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Mexico open Copa America campaign with victory against Uruguay

Infographic by Jovanni Arroyo-Camberos If anything was certain, it was that match six of the Copa America would be a high intense game that fans were looking for with this tournament. Although Barcelona superstar forward, Luis Suarez, was ruled out of the match because of a hamstring injury, the match still provided spectators with a lot of fireworks. Mexico defeated the no. 9 ranked Uruguay, 3-1, in the second game of Group C Sunday night in Glendale, Arizona. A crowd of 60,025 fans saw 37-year old and longtime Mexico captain, Rafael Marquez, score the go ahead goal securing three points and first place in the group for the team. “ I think we did a good job in the first half and we fell asleep a little in the beginning of the second half,” Marquez said in a postgame interview. “We reacted to their goal and we had much more confidence once we scored our second goal.” Mexico began the game with the fast-paced style offense coach Juan Carlos Osorio has brought ...

Professors research clarifies air pollution in CA and India

Faculty, students and staff gathered in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library last Wednesday to listen in on the first presentation to kick-off the 13 th annual University Scholar Series. The presentation focused on economics professor Matthew J. Holian’s research on trends and relationships in California and India related to air pollution, regulations and economic growth. Holian travelled to India to compare the trends and relationships in air pollution and its effects the economic growth of both India and California. "We downloaded air pollution data from monitoring stations that they (in India) have all of over the country and so we took the data and calculated city averages,” Holian said. “ And in some cities you have multiple monitoring stations and then we merged that air pollution data for cities to a bunch of other variables including income and literacy.” He said the key question is what happens to pollution levels as income rises, because if people have ...

SJSU women's soccer split weekend homestand

Photos by Jovanni Arroyo-Camberos Junior defender Hayden Kelley battles for the ball in last Friday’s Mountain West match-up against the UNLV Rebels at the Spartan Soccer Field. T he San Jose State women’s soccer team split its weekend conference matches with one win and one loss when they hosted the UNLV and the University of Nevada. The Spartans lost their first matchup against the UNLV Rebels 1-0 in a tight played game that was mainly dominated in the middle of the field. “I thought they came out flat in the first half, a lot of players did and we didn’t start the day in sync and I thought our attack was not very threatening in the first half and we didn’t finish our chances,” head coach Lauren Hanson said. SJSU began the match dominating most of possession, having several chances to score but failed to capitalize on them. Senior midfielder Darlene Rodriguez had a one on one chance at the beginning of the game but was denied by Rebels goalkeeper, Jessie Clark...

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