGregor’s refusal to promote was in violation of his contract, but it’s definitely clear that officially or unofficially, McGregor overestimated his amount of wiggle room. “We try to give as much leeway as we can on things, but you have to show up and promote the fight,” said White on Friday. “Is it too much to ask to try to shoot a commercial or do the promotion for the fight? A lot of these guys came here from different parts of the world. But you know, these guys all came. They have better things to do, and they’re here. It’s part of the job.” Clearly watching the press conference on TV, McGregor promptly tweeted, “Everyone flew in. Respect. But not everyone up there made the company

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400 million in 8 months.” There’s truth to McGregor’s statement. The fact that this conflict took the main slot over a title fight speaks to McGregor’s true drawing power. In 196, McGregor became the first fighter in history to earn a million dollar purse for one fight, even though it ended in his defeat. That event pulled in 1.5 million pay-per-view buys and $8.1 million at the live gate, White boasted in an interview on ESPN radio. Why didn’t McGregor just bite the bullet? The brash Irish fighter is far from camera shy. In fact, his aggressive, crap-talking persona has cast quite a spotlight on the UFC. Whether or not you’ve ever seen a McGregor fight, chances are you’ve heard plenty about him just from media hype alone; he’s just as notorious for his crude mouth as he is his potent, unpredictable stand-up style. It’s no secret that favoritism has been a major force at play in the UFC, especially when it comes to McGregor, and he’s no doubt used to the rules being bent for him. For example, when Aldo asked to bump up to 170 for a chance at the lightweight belt, he was told by White that he would have to give up his featherweight title. For McGregor however, not only did White agree to let him hold both titles, but he gave him a boost up the golden ladder. But you’d never be able to tell by the way White has suddenly brought down the hammer. McGregor even attempted a compromise in his Facebook statement by promising to attend the big press conference in New York on April 27, but White has held a firm “no.” Ironically, the one time where flexibility is actually justified, White refuses to give it; his refusal cloaked under a guise of fairness. For his misplaced false righteousness, he’s shooting himself in the foot. Love or hate his brash, cocky attitude and unconventional, aggressive fighting style, there can be no doubt that “the notorious” McGregor has finally lived up to his nickname and has secured himself as an one of the greats, along with the likes of Ronda Rousey and Jon Jones. The popular consensus: McGregor’s a phenomenal fighter and an effective entertainer; we’re eating what he’s serving up and we want a plate at UFC 200.

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Prince was in the house, at least in spirit, during Weekend 2 of the Coachella festival

tival’s 99,000 attendees that Prince was in the house, at least in spirit. Artists also paid their respects throughout the desert fest. LCD Soundsystem played an electronic dance version of Prince’s “Controversy” as more lights washed the stage in purple. Ellie Goulding sang an arresting take of “When Doves Cry” with just a slight piano accompaniment. Without

prompting, the thousands of fans taking in her late Friday set joined in on the refrain of the Prince classic. On Saturday, when Guns N’ Roses took the main stage, bassist Duff McKagan appeared with his white bass adorned in a purple, glittery decal of Prince’s infamous, unpronounceable symbol. Earlier that evening, Ice Cube, who wore purple shoes and a purple bandan-

na onstage, began the set by displaying a large image of Prince. “To an icon in music and entertainment, I would like to dedicate this show to my man Prince Rogers Nelson,” he said. Run the Jewels’ Killer Mike kicked off his duo’s set with a nod to the audience. “I want everyone to look to the sky,” he said. “Prince, wherever you are, we are burning this to the ground in your

name.” Prince was also a presence on smaller stages throughout the weekend. On Friday afternoon, revered soul singer Mavis Staples stopped her set to honor the late “Purple Rain” artist. “I lost a dear friend. He was my son ... my angel,” Staples told the audience of the performer who was found dead in his home studio Thursday morning at age 57. “He was the most beautiful spirit I ever met. He was a gentleman. ... He was respectful.” Staples recounted meeting Prince for the first time and recording for his Paisley Park imprint, then she led the crowd in a moment of silence for “our dear friend” before singing a few lines of “Purple Rain” a cappella, which opened a rollicking take of “Wade in the Water.” Brooklyn rapper Joey Badass flashed Prince’s symbol on the video screen behind him. During another set, rising alternative-R&B singer Gallant was joined by surprise guest Jhene Aiko for a brief but touching version of “Diamonds and Pearls.” And later, Gallant popped up with Sufjan Stevens to tackle “Purple Rain.” Electronic duo Jack U did a short Prince mash-up, sending a burst of confetti over the audience during a frenetic remix of “I Wanna Be Your Lover” as images of the singer flashed on the screen. The Despacio dance tent spun Prince classics throughout the weekend as purple lights bounced off disco balls. Though it’s been close to a decade since Prince played on this very field, his presence permeated Weekend 2, reminding artists and audience alike just how lucky we were to once have him in our midst.

