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Sports

Former Hoyas chase NFL dreams

When one thinks about Georgetown and major professional sports, the first league that comes to mind is the NBA. In the last 20 years, Patrick Ewing, Alonzo Mourning, Dikembe Mutombo and Allen Iverson have graced the campus and then gone on to stardom in the pros.

By the August 22, 2002

News

GU hosts summit on Afghanistan

Georgetown University played a significant role in U.S.-Afghan relations over the summer by hosting the Afghanistan-America Summit on Recovery and Reconstruction. Top Afghan and U.S. government officials as well as U.S. policymakers and experts convened for the first time in the United States on July 24 and 25 to discuss pressing issues facing Afghanistan’s new government.

By the August 22, 2002

Sports

Joe Hoya, Senior

Warning: What you are about to read might sound like the sentimental ramblings of a college senior trying to hold on to his glory days as they slowly come to an end. But it’s not.

College is an awesome time and it goes by too quickly and as a senior you will sit wondering how you got to your final year without realizing where it all went.

By the August 22, 2002

Leisure

Summer books gone wild!

Prague by Arthur Phillips Random House, $24.99 In his posthumously published memoirs of life in 1920s Paris, Hemingway wrote, “You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death.

By the August 22, 2002

Sports

The Sports Sermon

For about a decade now, we have continued to hear about Major League Baseball’s labor woes. It seems Baseball Commissioner/Antichrist Bud Selig’s sagging mug has been on the television weekly complaining that teams are losing money, contraction must occur and that the Expos are better off in Reykjavik than Montreal.

By the August 22, 2002

Leisure

Brothers of invention

For those of us whose late-summer cultural highlight was the premiere of Blue Crush, it is none to soon to be back in the District. A good jumping-off point for live shows this fall will be next Wednesday, Aug. 28, at the 9:30 Club, when the Soledad Brothers open for Hope Sandoval and the Warm Intentions.

By the August 22, 2002

Sports

Summer slam

As I marked the days off of my calendar until NFL training camp began, I took note of some significant events in the sporting world this past summer.

The Kings-Lakers Western Conference Finals was an insta-classic. Shaq once again proved that he’s the most dominant player in the NBA, even though he fouls at least three people just walking through the locker room.

By the August 22, 2002

News

Right to Respect

Citizen organizations of Georgetown, one. Georgetown students, zero.

The D.C. Court of Appeals’ June 20 decision to deny the University’s request for stay for portions of the University’s Ten-Year Plan comes as another victory for the non-student residents of the surrounding Georgetown community who view students as negative addition to the neighborhood.

By the August 22, 2002

Sports

Two unsung Hoyas to watch this season

Many Hoya athletes were racking up medals, honors and accolades this summer, and they were not all basketball players. Some of Georgetown’s unheralded stars have been busy making names for themselves in the sports world outside Healy Gates. Here are two to watch in the coming months:

Nick Cook (CAS ‘04), Men’s Golf?On Aug.

By the August 22, 2002

Voices

Youth is wasted on me

To an objective onlooker, it would seem that I am turning into an old man. Don’t get me wrong, my wardrobe, in response to nearly eight weeks of indentured servitude in the foreign policy community, resembles that of a misguided eighth grader/rave hooligan (I don’t know which is worse).

By the August 22, 2002