Switch Hitting: a weekly take on sports

Still unsure as to whether or not Georgetown has a football team? Me, too. But meandering over to the center of campus last Saturday, I noticed something.

By Phil Perry September 20, 2007

Sports

What’s in a walk-on?

Eventually, every college football player is struck—literally hit—with the realization that the speed and physicality of the game is exponentially greater than what they experienced in high school.

By Phil Perry September 13, 2007

Sports

The Lady Hoyas (3-8) were in high spirits after their Sunday night victory against Iona in the annual Georgetown Classic. Though they lost their first two matches against Northwestern and Towson, the Hoyas recovered to defeat Iona in a 3-1 match.

By Nicole Bush September 13, 2007

Sports

Joni loves bocce: lawn bowling Italian style

While most of the country spent last Saturday enraptured by football’s annual television reconquista, a band of sports enthusiasts enjoyed a more peculiar pastime in the shadow of the Capitol: bocce ball.

By Anthony Francavilla September 13, 2007

Sports

Battle of D.C.

While they might be the team you haven’t heard of, or thought of, they are on the road to making a place for themselves in the status of top teams at Georgetown this fall season.

By Liz Kuebler September 13, 2007

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Next to, “nothing good happens after midnight” and “don’t tell your mother about this ticket,” my father’s favorite advisory catchphrase is, “you make your own good time.”

By admin September 13, 2007

Sports

Switch Hitting: a weekly take on sports

In the winner-take-all world of professional sports a number of people live by the adage, “If you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying.”

By John Cantalupi September 13, 2007

Sports

West coast cred, east coast waters

Impressively tall in his Canadian Henle polo shirt and loafers, newly appointed Head Women’s Crew Coach Glenn Putyrae looks every inch the rower.

By admin September 6, 2007

Sports

The Sports Sermon

You may not have heard of Mary Ellen Clark. During the 1990s, she was one of the premier Olympic divers in the United States, and I—for no apparent reason outside her ability to kick a lot of post-communist posteriors and emerge from the water looking like she’d spent the day in an Icelandic spa—idolized her.

By admin September 6, 2007

Sports

The Buzbee buzz: Georgetown son takes on the NFL, real world

Ask anyone related to Georgetown football about Alex Buzbee, and you’ll hear the same refrain: he’s a hard worker and he leads by example.

By Anthony Francavilla September 6, 2007

Sports

Georgetown sailing: no scurvy here

Contact with Georgetown’s various athletes is an inevitable occurrence. There is seldom a day when one can’t hear or see the football team practicing on Harbin Field or watch one... Read more

By Anthony Francavilla August 30, 2007

Sports

Switch Hitting: a weekly take on sports

With the first pick of the 1999 NFL Draft, the Cleveland Browns selected Tim Couch, a quarterback from the University of Kentucky.

By Mike Kuebler August 30, 2007

Sports

Football and fish: that’s what Finland does

Senior quarterback Matt Bassuener can normally set his schedule by the sun. Sunrise: hit the weights for a good lift and dissect defenses on tape during a team meeting before... Read more

By Phil Perry August 30, 2007

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Brady Quinn’s new hazing-induced haircut isn’t the only piece of titillating news on sports fans’ minds in my hometown.

By admin August 30, 2007

Sports

Houghton leads Hoyas into the fray

Charlie Houghton is a complicated guy. One of those soft-spoken, deep-thinking types who doesn’t say much. Carefully crafting every thought and phrase, he’s even-keeled, setting his own pace. His feet, on the other hand, are usually moving much faster than his mouth.

By Phil Perry August 24, 2007

Sports

Switch Hitting: A weekly take on sports

“Boyhood dreams, a bat made from a tree struck by lightning and most importantly, a never-ending passion for the game.” So goes the tagline for Barry Levinson’s iconic 1984 cinematic adaptation of Bernard Malamud’s baseball novel, The Natural, the story of Roy Hobbs’ journey from young pitching phenom to middle-aged outfield hero. Fast-forward 23 years, subtract the magical bat, add some perseverance and determination, and this fictional feel-good story about overcoming adversity takes on a very real dimension in the form of St. Louis Cardinals’ outfielder Rick Ankiel.

By John Cantalupi August 24, 2007

Sports

A new era for Hoya field hockey?

Georgetown’s field hockey team confronted a tough quandary at the beginning of August when eight-year Head Coach Laurie Carroll announced her resignation in the last week of July. Her assistant coach Homero Pardi walked away with her. Two weeks later the Hoyas announced Tiffany Marsh as the new Head Coach and Emily Beach as her assistant.

By Liz Kuebler August 24, 2007

Sports

Soccer slips up in PA

Mother Nature had her say in the Georgetown Men’s Soccer season-opening exhibition on Tuesday, providing a slick stage for the Hoyas’ 1-0 loss to Penn State.

By Anthony Francavilla August 24, 2007

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Americans should thank Michael Vick for restoring the sanctity of American sports. Our recent national foray into the underbelly of athletics is wholly unnatural, as we are a people who... Read more

By admin August 24, 2007

Sports

Roy Meets World: Team USA Hits Brazil

While most Hoyas spent their summers fetching coffee or lounging at the beach, Roy Hibbert (COL ‘08) spent his break in the standard fashion of preternaturally tall, phenomenally talented human beings: playing basketball in South America with Team USA.

By Michael Kuebler and Clare Malone August 24, 2007