traced back to 1885 by H. Seymour Squyer, one full body with a head wrap and the other a close up without her hair covered, according to the Treasurer’s office. The final concept designs will be revealed in 2020 in commemoration of the 100th year anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote in 1920. “Harriet Tubman’s personal courage and struggle towards a national and ethnic integration makes her a worthy candidate for the honor,”said Puri. “Albeit an honor, bestowed belatedly, and not bereft of political significance for vested interests.” Last June, Lew announced that the $10 bill, due for a security upgrade, would involve a redesign that involved

placing a woman on the note and invited people to share their suggestions for who it should be. Public opinion led to the decision to leave Hamilton on the $10 and relocate Tubman to the $20, according to the press release. Lew said thousands of participants voiced their support of replacing Jackson with Tubman. Harriet Tubman, born a slave in Maryland in the early 1800s, is remembered for escorting hundreds of slaves for over a decade through the Underground Railroad, a network of a series of secret routes where abolitionists would harbor slave fugitives on their journey to freedom. Other recommendations released by the U.S. Department of Engraving and Printing ranged from Pocahon-

tas, daughter of Native American Chief Powhatan, to Margaret Sanger, a birth control pioneer and women’s rights activist. The last time a woman was featured as the face of a bill was in 1891, when Martha Washington appeared on the dollar silver certificate. Pocahontas made a brief appearance in a group image on the back of the $20 in the 1800s, and dollar coins in the 1900s and early 2000s briefly featured the Native American guide Sacagawea and suffragette Susan B. Anthony. “I believe it signifies a belated acknowledgement that the nation has historically taken Black labor for granted,” said Puri. “But is the intention backed by practical reforms or is it merely an act to

assuage guilt and/or pacify an angry electorate?” The upgrade extends beyond the $20; the Bureau of Engraving and Printing will also issue a redesign to the $10 and $5 notes. The back of the $10 will depict the suffragette march at the treasury building in 1913. Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul will be featured, according to Lew. The back of the $5 will honor historical civil rights activists Martin Luther King Jr. and Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial. Due to security demands related to counterfeiting, the $10 will undergo the redesign first and the $5 and $20 will follow shortly after.

By Gerrick Kennedy LOS ANGELES TIMES

The buzz going into the second and final weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was how the event’s organizers and artists would pay tribute to Prince, who died Thursday, a day before the Indio festival reopened its gates. Throughout the weekend, fans could be spotted in T-shirts with Prince’s likeness, while others just wore purple. Flags in the singer’s beloved color popped up on cars in parking lots and the campgrounds. There was even a shrine in his honor close to the gates of the festival entrance: a poster announcing Prince’s 2008 set at Coachella, surrounded by purple ribbons, flowers and a pink-andpurple sign with “Nothing compares to you” written in glitter. But inside the festival, the most poignant tribute came from Prince himself. Before Friday night’s headliners LCD Soundsystem appeared, the main stage went dark and Prince’s voice rang out across the Empire Polo Club field. It was accompanied by video of the singer’s 2008 set at Coachella, where he covered the Radiohead song “Creep.” As Prince sanvg, dozens of palm trees lining the grounds were illuminated in purple courtesy of spotlights that typically turn them into myriad colors as dusk falls on the field. “From now on, this is Prince’s house” was spelled out on the mainstage screen after his video performance, and the crowd erupted into a thunderous applause. Purple lighting illuminated the Empire Polo Club field, reminding the fes-

Prince performs during a world tour in the 1990s.

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Money From Page 1 ethnic studies. “Andrew Jackson was a former slave owner who became rich on the reproductive and physical labor of Black women in particular. The irony is, $20 is what Tubman received as pension. Significantly, some Black scholars resist her image on currency which was, historically generated by exploiting slaves.” The Bureau of Engraving and Printing will be in charge of creating the image of Tubman. It is still unclear which image will be on the bill, but the two most common options are photographs

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Los luchadores se hacen cargo del gimnasio de Hayward Por Louis LaVenture JEFE EDITORIAL TRADUCCION POR PAVEL RADOSTEV PUSHINA EDITOR DE COPIA EN ESPANOL

Para muchas personas, la lucha libre trae recuerdos de la infancia. En despertarse pronto las mañanas de los sábados para ver a Hulk Hogan destruir a algún oponente no identificado o amontonarse alrededor de una caja de cable para ver programas en pay-perview como Wrestlemania, Royal Rumble o Summer Slam. La WWF y más tarde la WWE cautivaron a niños como yo, que seguían todos los espectáculos y recreaban los movimientos y partidos con amigos. Esta atmósfera llegó a la vida de nuevo en Hayward el domingo en el EE.UU.

