Letter from the editor

• Daily Forty-Niner rounds up the year
  After an eventful year the Daily Forty-Niner is now closing the spring semester of 2005. When thinking about what to do with our finals issue, we decided to include the biggest news from the 2004-05 year.

• Associated Students elections review—in a few

Sports

• Phil Jackson should take triangle to New York
  One of the most intriguing questions remains to be unanswered in the National Basketball Association. Many fans are becoming enamored with the answer; where will arguably the greatest professional basketball coach of all time, Phil Jackson coach next year?
  
• 49ers finish regular season with magic
  An emphatic mob of 49er students trampled any remnants of a season filled with turbidity and heartbreak on the floor of The Walter Pyramid Saturday evening, as the Long Beach State men's basketball team stunned the archrival UC Santa Barbara Gauchos, 58-57, in front of a raucous Homecoming crowd of 2,967.
  
• The Beach washes UCR back inland
  When things are not going well sometimes you have to take a step back in order to move forward. That seems to be the case for the Long Beach State women's tennis team, after dropping two games last weekend to Sacramento State and Pacific. Returning home, the 49ers put their best foot forward as they were victorious over UC Riverside last Thursday at The Campus Courts.