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Family Guys

The Hoyas aim for the NCAAs, led by John Thompson III

From Thompson Jr. to Thompson III and Ewing to Ewing Jr.; from the Westchester High School backcourt tandem of Brandon Bowman and Ashanti Cook to the Big East senior backcourt duo; from the comfort of home on the hilltop to culture shock at the southern abode of a loyal teammate: this year’s Georgetown Hoyas are much more than a 15-member team on the hard-court. They are family, members of the close-knit community that is Georgetown basketball.

“We really know what’s going on,” senior forward Brandon Bowman said of the seniors. “But we are more of a family, so everyone voices their opinion equally.”

By the November 15, 2005

Features

Huskies top of the pack

Drama abounded this off-season for the perennial Big East powerhouse Huskies.

By the November 15, 2005

Features

These guys are no joke: 4 BE players to watch

Rudy Gay, Gerry McNamara, Taquan Dean, and Allan Ray are the players to watch this season.

By the November 15, 2005

Features

Women look to prove rankings wrong

This year the Georgetown women’s basketball team stands poised to build on last season.

By the November 15, 2005

Features

Review: Hoyas fight to highest seed since ’99-’00

Last year, Georgetown ended the regular season with an overall record of 12-16 and a final Big East tally of 7-9. However, the Hoyas conference record was solid enough to land them the sixth seed in the Big East tournament, the team’s highest seeding since the 1999-00 season.

By the November 15, 2005

Features

Smooth transition: Marlow puts up big numbers in Big East

Kieraah Marlow exceeded all expectations and became just as dominant in the Big East as her high school years.

By the November 15, 2005

Features

Raptor! Raptor! Raptor!

Streaking down the court as fast as my little legs will carry me, clad in flashy blue shorts down to my shins, I hear our point guard call: ‘Raptor! Raptor!’ Raptor was a play of pure genius.

By the November 15, 2005

Features

The Zen-Master

When the time came, I heeded my call as a coach, well, assistant coach, on my little cousins’ Knicks summer league team in Valley Stream, Long Island.

By the November 15, 2005

Features

Uni Watch

The 2005- 2006 season brings new prospects for success with a new year. What better way to embrace that than with new uniforms?

By the November 15, 2005

Editorials

Clean up WASA’s act

A whistle blower who was fired in 2003 by the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority for exposing the dangerous levels of lead in the city’s water was ordered reinstated last week.

By the November 10, 2005

Editorials

A new type of sex offense

Unprotected sex was the crime that will put Sundiata Basir in jail for 21 years. This may sound excessive, but Basir, a former D.C. government employee, is HIV positive.

By the November 10, 2005

Editorials

Give ’em hell, Harry!

Last week we saw new leadership and a new party when Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) took the Senate into secret session to demand answers on Iraq intelligence.

By the November 10, 2005

Voices

Stopping the Prozac

Getting used to an emotional existence

By the November 10, 2005

Voices

Darwin in the District

If you have been to chicken finger Thursday at Leo’s, you’ve seen Darwinism in action.

By the November 10, 2005

Voices

Youthful misgivings

Thanks to the laziness of not wanting to change doctors, here I am about to enter a room where the average age of the patients is smaller than my shoe size.

By the November 10, 2005

Voices

Not fading away

Carrying On- a rotating column by voice senior staffers

By the November 10, 2005

Leisure

_Guantanomo_ takes no prisoners

A tall barbed wire fence and Muslim detainees lying down on several cots greet the audience as they walk into the Studio Theater. Welcome to Guantanamo Bay Prison.

By the November 10, 2005

Leisure

Super Furry Animals get rabid

At 5 p.m. on Tuesday, I walked into a very empty 9:30 Club and met a slightly confused, very bedraggled Welshman.

By the November 10, 2005

Leisure

Life in _The Boondocks_ gets animated

The Boondocks, adapted from Aaron McGruder’s syndicated comic strip, is full of slightly absurd humor that satirizes black and white stereotypes, as well as many other facets of American culture that happen to be … well … stupid.

By the November 10, 2005

Leisure

Buttering up

You Taste Like A Burger – a biweekly column about eating leisurely

By the November 10, 2005

Leisure

Lezhur Ledger: Smashing pumpkins … with catapults

Get out your trucker hats, stonewash denim and handlebar mustaches: it’s time for the World Championship Punkin’ Chunkin’.

By the November 10, 2005

Sports

Georgetown falls in BE quarters, hopes for NCAA

The Georgetown men’s soccer team came up short in their quest for a Big East Championship this past week, losing in a blowout to No. 7 Connecticut after squeaking by Villanova last Thursday.

By the November 10, 2005

Sports

Hoyas fall below .500 and out of playoff picture

The Hoya football team saw their playoff hopes erased last Saturday as they were rolled over by Lehigh.

By the November 10, 2005

Sports

GU loses two

The Georgetown University women’s volleyball team dropped their final two home games of the season this past weekend to two of the Big East’s more elite clubs.

By the November 10, 2005

Sports

The modern fredo

Hittin’ the back nine – A weekly take on sports

By the November 10, 2005