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The Sports Sermon

And it ended as the Sermon rushed the court and saw our friend get head-butted by a security guard. Despite the strongest efforts of Syracuse centers Craig Forth and Billy Celuck, the Hoyas best game of the season came in the most important contest of the year, a huge 15-point home win against Syracuse.

By the January 31, 2002

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Voice Sports’ Super Bowl XXXVI Preview

New England Patriots (13-5)

Season Review:

The New England Patriots started the season with low expectations and started to live up to them, beginning the year 0-2. However, in that second loss of the year, Pats longtime quarterback, Drew Bledsoe, injured himself and control of the Patriots offense shifted to a second-year pro from Michigan, Tom Brady.

By the January 31, 2002

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Selling my soul

For the bulk of my 21 years, I have been an avowed underdog supporter. Just a brief survey of the New York area teams I grew up watching will prove my point: I follow the Mets, Jets, Islanders and Nets. Apparently, I was cursed with a streak of bad luck in my formative sports-watching years.

By the January 31, 2002

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Voice Sports Profile: Jeff the Juggler

“So here is the deal,” first-year student Jeff Civillico (CAS ‘05) said. “I learned to juggle when I was seven.”

At age seven, while visiting colleges for his oldest brother Gene, Civillico was intrigued by the street performers in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass.

By the January 31, 2002

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Hoyas peel Orangemen

In the 2001-02 Syracuse Men’s Basketball media guide, under the “Opponents” section, Georgetown’s senior point guard is dubbed as “Kevin Breswell.” Whether or not this typo was motivation for the Hoyas, Braswell and company made sure the No. 10 Orangemen won’t forget their names anytime soon with a 75-60 drubbing at MCI Center on Monday night.

By the January 31, 2002

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No more excuses

As in life, success in sports is based upon the bedrock principles of accountability and results. If you don’t get results, then you are always held accountable. Whether you are Phil Jackson or Michael Jordan, Craig Esherick or Kevin Braswell, sports fans want victories, and there will be hell to pay if they feel their team does not play up to their potential.

By the January 31, 2002

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Horvath leads Hoyas

The Georgetown women’s basketball team defeated Pittsburgh last night 73-56 after losing to Syracuse last Saturday 89-61 and falling to No. 1-ranked University of Connecticut 85-41 earlier last week.

Despite the tough loss to UConn, the Hoyas came back to put up a fight against the Orangewomen.

By the January 24, 2002

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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 continue up and down season

With less than one minute remaining in last Saturday’s home game against the surprising Pittsburgh Panthers, first-year guard Drew Hall approached the line with the Hoyas trailing 66-64 and calmly sank two free throws to tie the game. The MCI Center, for several shining moments, resembled Cameron Indoor Stadium, the student-crazed home court of the Duke Blue Devils.

By the January 24, 2002

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Sexiest, shmexiest

And the show has reached a new low. Just when you thought that sports couldn’t get any more about media hype and less about actual ability, it did, and it has been helped along by none other then the world’s most famous sports network, ESPN. This month, US magazine along with ESPN announced the World’s Sexiest Athletes Contest, which will culminate in a two-hour awards special on Jan.

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