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Cross country gears up for successful seasons

The women’s and men’s cross country teams won their respective races in the Great Meadow Invitational this Saturday at The Plains in Great Meadows, Va. While both teams were satisfied with their success over the weekend, their focus is on preparing for the Big East and NCAA Tournaments in November.

By the September 19, 2002

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Hoyas start strong, falter in second half

Before last Saturday’s football game, the all-time series between Georgetown and Holy Cross stood even at seven wins each. The Crusaders broke the tie by defeating the Hoyas 41-13 in front of a crowd of more than 1,200 for the first football game held on newly renovated Harbin Field.

By the September 19, 2002

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Men’s soccer loses in overtime

Men’s Soccer (2-4)?The Georgetown men’s soccer team lost a 1-0 heartbreaker to Towson University on Tuesday, allowing the Tigers to score a late goal in double overtime. The lone Towson goal was scored by senior Randy Tolson, who netted the strike past Hoya junior goalkeeper Tim Hogan with only 2.

By the September 19, 2002

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The Sports Sermon

1984 was the year when most of the current first-year class was born. While many first-years may like to claim that they have wanted to come to Georgetown since the womb, we would bet that half of them never would have been here if it weren’t for a similar birth that also occurred in 1984?Georgetown’s birth as a major university.

By the September 19, 2002

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The Masterz

William “Hootie” Johnson is not a media-savvy guy. In fact, Hootie, the head of Augusta National Golf Club, the most famous golf course in the country and site of the Masters tournament, is a total idiot. Combine that with his penchant for talking loudly to anyone, and you’ve got a genuine media firestorm.

By the September 19, 2002

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Beirut 101

Some call it beer pong; others refer to it as “beirizzy in the hizzy.” You can call it whatever you want, as long as you acknowledge that Beirut is the best game, ever. we ex-high school jocks can’t get enough of it. If we go one night without the feeling of that ping-pong ball on our fingertips, we get the jitters.

By the September 12, 2002

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The Sports Sermon

Ah, to silence the critics. There is nothing more satisfying than to defy those endless haters and analysts who think that they know sports because they speak vociferously and say, “Awesome baby!” or because they were married to Roseanne and therefore must know something about 300-pound linemen.

By the September 12, 2002

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Women’s tennis prepares for fall, eyes spring

The Georgetown Women’s tennis team its kick off their fall season Sept. 26 at the Bucknell Invitational in Lewisburg, Pa., a tournament that the Hoyas dominated last year. The team will participate in six tournaments in the next two months as they prepare for Big East competition and the Big East Championship this spring.

By the September 12, 2002

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Men’s soccer shuts out Navy

The Georgetown Hoyas Men’s soccer team defeated the Navy Midshipmen at North Kehoe Field 2-0 Tuesday in a critical early-season test for the young Hoya team.

Last Saturday, the Hoyas lost a heartbreaker at Syracuse 3-2. In the game, George-town gave up a two-goal lead in the last five minutes of regulation and eventually lost in overtime.

By the September 12, 2002

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Wafer Saxa

Before I die, I hope to be wealthy enough to found a university. With a relatively small amount of money?say, a few million dollars?I could easily start a small institution focused on training students for a specific range of careers. But that wouldn’t be any fun, because trade schools don’t usually have real sports teams.

By the September 12, 2002

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The Sports Sermon

By the time you read this, the Oakland A’s may have won their 20th straight game, an American League record and the first streak of its kind since the 1947 New York Yankees. After a tumultuous offseason that featured the A’s losing their star and leader Jason Giambi, leadoff hitter Johnny Damon, closer Jason Isringhausen and rookie of the year candidate Eric Hinske, the A’s were given up for dead.

By the September 5, 2002

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I’m like a bird

The sign on the wall said, “Why gamble with your money, when you can gamble with your life?” At first it seemed a bit absurd to me, but then again I was in Vegas, a few hundred dollars in the hole. At 3 a.m., standing on the floor of the Venetian Hotel, what once was a crazy idea that I had shrugged off several times before suddenly started to seem a lot more plausible.

By the September 5, 2002

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What’s your f-f-fantasy

There are 45 seconds left on the clock and the Philadelphia Eagles are up 52-14 on the New York Giants. The G-men have the ball at their 20-yard line. The offense steps onto the field against the Eagles third-string defense. Why am I so intrigued? Why do I refuse to change the channel to a more competitive game? Because I have Jeremy Shockey, the Giants tight end, on my fantasy football team and he needs only 10 more yards to put him over 100 yards receiving for the day: 100-plus yards means big points for my fantasy football team.

By the September 5, 2002

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Volleyball goes 1-2 over weekend

Only returning four players from last year’s Big East Tournament runner-up, the Georgetown Women’s Volleyball team opened up its season this past weekend in East Lansing, Mich. at the Coca-Cola/Michigan State University Volleyball Classic, going 1-2.

The tournament featured the No.

By the September 5, 2002

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Women’s soccer wins first home game

The Georgetown women’s soccer team defeated Howard University 9-5 yesterday in its first home game, rebounding from last weekend’s loss to William and Mary and evening their record at 1-1.

The Hoyas came out strong, with junior midfielder Courtney Shaub scoring the first goal less than two minutes into the game.

By the September 5, 2002

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The Sports Sermon

He stands at 6-foot-5 and 225 chiseled pounds with a white-bread face and golden hair. He is a red-shirt senior at USC, one of the greatest college football schools of all time. His name is Carson Palmer and in past years he would have been a top-5 draft choice with his pedigree.

By the August 29, 2002

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Former Hoyas hopeful for another chance

In Part One of our series, the Voice introduced former Georgetown athletes Marc Samuel and Tyler Purtill who are vying for NFL kicking jobs. Both were signed as undrafted free-agents?Samuel, the Hoyas’ kicker last year, with the Buffalo Bills and Purtill, a former goalie with the soccer team, with the Carolina Panthers.

By the August 29, 2002

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Cook cleared to play for Hoyas

The NCAA and the Conference Commissioners’ Association granted first-year guard Ashanti Cook an unqualified release from his commitment to the University of New Mexico on Monday, freeing him to play for the Hoyas in the 2002-3 season.

“Ashanti has been completely released from his prior commitments,” said Head Coach Craig Esherick.

By the August 29, 2002

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Minor allegiance

Major League Baseball is poised for its first work stoppage since the supposedly disastrous 1994 strike, and so baseball-loving Americans like you and I should be crying in whatever we happen to be drinking.

Not me, though. I’ve still got minor-league ball.

By the August 29, 2002

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Hoyas quarterback search continues

Georgetown Football Head Coach Bob Benson has pushed back naming a starting quarterback until this weekend, after the team scrimmages against Shepherd College, a highly-ranked Division II team Saturday. The spot was left vacant after Sean Peterson’s graduation in the spring.

By the August 29, 2002