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Former Oshawa Legionnaire star set to shine in MLB Futures game
The 6’5” 225 lb outfielder was a three-year standout at Cal State Northridge, where he was named Tri-Defensive Player of the Year and All-Big West 2nd Team All-star while with the Matadors in 2021. He was chosen in the 4th round of the MLB draft last year by Oakland. -- Insuaga
Scott scores for FC Tucson women in final match of season
Martin was an all Big West midfielder during her time at Cal State Northridge, so she is an experienced player. Her time there, however, was done in 2019 and much of her playing time since has been with recreational leagues, although she put in some time with WPSL side FC Fram. -- Tucson Sentinel
El Sereno para-athlete Finds Purpose and Joy on the Court
‘Taking steps’ is a perfect metaphor for this young El Sereno man whose ankle was crushed by a speeding driver last September just months before his graduation from Cal State Northridge. “It happened so fast,” he remembers about the screeching tires, the explosion, and the bright white pain he felt. -- The Eastsider
How to Watch HFX Wanderers FC at Valour FC: Live Stream, TV Channel, Start Time
HFX is led by attacker Samuel Salter, who has netted five goals in 13 matches this season, surpassing his three-goal output in 21 games a year ago. The 21-year-old Canadian was a product of the Montreal Impact academy before playing at Cal State Northridge earning All-Freshman Team honors. -- Sports Illustrated
CSUN's Veronica Valdez Montoya: The Chicano movement turned my shame and embarrassment into my voice, my identity, my pride
I can still remember pulling up to the apartments on the corner of Montezuma Road and College Avenue with everything I owned in the back of my black Ford Escort. Knowing that my aunt lived close to San Diego State University, on a whim and without any notice, I drove to San Diego in 1996 in the hopes that I could transfer from Hartnell College to SDSU and finally finish my undergraduate degree. -- San Diego Union-Tribune
Newsom, DeSantis Fight a ‘Proxy War’ for America’s Future
“I think (Newsom’s) political career really begins during the time of when California kind of leads the way on on gay marriage,” says Tom Hogen-Esch, chair of political science at California State University Northridge, pointing to when as mayor of San Francisco in 2004, Newsom unilaterally ordered the city clerk to marry same-sex couples just a month into his term. When Newsom ran for governor in his second attempt more than a decade later, he won handily, at the age of 51, succeeding long-time California Gov. Jerry Brown, and was expected to pursue an even more progressive agenda for the state. -- U.S. News & World Report
July 8-21: CSUN’s Teenage Drama Workshop Offers Two Productions
Teenage Drama Workshop, the nationally acclaimed summer youth theater program offered by California State University, Northridge, will celebrate its 65th anniversary this summer with a return to full production and two plays that illustrate the drama involved in sibling relationships. -- SCV News
When LA City Ignores Your Pleas for Pedestrian Safety, Talk to the Crosswalk Collective
“Prioritizing the automobile over the pedestrian route can qualify as not just inaction, but quite frankly, violent inaction,” said CSUN professor of urban studies Brettany Shannon. “Insurgent planning is the community’s response to that continued stagnation.” -- Knock LA
Bringing Back Del Paso Boulevard
Savala was raised on Sacramento County’s unincorporated south side and attended nine different elementary schools. Later, he graduated from Cal State Northridge with a degree in urban, community and regional planning. He returned home and worked on Allen Warren’s election campaign for city council, then spent seven years on the city council staff. “I like to say for the last eight years, my entire life has revolved around what happens here in North Sacramento, Old North Sac, particularly the 95815 ZIP code, but I have a really good breadth of knowledge about the district as a whole.” -- Sacramento Magazine
Futures Game scouting reports for each team
Acquired from the Braves in the Matt Olson deal, Langeliers continues to hit for power (14 homers) and play easily plus defense behind the plate as he awaits his first call to the big leagues. The A’s took the toolsy Clarke out of Cal State Northridge in the fourth round of the 2021 Draft, and the Toronto native is having a fine first season, with a .903 OPS and 17 steals while earning a promotion from Single-A to High-A in mid-June. -- MLB.com