Baseball looks to start season off strong in Tampa

The Georgetown University baseball team opens their 2009 season with high expectations as they look to improve on a disappointing 2008 season. The team has restocked its roster with new talent, and most of last year’s starters have returned for a shot to qualify for the Big East tournament, the Hoyas’ top priority this season.

By Nick Berti February 19, 2009

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Men’s lacrosse looking to rebound

With last year’s season ending in a disappointing overtime loss to Penn State, the men’s lacrosse team is looking to bounce back strong in 2009.

By Tim Wagner February 19, 2009

Sports

Four miles is longer than you would think

Madonna and Justin Timberlake only had four minutes to save the world. The other day, I only had four minutes to rush to class. Liam Boylan-Pett, however, only had four minutes to run a mile.

By Victor Ho February 12, 2009

Sports

The Sports Sermon: Super Smash Bros.

Issei Nino (COL ‘12) might seem like your typical, over-achieving Georgetown student. He speaks English, French, Japanese, and Spanish fluently and is currently studying Chinese; he’s a regular stud at pick-up basketball games at Yates Field House; he’s a personable, good-looking kid. But Nino’s most prized talent is not gifted athleticism or scholarly acumen. He is a Super Smash Brothers demigod.

By Tom Bosco February 12, 2009

Sports

It starts at the top

These are dark times for Hoya fans. As the Georgetown faithful dejectedly trudged out of the Verizon Center last Saturday after another crushing loss (this one in overtime) in an increasingly disappointing season, one question was on everyone’s mind: “What’s wrong with this team?” Or, in the eloquent words of many frustrated and confused students, “Why do we suck so bad?”

By Sean Quigley February 12, 2009

Sports

Starters need to step up for the Hoyas against ‘Cuse

Six losses in seven games. It’s as ignominious a streak as Georgetown basketball has seen since John Thompson III took the reins of the program in 2004. With a 13-9 record, and 4-7 record in the Big East, the Hoyas have quickly fallen from the top 10 to dangerously near the NCAA tournament bubble.

By Tim Shine February 12, 2009

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Sapp proves savior, helps end Hoyas’ losing streak

Sometimes the answer to a slump is as simple as a little extra time in the gym. Such was the case for Jessie Sapp and the rest of the Hoyas (13-8, 4-6), who defeated Rutgers 57-47 Tuesday night to snap a five-game losing streak.

By Tim Shine February 5, 2009

Sports

The Sports Sermon: Lack of mental focus

If a basketball game were a staring contest, the Hoyas would have blinked first everytime during their recent five-game losing streak.

By Tom Bosco February 5, 2009

Sports

The best ever?

Sports pundits have called Sunday night’s battle on the gridiron “the greatest Super Bowl of all time.” While I’m not quite ready to forget Super Bowl XXXVIII, in which the Patriots defeated the Panthers 32-29, I will allow that this was perhaps the strangest championship game of the modern football era.

By Jeff Bakkensen February 5, 2009

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Georgetown runners on the fast track early

Over the last few months, the Georgetown track and field team has been working tirelessly to prove that they are a force to be reckoned with. Distance runners have run... Read more

By Victor Ho February 5, 2009

Sports

Fast Break: Women’s hoops falls to DePaul

After losing to top-ranked UConn on Saturday, the Hoyas traveled to DePaul Wednesdy night to take on the 24th-ranked team in the nation. Facing their third straight ranked opponent in a row, the Hoyas had little time to catch their breath.

By Nick Berti February 5, 2009

Sports

Fast Break: Swimming and diving team falls to UConn

Last weekend, head coach Steven Cartwright and Georgetown University’s swimming and diving team suffered losses to the University of Connecticut at McCarthy Pool. The men fell by a score of 163-122, and the women were taken down by a score of 164-127.

By Tim Wagner February 5, 2009

Sports

What Rocks? Victor Lopez-Cantera

The old adage says the harder you work, the luckier you get. If that is true, freshmen swimmer Victor Lopez-Cantera is very, very lucky. Lopez-Cantera swam his way past the competition for victories in the 100 and 200 meter butterfly in this past Saturday’s dual meet against St. Bonaventure Unive

By Tom Bosco January 29, 2009

Sports

Nothing but air

Spectators heard an unusual sound late in the second half of Georgetown’s 65-60 loss to Big East foe Seton Hall on Sunday. Clank. The sound of a DaJuan Summers’ three-point attempt thudding off the rim at the Prudential Center in New Jersey.

By Walker Loetscher January 29, 2009

Sports

The Sports Sermon: So long regular season

This Sunday, around 200 million people across the globe will sit back on their recliners and watch the Super Bowl, the self-proclaimed greatest sporting event in the world.

By Tom Bosco January 29, 2009

Sports

Bearcats maul reeling Hoyas in Big East battle

“We need to re-evaluate everything.”

By Tim Shine January 29, 2009

Sports

Judo master teaches Georgetown the gentle way

World class judo is probably not commonly associated with Yates Field House in the minds of most Georgetown students. But every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday night, Georgetown’s aspiring judokas, or judo experts, train under the watchful tutelage of James Takemori.

By Tim Shine January 29, 2009

Sports

Golden Eagles shoot their way past the Hoyas

On Wednesday night, McDonough Gymnasium played host to a Big East clash between two hungry teams, as Marquette (12-7, 3-2) and Georgetown (12-6, 2-3) met for the fourth time in history. Both teams were coming off losses to nationally ranked Big East teams—Georgetown to Louisville and Marquette to Rutgers. Unsurprisingly, both squads showed up hungry for a victory. Unfortunately for the Hoyas, the game was a tale of two halves and Marquette came out hungrier in the second one, beating the Hoyas 80-65.

By Nick Berti January 22, 2009

Sports

The Sports Sermon: Dear Mr. President

Dear Mr. President, Christmas may be well past, but you (and other Obama faithful) seem to be in the spirit of giving.

By Tom Bosco January 22, 2009

Sports

Run, Hoyas, run

After a dominant romp over then second-ranked Connecticut in their Big East opener, the young 2008-09 Georgetown Hoyas demonstrated that they had the talent to run with the best teams in the country. Their offense was clicking, their defense was solid, and freshman wunderkind Greg Monroe manhandled the 7’3” Hasheem Thabeet on both sides of the floor. In the very next game, though, the burly frontcourt of the Pittsburgh Panthers exposed and exploited the precocious Hoyas’ main weakness—a lack of toughness and determination in rebounding.

By Sean Quigley January 22, 2009