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Sports

The ball was bigger in this case

Another basketball season is rapidly approaching. I’m not talking about the basketball played by our beloved Hoyas over at the MCI Center. No, this game is played in the humid squalor of Yates with no spectators other than those who happen to be working out on the exercise machines above the courts.

By the October 10, 2002

Voices

Straight from the child’s mouth herself

Stepping off the plane in Dallas last Friday amidst cowboy hats and wide-open spaces, I was immediately thrown into the pulsating mixture of my relatives?great aunts from California, second cousins from Oklahoma, parents from Missouri?all in Dallas to celebrate my great-grandmother’s 90th birthday.

By the October 10, 2002

News

Students protest potential war on Iraq

On Wednesday afternoon a telephone stood in the center of Red Square next to a poster that read, “The U.S. must not attack Iraq.”

The Young Arab Leadership Alliance set up the event to enable students to call their senators’ offices to voice their oppositiong to the potential attack on Iraq.

By the October 10, 2002

Sports

Fantasy X

Behind college dorm room doors and across the suburban wasteland of America, physically inadequate, nearsighted sports-geeks gulp Surge late into the night, filling their heads with arcane statistics, squinting their washed-out faces in the pale blue glow of computer monitors tuned to ESPN.

By the October 10, 2002

Voices

Most likely to secede

Last spring, I was abroad in Santiago, Chile, and while I was there I dated a television producer. He was then working on a WWF-style wrestling show, the first of its kind to air in Chile. One night, during a pretty intense argument, he told me that as a television producer surrounded by beautiful people, he had options?he could date girls 10 times better looking than I was.

By the October 10, 2002

Leisure

Picasso ducks in to ponder, titillate

When one begins to question the multi-faceted nature of inspiration and creativity, whether artistic, scientific or purely commercial, there are several things that one must keep in mind. First, such a difficult question is best left in the able hands of someone like Steve Martin, and second, any reasonable response must be tempered with a fair amount of dick jokes.

By the October 10, 2002

Sports

The Sports Sermon

It’s the time of the year at Georgetown when everyone starts to become irritable. Midterms are in full effect, it’s starting to get cold, and you’ve had enough of your roommates’ dirty dishes in the sink. How do we at the sermon handle our angst? We sublimate our anger onto a famous athlete.

By the October 10, 2002

Voices

Red dragon, yellow news

On Monday morning, Oct. 7, a 13-year-old boy was shot in the chest as his mother dropped him off in front of his middle school in Bowie, Md. The boy was the eighth victim in a series of sniper-style shootings that have left six dead and two seriously wounded in the suburbs of our nation’s capital over the past week.

By the October 10, 2002

Leisure

Beck shows different face on new album

Is irony dead? After the tragic events of last Sept. 11, it was easy to postulate that the stock-in-trade of several lettered generations would be thrown asunder in a grand upwelling of earnestness. Even if by all accounts irony remains alive and well, it seems Beck chose to heed that memo regardless.

By the October 10, 2002

Sports

Polo sport

In this column three weeks ago, I discussed one of the most exclusive domains left in the wide world of sports?golf. However, there just might be a sport even more crouched in tradition, even more discriminating in its membership and even more mindful of its upturned nose.

By the October 10, 2002