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The Sports Sermon

Not even my customary run-in with the ceiling could deter my good cheer last Saturday morning as I climbed out of bed. The sun glistening upon the muddy Potomac, the delicate snoring of my roommate and the intermittent shouting from kegs-and-eggs revelers; everything smacked of the collegiate bliss that Homecoming weekend is meant to invoke.

By October 4, 2007

Sports

What Rocks

Captain Mike Glaccum suffered a painful ankle injury during Friday’s loss to Rutgers. According to Head Coach Brian Wiese, the doctor gave Glaccum four weeks to recover before heading back onto the field.

By October 4, 2007

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On the rocks: The tale of one prof. and the Alps

Four in the morning bedtimes are more relevant to most Hoyas than 4 a.m. wake-ups. Such an early rise can be exhilarating, though, granted you have a helmet, headlamp, ropes, crampons, a bag filled with more equipment and a mountain to conquer.

By September 27, 2007

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Men’s soccer strikes back

A Sunday win was the perfect medicine for the ailing Hoya men’s soccer team (2-5-0, 1-2 BE), which snapped a four game losing streak with a 1-0 win against conference foe Louisville (4-3-0, 1-1-0 BE).

By September 27, 2007

Sports

Switch Hitting: a weekly take on sports

Four weeks into the season, a lot of things are becoming clear in college football. Notre Dame is finally feeling the pain of being the most overrated program in the nation for the past few years. USC is scary good. Louisville can score a lot, but so can their opponents. Ohio State reloads instead of rebuilding.

By September 27, 2007

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Anchors away

With the first month of the season drawing to a close, the Georgetown sailing team is already claiming it’s spot at the top of the heap.

By September 27, 2007

Sports

The Sports Sermon

In second grade, sometime between being deemed “of an age of reason” by the Roman Catholic Church and finally shaking off that pesky imaginary friend, I came into baseball consciousness.

By September 27, 2007

Sports

Homecoming preview

This Saturday, the two teams entering the Multi-Sport Field will be working to shake off their hangover from last week’s play. Both Cornell (1-1) and Georgetown (0-4) gave up more than 50 points in their lopsided losses to Yale and Holy Cross, respectively.

By September 27, 2007

Sports

Bend it like…Wells

If there were ever a time to say that football is the best fall sport on campus, it would be now. And by football, we mean fútbol. The women’s soccer team is the top sport on campus this fall, with the best start the program has ever seen.

By September 20, 2007

Sports

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 September 20, 2007

Sports

Fore! play!

While lacrosse, soccer and football benefit from the advantage of on-campus facilities, the Hoya golf team could never dream of having more than 18 holes of mini-golf in the quaintly cramped Georgetown community. The only glimpse most students will ever get of the golf team may be the sight of players lugging their golf bags on the way to practice.

By September 20, 2007

Sports

The Sports Sermon

To me, Peter Gammons is the ultimate name in baseball credibility. I’ve never read a single column he wrote in The Boston Globe, don’t regularly search out his pieces on ESPN.com and only hear from him on the rare occasions that I watch SportsCenter when he happens to be on.

By September 20, 2007

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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 September 13, 2007

Sports

Volley-ballin’

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 September 13, 2007

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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 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 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 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 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 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 September 6, 2007