Karate y gimnasio de boxeo, donde el arena de Hayward acogió un evento de luchas profesionales y lucha libre. Había hombres, mujeres, árbitros ‘comprados,’ bromas entre los luchadores y el público, maniobras de salto desde la parte superior de las cuerdas, sillas utilizadas como armas y mucho más. Samara, una nativa de la área de la bahía y luchadora, perdió su partido contra Lisa Lace, pero era una favorita del público evidente por la reacción positiva que recibió antes, durante y después de su partido. “Tal vez me sale una buena respuesta del público porque soy realmente yo misma y no trato de ser otra cosa,” dijo Samara. “Alguien me dijo que el mejor personaje es sí mismo, sintonizado hasta 11. Eso es lo que trato de hacer.”

Los asistentes pudieron comprar y usar el equipo y las máscaras de sus luchadores favoritos para apoyarlos durante los partidos, lo que hicieron con énfasis. Un grupo de niños de corta edad tuvieron varios altercados verbales con “los villanos” que trampearon y expresaron su descontentamiento a la multitud, mientras que rompían todas las reglas. Este pequeño gimnasio podría haber sido el Oracle Arena o el estadio de Levi. El ambiente fue tan vibrante gracias en gran parte a la multitud ruidosa que gritaban y proporcionaron un gran alivio cómico también. El gimnasio histórico que ha residido en Hayward durante años, proporciono un telón de fondo perfecto para un deporte que sigue siendo tan popular en lo que ha sido.

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Derecho arriba: Samara se arrastra hacia las cuerdas despues de ser golpeada por Lisa Lace. Medio: Rockero del Diablo ahoga a El Sancho durante un partido el Domingo en U.S. Karate & Boxing Gym en Hayward. Izquierda abajo: Scotty Wringer afirma el primer cinturon de campeonato "High Roller," que defendio con exito contra Kenny K. Derecho abajo: Ojo Blanco choca contra una silla durante una pelea por equipo el domingo en Hayward.

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Entrenador de fútbol masculino dimite El hombre a cargo toma trabajo para Las Positas Por Louis LaVenture REDACTOR JEFE

Traducción por Pavel Radostev Pushina EDITOR DE COPIA EN ESPAÑOL

Por segunda vez en una semana, la Universidad Estatal de California en la Bahía del Este ha perdido un entrenador. Esta vez fue el entrenador del equipo de fútbol masculino, Andy Cumbo, quien renunció a su posición el lunes para aceptar un puesto de profesor de tiempo completo, así como entrenador principal para el colegio Las Positas en Livermore. “Una oportunidad especial se presentó, y a pesar de lo mucho que me gusta entrenar a mi equipo aquí en CSUEB, la oportunidad para trabajar en LPC sólo se va a pasar una vez en mi vida,” dijo Cumbo. “Era demasiada buena de una oportunidad para [no] llevarla a cabo.” Cumbo pasó siete temporadas en el timón para la Bahía del Este desde que llegó de la Universidad de Humboldt, donde ocupó la misma posición para los equipos de hombres y mujeres. De acuerdo con la escuela de atletismo de la CSUEB, Cumbo tiene más de 140 vic-

torias y ha producido 70 jugadores de conferencia a nivel de la División II de la NCAA. Cumbo se hizo cargo en CSUEB en 2009, el primer año que la escuela empezó a competir en la División II en la NCAA. Desde 2009, Cumbo ha llevado a sus equipos a un récord de 26-90-14 y ha producido 30 miembros de la Conferencia de la Asociación Atlética de Colegios en California. El equipo de fútbol masculino de los pioneros han alcanzado un promedio general de calificaciones de 3.05 en los últimos cinco años. Cumbo tiene un titulo de maestría en kinesiología con énfasis en enseñanza y entrenamiento al nivel universitario. “Este nuevo trabajo me conviene por mi personalidad y mi historial lo mejor, que realmente es un trabajo ideal para mí,” dijo Cumbo. La temporada pasada los pioneros terminaron 5-12 en general y 3-9 en juegos de conferencia en la CCAA mientras que Las Positas terminó su temporada 7-13-1 general y 5-8 en el juego de la conferencia. Cumbo tendrá un equipo lleno en Las Positas que tiene 19 jugadores catalogados como reincorporados en su plantilla actual. La Bahía del Este también tiene un fuerte elenco de reincorporados, 20 jugadores en total, la mayoría de los cuales se enumeran como estudiantes de primer año. No ha habido ningún calendario establecido para seleccionar un reemplazo para Cumbo en momento de publicación.

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Entrenador Cumbo habla con uno de sus miembros de equipo de fútbol masculino.

