At Off the Banks in Las Vegas in November, pictured, from left, are Rutgers Interim Athletics Director Ryan Pisarri, Gabe Nunez of the R Fund, and former Scarlet Knights football players Bill Bennett RC’64 and Rich Novak RC’65.

Rutgers alumni, friends, and family have bonded this fall in Off Banks events in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and elsewhere prior to Scarlet Knights football and men’s basketball games. Upcoming festivities include the Rate Bowl in Phoenix on December 26 and a men's basketball game dubbed Knights in New York at Madison Square Garden on January 25.

Lauren Sisler holding her memoir Shatterproof on court at Jersey Mike's Arena

Memoir by ESPN sideline reporter and Rutgers alumna Lauren Sisler details how she persevered after the death of both her parents to prescription overdoses when she was a student-athlete.