The Sports Sermon: Georgetown’s Prodigal Son

This July, the Worldwide Leader in Sports descended on Georgetown to fete Alonzo Mourning, the Hoya basketball legend and recently retired NBA star. Mourning’s laudatory interview with ESPN’s Rick Reilly... Read more

By Tim Shine August 28, 2009

Sports

Women’s soccer relies on experience against tough schedule

The Georgetown women’s soccer team finished last season with its most conference wins in one season and an invitation to the Big East tournament for the fourth time in five... Read more

By Liz Kuebler August 28, 2009

Sports

The Sports Sermon: D.C. sports suck

It’s only natural to reflect on the past year as the spring semester draws to a close, one that will be remembered for the historic Inauguration many were lucky enough to be in D.C. to experience. For sports-loving Hoyas, though, this year will be remembered more for its misfortune. We’ve had to live in a city suffering one of the most horrific stretches of athletic ineptitude in recent memory. Whether crushing fans’ spirits with epic collapses or nightly displays of incompetence, the District’s sports teams rarely failed to disappoint.

By Tim Shine April 23, 2009

Sports

Former Hoya schools Eastern Europe on the court

Seeing little playing time for the Georgetown Hoyas throughout his college career, Sead Dizdarevic wasn’t exactly a superstar on the basketball court. His greatest accomplishment might have been riding the bench in his final season as the Hoyas advanced to the 2007 Final Four. Despite his low profile during his collegiate career, after graduation Dizdarevic found a way to contribute both on and off the court.

By Tim Wagner April 23, 2009

Sports

Women’s lax preps for Big East tourney

North Carolina-Duke, Cal-Stanford, Army-Navy. These rivalries define college sports, making a normal game feel like a championship, ratcheting up the intensity and placing bragging rights on the line. With the Big East women’s lacrosse tournament beginning this Friday, the Hoyas are ready to face their own bitter foe, hoping to steal the coveted conference title from the Syracuse Orange.

By Victor Ho April 23, 2009

Sports

Basketball adds two

Thirteen points, eleven assists, ten blocks, and fifteen rebounds in one game is what the basketball world calls a quadruple double—one of the sport’s rarest feats. Jerrelle Benimon, a 6’8” power forward from Fauquier High School in Warrenton, Virginia, accumulated those statistics. Benimon is the newest addition to the Hoyas men’s basketball team.

By Tom Bosco April 23, 2009

Sports

Lax lessons

Lacrosse is a foreign concept to me. I grew up in the bucolic, mountainous wasteland of western North Carolina, where the idea of “sports” starts with football in the fall and ends with basketball in the winter. The warmer months are reserved exclusively for fishing and NASCAR. In my neck of the woods, lacrosse wasn’t just un-American, like soccer, tennis, or socialism—it didn’t even exist.

By Sean Quigley April 23, 2009

Sports

GU athletes bring their passion to the schools

The life of a college athlete can be hectic, to say the least. With practice and games, not to mention a full schedule of classes, athletes can hardly be blamed for not finding the time to get out into the community.

By Tom Bosco April 16, 2009

Sports

The Sports Sermon: Sorry Mom, baseball is on

My life as I know it is officially over. Recently, after haggling, begging, and cajoling, I finally convinced my sainted mother to buy me MLBtv. Little did she know, my educational downfall would begin as soon as I clicked the “submit payment” button on the Web site.

By Tom Bosco April 16, 2009

Sports

What Rocks? Cara Savarese

“Can the freshmen deliver?” “Will they buckle under the intense pressure?” These are concerns that renowned commentators such as Dick Vitale and Clark Kellogg highlight during every March Madness. There seems to be a commonly accepted notion in sports that young players lack the experience and composure necessary to thrive in high-pressure situations. Yet there have been exceptions throughout athletic history—just look at Michael Jordan. If you ask Hoya softball coach, Pat Conlan, though, you would probably add another name to that list: Cara Savarese

By Victor Ho April 16, 2009

Sports

Busch light, baseball, and the front lawn

Spring is slowly making its way north to Georgetown, which means the reemergence of a classic stress-reliever: lawn sports. As lacrosse stumbles down the stretch and the basketball team disintegrates, Hoyas of all ages gather on the lawn to enjoy the, ahem, clement spring weather. In the event that the weather does turn around and we actually get springtime temperatures before the end of the year, I offer you a short guide to what you might encounter on the lawn between White Gravenor and the concrete fortress that passes for a library.

