Phil Perry

Sports

Hoyas drenched by the Crusaders in season opener

On a Saturday afternoon spoiled by rain and crummy weather, the Holy Cross Crusaders rained on the Georgetown football program’s opening-day parade.

By September 7, 2006

Sports

Football names new quarterback for season opener

Georgetown’s football team is looking brand spanking new as they get ready to try to put a spanking on their opponents throughout the 2006 season, beginning Saturday at home against Patriot League foe Holy Cross.

By August 31, 2006

Sports

Blown away

In a world of sports where sneaker companies sign five-year-olds to multi-year endorsement deals and where baseball players pump themselves full of steroids, fans everywhere should be used to these sickening stories.

By August 31, 2006

Sports

Hoya football gets new leader in Coach Kelly

Georgetown’s football team is coming into the 2006 season with a new leader and a new attitude. Coach Kevin Kelly will be at the helm with headphones on and clipboard in hand coaching this team towards what he hopes to be their first winning season since joining the Patriot League in 2000.

By August 24, 2006

Sports

Back on track on Senior Day

For the Georgetown men’s lacrosse team, Senior Day couldn’t have been any sweeter.

By April 27, 2006

Sports

The Sports Sermon

As students bask in the D.C. sun on Healy Lawn waiting for that final bell, talk of the NBA’s Most Valuable Player award heats up with the weather.

By April 20, 2006

Sports

The Sports Sermon

In April, hope springs eternal. That is why baseball fans love this time of year.

By April 6, 2006

Sports

The Sports Sermon

We need a new term for these not-so-rich conferences we have been lazily referring to as “mid-majors,” because according to the results from this year’s NCAA tournament, these conferences have produced some teams that shouldn’t be labeled mid-anything.

By March 30, 2006

Sports

The Sports Sermon

As Hoya fans all over campus are throwing away their brackets, using them as placemats or emergency toilet paper, they can take solace in one fact: their Georgetown Hoyas are in the Sweet Sixteen.

By March 23, 2006

Features

Garden Party

Hanging out in New York City at the Big East Tournament

This past weekend, a 26 year-old tournament got a chance to relive a 20-something-year-old rivalry. The Orange of Syracuse and the Georgetown Hoyas highlighted the semi-final round of the Big East Championship. It was the 12th match-up between the two historical titans of the conference, but it was the first time John Thompson III graced the sidelines rather than his towel-toting father, Big John. The weekend, however, would not belong to Thompson’s brood, but a red-hot Orange man, Gerry McNamara.

By March 16, 2006