“Era demasiada buena de una oportunidad para [no] llevarla a cabo.” -Andy Cumbo Donald Trump en Burlingame esta semana Por Kali Persall REDACTOR JEFE

Traducción por Pavel Radostev Pushina EDITOR DE COPIA EN ESPAÑOL El candidato a presidente republicano principal, Donald Trump, hará una aparición en el área de la bahía a finales de esta semana como orador en la Convención del Partido Republicano de California el viernes. El evento se llevará a cabo en la regencia Hyatt del aeropuerto de San Francisco en Burlingame, empezando el viernes hasta el domingo 1 de mayo. Según las autoridades, Trump dará inicio a la convención con un discurso durante el almuerzo del banquete. Los candidatos republicanos: el gobernador de Ohio John Kasich y el senador de Tejas Ted Cruz también harán apariciones especiales durante el sábado y domingo. El evento está abierto al público y requiere una cuota de inscripción. Se contará con diversos talleres que abordan los temas de las campañas de los gobiernos locales, movimientos de base

y asuntos de seguridad nacional, para nombrar unos pocos, de acuerdo con el programa de la convención. Varios grupos en el área de la Bahía han comenzado a organizar protestas pacíficas dirigidas específicamente a la aparición de Trump que tendrán lugar afuera del evento. Un grupo particular que se movilizó en Facebook ha atraído a 8,500 personas interesadas, 2,400 de los cuales han dicho que van a asistir. La visita de los candidatos viene en las alas de las elecciones primarias del martes en Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania y Rhode Island. Trump lideró los votos en cada uno de estos estados por lo menos el 30 por ciento sobre sus oponentes, de acuerdo con los resultados de las primarias de abril. Los resultados listan a Trump con un total de 949 delegados, Cruz con 544 y Kasich se arrastra con 153. El número de delegados necesarios para asegurarse la nominación republicana es 1,237. Sólo hay 10 estados que quedan que todavía tienen que realizar elecciones primarias. El proximo estado es Indiana, el 3 de mayo, de acuerdo a la GOP. Las primarias de California tendrán lugar el 7 de junio.

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Top left: Samara, right, slams Lisa Lace during a loss on Sunday in Hayward. Top right: A merchandise table is set up for a wrestler before the matches. Right: Ice Dragon, left, poses for pictures with a young fan before his tag team match victory in Hayward. Far right: Rockero del Diablo, top, yells at El Sancho between delivering forearm blows to his head, neck and chest. Bottom left: Rockero del Diablo stands on his opponent El Sancho during their match on Sunday. Bottom right: Corey Kreese performs a version of the “Camel Clutch” manuever on Leon Ikuza during a match at U.S. Karate & Boxing Gym.

Wrestling electrifies Hayward gym By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF For many people, wrestling brings back memories of childhood. Early Saturday mornings waking up to see Hulk Hogan destroy some unnamed opponent or huddling around a cable box to watch pay-per-view events like Wrestlemania, Royal Rumble or Summer Slam. The WWF and later the WWE captivated kids like myself, who would go out after the shows and recreate the moves and matches with their friends. This atmosphere came to life all over again in Hayward on Sunday at the U.S. Karate & Boxing Gym when they hosted

a professional wrestling and lucha libre event. There were men, women, cheating referees, banter between the wrestlers and audience, flying maneuvers off the top ropes, chairs used as weapons and much more. Samara, a Bay Area native, lost her match to Lisa Lace, but was a clear crowd favorite evident by the positive reaction she got before, during and after her match. “Maybe I get a good crowd response because I am genuinely myself and don’t try and be anything else,” Samara said. “Somebody told me the best character is yourself turned up to 11. That’s what I try to do everytime.” Attendees could buy and wear the

gear and masks of their favorite wrestlers to support them during the matches, which they did emphatically. A group of young children had several verbal altercations with “bad guys” who cheated and chastised the crowd while breaking all of the rules. This small gym could have been Oracle Arena or Levi’s Stadium, the atmosphere was that electric thanks in large part to the raucous crowd that screamed, yelled and provided a huge comic relief as well. The historic gym that has been a fixture in Hayward for years, which helped produce Andre Ward, provided a perfect backdrop for a sport that is still as popular at it has ever been.

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Ice Dragon, center, braces himself for a double kick by Cazador del Alma, left, and Ojo Blanco, right, on Sunday during tag team match at U.S. Karate & Boxing Gym in North Hayward.

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Sensory deprivation what? Trying floatation tanks for the first time and loving the experience

By Jordy Sanchez Diaz CONTRIBUTOR As I walked through the doors of the loft where the sensory deprivation floatation tanks were, I began to question, “Wait, what am I doing here?” Initial feelings of apprehension surfaced around trying something completely new — and more importantly about spending extra money so close to rent being due. But this was something that I had wanted to try for a while and eventually decided to go through with it; after all, this was something that was supposed to help me or at least allow me to enter some other state of consciousness. I initially heard of floatation tanks through an article I read in The Atlantic called “Time Out: The Rise of Sensory Deprivation Tanks,” and the description of the experience hooked me from the start. Originally known as the sensory deprivation tank, the process was developed by neurophysiologist Dr. John

