Author: Gabriel Myers

Gabriel Myers is a reporter for the Del Mar College Foghorn and has been on staff since Fall 2015. He is currently a Radio/Television major at Del Mar College. He has a passion for sports and entertainment writing. You can reach Gabriel via e-mail at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter @g_myers33.
Campus, Sports

East bests West in Viking Bowl

Gabriel Myers

East Campus came out victorious at this year’s Viking Bowl, a flag football game between the staff at Del Mar College’s East and West campuses. You haven’t lived until you’ve seen your “well-respected” professors get in each other’s face over rule changes during a flag football game, and that happened often at the Nov. 20 game, played on West Campus. There were festivities leading up to the game such as the punt, pass and kick competition, and the two campuses faced off in a game of tug of war at halftime. The game started out with no scoring from either…

Book Review, Entertainment, Sports

Biography on Michael Jordan an intriguing read

Gabriel Myers

“Michael Jordan The Life” may be one of the most interesting and in-depth biographies ever written. Author Roland Lazenby goes to great lengths to be as detailed and thorough as possible. This isn’t just a book about Michael Jordan’s stats or accomplishments, because you don’t even have to know basketball to know that Jordan is widely regarded as the greatest to ever play the game of basketball. This book takes a look at the making of Jordan and offers readers a look into why Jordan is who he is. You get a look into the psyche of Jordan, the intense…

Campus, Sports

DMC intramural flag football kick off

Gabriel Myers

C. Robert Gonzalez/Foghorn Clay on the Free Agents dives to catch the football. The tournament will be continuing through Dec. 2. This will be the last intramural event until next semester. While Del Mar College employees showed off their flag football skills at the Viking Bowl on Nov. 20, DMC students also have been tak- ing part in a flag football tournament of their own. The intramural flag football league has been going on here at Del Mar, and it seems to have been the most competitive of the intramural sports this semester. The league began on Nov. 16 and will…

Entertainment, Movies, Sports, TV

‘Trojan War’ a deep look at USC football team

Gabriel Myers

“Trojan War” is an ESPN 30 for 30 about the Pete Carroll-led USC Trojans football team from 2000-06. The documentary, directed by Aaron Rashaan Thomas, begins by explaining the history of USC football and the success they had enjoyed from 1960s into the 1980s before falling from national prominence. Thomas then goes into the struggles that USC faced in the 1990s and how the hiring of Pete Carroll in 2000 was faced with much criticism from the media because he was a failed NFL coach who had never coached college. The documentary then begins to focus on three players, Matt…

Community, Sports

Flour Bluff football season a lackluster one

Gabriel Myers

Friday night lights came to an end Nov. 6. No, I don’t mean the movie or TV series. I’m talking about the Friday night lights that took place every Friday at Flour Bluff High School this football season. The Flour Bluff Hornets needed to win, and they needed a loss by either the Victoria East Titans or the Gregory Portland Wildcats. Flour Bluff beat the Alice Coyotes 27-21, but they didn’t get the loss they needed so their season end- ed in disappointment. Gabriel Myers/Foghorn The Flour Bluff Hornets rush onto the field to kick off their game against the…