After San Diego State sunk Navy 35-14 in the Poinsettia Bowl, senior running back Brandon Sullivan stood on the field with his helmet in his hands — tears of joy streaming down his face. But they weren’t just any tears from an emotional running back.

Director Darren Aronofsky’s days of being snubbed by the Academy are finally finished. Paving the way for his Oscar redemption was 2008′s “The Wrestler,” and now with “Black Swan,” Aronofsky delivers another powerful character study about a ballerina driven mad by her hunger for perfection.

There is something off about Director David O. Russell’s new boxing flick, aside from Christian Bale’s meth-affected eye contact. Bale’s character, Dicky Eklund, is just one of a colorful cast of family members represented in Russell’s big-screen version of Massachusetts boxing legend “Irish” Micky Ward’s rise to fame.

An inspirational sports film speckled with familial humor and intense drama, “The Fighter” walks the line of a few genres. One thing is clear: It is incredibly unique.

Following San Diego State head coach Brady Hoke’s press conference today, I spoke with prolific junior linebacker Miles Burris who said he hasn’t consulted with NFL agents, and that he’ll return for his senior season.

As a community, we have the right to choose what kind of products we want to buy and where we get them; that’s consumer choice. And a Walmart superstore is not where we want to get groceries to feed our families.

During the week of Nov. 15, vandals defaced a student-made poster promoting a talk by Itamar Marcus, founder of Palestinian Media Watch. Anti-Israel and anti-semitic slogans were painted on the banner, as was a graphic equating the Star of David with a swastika.

We finally did it. Forget about Botox or finding the fountain of youth, Harvard researchers have finally developed a youth potion — sort of.

Olga Amaral and Leslie Garrison, former professors at San Diego State’s Imperial Valley campus, were recently indicted alongside former Superintendent Michael P. Klentschy after being accused of using federal grant money for personal expenses.

Most students returned from Thanksgiving break stuffed from holiday feasts. San Diego State student Morgan Sacco came back feeling empty. His sister, Aubrey Sacco, was last seen trekking through Nepal in April; she has been missing ever since.

After seven months traveling in Asia, psychology senior Renee Payne was ready to go home. Beginning in January of this year, Payne studied abroad in Singapore — more than 8,000 miles away from California.

By Edward Lewis, Sports Editor Silence the critics. Answer the questions. Turn the doubters into believers. The San Diego State men’s basketball team is officially the real deal. SDSU went into the McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane, Wash. last night and took down the No. 11 team in the nation, Gonzaga, 79-76. Senior forward Billy [...]