C. Lilly back in 1954 as a way to determine if the brain can maintain consciousness in an environment where there is no external stimulus. He found that once the body is freed from sensory stimuli, it can conserve about 90 percent of normal neuro-muscular activity. In other words, your brain and body are given a breather from brain and muscle activity. There are more than 10 floatation tank centers in the Bay Area, mostly in San Francisco. So I figured that it was more than just some new age medicine fad. My initial feelings of nervousness and built up excitement were compounded by the fact that the location seemed to be in the middle of nowhere, around ten blocks away from the Fruitvale Bart station in Oakland. The building was an old brick building next to railroad tracks with a big banner on top that read “Lofts for rent.” As I walked through the door I saw a woman sipping tea, sitting on a couch, with her hair wet. When I met her eyes, she looked through me as if she was in her own world — and in that moment I knew there was an experience to be had here. I quickly learned it was her first experience, so I asked her to describe it — wanting to hear firsthand what she’d felt:

“Trippy,” was her response. The owner of the establishment came rushing out to ask why I was half an hour early. I explained to her that I took BART and I was only trying to give myself extra time since I didn’t know the area, before she offered me water and went back to her duties. The woman I had talked to left, so I sat observing messages on the walls like “Breathe, it all ends well,” which made me laugh since it brought back moments that I’ve told myself this in a moment of panic. It’s my turn. I’m given a quick tour of the floatation tanks. The owner, Ann, seemed to be running through the information as if it was the hundredth time she’d covered it that day, but slowed down to explain how I can get the best out of the experience. Most people, she explains, tend to feel trapped and freak out at the thought of the hour that lies ahead. So instead she tells me, to focus on things that you look forward to in the week. She led me to the second floor of the loft and showed me to their shower, where I cleaned off before my 90 minutes in the sensory deprivation tank. I was the last customer of the day, so the place was really quiet; only the sound of the air-conditioning and the tank filter system could be heard. As I entered the tank and laid down, I felt

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every little single cut on my skin because of the Epsom salt, but this dissipated in what felt like five minutes. I couldn’t tell how much time had lapsed specifically, but around what felt like the first 20 minutes of the float were the most overwhelming. Every thought and every worry came rushing at me. I was left with nothing more than my thoughts. I tried to think relaxing thoughts, but failed miserably and instead began focusing on my fatigue from working earlier in the day. The tank was humid and pitch black; this created a feeling of being weightless. After what seemed like the first twenty minutes, I couldn’t feel my feet or hands. And then I fell asleep, woken up to the sound of knocking coming from outside the chamber. An hour had passed. After my immersion, the sofa downstairs where I had seen the woman earlier was my final resting spot. There was tea waiting for me along with some snacks, and Ann was ready to discuss my experience. “What do you think?” Ann asks. Inside, I thought my body felt so relaxed, my mind spaced out, yet fully introspective at the same time. I simply reply, “Real good.” As I gathered my thoughts, I truly began to take in what just happened.

In that moment I was fully relaxed and could care less of the worries that laid waiting in the following days. But truthfully, I’m not going to sit here and say that I left the float a changed man. However, the positive messages posted across the wall that made me chuckle actually meant something, and this was one of those instances where my takeaway is indescribable. As I’m about to leave the center, Ann offered me a ride back to the BART station. As it turns out the Fruitvale station is on her route home. I’m then given some additional guidance on our ride, “The feeling you are experiencing will probably last a few days or a week. You’re gonna feel more creative.” This was interesting to me — could this be something that people frequently utilize? And what kind of person would regularly visit flotation tanks? Curious, I asked Ann about “any frequent visitors.” She replies that most people that go there are dealing with either emotional or physical healing. She dropped me off at BART, right as the train pulled up, and with a final goodbye I assured her that I’d be back. I rushed inside the train and sat there, backtracking to earlier times. Not thinking of much or even caring of my earlier worries, just enjoying the moment.

ber of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra headed by Mayfield, the current Artistic Director. This will be Butler’s last quarter as Director of Jazz Studies at CSUEB. On Friday, judges rated performances by high school and community college bands, who were given around 20-25 minutes to play a set before receiving critiques. An interactive clinic followed the performances, where the judges would demonstrate the concepts that they wanted to convey to the bands,

according to the Department of Music. The festival also included a jazz master class, hosted by Leali and Mayfield on Thursday, a symposium Q-&-A Friday morning, and evening concerts on Thursday and Friday. A jam session hosted by the CSUEB Jazz Combos took place Saturday morning, and the event concluded with an afternoon concert later that day, where the CSUEB Faculty Jazztet played with Mayfield and Leali, according to the Department of Music.

Washington Internships for CSU-EB students on Improving America’s Healthcare The Pete Stark Foundation offers CSU-East Bay summer internship Application Deadline: scholarships in Washington, DC to participate in: May 4, 2016 Scholarship: $4,500 for 8 week program

1) writing a paper on actions to help Medicare beneficiaries, and 2) activities taking advantage of educational resources in D.C. The Pete Stark Foundation, established by former Congressman Fortney (Pete) H. Stark, undertakes projects to support California’s East Bay.

