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Sports Sermon

Few things are as comforting or nerve-wracking as a clean slate. Just ask this year’s horde of new students, whose current list of collegiate accomplishments is nothing but a rough outline written in the faint ink of ambition and expectation. Three incoming freshmen, though, have been busy making an early mark on the Hilltop this summer.

By August 22, 2008

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Georgetown soccer’s lofty expectations

The Georgetown men’s soccer team’s regular season opener is exactly one week away, and head coach Brian Wiese has a problem. But unlike most preseason problems—injuries, inconsistency, confusion—Wiese isn’t particularly worried about his. In fact, his problem may be the envy of the Big East. That’s because the third-year coach’s most pressing issue is what to do with the 10 starters, 19 letter winners and four talented, fast-learning freshmen that make up this year’s team.

By August 22, 2008

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Different paths to Beijing `08

Former Georgetown University sailing team member Chris Behm (MSB ‘08) was almost giddy when the Beijing Olympics began this summer. His old teammate, Andrew Campbell (SFS ‘06), was one of two Georgetown graduates to make the U.S. Olympic team, and Behm was more than willing to stay up as late as three in the morning to watch him sail.

By August 22, 2008

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Hoyas have holes to fill

The Georgetown Women’s soccer team finished last season with a program record fourteen wins and earned the team’s first ever NCAA tournament berth. This year’s women’s soccer team features some new components but maintains the same lofty goals.

By August 22, 2008

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Court Troubles

After America’s third place finish in the 2006 World Championships, the international basketball community couldn’t help but wonder how far Team USA would fall and how long their shameful plummet would take. The answer came to me in the past week and a half as I begrudgingly dragged myself out of bed to watch the “Redeem Team” trounce its various opponents. We have already hit rock bottom.

By August 22, 2008

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No “I” in team

Has anyone ever wondered how illogical professional sports drafts are? It is the only time when the most qualified applicants for a job hope to get hired by the dregs of their field. If any reader finds me a Harvard Business School student who falls asleep at night praying to be hired by the now-defunct Bear Stearns or any one of its fellow sinking ships of the investment world, I would be impressed. It exposes something uniquely selfish about professional sports: first, how the individual has essentially come to define the team, and second, how mediocrity and failure are, in a sense, rewarded.

By April 24, 2008

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UVA upsets Hoyas

After breaking an eight game Big East losing streak on Sunday against Cincinnati, the Georgetown baseball team faced off against non-conference opponent University of Virginia on Tuesday evening. The Hoyas fell 9-1 against the 16th ranked Cavaliers.

By April 24, 2008

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Hoyas add on the wins

The Georgetown softball team gave the Coppin State Eagles a two-part thrashing on Tuesday at Guy Mason Field. Thirty-two runs were scored in the double-header, all by the Hoyas, and each game was called on the mercy rule after the fifth inning as Georgetown sent the Eagles packing with 12-0 and 20-0 victories.

By April 24, 2008

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The Sports Sermon

Union of European Football Associations Champion’s League games are the soccer fan’s gold. For a few weeks out of the year, the obligatory perusal of television’s daytime doldrums brings the welcome surprise of the world’s greenest pitches and greatest players. The soccer-loving minority in this country has beaten the argument over the sport’s relevance in the States to death, and although I am not ready to concede to the country’s soccer apathy, I have a less conventional argument in mind.

By April 24, 2008

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Dan Capeless

Sophomore Dan Capeless’ outstanding performance in the Hoyas’ final game against Big East leader Cincinnati was perfectly timed. The first baseman’s three doubles helped end Georgetown’s eight game Big East losing streak with an 8-5 win.

By April 24, 2008

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Hoyas vs. Scarlet Knights

When a team finds itself ranked fifth in the nation in any collegiate sport, it’s usually not a question of whether or not they will reach the post-season; it’s how far they will go. The Georgetown men’s lacrosse team currently sits at fifth place in the USILA Coaches Poll, but for head coach Dave Urick, any complacency is unacceptable.

By April 24, 2008

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Go the distance

Three years ago this sports writer began his career with the Voice as a sophomore. I remember that first article, an introduction to then-new athletic director Bernard Muir. Countless columns, game coverages and features have followed in the time since then. This week marks the last time my byline will grace these pages.

By April 17, 2008

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Men’s lacrosse fighting for post-season lives

Going into their game against No. 18 Loyola (Md.) last Saturday, the eighth-ranked Georgetown men’s lacrosse team (7-3, 3-1 ECAC) needed a win to maintain their hold on first place in the Eastern College Athletic Conference. After a tough 11-9 loss, though, the Hoyas fell into a second-place tie with UMass, potentially jeopardizing their postseason hopes.

By April 17, 2008

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Player of the Week: Jimmy Saris

Seven innings pitched, eleven strikeouts, no earned runs and a mere five hits allowed was the line on this week’s player of the week, Jimmy Saris. Those impeccable stats catapulted Georgetown baseball to a much-needed 7-0 victory over Navy. It was Saris’s seventh start of the season, and by far his best. He had retired eighteen batters all season before his stunning performance that sent twenty-one Midshipmen back to the bench.

By April 17, 2008

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Sports Sermon

This Friday the Multi-Sport Field will be transformed into what might appear to be a campground. Blue-topped tents and tarps will line the field, a stage will be constructed on the south end and banners will hang from every inch of the field’s walls. From 8 p.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Saturday morning almost 2,000 students will spend their night on the field participating in a gigantic relay.

By April 17, 2008

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GUST duo guides co-ed squad to semifinals

The 420 class dinghy, a popular sailboat used in collegiate competition, is named for its length: 4.2 meters. That’s not a lot of space for one person to maneuver, let alone two, but senior Chris Behm and junior Carly Chamberlain seem to do just fine. Just keeping the boat upright and moving is a miracle to the outside observer, but the Georgetown University Sailing Team’s (GUST) top duo does a little better than that.

By April 17, 2008

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Hoyas halt slide

Georgetown baseball snapped a four-game losing streak yesterday afternoon, continuing its streak of success against Navy with a 6-2 win. The Hoyas have won only two of their last 10 games, but both of those victories came against the Midshipmen.

By April 17, 2008

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Debunking Ewing

Only a few basketball players have been bigger first-ballot shoe-ins for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame than Patrick Ewing, Sr.

By April 10, 2008

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Going pro around the world

Kenny Izzo’s dream of playing professional basketball lead him to places the ordinary persuer would not be willing to visit.

By April 10, 2008

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The Sports Sermon

When I mention the words “workout” and “girls” what comes to mind? Perhaps the rows of occupied elliptical machines at Yates steadily spinning away while the girls on them read the lastest issue of Cosmo? An exercise ball might even be involved, but what remains consistent in any image is the intent to break the least amount of sweat while still managing to get the body in shape.

By April 10, 2008