Jonathan Mathis
Jon Mathis
Jonathan Mathis is a passionate, hard-driven sportswriter. He is studying communications at California State University Fullerton, and was chosen to cover the Titan Athletic Hall of Fame when former NBA star Bruce Bowen was honored by the university. Mathis covered baseball as a beat reporter for CyChron, a campus newspaper for Cypress Community College. He also has appeared on sports talk radio twice in Canada, and once in Buffalo, NY. He's been covering the hottest topics in sports since 2006. Mathis resides in Cerritos, CA, where he was born and raised.
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2012 London Olympics: LeBron James’ Heroics Delivers Gold to U.S.
A nation shared its proudness and appreciation Sunday. Basketball was MADE IN THE USA, after all. LeBron James, among all players, was the man of red, white and blue, representing the United States with a sense of pride and grace and led the U.S. to back-to-back Olympic gold medals. He, among all players, jumped for joy on the [...]
Tweet2012 London Games: Nobody Can Catch Usain Bolt
The first thing I should note, as I couldn’t keep track of the Jamaicans smoking the U.S., is that Usain Bolt is really the greatest track showman. He’s a showboat, a demigod and a natural-born athlete, the sprinting sensation of the world, which affirms he’s The World’s Fastest Man. Nobody can keep up with Bolt, let alone the [...]
TweetDwight Howard To Hollywood: Lakers Soar Into Prime Contention
The Buss family, especially Jim, the son of Jerry who is running an operation out of Los Angeles, negotiated and somehow landed Dwight Howard in Hollywood. The Los Angeles Lakers, whose recipe for success is constant rebuilding with blockbuster moves, satisfied their star guard Kobe Bryant, surrounding him with star power and plenty of talent to [...]
TweetWith All Due Respect, Hope Solo Gets Save for U.S. Women
When the clock finally expired, Hope Solo met her teammates at midfield for a group hug, then leaped in the air and wrapped herself in the American flag. The U.S. goalkeeping star wasn’t always a genuine sweetheart, or wasn’t always a quiet girl. And suddenly Solo, now an Olympic champion at Wembley Stadium, London’s most prestigious sporting venue, [...]
Tweet2012 London Olympics: A Dynasty at the Beach Like No Other
The nation’s best volleyball players, Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings had a wild party on the sand Wednesday night. The game ended, and May-Treanor danced and then ran around like a little girl at the playground, celebrating and hopping in the sand. The bikini babes medaled again, cementing a legacy on the beach every summer of the Olympic [...]
TweetWith Failure After Failure, Lolo Jones Doesn’t Live Up to Hype
And so it ends, without Lolo Jones earning a medal to drape around her neck. For the American hurdler who has been criticized so much, it’s quite iconic with what happened to Jones again in these games, heartbroken and disillusioned, fighting through much adversity and having a second chance to respond, but unfortunately she was unsuccessful in redeeming herself [...]
TweetUsain Bolt Strikes Lightning On London’s Brightest Stage
He is about to become the king of racing, to be precise. Taking off out of the starting block the minute the starting gun fired at Olympic Stadium, unfazed by the doubts and skeptics discounting him as the world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt hauled down the track, faster than a stampede of wildebeests. Well ahead of other [...]
TweetOscar Pistorius: ‘The Blade Runner’ Makes for Wonderful Story, So Don’t Ruin It
The folks of the Olympics don’t understand it, probably because Oscar Pistorius is different from everybody else, a double amputee born with no fibulas in his legs. It’s one of the many inspirational stories to ever bring a glow to the summer games, as the South African product ran in the 2012 Olympics on prosthetic legs, with millions inspired and overwhelmed [...]
Tweet2012 Olympics: Allyson Felix Tries to Exceed Expectations
Allyson Felix sprints into Olympic Stadium with a glare in her eyes, and the body language of a serious competitor, the kind of vibes she brings to racing. It’s about her intensity and emotions, building a winning attitude, on a mission to smoke each sprinter in London and sell a million of Nike shoes, feature [...]
TweetMichael Phelps’ Historic Feat Enriches Legacy
On Thursday night, he became the king of swimming, the face of a sport that has taken over the Summer Olympics during a generation that Michael Phelps has swam for gold medals in the age of the Swimming Gold Rush. Once again, as winning is common, he amplified his incremental legacy at the London Aquatics Centre [...]
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