Sports

Water polo heads to National Championship

It’s 8:30 on a rainy Tuesday night, and members of the Georgetown men’s club water polo team stand huddled and shivering by their cars outside of Healy Gates. Forty minutes later, they will have stripped down to their Speedos at the Wakefield Recreation Center in Fairfax, Va. and plunged into the Olympic-sized pool to scrimmage against the Northern Virginia Masters team.

By the Voice Staff October 31, 2002

Sports

Gelblum leads on the court

For Georgetown tennis sensation Liora Gelblum, academics always come first. As an International Economics major in the School of Foreign Service with a pre-med concentration, Gelblum has to work hard to stay on top of her busy class schedule. Fortunately for Georgetown, Gelblum gives the same effort on the court as off, helping to lead the women’s tennis team for the last year and a half.

By the Voice Staff October 31, 2002

Sports

Atlas batted?

Ayn Rand liked baseball.

Actually, I don’t know whether the imperious author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead and deific apologist of objectivism liked the game at all, but according to a writer associated with the Ayn Rand Institute, she very well should have.

By the Voice Staff October 31, 2002

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Kobe!

It’s so nice to see you again. How was your summer? We’re so glad that you didn’t make that trip to Indianapolis that everyone was talking about at the end of last year. Everyone thought that taking that class would be an easy A, but instead GPAs got busted like Ike Hilliard’s shoulder.

By the Voice Staff October 31, 2002

Sports

Campbell hopes for Olympics

In flip-flops and a button-down shirt, Andrew Campbell (SFS ‘06) of San Diego, Ca. looks like your average, laid-back first-year. You probably wouldn’t guess that he is one of the premier Laser class sailors in the world, the recent winner of the Youth Sailing International Sailing Federation World Championships and a U.

By the Voice Staff October 24, 2002

Sports

Hoyas reach for Big East tournaments

This fall, three Georgetown teams are vying for postseason appearances in the Big East Conference. While the Women’s Soccer team has already secured a berth, the fates of the Men’s Soccer and Women’s Volleyball teams have yet to be determined.

Men’s Soccer (5-8 overall, 3-4 Big East, Ninth in Conference)

The Georgetown Men’s Soccer team has five regular season games left.

By the Voice Staff October 24, 2002

Sports

Midnight in a not-so-perfect world

While most colleges were holding Midnight Madness last week, Georgetown postponed the unveiling of the basketball teams due to the threat of low attendance posed by Columbus Day weekend. The traditional start of the college basketball season, Midnight Madness stokes the coals of excitement and anticipation for the upcoming season.

By the Voice Staff October 24, 2002

Sports

The Sports Sermon

He stares with his arms folded, never showing any emotion. Each week he leads his resurgent team out on the field with a brisk run. He is the best thing to happen to college football in the last 50 years and he knows it. What makes him the best is that he understands his job isn’t finished until Jan.

By the Voice Staff October 24, 2002

Sports

We goin’ sizzla

I was fortunate enough to have good tickets to the Jazz-76ers preseason game this past weekend. From my seat, I couldn’t help but notice the ridiculous amount of trash talking on the court. John Stockton was running his little mouth, Karl Malone was staring people down, and Allen Iverson was being cocky as all hell.

By the Voice Staff October 24, 2002

Sports

Football wins second of season

Football (2-4 overall, 0-3 Patriot League)?Georgetown football pulled off its second win of the season last Saturday, edging Davidson College 25-21 at Davidson, N.C. The Hoyas came back from an eight-point third quarter deficit to snap a two-game losing streak.

By the Voice Staff October 17, 2002

Sports

Hoop dreams

It’s dark and quiet in the lobby of McDonough Gymnasium 15 minutes before the men’s basketball team holds open tryouts for the 2002-03 season. The only sound is the pacing of the six students inside. Every few minutes, someone stops to admire one of the trophy cases.

By the Voice Staff October 17, 2002

Sports

Not as mad

It is a sad day for Georgetown and for Georgetown basketball fans when almost every college basketball team in the country holds Midnight Madness except us. That day came last Friday night/early Saturday morning for the Hoyas, as most other NCAA Division I teams kicked off their seasons in celebration, bringing fans, ex-players and coaches together to show off their talents and get geared up for an exciting year of college hoops.

By the Voice Staff October 17, 2002

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Check it, boys and girls:

Some people out there (read: Georgetown’s “newspaper” of record) were hating on the playoffs because, well, they’re supposedly boring without any “stars.” We’re here to prove to you that these playoffs, sans Yankees they may be, are actually pretty damn instense.

By the Voice Staff October 17, 2002

Sports

Cross country prepares for NCAAs

The Georgetown men’s and women’s cross country teams will begin their final preparations for the NCAA Championships with two significant meets in the next three weeks?the Pre-NCAA meet at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Ind. on Oct. 19 and the Big East Championship on Nov.

By the Voice Staff October 17, 2002

Sports

Hoyas drop to four games under .500

The Georgetown Hoyas men’s soccer team was shutout yesterday by the No. 6 Maryland Terrapins 2-0 on North Kehoe Field, in a game marked by the Terrapins’ command of the ball. The loss brings Georgetown’s record to 4-8 overall and 2-3 in the Big East.

From the start, Maryland controlled the tempo.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Sports

The ball was bigger in this case

Another basketball season is rapidly approaching. I’m not talking about the basketball played by our beloved Hoyas over at the MCI Center. No, this game is played in the humid squalor of Yates with no spectators other than those who happen to be working out on the exercise machines above the courts.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Sports

Fantasy X

Behind college dorm room doors and across the suburban wasteland of America, physically inadequate, nearsighted sports-geeks gulp Surge late into the night, filling their heads with arcane statistics, squinting their washed-out faces in the pale blue glow of computer monitors tuned to ESPN.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Sports

The Sports Sermon

It’s the time of the year at Georgetown when everyone starts to become irritable. Midterms are in full effect, it’s starting to get cold, and you’ve had enough of your roommates’ dirty dishes in the sink. How do we at the sermon handle our angst? We sublimate our anger onto a famous athlete.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Sports

Polo sport

In this column three weeks ago, I discussed one of the most exclusive domains left in the wide world of sports?golf. However, there just might be a sport even more crouched in tradition, even more discriminating in its membership and even more mindful of its upturned nose.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002