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West coast cred, east coast waters

Impressively tall in his Canadian Henle polo shirt and loafers, newly appointed Head Women’s Crew Coach Glenn Putyrae looks every inch the rower.

By September 6, 2007

Sports

The Sports Sermon

You may not have heard of Mary Ellen Clark. During the 1990s, she was one of the premier Olympic divers in the United States, and I—for no apparent reason outside her ability to kick a lot of post-communist posteriors and emerge from the water looking like she’d spent the day in an Icelandic spa—idolized her.

By September 6, 2007

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Brady Quinn’s new hazing-induced haircut isn’t the only piece of titillating news on sports fans’ minds in my hometown.

By August 30, 2007

Features

Saturday Night Lights

You’re not much of a bleeder,” Alicia Nelson (COL ’08) remarks, efficiently administering a finger prick to her bemused and tearful patient.

The young woman on the receiving end of the test sniffles a little, not sure how to handle this bit of news in light of the fact that her shirt is spotted with crimson droplets.

It’s Saturday night, we’re in the back of an ambulance, and though I feel for this girl, I figure Alicia knows a bleeder when she sees one. A senior and president of the Georgetown Emergency Response Medical Service—commonly known by the ironic acronym “GERMS”— Nelson has been on over 300 emergency calls and has seen a lot worse than tonight’s moderate sanguinary showing.

By August 30, 2007

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Americans should thank Michael Vick for restoring the sanctity of American sports. Our recent national foray into the underbelly of athletics is wholly unnatural, as we are a people who... Read more

By August 24, 2007

Sports

The Sports Sermon

There is something mind-altering about the lights on Kehoe Field.

By May 3, 2007

Sports

Campin out to get to HotLanta

Phillip McClymont was as giddy as a plastic surgeon at the Playboy mansion as he sat in full collegiate glory Monday night outside McDonough Gymnasium, surveying the crowd of fellow Hoyas who came to secure tickets to the culmination of March’s madness: the Final Four in Atlanta. Reclining in a camping chair as buddies popped open brews and enjoyed the gustatory delights of finely-aged Philly Pizza, the junior’s glow outshone even Patrick Ewing’s dog-tag bling.

By March 29, 2007

Sports

This cheerleader has cajones

In between bites of iceberg lettuce, Eric Cusimano details the ins and outs of his life as the sole male member of Georgetown’s cheerleading squad. Sporting khakis, a white baseball hat and black fleece, Cusimano is the picture of the Joe Hoya stereotype. At a superficial glance, you might guess that his extracurricular activities were confined to intramural basketball and slap bag. Instead, the freshman from Louisiana devotes his spare time to acrobatic feats, frenzied cheers and getting up close and personal with the smiling, be-ribboned girls ESPN cameramen love to spotlight.

By February 15, 2007

Sports

Real athletes wear tutus

Despite visions of pink satin and perfumed tutus, the smell of stale sweat usually associated with wrestling mats and tavern regulars that assails you as you step into the New South Dance Studio is alarming. In the Georgetown University Dance Company, rows of lithe and leotarded dancers swaying to the strains of classical music seem to exist in an oasis of effortless and demure grace.

By February 8, 2007

Sports

Hoyas’ voice from above

In his maroon cardigan, knitted navy tie and square glasses, the voice of the Verizon Center sits comfortably amidst a library of theological tomes on a sunny Monday afternoon. Father William McFadden, S.J., may seem an incongruous choice for a job most often reserved for pomade-shellacked quick talkers just out of broadcasting school, but after almost 34 years as the public address announcer for the Hoyas, McFadden is as adept at the mike as any of them.

By February 1, 2007