By Matt Weiner (@mattweiner20) – Spear Reporter // Photo via Titus Wilkinson of The Spear From coaches to athletic departments to players to fans, seemingly everyone on the West Coast spent the last few days sweating out conference realignment. San Jose Read more
By Matt Weiner (@mattweiner20) – Spear Reporter San Jose State football’s Nick Nash was introduced to a mental health tool known as the “Flush Technique” last offseason. “[You] clench your fist for 10 seconds and then release,” said Nash, a Read more
By Matt Weiner (@mattweiner20) – Beat Reporter I’m thrilled to host and produce the “The Journey Through SJSU” podcast. Each episode will feature captivating and untold stories of San Jose State student-athletes and coaches. By clicking this link, you get Read more
By Nicholas Orozco (@nickorozco03) – Spear Reporter Quarterback Chevan Cordeiro, safety Tre Jenkins and head coach Brent Brennan attended the Mountain West Conference media day in Las Vegas, Nev. this week. At the start of the media day coverage, Cordeiro Read more
By Aikman Fang (@AikmanFang) – Spear Reporter The federal trial of Scott Shaw, SJSU’s former head athletic trainer, began earlier this week at the Robert F. Peckham Federal Courthouse, a couple of minutes from the campus he is accused of Read more
By Matt Weiner (@mattweiner20) – Baseball Beat Reporter // Photo Via Kavin Minstry When Sacramento State head coach Reggie Christiansen cut freshman Hunter Dorraugh in 2021, he meant well. ‘In 20 years you’ll look back on this and thank me,’ Read more
By Matt Weiner (@mattweiner20) – Basketball Beat Reporter / Photo via Titus Wilkinson of The Spear Mark Tatum, the NBA’s Deputy Commissioner, leaned in and announced the final pick of the 2023 NBA Draft: “With the 58th pick in the Read more
By Matt Weiner (@mattweiner20) – Spear Reporter // Photo by Emilee Chinn/USFL/Getty Images Boogie Roberts used to love being asked if he played for his hometown Los Angeles Rams. “Think of the pinnacle. The top of the top,” recounted Roberts, Read more
By Matt Weiner (@mattweiner20) – Baseball Beat Reporter // Photo Via SJSU Athletics Standing just beyond the pitcher’s mound, Thomas Walker, San Jose State’s associate head coach, gazed at the sprawling pandemonium. His eyes drifted toward head coach Brad Sanfilippo Read more
By Matt Weiner (@mattweiner20) – Basketball Beat Reporter / Photo via Titus Wilkinson of The Spear As San Jose State men’s basketball’s historic rebuild took shape last spring, so did fears of Cal Berkeley poaching second-year head coach Tim Miles. Read more
By Matt Weiner (@mattweiner20) – Spear Reporter Emilia Sjostrand is the first female Indoor and Outdoor All-American in SJSU track and field history | Photo by Maleek Diaz courtesy of SJSU Athletics Emilia Sjostrand capped off San Jose State’s historic Read more
By Matt Weiner (@mattweiner20) – Spear Reporter Following a blow-out win over Wyoming, head coach Tim Miles playfully tapped San Jose State broadcaster Justin Allegri’s arm and cracked, “Is that what we’re doing, the first again?” after Allegri noted it Read more
By Matt Weiner (@mattweiner20) // Photo via Maleek Diaz of SJSU Athletics The COVID-19 pandemic might’ve left the world disjointed, but for San Jose State track and field freshmen Cameron Tarver and Jeremiah Walker, it attached them at the hip. Read more
By Matt Weiner (@mattweiner20) – Baseball Beat Reporter // Photo Via SJSU Athletics The cigar smoke vapors waltzing around Excite Ballpark’s infield could only mean one thing: San Jose State baseball won a share of the league championship. The first Read more
By Matt Weiner (@mattweiner20) – Baseball Beat Reporter // Photo Via Titus Wilkinson SJSU’s Jack Colette welcomed a high fastball from Nevada’s Jason Doktorcyzk and waved it goodbye with a powerful stroke. The ball sailed over a Pepsi sign nearly Read more