https://blakemetiva.journoportfolio.comRSS Feed for Blake MetivaenThu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/9cb58454-ff64-4234-a1d0-a3cb6f5715f8.jpgA photo of the October 2025 edition of the Collegiate.Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/9cb58454-ff64-4234-a1d0-a3cb6f5715f8.jpghttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/85c1e741-6618-46f9-a1a1-b795de984a59.jpgTue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/85c1e741-6618-46f9-a1a1-b795de984a59.jpghttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/adc54bed-eb70-4e8e-868b-6b72f6a5816a.jpgFri, 09 May 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/adc54bed-eb70-4e8e-868b-6b72f6a5816a.jpghttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/3aa36f0e-eb94-4526-803f-d7d9fe019993.jpegWed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/3aa36f0e-eb94-4526-803f-d7d9fe019993.jpeghttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/65546ed7-0e2b-45f9-9cd7-63420fac1a2b.jpegWed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/65546ed7-0e2b-45f9-9cd7-63420fac1a2b.jpeghttps://deltacollegiate.org/congratulations-gary-you-finally-got-it-right/By Blake Metiva Rivalries, geopolitical struggles, and three fights in nine seconds. For the first time in a long time, the National Hockey League has positive PR for finally doing something other leagues haven’t: innovating the all-star game. There was nothing more welcome than a change to the game. Players didn’t care about the event anymore, most notably Alexander Ovechkin skipping in 2020 and Nikita Kucherov showing no effort in the skills competition at the 2024 edition.  The NHL a...Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://deltacollegiate.org/congratulations-gary-you-finally-got-it-right/https://deltacollegiate.org/where-have-all-the-men-gone/By Blake Metiva, Emma Blakley, Delta Collegiate staff; Isaiah Kabban, Student submission Think of a typical college education. You might imagine sitting in a classroom, taking notes, or working on a computer. To some, this may seem incredibly unappealing; to others, it’s a dream.   In the last 25 years a trend has emerged: men are disappearing from higher education.  “Nobody has the answer as to why men aren’t going,” Delta College President Mike Gavin says. “We’ve done some outreach an...Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://deltacollegiate.org/where-have-all-the-men-gone/https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/44f02687-ddab-46a2-a4b0-3846343e2135.jpgThu, 30 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/44f02687-ddab-46a2-a4b0-3846343e2135.jpghttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/e7b887cb-3728-4905-8867-5db5f6efe5e2.jpgThu, 30 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/e7b887cb-3728-4905-8867-5db5f6efe5e2.jpghttps://deltacollegiate.org/perfect-pioneers-undefeated-national-champions/By Blake Metiva Delta College’s Women’s Soccer Team took home a national championship for the first time in three years. The team defeated the Mohawk Valley Hawks 3-0 on Nov. 17, marking their second national title in program history. The Pioneers had been ranked inside the top two teams since the preseason, and first in the division since Sept. 16. They entered the tournament as the top team in Division III, so anything other than a title would’ve been a disappointment.  The national f...Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://deltacollegiate.org/perfect-pioneers-undefeated-national-champions/https://deltacollegiate.org/pioneer-history-made/By Blake Metiva The Delta volleyball team finished its season this month falling just short of an NJCAA National Tournament.  The team started the year slowly, with a record of 10-10 through its first 20 matches, but finished strong with a 6-4 record. The season was extremely streaky, but by the time the Region XII tournament came around, the women had their eyes on the prize. They met the Lorain County Community College Commodores in the first round. The two teams had met earlier in the...Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://deltacollegiate.org/pioneer-history-made/https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/705c73f6-95ff-442a-9585-927ad3ded8fb.jpgTue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/705c73f6-95ff-442a-9585-927ad3ded8fb.jpghttps://deltacollegiate.org/spirit-set-to-drop-the-puck/By Blake Metiva The Saginaw Spirit will open the Ontario Hockey League season against the Windsor Spitfires at the Dow Event Center on Wednesday, Sept. 25, at 7:05 p.m. The Spirit will raise two championship banners before the game in commemoration of their 2023-24 season, in which they won the OHL’s Western Division and the Canadian Hockey League’s Memorial Cup. The club returned a majority of its big-name talent that propelled it to an improbable Memorial Cup victory, including top de...Tue, 24 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://deltacollegiate.org/spirit-set-to-drop-the-puck/https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/9f3031df-c13a-4be5-8114-ea22dcc903f5.jpgThu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/9f3031df-c13a-4be5-8114-ea22dcc903f5.jpghttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/01c6b543-0942-49a2-99c2-eaa265ec31a3.jpgThu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/01c6b543-0942-49a2-99c2-eaa265ec31a3.jpghttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/c387c6bc-2164-4627-921c-e14b36442c66.jpgThu, 12 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/c387c6bc-2164-4627-921c-e14b36442c66.jpghttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/4c67149f-ee8a-465c-b082-bb5ae19f0746.jpgSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/4c67149f-ee8a-465c-b082-bb5ae19f0746.jpghttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/ab3ef2b7-70e9-473f-a508-d6b1ce4774a1.jpgThu, 11 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/451009/images/ab3ef2b7-70e9-473f-a508-d6b1ce4774a1.jpghttps://deltacollegiate.org/hamburg-my-pearl/By: Blake Metiva May 27, 2017. I had been a fan of my soccer club Hamburger SV for just under a season, but I knew the significance of what I was watching. My club had never been relegated but were staring the drop down to the second division in the face. We were playing relegation rival VFL Wolfsburg. They were 2 points ahead of us, and anything less than a win saw a two-match playoff against the third placed team in the second league.  The clock in the corner was ticking, counting the am...Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://deltacollegiate.org/hamburg-my-pearl/https://deltacollegiate.org/spirit-flying-high/After a slow start, the Saginaw Spirit have caught fire. By: Blake Metiva The Saginaw Spirit are soaring above the competition and separating themselves as a top dog in the Ontario Hockey League. After a slow start losing eight of their first 12 games, the Spirit have been on fire. Since their 6-5 loss to the Erie Otters on Nov. 2, the Spirit have rattled off an astounding 40 wins and only six losses. They sit 2nd in the Ontario Hockey League – only a few points behind the league-leading a...Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://deltacollegiate.org/spirit-flying-high/https://deltacollegiate.org/professor-profiles-the-roaming-historian/In the first part of a new series, the Collegiate sheds light on professors around campus By: Blake Metiva Amy French has been with Delta since 2004 when she began as an adjunct professor. But her roots at the college began prior to her career as a professor. French attended Delta prior to attending the University of Michigan, where she graduated with a Bachelors of Arts. French became a stockbroker and worked in the field for five years; she “majored in history for fun.” She had never dre...Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://deltacollegiate.org/professor-profiles-the-roaming-historian/https://deltacollegiate.org/tale-of-two-halves-ends-lions-season/Lions disappear for the third quarter and dash Super Bowl dreams. By: Blake Metiva “The tragedy of man is not that he loses, it’s that he almost wins.” This was said by Heywood Broun, and it couldn’t encapsulate the end of the Lions season any better.  The Detroit Lions entered halftime of their NFC Championship Game up 3 scores, up 17 points, and 30 minutes from a Super Bowl date with the Kansas City Chiefs. The state of Michigan hadn’t been so unified behind one sports team since the...Sat, 10 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://deltacollegiate.org/tale-of-two-halves-ends-lions-season/https://deltacollegiate.org/victors-valiant/Michigan runs all over Washington to win the National Championship. By: Blake Metiva “I’m here before you as enthusiastic and excited as I ever am, always am — even more — to have it, to win the championship. To beat Ohio, our rivals Michigan State, everybody. That’s what we want to do. And we’re going to do it or die trying.”  Head coach Jim Harbaugh promised this on Big Ten Media Day in 2021. And last night, he achieved it. Michigan beat their rivals, they beat everybody, they won the ch...Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://deltacollegiate.org/victors-valiant/