Sports

  • Dance Team Starts Competition Season With a Bang

    Dance Team Starts Competition Season With a Bang This past weekend, the NPHS dance team started their competition season by clinching third overall grand champions and placing five soloists in the top 16 out of over 200 competing dancers. The competition took place in San Diego at Rancho Bernardo High School with over 15…

  • Cronies’ contributes to Panthers

    Cronies Sports Grill is given that banners, posters and a scoreboard can be found with the family friendly restaurant’s name plastered on them. This is due to the fact that Cronies is NPHS’s biggest sports sponsor. Whether it be football, basketball, or baseball, the Cronies Sports Grill logo is a constant. Cronies is NPHS’s…

  • Clemson takes surprise victory

    What a game! The heavy favorite, Alabama, was taken down by Clemson. The game was an instant classic as Clemson scored a touchdown in the final two seconds of the game to take the lead and win the national championship. This win is Alabama coach Nick Saban’s first loss in a national championship game.…

  • Matt Solomon sweeps the court

    The ball bounces up and down on the hardwood as he dribbles up the court. Solomon takes the ball to the rim and is contested. He makes the shot and the crowd goes wild. Matt Solomon is one of the many star players on Newbury Park High School’s basketball team. He is talented in…

  • A new season of NPBA

    The Newbury Park Basketball Association, or NPBA, is a league where students can play, or coach, basketball for fun without the pressure of high school level competition. The league provides students with a stress-free way to play basketball without school conflict. This year, the season began in December and from that point on, games…

  • Rousey vs. Nunes: What went wrong

    After being defeated via knockout in a career changing fight against Holly Holm on Nov.14, 2015, Ronda Rousey, currently a bantamweight mixed martial artist with a fighting style heavily influenced by Judo techniques, was waiting for a chance to return. The world of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, UFC, anticipated her career defining comeback fight…

  • Feeling free on the waves

    It’s pitch black outside. Most people are cozy in their beds, safe from the biting cold that signifies the coming of winter. The sun hasn’t woken yet. Outside, not even the crickets chirp. Most are still in deep sleep, dreaming about not going to school. A group of adolescents, with sleep filled eyes, all…

  • Every Sunday with the No Fun League

    Football is one of the most entertaining sports to watch. Games are filled with excitement, relief and occasionally heartbreak. Fans feel the same emotions as the players do whether you’re on the sideline, or at home watching on TV. But the NFL has taken action against something truly unnecessary and it has affected multiple…

  • Sneak peek in the upcoming basketball season

    As the weather gets colder, basketball season begins. Both boys’ and girls’ teams have a good chance of winning the league championships and look forward to a good run in playoffs. “We are 2-4 and off to a rough start, but we’ve played some pretty good competition and I believe we have a good…

  • Dance concert captures hearts and pikachus

      The curtain for DancersGo first opened to reveal two rival Pokemon Teams facing off to find out who was the superior team. After the introductory duel, the dance team, period 2 and 3 dance classes, IB dance, and guest studios gave performances. For the finale, the entire dance department took the stage in…