For more details and how to apply, e-mail wkvjee@hotmail.com, subject line PSF Internship.

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Gender wage gap in U.S. makes women lose $500 billion every year By Elizabeth Avalos STAFF WRITER A new Equal Pay Day study released this April has found that women across the United States are paid an average of 79 percent of what their male counterparts earn annually, doing the exact same work. The analysis was conducted by the National Partnership for Women and Families, a nonprofit organization from Washington D.C., based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The partnership found that women who are employed full-time, yearround, are paid 79 cents for every dollar paid to men. This amounts to a yearly gender wage gap of $10,762 for each woman individually, which in total translates into a substantial loss of nearly $500 billion for women all across the nation, annually. The analysis spanned across all 50 states and found that for African American women and Latinas, the gap is even larger, falling at 60 cents and 55 cents respectively, for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men. For Asian women across the nation, the gap is smaller at 84 cents, which is also the average for women in the state of California alone. Californian women who are employed full-time, year-round are paid 84 cents for every dollar paid to men, which translates into an individual yearly pay gap of $8,053, which in turn cost. California women a total of $39 billion every year, according to the study. The persistence of the gender wage gap is a major issue because in the United States, mothers are the primary or sole breadwinners in close to 40 percent of families. In fact, studies have shown that the wage gap is larger for mothers specifically than it is for women in gen-

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eral. The analysis reported that of the 15.2 million households that are headed by women, 31 percent of those families, which is approximately 4,658,047 family households, make below the poverty level. “It is unacceptable that the wage gap has persisted, punishing the country’s women and families for decades,” Debra L. Ness, president of the National Partnership, stated. The report determined that if the gender wage gap were eliminated, women across the nation would be able to afford 83 more weeks of food for their families (1.6 years’ worth), seven more months of mortgage and utilities payments, 11 more months of rent and nine more years of birth control. The celebration of Equal Pay Day, the day that symbolizes when women’s earnings have finally caught up to those of their male counterparts’ from the previous year, was recognized on April 12 this year. It took women from January 2015 until April 12, 2016, an extra three and a half months, to earn what men earned in the year 2015 alone — something U.S. Senator of Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren had much to say about. “Equal Pay Day isn’t a national day of celebration. It’s a national day of embarrassment,” she stated in a video posted to her Facebook page on April 12, where she spoke about the celebration of Equal Pay Day and the gender wage gap. “Too many families across the country feel like the game is rigged against them. They work hard, they play by the rules and they still struggled to make ends meet.” She explained that the game is especially rigged against women who make less than men for doing the same work, and often have to choose between a healthy pregnancy or receiving a paycheck.

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Last September, experts from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) warned that men and women will not reach pay equity until 2059, unless the lack of supportive policies and bias experience a positive shift in favor of women. This warning was determined by the lack of significant improvement in the gender wage gap in recent years and the furthering projected pay equity date, which is now one year longer than the previously projected date. The institute’s research estimated that the typical working woman loses approximately $530,000 over the course of her working life, while women who received a college education lose closer to $800,000, due to the gender wage gap. With the presidential election approaching this November, many of the candidates have voiced their stance on this issue. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who sponsored the Paycheck Fairness Act during her time as senator, has long advocated for gender equality, especially in the economics sector. According to the National Partnership, the Paycheck Fairness Act “is a reasonable and comprehensive bill that would combat the wage discrimination that has plagued the nation for decades.” During a sit-down with the with the CEO of Glassdoor Robert Hohman and 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup champion Megan Rapinoe among others, on Equal Pay Day, Clinton stated that she would “use every tool” to close the gender wage gap. While she did not specify which “tools” she would use, she said that it’s something that is long overdue and that we have to keep moving forward. Bernie Sanders, who has also spoken

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strongly about eliminating the gender wage gap, stated that “there is no rational economic reason why women should be earning 78 cents on the dollar compared to men,” during a rally in Greenville, South Carolina last August. “A living wage should not only be fair, it should be equitable. We must pass pay equity for women workers,” Sanders stated on Twitter this past January, closing his tweet with the hashtag #EqualPayCantWait. In a separate tweet, he also applauded state legislatures for leading this trend. Republican candidate Ted Cruz, on the other hand, has voted against the

Paycheck Fairness Act three times in the past and abstained from doing so in 2014. Furthermore, in October of last year, at the Problem Solvers Convention in Manchester, N.H., his rival Donald Trump stated that women will achieve equal pay when they do “as good a job” as men in the workplace. With new official studies that indicate exactly where the gender wage gap currently stands, it could be one of these candidates that determine whether we take larger strides forward within the next few years, or extend the IWPR’s prediction of when women will achieve pay equity even further.