By Jeff Bakkensen April 16, 2009

Sports

Greg Monroe will return next season

The campus community was treated to some pleasant news on Wednesday: Greg “The Doctrine” Monroe will be returning to Georgetown for his sophomore season.

By Tom Bosco April 16, 2009

Sports

Men’s tennis team heads into Big East Tourney

Some things just don’t go as planned. The Georgetown men’s tennis team did not have the spring they had hoped for—they won only 4 out of their 19 matches. Luckily, the team can wash away the sour taste left over from the season as soon as today, when they will travel to play some of the best teams in the country at the Big East tournament in Tampa, Florida. In the first round, the Hoyas will take on the tournament’s overwhelming favorite, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. But as we’ve seen their football and basketball teams collapse in the past year, it might not be surprising to see the tennis team follow suit.

By Nick Berti April 16, 2009

Sports

Former Hoya runner stands stronger than most

A runner’s pre-race routine typically includes a quick shoe and uniform check. For Aimee Mullins (SFS ’98), the standard list included one more item: her legs.

By Tom Bosco April 2, 2009

Sports

The Sports Sermon: The first one’s special

Q: Who hit the first home run ever at the New York Mets’ bygone ballpark, Shea Stadium? A: Willie Stargell, the Pittsburgh Pirate legend who clobbered 475 career home runs—including the first dinger at Shea on April 17, 1964—over his 21-year Major League career. Q: Who hit the first home run ever at Citi Field, the New York Mets’ brand-new, $850 million coliseum? A: Sean Lamont, the starting third basemen of this year’s Georgetown Hoyas baseball team.

By Tom Bosco April 2, 2009

Sports

We got ice, Gil

Gilbert Arenas is back. After nagging injuries and surgeries limited him to playing in just eight games in the past two seasons combined, the Washington Wizards’ brazen captain returned to action against the Pistons last Saturday, hoping to breathe some life into what has been a wretched season. His return will certainly provide a pick-me-up for the god-awful Wizards, but what could Arenas possibly accomplish by coming back with just 8 games left in an atrocious season?

By Sean Quigley April 2, 2009

Sports

Men’s lax looks to build on win over the Mount

Georgetown Men’s lacrosse fans coming into the 2009 with inflated expectations have been forced to reevaluate their hopes just a few games into an already disappointing year. Following their first loss against St. John’s, the Hoyas have been taking their fans for a rollercoaster ride characterized by gut-wrenching lows and thrilling highs.

By Tim Wagner April 2, 2009

Sports

Fast Break: Women’s hoops

Any mention of basketball at Georgetown this March would have most likely been met with furrowed eyebrows and exasperated sighs. The women’s basketball team, however, provided an unexpected spark on campus with a deep run in the WNIT. After earning a bid to the tournament and winning their first three games, the Hoyas lost to Boston College in the Elite Eight on Sunday.

By Nick Berti April 2, 2009

Sports

Georgetown senior sets sights on NFL Draft

At first glance, Ataefiok Etukeren could be any MSB senior. He still does not know where he will be working after graduation, but he is confident he can land a job at one of the billion-dollar businesses where he has been interviewing. But Etukeren isn’t a typical MSB senior. He’s 6’3”, 245 pounds, and can run 40 yards in under 4.7 seconds. And his potential employers aren’t banks—they’re NFL teams.

By Tim Shine March 26, 2009

Sports

The Sports Sermon: What’s your fantasy?

Months of thinking, weeks of planning, and days of finalizing—all were nearly ruined by a fire drill.

By Tom Bosco March 26, 2009