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Where have you gone Jim McMahon?

I am a fair-weather fan. Once the clouds roll in, I’m gone, off to the less-disappointing pastures of unaffiliated fandom.

Having grown up in the Chicago area, this comes as second nature. You see, Chicago sports fans as a whole are not known for their optimism or, for that matter, loyalty.

By the January 24, 2002

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The Sports Sermon

Surprisingly, a quick glance around the sports world this week shows that almost everything is as it should be. The Rams are destroying would-be contenders because they are the most dominant team in the league. Tony Dungy has a head-coaching job again because he is one of the smartest coaches in football.

By the January 24, 2002

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22 Days

On the eve of my 21st birthday, Mets General Manager Steve Phillips gave me a present. Granted, when compared to true blockbuster trades, and even when compared to other trades Phillips has made this off-season, it wasn’t exactly a huge deal. Eleven players changing uniforms is always interesting, but the gift that Phillips sent me wasn’t Jeromy Burnitz, Mark Sweeney, Jeff D’Amico and Lou Collier.

By the January 24, 2002

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Hoyas turn season around, win two straight

With 11:07 remaining in the Hoyas’ 84-58 win over Seton Hall on Wednesday night, Pirates senior guard Ty Shine stood at the three-point line, tying his shoe, as an entire sports arena exploded with applause. Could Shine’s looping motion possibly be this transfixing?

Moments earlier, Georgetown senior point guard Kevin Braswell had done the stuff of playground legend?and literally faked Shine out of one of his Nikes?on a crossover dribble just beyond the three point line.

By the January 17, 2002

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Indoor track shines at weekend meets

The Georgetown indoor track team continued its stellar streak this past weekend, posting 13 first-place finishes at the Rutgers Invitational in Piscataway, N.J. The team came off an impressive finish at the Terrapin Invitational last weekend, where Georgetown recorded several winning times.

By the January 17, 2002

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Saturday Special

I was sitting on my beer-drenched couch in the bowels of Henle last Saturday, watching the Hoyas dismantle Boston College, and then it hit me like a Brett Favre spiral across the middle: it’s great to be a college sophomore in America on a day like today. Sitting on the couch on a mild January weekend, with a cheesesteak on the way and 10 hours of uninterrupted sports coverage on tap is just an affirmation of everything right and true in the American spirit.

By the January 17, 2002

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The Sports Sermon

Watching a bald and gangly Kobe Bryant play live in a high school championship game his senior year impressed us immensely. Bryant threw down 40 and single-handedly beat an awed group of 18-year-olds. Monday night he did the same thing, but the differences were that he did it in the NBA and that he defeated an awed group of the best basketball players in the world.

By the January 17, 2002

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Get Carter

I write about baseball. I live in America. So why can’t I be one of the Baseball Writers of America? It strikes me as hard to believe that there are only 472 people in all of America who are “Baseball Writers.” After spending long hours working in a deli this summer and taking every free minute I had to read the baseball columns in all four of the New York papers, it seemed like there must have been hundreds of baseball writers in the Big Apple alone.

By the January 17, 2002

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Jordan saves world

It was an average night for Michael Jordan in an average NBA game Tuesday night against the Clippers. Jordan threw down a quiet 18 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists for the Wizards and most of the arena was thinking more about the fourth quarter heroics of the Wizards’ Popeye Jones and Chris Whitney than Jordan’s performance.

By the January 10, 2002

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The Sports Sermon

It was a tough Christmas break for us here at the Sermon going home and hearing questions from our “friends” like:

“Sweetney had how many points against Virginia?”

“Did UCLA get 20 bonus points at the beginning of the game because of your ugly blue uniforms?”

“Miami just won the FOOTBALL championship, but they beat you in BASKETBALL?”

“What’s this I hear about some guy named Herve?”

Yes, the battered and bruised Hoyas lost four straight over break, including two against mid-level Big East teams and will face last year’s Big East Champion, Boston College, in Boston on Saturday.

By the January 10, 2002

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Esherick: “We need to turn the corner.”

The Hoyas came out swinging against Rutgers University on Jan. 6, at one point holding an 18-point lead in the first half.

The hot start by the Hoyas was in stark contrast to their opening run against UCLA six days prior, when they “started off terribly” in the words of Head Coach Craig Esherick.

By the January 10, 2002

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Men’s lacrosse gears up

The Georgetown men’s lacrosse team will be relying on strong senior leadership and exciting young talent as it works toward its goal of a third straight ECAC conference championship and a berth in the NCAA tournament this spring.

Head Coach Dave Urick is looking to the four senior captains?midfielders Steve Dusseau, Mike Harney, and Mike Kanach, and goalie Scott Schroeder?to guide the team both on and off the field.

By the January 10, 2002

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Wear Capes

Desperate times have come to Georgetown University.

As students everywhere return from an abbreviated end of semester break, we are confronted with difficulties both old and new. Unfortunately, the old problems? huge lines at the bookstore, Jamaican jerk pork at New South, off-campus rent payments, arduous and unsuccessful textbooks searches and the like?somehow seem worse this year than they have in previous ones.

By the January 10, 2002

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Willingham faces challenges at ND

I was never very good at choosing schools, so maybe I shouldn’t be writing this piece. In second grade, I got in a huge fight with my best friend Matt Kamen (now one of the top swimmers in the Ivy League, by the way) about something or the other. That same day, I got accepted to Saint David’s, an elite elementary school three blocks from my house.

By the January 10, 2002

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Why Can’t I Score

As corporate lawyers, professional arbitrators, incredibly rich businessmen and the dorky-as-hell Commissioner of Baseball square off regarding the issues of contraction and the collective bargaining agreement this offseason, I find it remarkably difficult, optimist though I may be, to deny the possibility of a work stoppage in the 2002 baseball season.

By the December 6, 2001

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Hoya women gear up for tough stretch

Until last Friday, the Georgetown women’s basketball team was an undefeated team. They had beaten all four of their opponents to date, including Farleigh Dickinson, Colgate, Rider and George Mason. On Friday, however the Hoyas suffered their first regular season loss to the Stags from Fairfield University.

By the December 6, 2001

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The Sports Sermon

Seeing as The Sermon has undergone a changing of the guard, we feel that it is only fair to lay out our new allegiances.

First and foremost, we hate the Yankees. Their attempt to steal Jason Giambi from an exciting, young and improving A’s squad is nauseating.

By the December 6, 2001

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National powerhouses loom for Georgetown

The doors of McDonough are always locked during practices, so the Georgetown community cannot see the Hoyas take shape in front of its very eyes. So far this season, the Hoyas have dominated creampuffs, as expected, while showing off their impressive first-year arsenal of guards and forwards and their new-look, faster-paced offense.

By the December 6, 2001

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Sportsview

Growing up, I loved to watch baseball. I couldn’t get enough of it. At night, I would watch baseball on TV; at school, I would play baseball with the kids in the playground and when I got home, I would take out my baseball cards and pick out my favorites. Guys like Don Mattingly and Willie Randolph were my idols, my all-star team.

By the December 6, 2001

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Table talk

Thanksgiving is the ultimate ironic holiday. You bitch and moan for three weeks prior about traveling to the homes of relatives, about seeing relatives and about maintaining effective conversation with relatives, but in the end you do it and you enjoy it, and your life feels somewhat more complete for having done it.

By the November 29, 2001