Skip Bayless leaving ESPN, ‘First Take’ gig By Neil Best NEWSDAY ESPN announced Tuesday that Skip Bayless, the popular but controversial co-panelist on its “First Take” debate show, will leave the network when his contract expires at the end of August. Bayless’ last appearance on “First Take” will be the day after the end of the NBA Finals in June. “We want to thank Skip for his many contributions to ESPN,” the network said

in a statement. “His hard work and talent have benefited ESPN for 12 years.” ESPN is believed to have wanted to retain Bayless on “First Take,” where he works alongside Stephen A. Smith. The show is expected to go on with a replacement. Bayless widely is expected to land at FS1 in a yet-to-be-determined role. Bayless is the latest high-profile personality to leave ESPN. On Monday, it was reported that “Monday Night Football” play-by-play man Mike Tirico will leave for NBC.

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Half Dome at Yosemite National Park

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Pioneer baseball still in playoff run By Marissa Marshall STAFF WRITER The Cal State East Bay baseball team almost had a clean sweep this weekend against Cal State San Marcos. The Pioneers won the three game series against the Cougars 2-1. The Pioneers swept San Marcos (2120 overall, 13-16 conference) in their doubleheader on Saturday, winning 7-3 in the first game and 8-4 in the second game. Senior Rudy Navarro hit his first home run of the season in the first game on Saturday, when he hit an inside the park version of the long ball, which led to a score by Marcus Wise and Michael Frantz. “When I first hit, I thought it was going it foul, but I saw it had a good chance to stay fair,” said Navarro. “Once it was fair and the outfielder missed it, I knew I had to get on my horse.” East Bay continued their hot play on Saturday with their win in the second game. Senior outfielder Myles Babitt had an outstanding hitting game in the 8-4 win going 3 for 3 with an RBI. Navarro, Chris Porter and Dakota Conners also added RBI’s in the sixth. It looked like the Pioneers were going to sweep the Cougars, but the baseball gods had other plans for them in their 6-4 loss on Sunday afternoon in Hayward. Sophomore Jacob Call started the game and had an excellent game throughout seven innings, only allowing one earned run on 2 hits and 4 strikeouts. “I was just pounding the strike zone, doing my best to keep San Marcos hitters on their heels,” said Call. “My catcher, Chris Porter helped me out a lot, he was calling a great game.” The Cougars put a point on the board first in the first, leading 1-0. East Bay would then get on the board in the third to tie it up. The Pioneers took the lead in the fifth inning when Michael Frantz singled

Warriors win, Curry goes down again MVP will miss two weeks with sprained MCL By Louis LaVenture

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CSUEB Senior outfielder Myles Babitt runs to second base during a home game on Saturday. through the left side with an RBI, leading to a score by Kris Bartlett, giving the Pioneers the 2-1 lead. The Pioneers were doing well, not allowing the Cougars to score, securing their lead felt like a win was near. In the bottom of the seventh Porter scored, then in the top of the eighth Troy Resch singled through the right side, allowing Marcus Wise to score and giving East Bay the 4-1 lead. San Marcos would get their final chance to come back in the last innings and they did just that. Right fielder Clinton Perez singled through the left side, giving Branson Bentson the advance to second and Austin Ott the advance to third, and a Tyler Place score. The Cougars were then down 2. Hudson Bilodeau then flied out to infield, giving Ott the score, making the game 3-4. San Marcos, determined to win, wasn’t finished just there. Colin Dvorak stepped up to the plate and homered to left field, also giving Clinton Perez and

Brandon Bentson a score. This gave the Cougars the lead, with a score of 6-4. East Bay was unable to come back from the outstanding inning from San Marcos. “We felt very confident going into today with a 2-0 lead in the series,” said Babitt. “We need to work on staying focused for the entirety of the game,” Pioneers pitcher Jacob Call added. The loss puts the Pioneers’ record at 16-13 in conference and 25-15 overall. They are currently in the 3rd spot for playoff in the CCAA North Division, and must keep winning to keep this spot. “Every game at this point is critical, we have to find a way to win these next ball games,” said Babbitt. They will travel to Southern California to face UC San Diego (27-15 overall, 17-13 conference) in a crucial three game series. “Our preparation for San Diego will really just be getting back to the basics,” said Navarro. “Mastering the fundamentals is key this time of year, every game is important. We just have to win.”

