In each of the past two seasons, the senior quarterback had found himself in the thick of a season-starting quarterback controversy. This year is no different.
Since the firing of men’s basketball Head Coach Craig Esherick last spring, the Athletic Department has undergone a significant reorganization, touching Head Coaches in many different programs, the Associate Athletic Director and the Athletic Director.
Hoyas (favorites)/ Dookies (Underdogs)/ Margin (duh): Larry Brown Pistons/ Larry Brown USA/ Heart Mia Hamm/ Paul Hamm/ Still more famous Dream Team ‘92/ Dream Team ‘04/ R-E-S-P-E-C-T Athens/ Sydney/ Less crowded
The only challenge for the George Mason University baseball team was playing through the inclement weather during their 17-3 trampling of Georgeown. The local contest was played at Shirley Povich Field, Bethesda Md. on the eve of George Mason entering the national spotlight with votes in the AP poll.
When NFL commisioner Paul Tagliabue stepped to the mic at Madison Square Garden to announce that San Diego Chargers had selected Ole Miss quarterback Eli Manning with the first pick in the 2004 draft, you could feel the Manning family’s heart palpatations.
Two days saw two very different results for Georgetown’s lacrosse teams. While the no. 5 Georgetown men’s lacrosse team’s dominating 16-7 victory over the Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers helped cement the Hoyas’ postseason hopes, the no. 7 women’s loss at no.
Without much recognition the Georgetown Saling team has proven that it is a force to be reckoned with. By plowing through a national qualifying tournament that Hoyas have attained a no. 1 collegiate ranking. The team’s national prominence has them poised to make a run in nationals one month from now.
Bill Simmons, as always, has a point. New York sports fans are hard to please, case in point the current dramatics going on with the Yankees. With A-Rod struggling, and Derek Jeter in the midst of a record 0 for 28 slump, this summer’s biggest sensation is turning into an early embarrassment.
This past weekend the Women’s Lacrosse team proved again that they have what it takes. On a hot afternoon the Hoyas beat the undefeated Fighting Irish, winning the Big East Conference for the fourth time. Unfortunately, their conference glory was soon darkened by a disappointing loss at Penn State.
The Georgetown men’s lacrosse team exploded with a first-period offensive flurry in Saturday’s 14-10 win over Baltimore’s Loyola College Greyhounds. The explosions, which resounded as loudly as those over Baltimore Harbor that inspired Francis Scott Key’s national anthem in 1813, created immediate distance between the two clubs clawing towards a berth in the NCAA Championship Tournament.
My last column. I can’t believe it’s here. I’ve written about so many different topics: Beirut, Poker, and fake fans to name a few, and it’s tough to decide what to end with. I’m gonna miss this soft spot in my heart, the right side of page 13 of The Georgetown Voice.
