Author: The Commuter


It probably suffocated you to the state of insanity. You couldn’t thumb through social media, read the newspaper, watch your routine television shows, or even carry on a conversation without it coming up. Surely, you’re fed up with this year’s Read more…


Look around you, take it in. Just look, please, just look. Peak out the window, step outside; marvel at whatever nature is presenting. The golden splotched tree leaves fluttering in the breeze, cars passing by on the freeway, animals grazing Read more…


Since launching the women’s soccer program in 2001, success has come sparingly at Frederick Community College. The Lady Cougars have never had a winning season and only qualified for the playoffs once – in 2013. Though FCC has only won Read more…


Grit. It’s what drove a team that lost seven of their last nine games in 2015 into one that was 90 minutes away from playing on the national stage. It’s what turned skeptics – outsiders who discarded a Cougar team Read more…


With a rookie head coach and a roster consisted of 17 freshman, expectations at the beginning of the season were relatively unknown for FCC men’s soccer. After all, they were fresh off a pedestrian 9-8 season. How could things possibly get Read more…


Frederick Community College men’s soccer coach John LaRocca announced Friday, Oct. 21 that players Maycol Nunez and Hein Aung have been released from the team. While LaRocca declined to elaborate, he described both releases as an “internal team matter.” “We Read more…


Sitting in the post-game presser before stumped reporters, Buck Showalter was engulfed by the one confounding question that baffled millions of baseball fans in Orioles’ 5-2 loss in the American League Wild Card game on Tuesday night. Why didn’t he Read more…


John LaRocca approaches each and every day with a vision that’s only clear to him. Tucked in the back of Frederick Community College’s campus is LaRocca’s office, a 100 by 60 yard grass field, which displays his prized student-athletes. In Read more…