Things didn’t go as planned for the City College softball team this spring, compiling a record of 11-26-1 after going 6-15 in the Big 8 Conference.

According to the coach, these struggles weren’t because of a lack of effort.

“We don’t have players on the team this year that have played a lot of softball,” head coach Tim Kiernan said.

The Panthers got a very solid freshman campaign from infielder Molly Ryan, who led the team with a .458 batting average to go along with nine home runs and 36 RBI’s in 96 at-bats.

Ryan also was selected to the [read more...]

Doonan has spent summers digging in Peru and lecturing on diverse topics around the world.  After starting a family and subsequently putting archaeological fieldwork on pause, Doonan published three novels in between raising his two young sons and teaching full time at City College.  His third novel, “American Caliphate,” was released April 10 this year.

“American Caliphate,” which centers around two archaeologists searching the ruins of Peru’s pyramids for a long lost document that would stun the Islamic world, was an idea he had while doing fieldwork in the Peru.

“It never rains there so it’s really arid… so we [read more...]

There was anticipation, expectation, waiting, attention, hope and excitement. Four years, five movies, seven stars and a $220 million budget. Unfortunately, Marvel’s “The Avengers” is not as good of a film as you think it is.

It’s better.

Under Joss Whedon’s more than capable direction, “The Avengers” finishes what “Iron Man” started in 2008 with the greatest of flourishes. Its central plot pits the titular heroes (Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, The Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye, for the uninitiated) against the vengeful Norse god with tyrannical aspirations for Earth, Norse god Loki.

Perhaps Whedon’s greatest triumph is that “The [read more...]