C2M Sports and Recreation Editor Pat Carroll

Club football games to be broadcast live on Mason Cable Network

The Mason Cable Network in collaboration with Connect2Mason will begin broadcasting home club football games in their entirety, beginning with this Saturday's home opener against Onondaga College at 2 p.m. This will mark the first time in George Mason University's history that a student media outlet will broadcast a televised club sport game.

COLUMN: Is there too much pressure on Robert Griffin III?

The Washington Redskins haven't had a franchise quarterback in my lifetime. Since 1992 they have started 21 different quarterbacks. Yes, you read that right, 21 starting quarterbacks in 20 years. The Green Bay Packers have had three starters in that time frame--if you include two starts by back-up Matt Flynn in the last games of the 2010 and 2011 seasons. The one position that the 'Skins have been unable to successfully fill may have found its proverbial savior.

COLUMN: Better safe than sorry for Nats ace Strasburg

Every time Stephen Strasburg takes the mound, all eyes are entranced by the young righthander's surgically repaired elbow. Every inning pitched pushes the minute hand on his shutdown clock closer and closer to the hour of his inevitable benching. Like Cinderella at the ball, Strasburg's stroke of midnight is coming and coming fast. With only two to three starts left, Strasburg has become the center of attention in all of baseball. But, shutting him down may be one of the noblest decisions Nationals General Manager Mike Rizzo could make.

Merten's impact felt in balance of academics and athletics

Attendees who attended a George Mason University men’s basketball game in the past would have most likely seen the Green Machine blasting the school’s fight song, the Patriot Platoon, cheering on their fellow classmates and, President Alan Merten, in his courtside seat, barking at the referees over a bad call and armed with a t-shirt launcher that resembles a bazooka.

When the basketball season begins this fall, however, the man who claims to have missed as few as five Mason basketball games in his career will be absent. The president of the university will be gone.