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The Sports Sermon

Yeah, Belichick made the right decision in starting Brady. In the biggest sports’ upset of our lifetime, the 14-point underdog New England Patriots defeated the obelisk of offensive efficiency that was the St. Louis Rams. Even more remarkable than the upset was that the game was fantastic.

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Battle of the Sexes

There are two genders in our world: the male and the female. By and large, the male enjoys viewing sports more than the female, for the simple reason that if he can’t talk about sports effectively at a young age, he will be cast aside by the masses. A case in point of this situation: In the summer before sixth grade, when I was a hugely fat, zit-infested kid who wore striped clothing way too much and talked with a lisp, I went to a summer program geared towards really smart kids.

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Wonderboy

So the Super Bowl’s over, what now? These are the two or three weeks of the year when I start getting work done, my roommates make video games a full-time occupation and my sports-addicted grandfather refuses to leave his house, mired in a crippling mix of withdrawal, depression and impatience.

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Lord of the Rings: Voice Sports previews the Winter Olympics

The Winter Olympic games begin this Friday in Salt Lake City, and the normally dormant state of Utah becomes the focus of the world’s attention. Not since 1932 has the United States won the medal race on its home soil. In Nagano, Japan four years ago, the United States finished fifth.

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Hoyas climb over Mountaineers

Around 2:40 p.m. last Saturday afternoon, the MCI Center was enveloped in darkness, with only a handful of employees running around, lowering the baskets to the floor and cleaning up the aisles. Slowly, however, a young man strode down the hallway from the locker rooms onto the court, running one hand through his hair in distress, while the other clutched a Diet Pepsi.

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Women’s lacrosse looks to build on past success

The Georgetown women’s lacrosse team, ranked fourth in the nation by Lacrosse Magazine’s preseason poll, will aim to return to the NCAA finals this year, despite losing six starters to graduation. Included in the Hoyas’ graduating class was attack Sheehan Stanwick, the most prolific scorer in the 25-year history of the program.

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News

Gonzalez rejects GLBT resource center

Vice President of Student Affairs Juan Gonzalez definitively rejected the proposed resource center for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students on Friday. An ad hoc committee first presented the idea for a GLBT center to Gonzalez in August, and student supporters have been meeting with Gonzalez and other administrators to discuss the proposition throughout the year.

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