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Jack is in the house

“Jack’s already been walked [today], so he might not be that cooperative,” Walid Khalifeh (SFS ‘08), told me when we picked up Georgetown’s mascot from the lobby of the Jesuit residence. “As you might know, bulldogs are not the most energetic of dogs.”

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Finding fans among faculty

Marilyn McMorrow says she “doesn’t have an athletic bone in her body,” but describes watching the Georgetown basketball team as “ecstasy … you can be lifted out of your shoes.... Read more

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Sweet November for GU soccer

The Georgetown men’s soccer team is back in the playoffs after winning two matches in a row and four of five.

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The Sports Sermon

We all know that U.S.-China relations are a tricky aspect of our nation’s foreign policy, which is why the Bush administration is rolling out the big guns for its latest efforts at diplomacy: Cal Ripken is taking a swing at things in Beijing (pun intended).

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What Rocks

Senior Melissa Grelli had an historic performance this past Saturday at the Big East Championship in Louisville, Ky.

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Road work

Marathoners are a different type of athlete, driven to take on a 26.2 mile run just for that inexplicable runner’s high.

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Switch Hitting: a weekly take on sports

Rather than accept the mounting specter of a multi-sport New England dynasty, sanity requires that I retreat to the comfort of my own imaginary sports Valhalla.

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XC makes waves in KY

A few days of rain left the ground at the E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park in Louisville, KY, a bit wet Saturday, but the flat course at the Big East Cross Country Championships provided few challenges for Georgetown’s runners, with senior Melissa Grelli’s first place finish providing the highlight of the weekend.

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FAST BREAK

The Georgetown Men’s golf team ended the fall season with a disappointing result in the 23rd annual Georgetown Intercollegiate on Tuesday.

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Switch Hitting: a weekly take on sports

There is no such thing as a moral victory in sports. Clear-cut wins and losses are the primary indicators for success and anyone who tells you otherwise is flapping their gums, hoping to mask larger problems of inefficiency and incompetence.

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What Rocks

Ah, the life of a kicker. The difference between the oh-so-awkward perpetual silent treatment and being carried off the field atop a pack of crazed victory-drunk muscle machines can be as simple as laces in or laces out.

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The Sports Sermon

“Execution” generally conjures up images of bloody necks outside the Tower of London. For Georgetown football, the word means winning a game—at least according to Coach Kevin Kelly, who attributed the team’s victory against the Bucknell Bison last Saturday to the fact that the team “executed better,” (in an entirely, non-homicidal kind of way).

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Sit down, Pitt:

After a tough 5-3 loss Friday against West Virginia University, the Hoyas Women’s soccer team (11-5-0, 4-4-0 BE) weren’t about to relax with a 3-0 lead against Pittsburgh (6-9-1, 1-7-1 BE) Sunday afternoon on North Kehoe Field. The Hoyas held on to win the game 4-2.

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Strange lands with sporting ties: Hoya athletes abroad

Have some aggression to work out and would like to learn how to curse in Spanish? You’d be sure to find a home on the rugby team Alicante, Spain.

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The Sports Sermon

Liver damage. Needles. Testicular atrophy. There are a lot of downsides to anabolic steroid use.

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What Rocks

There’s been little to cheer about this season for Georgetown football, but last Saturday’s new aerial attack might be something to get excited about in the coming weeks.

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Soccer wins some, loses some

Georgetown split a pair of exciting games this week, falling to conference rival West Virginia on Saturday 1-0 in overtime, then notched a thrilling 2-1 overtime win against cross-town rival American University on Tuesday.

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Volleyball slump

The Georgetown Volleyball team lost a tough match to Virginia Commonwealth University Tuesday night at McDonough Gym in a five game decision.

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Switch Hitting: a weekly take on sports

The American League dwarfs the National League in top-tier teams. Most people expected any of the four AL playoff teams to be able to blow away the NL representative with offensive firepower once the World Series rolled around.

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JTIII +Gaston=Madness!

Tomorrow night there’ll be one on-campus party that has no chance of being broken up. Since John Thompson III is the host, DPS or Metro intervention is unlikely.