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

The Sports Sermon: Spring break 09!

During my spring break road trip, I got stuck in a car. The car didn’t break down, nor was I in traffic. The situation was much more dire. I was stuck in the middle of Syracuse hell.

By Tom Bosco March 19, 2009

Sports

Hoyas’ slide, season come to close after NIT loss

It’s finally over. Georgetown’s extended downward spiral ended Wednesday night, as the Hoyas fell to Baylor 74-72 in the first round of the NIT. The game was a microcosm of the Hoyas’ season, with a tantalizing first half performance giving way to a late collapse.

By Tim Shine March 19, 2009

Sports

Slow-starting Hoyas look to derail Duke lax

Well, that didn’t go as expected. The Georgetown Men’s Lacrosse team is only five games into their a 14 game season, but the players and coachesand has already find found themselves in a sizable hole. Last weekend, the Hoyas dropped to 2-3 overall and 0-2 in league play, losing 15-8 to Hobart in an ECAC League matchup.

By Tim Wagner March 19, 2009

Sports

Baseball handles GW

After a dramatic walk-off win over Navy, the Georgetown baseball team was back on the field yesterday to take on cross-town rival George Washington. Led by sophomore Sean Lamont and Junior Tom Elliott, the Hoyas proved their D.C. dominance as they crushed the Colonials 15-3.

By Nick Berti March 19, 2009

Sports

The NIT is here!

For the past two years, my March Madness brackets have been handicapped by my need to predict Georgetown to win it all. Call it faith in the team or a twisted sense of duty, but I’ve never been able to bet against the Hoyas. This spring, I won’t have to—every cloud has a silver lining. However, in the interest of helping us who feel a need to gamble on sports at all levels, I’m compiling a short bracketology for the NIT. Read closely: this is probably one of the only NIT previews available.

By Jeff Bakkensen March 19, 2009

Sports

What Rocks? Daniel Nunn

The goal of every senior athlete is to end his college career with a bang. Daniel Nunn is doing just that. The senior distance runner garnered All-American honors last Friday by placing 13th in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships 5K final. It is the first time he has been named an All-American for indoor track and field.

By Victor Ho March 19, 2009

Sports

St. John’s sends Hoyas home early

Down by three in the waning seconds of a first round Big East tournament matchup against St. John’s, Georgetown passed the ball to redshirt freshman Nikita Mescheriakov. The way the Hoyas’ season has gone, the miss was all but inevitable.

By Tim Shine March 11, 2009

Sports

Hoyas shoot themselves in foot vs. the Johnnies

For 10 minutes on Tuesday night, the Hoyas looked like a team that was ready to redeem its season. Unfortunately for Georgetown, the rest of the game was, disappointingly, business as usual.

By Tim Shine March 5, 2009

Sports

The Sports Sermon: C.R.E.A.M, dolla dolla billz, y’all

Despite being a white 44-year-old, Washington Redskins’ owner Daniel Snyder’s life seems to be based around the most popular lyric from Shaolin’s illest crew, the Wu-Tang Clan: “Cash rules everything around me.”

By Tom Bosco March 5, 2009

Sports

Men’s lax hopes to rebound against Orange

As more youngsters are being introduced to the lacrosse world, NCAA Division I lacrosse is slowly, but surely, on the rise. A few years ago, the level of play dropped off significantly after the top 10 teams, but as the sport’s popularity has continued to expand, the competition has grown as well. This seems to have hurt the Hoyas, as a much-improved St. John’s Red Storm proved on Saturday when they defeated Georgetown 10-9 in a close matchup.

By Tim Wagner March 5, 2009

Sports

Wait ’til next year

On Monday night, I wrote a column detailing why I believed this year’s Georgetown Hoyas belonged in the NCAA tournament. Yes, they’ve lost to some bad teams, I wrote, and their record isn’t great, but they have wins over potential #1 seeds Connecticut and Memphis, and they’ve maintained a top-40 RPI while playing a murderous Big East schedule. If they simply beat St. John’s and DePaul to end the regular season and put up a decent showing at the Big East tournament next week, there’s no way the Hoyas won’t be dancing, I reasoned.

By Sean Quigley March 5, 2009

Sports

Women’s lax takes on No. 1 Northwestern

The story of David and Goliath may be one of the few biblical tales as familiar to sports fans as it is to theologians. Underdogs like the 1980 USA Olympic hockey team or the 1985 Villanova basketball squad live on forever as giant-killers.

By Victor Ho March 5, 2009

Sports

GU looks to quake the Quakers in rematch

After splitting a doubleheader with the University of Pennsylvania last weekend, Georgetown is set to travel to Winter Park, Florida, to face the Quakers once again, with one game on Friday and one on Saturday. The Hoyas are coming off an offensive surge, having scored 21 runs in their last two games.

By Nick Berti March 5, 2009

Sports

Hoyas a long way away from the NCAA tourney

Faced with what may be the nation’s toughest schedule, Georgetown had long been given the benefit of the doubt as it endured loss after loss. But after falling twice in three days earlier this week, the Hoyas may have finally run out of chances to redeem themselves.

By Tim Shine February 26, 2009

Sports

The Sports Sermon: The name game

Misnomers are common in the English language. Some blackboards are green; people drive on a parkway; and yes, there really is a boy named Sue. Today, you can add “D.C. United” to that list.

By Tom Bosco February 26, 2009

Sports

Ford, women’s lax stick it to Johns Hopkins

Play hard, play smart, play together. So goes the mantra of Georgetown’s women’s lacrosse coaches this year. It seems like the team has gotten the point thus far this season.

By Victor Ho February 26, 2009

Sports

Men’s lacrosse storms into New York

Back in the fall, the most notable thing about the Hoyas’ upcoming season was the strength of its schedule. Already, the team has shown it is ready for the tough road that lies ahead. The Hoyas demonstrated their poise on the field by defeating the third-ranked Maryland 13-10 on Saturday in a game that had its ups and downs for both teams.

By Tim Wagner February 26, 2009

Sports

What Rocks? Tommy Lee

When most Georgetown students hear the name Tommy Lee, they probably think of Mötley Crüe—specifically Pamela Anderson’s video camera-totin’ sweetie—but the Hoyas’ intense centerfielder is about to let Georgetown know who the real Tommy Lee is.

By Nick Berti February 26, 2009

Sports

Citi Sliders

Much has been made of Citigroup’s plans to retain naming rights to the New York Mets’ new stadium despite the company’s recent financial woes. The current deal, which was inked in 2006, calls for Citi to pay the Mets $20 million a year for the next 20 years. More than a few members of Congress have expressed displeasure at the prospect of continuing to fund the deal with part of the $45 billion of taxpayer money allotted to Citi as part of stimulus packages. Two New York City councilmen even went so far as to suggest that the new park should be called Taxpayer Field, in honor of those who are actually footing the bill.

By Jeff Bakkensen February 26, 2009