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Sports

The true courtside seats

Everyone always thinks the best seats at a basketball game are those $1000 courtside seats where all the celebrities pay big bucks to sit. You know which ones I’m taking about.

Just think?Jack Nicholson and Lara Flynn Boyle are shown every weekend on NBC sitting in those “prime” seats at the Lakers games, while Spike Lee sits courtside at all the Knicks games with that damn orange towel draped over his head which he insists on waving around like he’s the expert on all Knick matters.

Sports

The Sports Sermon

It was brought to our attention over the weekend, while spending late nights in the Voice office with noodles, fun baggy sweatpants and bearded fellows from the University of Georgia, that the editor of this section and the writer of this prosaic diatribe (ah, isn’t talking in unnamed third person so .

Features

Coming to Grips with a New World

A few months ago, the biggest concern on Wall Street was talk of a recession, and one of the most recognizable landmarks in New York City was the World Trade Center. Now the biggest concerns are things Americans never expected to worry about, such as inhaled anthrax and hijacked airplanes.

Sports

Scarlet Nights

Life-defining events take many forms. One of them can be a bunch of kids from Pennsylvania dressed like Waldo (yea, from Where’s Waldo?) running around a stage in the gym of Rutgers University exhorting others to “Shake Your Booty, Shake, Shake, Shake Your Booty.

Voices

Late mourning in New York

The American Airlines crash in Rockaway, Queens is terrible because it killed hundreds of innocent people. The attacks on the World Trade Center are terrible because they killed thousands of people and threatened the safety and security of all Americans. Which is worse?

The answer is that they are different; one is not the “better” tragedy.

Sports

Women’s hoops wins; Men’s soccer loses

Men’s Soccer (9-9-1, 6-5 Big East)—Last Saturday, in the quarterfinal round of the Big East Championship Tournament, Notre Dame defeated Georgetown 1-0 to advance to the semi-finals. Although the Fighting Irish dominated the Hoyas, outshooting Georgetown 18-5, Georgetown senior goalkeeper Brian O’Hagan turned in a fantastic performance with nine saves.

Sports

Crew uses fall setbacks to prepare for spring

Georgetown varsity and novice crews competed in to separate regattas this weekend and posted mixed results across the board. Last week, the novice crews competed in a scrimmage against UVA and George Washington, and this week they traveled to Princeton, N.

Voices

The hidden cost of study abroad

Ten months ago, almost to the day, I got on a plane bound for Paris, France. I was spending the semester there in hopes of improving my French and acquiring a Givenchy wardrobe like Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina.

Actually, that’s not entirely true. I went abroad because I had to and because I knew it would be good for me.

Sports

Hoyas skin Kiwis, 87-53

New Zealand select visited McDonough Arena last Thursday and performed the country’s traditional Haka dance of intimidation before tipoff. Forty minutes later, Georgetown had beaten the Kiwis, 87-53.

Apparently, it wasn’t that intimidating.

Junior forward Victor Samnick was the story for the Hoyas, finishing the game with 13 points and 15 rebounds for his second consecutive double-double.

Voices

Can’t touch this

This past weekend, I had the great opportunity of attending the Gloria Steinem Leadership Institute at the University of North Carolina. If the name of the event was not cause enough for chagrin, thanks to my right-wing neighbors, the troubles I met on my way down certainly added fuel to the fire.