The entire Bay Area took a collective deep breath on Sunday when the NBA’s reigning Most Valuable Player, Stephen Curry, slipped just before halftime and sprained his right knee. On Monday team officials confirmed the injury, a right grade one MCL ligament sprain that happened to the same leg that saw Curry miss games two and three of the series with an ankle injury. That didn’t stop the Golden State Warriors from destroying the Houston Rockets 121-94 and taking a 3-1 advantage in the series, going into game 5 in Oakland. However, the win came at a huge price. The Dubs will now be without Curry for two weeks, which could spell disaster for the back-to-back championship hopes of Golden State. Owner Bob Myers said Curry would be reevaluated in two weeks to determine his playing status going forward. “We’ll know a little bit more after the first week, but it is up to how his body responds to rest, treatment, things like that,” Myers told reporters on Monday. “There’s no, nothing surgical needed.” This is nothing new for Golden State, who were without Curry for several games during the regular season due to injury and also in two games this series in which they went 1-1. This means that role players like guards Shaun

Livingston, Leandro Barbosa and sixth man Andre Iguodala will have to step up in the absence of the MVP. The other half of the splash brothers, guard Klay Thompson, will also be asked to take on a larger role in the offense. “This is nothing new, injuries are part of the whole thing, you have to be able to adjust,” Thompson told reporters on Monday. “It’s easy to say let’s replace the best player in the world but that is the reality. We still have to play without him and find ways to win, which we know we can. Our depth gives us confidence.” The Warriors were the favorite, not only according to betting lines in Las Vegas, but also according to the majority of analysts like Shaquille O’Neil, Stephen A. Smith and Jeff Van Gundy. “I had them repeating,” Van Gundy said on ESPN Monday. “Now, I don’t even think they make it out of the conference finals without Curry.” For Golden State, only time will tell if they can adjust to life without arguably the best basketball player on the planet, however they will have to focus on the team aspect to get over the hurdle. Forward Draymond Green and center Andrew Bogut are great passers for big men and will be counted on to find open shooters, who won’t be as open without Curry on the floor. With the San Antonio Spurs and Cleveland Cavaliers already having swept their first round series, both teams will be able to rest, something the Warriors will be hoping to do if they can win game 5 on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at Oracle Arena in Oakland.

Sharks dispatch in Kings playoffs, advance to second round Poised for a deep run? By Erik Khan STAFF WRITER The San Jose Sharks were finally able to finish a playoff series against the Los Angeles Kings this past Friday, exercising demons from their past that can finally be put to rest. After defeating the Kings, it appears as if the Sharks may finally be poised to bring home the first Stanley Cup in the team’s history. While it is just a single playoff series win, beating the Kings has a more significant meaning: The Kings are the team that the Sharks dream about being. They’ve brought two Stanley Cups back to Los Angeles since 2012. The Kings have played it cool in the playoffs for the past five years, and the Sharks have been the exact opposite. While the Sharks made the playoffs two out of three years, both of those seasons ended with a 4-3 series loss to the Kings. Losing in the playoffs is always a heartbreaker, but the fashion that the Sharks lost to the Kings two years ago takes the cake: The Sharks led the series 3-0 before they collapsed losing four straight games to the eventual Stanley Cup champions. This was only the fourth time in NHL history that a team lost a series after leading it 3-0. However this year, things were different. In game one of the series versus the Kings in Los Angeles, the Sharks came out and played with a vengeance, securing a 4-3 victory thanks to Joe Pavelski. The team captain scored two goals, with his second being the game-winner in the

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third period. In game two, the Sharks and Pavelski brought it again, winning the game 2-1. Pavelski scored the first goal in a physical game that featured many huge hits. Forward Logan Couture netted a goal in the second frame to put the Sharks up by 2 and they never looked back.

The only loss for San Jose came in game three and it was a tight one. In a close game, the Sharks fell 2-1 in overtime after Kings’ forward Tanner Pearson tossed one past Martin Jones, just 3:47 into the extra period. The Sharks’ lone goal came less than thirty seconds into the game and they just couldn’t get

anything going. After they had lost the game, many thought that this would be the turning point in the series. However, the Sharks responded in game four. They held a 3-0 lead in the third period and made it clear that they were the better team. Up 3-1, everyone thought the Sharks

would struggle to close out the Kings, but this proved to be false. In game 5, the Sharks again held a 3-goal lead. However, they surrendered 3 straight Kings goals. Tied 3-3 in the third period, Joonas Donskoi put San Jose ahead for good with an absolute ripper past Kings’ goalie Jonathan Quick. Pavelski scored his fifth goal in as many games and Melker Karlsson put the icing on the cake to give the Sharks a 6-3 victory. This series’ win was huge and showed that the Sharks have the resolve and resilience that they have lacked in years past. Putting away the Kings will serve to ramp up the team’s confidence as they continue their playoff run. They will face the winner of the Anaheim Ducks and Nashville Predators series, which is currently tied 3-3. The Ducks beat the Sharks three out of four times during the regular season, while the Predators beat them two out of three ties. Those losses might scare the common Sharks fan, but true San Jose fans know that the regular season means little when it comes to predicting the outcome of a series. The Sharks have long been known to fall to teams in the postseason that they were able to handle with ease during the 82 game regular season. The playoffs are just a different beast. While the road to the cup is still extremely long, this San Jose team has what it takes to get the job done. The depth that surrounds their talent like Pavelski and Couture will prove too much to handle for opponents. Pair the offense with the play of Goalie Martin Jones, which has been stellar, and the Sharks are one of the most dangerous teams in the league.