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Some Hoyas cheer, others make music parodies

When junior guard Austin Freeman scored 28 points in the second half to lead the Hoyas to an amazing comeback victory over Connecticut, it was a performance for the ages, one that deserved to be immortalized in song. Most would consider that slightly hyperbolic, but not Chris Tiongson (COL ’89).

By February 4, 2010

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The Sports Sermon

My alarm starts blasting at 6:30 a.m. Saturday morning. Just as I set my phone down, my roommate’s alarm sounds. He wakes up and we look at each other with a shared sense of purpose. It’s time—this is the day of the Duke game.

By February 4, 2010

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Women down St. John’s

When getting knocked down, good teams seem to always find a way to get back up. Chumbawumba’s mantra was appropriate for the women’s basketball team facing St. John’s on Tuesday night—less than a week after the Hoyas squanderd their 16-game winning streak with an away loss to Marquette.

By February 4, 2010

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Hoyas get trapped by USF

There was one word that summed up Georgetown’s performance against South Florida Wednesday night: foul. The No. 7 Hoyas (16-5, 6-4 Big East) couldn’t hit their foul shots, saw their star big man sunk by foul trouble, and were left with a foul taste in their mouths after blowing a nine point halftime lead to lose 72-64 to the unranked Bulls (15-7, 5-5 Big East).

By February 4, 2010

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Backdoor Cuts: Look-alikes

“My geekiness is getting in the way of my nerdiness,” the comedian-philosopher Patton Oswalt once said. Standing sleeveless in the upper student section last Saturday with a sixteen ounce sports beverage in hand, I came to a similar conclusion about two things that I cherish dearly: sports and politics.

By February 4, 2010

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Hoyas exorcise demons, beat Blue Devils

In the post-game press conference after Georgetown’s emphatic beatdown of Duke, the most pertinent question came from a radio reporter in the back of the room. That reporter was former Georgetown head coach John Thompson Jr.

By January 30, 2010

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JTIII will look for big three to step up against Duke

In head coach John Thompson III’s six seasons at Georgetown, the Duke Blue Devils have emerged as the Hoyas’ preeminent non-conference rival. The budding feud dates back to Thompson’s first meeting with the Blue Devils in 2006, when an unranked Georgetown squad toppled then-No. 1 Duke, announcing their return to the national scene. Two subsequent meetings resulted in Hoya losses, including a 76-67 defeat in Durham last season that kicked off an epic collapse.

By January 28, 2010

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Hoyas can’t finish

It’s not about how you start; it’s about how you finish. This clichéd adage has certainly proven to be true for the Georgetown’s women’s basketball team this past week. Last Saturday, the Hoyas finished strong as they held off a second half surge from DePaul for a 74-65 victory, an exception to Georgetown’s season-long difficulty with closing, which finally caught up with them last night against Marquette.

By January 28, 2010

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Backdoor Cuts: Tenacious D

Rewind to March 31, 1984. The city is Seattle, Washington. It’s halftime of a very important basketball game. A Final Four game. And we are losing. Yes—we, as in the Georgetown Hoyas Men’s Basketball team—trail the Kentucky Wildcats by a score of 29-22. Patrick Ewing hangs his head in the locker room, lamenting first-half foul trouble. (Big) John Thompson wipes sweat from his brow with that white towel he always drapes over his shoulder. This was supposed to be our year.

By January 28, 2010

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Hoyas own the high seas

The Georgetown Sailing team is off to a great start in 2010 after one its most successful winter breaks in history. Over the weekend of January 2, the team took home first place in a 26-team field at the Rose Bowl Regatta, a feat never accomplished by Georgetown. In addition, two members of the team were named to the 2010 U.S. Sailing Development Team.

By January 28, 2010

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The Sports Sermon

It’s the perfect end to a treacherous, long, and hard-fought season. A week after the biggest game of the year, the NFL’s top players and coaches throw on their board shorts, toss a lei around their necks, and head down to Hawaii.

By January 28, 2010

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Monroe paces Hoyas in easy victory over Rutgers

Head coach John Thompson III wanted to get the ball into Greg Monroe’s hands right from the start. His star big man didn’t disappoint. Monroe hit his first 8 shots and scored 10 of Georgetown’s first 15 points as the No. 12 Hoyas (15-3, 6-2 Big East) easily dispatched Rutgers (9-10, 0-7 Big East) 88-63.

By January 23, 2010

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Backdoor Cuts: The Gun Show

As sports fans around the country groggily roused ourselves on January 1 and stared with bloodshot, hangover-glazed eyes into our Google Reader feeds, we were greeted by the seemingly sensationalized news of an alleged gun duel between all-star point guard Gilbert Arenas and injured reserve guard Javaris Crittenton in the Wizards’ locker room on December 21.

By January 21, 2010

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Hoya bench needs to step up as season progresses

On January 17, the Georgetown men’s basketball suffered a demoralizing loss to a top-5 team on the road, just before an unrelenting stretch of four tough games in two weeks. After last Sunday’s loss to Villanova, that would be an apt description for the current season’s squad—just as easily as January 2009, when the Hoyas lost to Duke before dropping their next four games.

By January 21, 2010

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Women swim strong, men take a dive

As the swimming and diving team returns to the Hilltop from winter break, one pre-break trend still looms large. With the Big East Championships looming less than a month away, the women’s team continues to excel, while the men still struggle to find their footing against difficult opponents.

By January 21, 2010

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Fast Break

The rule of thumb for the Hoyas this season: as Chris Wright goes, so goes Georgetown. Entering Wednesday night’s contest against Pittsburgh, the Hoyas were 12-0 when Wright scored in double figures, 1-3 when he didn’t. Against Pitt, Wright reached double figures.

By January 21, 2010

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The Sports Sermon

It is said that the grass is always greener on the other side. This tendency to always strive for something apparently better has created a destructive trend in the sporting world: successful college coaches leaving their posts for a shot with a professional franchise. College football coaches are most often guilty of this mistake, and recently, yet another has fallen victim.

By January 21, 2010

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Backdoor Cuts: The gun show

Not to be outdone by the Tiger Woods fiasco of late 2009, this year had already produced its first sports-related scandal, just hours into its first day. As sports fans around the country groggily roused ourselves on January 1 and stared with bloodshot, hangover-glazed eyes into our Google Reader feeds, we were greeted by the seemingly sensationalized news of an alleged gun duel between all-star point guard Gilbert Arenas and injured reserve guard Javaris Crittenton in the Wizards’ locker room on December 21.

By January 21, 2010

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History repeats itself as Hoyas suffer first loss of season

Three years ago, Old Dominion came to McDonough Arena and shocked a Final Four-bound Georgetown squad 75-62. History repeated itself Saturday night in the cozy campus gym, as the Monarchs dealt the No. 11 Hoyas (8-1) their first loss of the season, 61-57. Even as D.C. suffered from over a foot of continuous snowfall, 2,400 fans made the trek to McDonough, most of them students taking a break from final exams. The weather may not have affected the crowd, but it looked to have taken its toll on the Hoyas as they came out ice cold in the first half. The Monarchs ran out to a 6-0 lead that they never relinquished.

By December 20, 2009

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Georgetown overpowers American

Going back to the days of John Thompson Jr., Georgetown basketball has had a history of powerful big men patrolling the post, and on Saturday afternoon American learned that tradition lives on. The Hoyas (6-0) dispatched an overmatched Eagles squad 73-46, in their final tune-up before back-to-back games against ranked teams. Georgetown’s big man trio of Greg Monroe, Julian Vaughn, and Henry Sims used their physical advantage to great effect against a team that played only one player taller than 6-foot-8.

By December 5, 2009