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Esherick’s Island

Now sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a Georgetown team … They’re struggling through their ups and downs to try to reach a dream. Our season started out OK as Georgetown won eight straight, Although the teams the Hoyas played were really not that great.

By the January 30, 2003

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Hoyas mauled by Panthers

The Georgetown women’s basketball team lost their fourth straight game on Wednesday night at McDonough Arena as visiting Pittsburgh dominated the Hoyas 91-72. Sophomore guard Mary Lisicky led all scorers with 27 points in the defeat. The loss drops the Hoyas to 11-6 (2-4 Big East).

By the January 30, 2003

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Thank me later

Forget football. The game to which I devoted so much time, energy, and money for pitchers has broken my heart and left me for dead. As if it wasn’t bad enough that I went to the final game at the Vet expecting to tear up the seats as the final whistle blew, I had to then sit through a boring three-hour craptacle some people call the Super Bowl.

By the January 30, 2003

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The Sports Sermon

We just don’t get what all the fuss is about! People keep bitching and moaning about coaches and athletes like they’re doing something wrong, but we just don’t see it.

Yeah, so what if LeBron James has a $50,000 Hummer that he drives to school every day? Didn’t we all? And who cares if he hit another woman’s car and drove away … we’ve all been there.

By the January 30, 2003

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Men’s basketball .500 in Big East

And now the hard part.

Despite beginning Big East Conference action by suiting up against four of the lesser teams in the conference, Georgetown’s men’s basketball team (10-4 overall, 2-2 Big East) has too often resembled last year’s squad that was prone to late-game collapses.

By the January 23, 2003

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Evangelista perserveres in the pool

Georgetown senior Bryan Evangelista’s swimming career has been plagued by injuries. Coming out of high school he struggled with a nagging shoulder injury and this season he broke his hand. Through all this adversity, Evangelista has remained a positive and driving force behind the Georgetown swimming and diving program.

By the January 23, 2003

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Eagles prey on women’s hoops

The Hoyas women’s basketball team dropped its second straight game to a top-25 team, losing 72-60 to Boston College Wednesday night at McDonough Arena. Despite junior forward Rebekkah Brunson’s seventh double-double of the season, the Hoyas’ record now stands at 11-4 (2-3 Big East).

By the January 23, 2003

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Euro trashed

Setting: Captain America’s Bar & Caf?, Dublin.

Me: “Excuse me, do you show American football games here?”

Irishman: “American football? No.”

Me: “Do you know anywhere around here where they do?”

Irishman: “Ya, America. Haha!”

As the Irish folk working at Captain America’s had a good laugh at my expense, I was left heartbroken.

By the January 23, 2003

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The Sports Sermon

The question has arisen once again, this time with a bit more force and relevance: Should Pete Rose be admitted into the Hall of Fame? The answer, of course, is yes.

The Serm must admit somewhat of a bias here. We’re devout Reds fans. We were there for Riverfront Stadium’s last season.

By the January 23, 2003

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Men’s basketball ransacked by Pirates

Tuesday night, the Georgetown men’s basketball team (9-3 overall, 1-1 Big East) completed its strangest week in recent memory, losing to the Seton Hall Pirates (6-7 overall, 1-3 Big East) 68-54 in Big East Conference play.

The week began Sunday with Georgetown winning in overtime against West Virginia, the Hoyas’ first win in their last five OT games, followed by a highly publicized tirade by usually mild-mannered Head Coach Craig Esherick over officiating.

By the January 16, 2003

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All-American Sicher strikes a balance

Georgetown track and field co-captain Erin Sicher is a three-time All-American who runs 70 miles a week. She was a member of the outdoor 4×800 meter relay team that won the Big East Championship in 2001 and she just earned her first individual All-American honor in cross country this fall.

By the January 16, 2003

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Orangewomen juiced, lots of pulp

In the first of two games on its Big East road trip, the Hoyas women’s basketball team knocked off Syracuse 82-75 in overtime on Wednesday night. Junior forward Rebekkah Brunson led the Hoyas with 25 points and 15 rebounds for her sixth double-double of the season.

By the January 16, 2003

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The Esherant

After the Hoyas’ overtime victory against West Virginia last Saturday, a tall white guy, eyes burning and voice cracking, told the MCI Center pressroom how he truly felt:

“For the referees in our league, and for our league, and for the adults that run our league to expect Mike Sweetney to put up with the contact that he has to put up in the post when he goes up to shoot, and to put up with the contact he has to absorb and deal with and be happy about and not have a referee call a foul, and then [to have] that same 20-year old watch our perimeter people guard people … and get called for hand-checking every time we put our hands on somebody else is just absolutely, absolutely crazy.

By the January 16, 2003

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The Sports Sermon

In honor of Training Day’s debut on HBO, where it will inevitably be run over and over and over again until Ethan Hawke’s mustache actually seems attractive, this week The Serm divides the sporting world using “Denzel Terms.” As he said, you can either be two things in this raw and rugged life—a wolf or a sheep.

By the January 16, 2003

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Hoyas show hustle, lose to Blue Devils 93-86

Last night, the Georgetown men’s basketball team played their best game all season—well, best three-quarters of a game.

Despite leading No. 1 Duke 44-41 (10-0 overall, 1-0 ACC) at halftime, the Hoyas (8-2 overall, 0-0 Big East) fell victim to a 17-3 Duke second-half spurt in a 93-86 loss at raucous Cameron Indoor Arena, in Durham, N.

By the January 9, 2003

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Gold medalist Valmon teaches teamwork

The sign on Associate Head Coach of Track and Field Andrew Valmon’s wall reads, “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision … It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

Though one might not guess it from his soft-spoken demeanor, this philosophy helped carry Valmon to two consecutive Olympic gold medals in the 4×400-meter relay and a world record performance at the 1993 World Championships in the same event.

By the January 9, 2003

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Hoyas fry Friars in Big East

The Georgetown women’s basketball team improved their record to 9-2 (1-1 Big East) with a 79-67 win over Providence College in McDonough Gymnasium yesterday. Junior forward Rebekkah Brunson led all scorers with 22 points and grabbed nine rebounds in the win.

By the January 9, 2003

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Playoffs payoff

Unless you’ve been stuck on a deserted tropical island, it has been impossible to miss the super-suave Don Cheadle in the NFL Playoffs spots that have been airing lately. So far, Cheadle’s name will be synonymous with the playoffs because 2003 looks to offer the most exciting football in years, just like Cheadle promises.

By the January 9, 2003

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The Sports Sermon

Playoff predictions, musings:

Steelers over Titans—There’s a simple reason for this. His name is Antwaan Randle-El, the best player in the NFL. Look for Bill Cowher to start Randle-El, the rookie out of Indiana, at quarterback. From there, Randle-El will look to pass deep to Randle-El, who will catch some blocks from Randle-El en route to yet another Randle-El touchdown.

By the January 9, 2003

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Men’s hoops start strong, first test tonight

Apparently, it takes 13 minutes to figure out what a Chanticleer is.

The Georgetown men’s basketball team struggled early against the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers Monday night at the MCI Center, leading only 25-21 with 7:30 left in the first half.

By the December 5, 2002