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Backdoor Cuts: Pujols holds the Cards

In an era where money and fame seem to be the strongest motivations for many of the biggest names in sports, it’s encouraging to feel that some just want to be the best professionals they possibly can. St. Louis Cardinals’ first baseman Albert Pujols has long been the face of this small group.

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Upperclassmen give Sugar support down low

For the Georgetown women’s basketball team, star guard Sugar Rodgers has been the unquestioned key to their success. However, the No. 17 Hoyas (20-6, 8-4 Big East) must also give credit to their bigger, more experienced players—Monica McNutt, Tia Magee, and Adria Crawford—for their triumphs this season.

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The Sports Sermon: February sadness

The Monday after the Super Bowl marked the beginning of a very dark time for sports fans. After Aaron Rodgers hoisted the Lombardi trophy, we entered the worst three weeks on the sports calendar. The NFL hangover is in full effect, and March Madness is a few weeks away.

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Hoyas set for Big East run

With the Big East Championships on the horizon, Georgetown’s track and field team is poised for a breakout meet. So far, this season’s races have all been in preparation for the beginning of the postseason with this weekend’s Big East Championship in Akron, Ohio.

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Fast Break: Walker snaps streak with exceptional play

It was a tale of two point guards on Wednesday night as No. 9 Georgetown traveled to No. 12 Connecticut for a matchup of Big East powers. While Chris Wright scored 19 points for the Hoyas, the story of the game was UConn star Kemba Walker.

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Backdoor Cuts: I remember my first game

Freshman year, when I first started writing for the Voice, I lucked into one of the best gigs ever: men’s basketball beat writer. The previous year’s writer was going abroad, and from among a young staff, I got the nod. That meant press passes to every game, reserved seating on the baseline, and never waiting on the cold sidewalk.

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Freeman plays through pain in comeback win

As star senior Austin Freeman lay on the ground hurt late in the first half against Marquette, it looked as if Georgetown’s seven game winning streak was in jeopardy. But Freeman played through the pain of a sprained ankle to help lead the Hoyas to a 69-60 comeback victory.

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Red hot Hoyas crush USF in Pink Zone game

Before Tuesday night’s game against South Florida, Georgetown women’s basketball head coach Terri Williams-Flournoy pledged $50 toward breast cancer research for each three-pointer made by her team. The Hoyas (20-5, 8-3 Big East) made their coach pay a hefty price with their hot shooting from behind the arc leading to a 67-38 blowout.

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The Sports Sermon: Saying goodbye to a legend

On Feb. 3, the end of an era began to dawn on the New York Yankees, when 38-year-old pitcher Andy Pettitte retired. Pettitte was the first of the so-called “core four,” which includes pinstripe veterans Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada, and Derek Jeter, to hang up his cleats.

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Swimming set for Big East

Georgetown’s swimming and diving team is preparing for the Big East Championships, which are set to begin Friday for divers and President’s Day weekend for swimmers. Both competitions will be held at the University of Louisville. The Hoyas finished the regular season with both the men’s and the women’s squads losing to Maryland in their final dual meet.

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Fast Break: Hoyas outlast ‘Cuse for seventh straight win

In his career at Georgetown, head coach John Thompson III has reached a Final Four, won multiple Big East championships, won a national coach of the year award, and sent multiple players into the NBA. However, since his hiring in 2002, Thompson has never won a game at Syracuse. That is, until Wednesday night.

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Backdoor Cuts: Anthony wants trade

The constant flow of trade rumors surrounding Denver Nuggets small forward Carmelo Anthony has been the most intensely covered story of the NBA season. It’s also the most anticlimactic. The repetitiveness and speculation characterizing each potential trade report is enough to drive any sports fan mad.

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Hoyas withstand Brooks’ barrage, hold off Providence

It’s not often that a player scores 43 points in a college basketball game and can’t lead his team to victory. It’s also not common for a team with an 18-point second half lead to have a chance to lose the game on the final possession. The latter was the case for Georgetown, but fortunately for the Hoyas they managed to stop Providence’s Marshon Brooks the one time they needed to.

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Collars come off for Jesuits’ annual grudge match

The Society of Jesus has a diverse and colorful history, and for the past 10 years the students of Georgetown University have organized Jesuit Heritage Week in order to celebrate and make visible the school’s Jesuit character. While all of the week’s events are meaningful, one gathering is far more important and consequential than the rest.

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The Sports Sermon: Back and better than ever

Georgetown has won five games in row. That means they’re back, right? Or do the Hoyas have to win six in row to officially be “back”? What if they were never gone? The team certainly wasn’t looking too good a couple of weeks ago.

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Hoyas extend streak in clutch

Georgetown has shown this season that they can win games in every fashion, but the last two games have shown that they know how to win in the most important way. Monday night Georgetown defeated Louisville 62-59, which followed a 69-66 win at Villanova on Saturday.

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Rodgers hits 1,000 in win

For the Georgetown women’s basketball team, sometimes one notable act isn’t enough. The No. 17 Hoyas (18-5, 6-3 Big East) came back from a fourteen-point deficit in the second half to beat the Louisville Cardinals (14-9, 5-4 Big East) 76-52.More impressive than the comeback was how they did it.

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Backdoor Cuts: The Super Bowl? You bet

Over 100 million people will watch the Super Bowl this Sunday, but only a fraction of viewers will be Packers or Steelers fans. The audience is just too massive—the entire states of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania won’t even account for one-fifth of the game’s viewership.

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Wright powers Georgetown past Louisville to extend streak to five

Even though Georgetown got the victory over Villanova on Saturday, it was hard to look past Chris Wright’s stat line: zero points. Against Louisville two days later, Wright was once again impossible to ignore, but for very different reasons.

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Georgetown unleashes storm against St. John’s

While the winter storm caused chaos outside the Verizon Center on Wednesday night, the Hoyas had no trouble handling the Red Storm on the court. In front of a late-arriving crowd, Georgetown trounced St. John’s 77-52, avenging a three-point loss earlier this month at Madison Square Garden.