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Blasberg '16: Young blood, savvy vets and title aspirations

The Boston Red Sox enter the 2014 Major League Baseball season as reigning World Series champions and winners of three pennants in the last 10 years. Long gone is the Curse of the Bambino, and the team’s recent championships effectively exorcised any remaining demons from the club’s chicken and ...


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Men's hockey travels to N.Y. for ECAC first round

The men’s hockey team begins its conference tournament journey on the road this weekend, starting its best-of-three series against St. Lawrence tonight. Bruno was in position to host this matchup all the way until the final game of the regular season, when the Bears (11-15-3, 8-13-1 ECAC) lost to ...


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Scoreless weekend drops men's hockey to ninth place in ECAC

With a chance to lock up the eighth seed and home ice in the playoffs with a win or a tie, the men’s hockey team was swept at home by Rensselaer and No. 3 Union this weekend and will now have to travel to St. Lawrence in the first round of the ECAC tournament. The Bears suffered two identical losses. ...


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No. 13 UMass dismantles men's lacrosse at every turn in rout

After a convincing win over Quinnipiac to start the season, the men’s lacrosse team ran into a brick wall Saturday — No. 13 University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In a 15-2 blowout, Bruno trailed the Minutemen in nearly every significant statistical category: shots, ground balls, shots on goal, ...


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Softball starts off season 2-3 in North Carolina tourney

After falling in three straight games to open a tournament at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington this weekend, the softball team roared back with two thrilling, one-run victories. Bucknell dropped the Bears 12-3 Friday morning in Bruno’s season-opener, but Brown (2-3) exacted revenge ...


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Men's tennis splits two on road, women sweep three at home

The men’s tennis team split on the road in North Carolina this weekend, falling to No. 40 Elon University 4-3 but defeating Gardner-Webb University 6-1. At the same time the women’s team defended its home courts, sweeping Bryant University 5-0, Providence College 5-0 and the University of Rhode ...


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Firn '16: Losing to win - gold, silver and gold

Early March — it’s a bleak time of year for sports fans. Football and Olympic action have faded away, but baseball and March Madness haven’t yet arrived. Perhaps worst of all, the NBA season of tanking has begun. As my fellow columnist Nate Svensson ’14 recently addressed, tanking in the NBA ...


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Men's ice hockey offense cracks under playoff pressure

With home ice on the line in this weekend’s homestand, Bruno collapsed, scoring no goals and falling to ninth in the conference. The Bears’ offense, typically average in the conference, has suddenly ground to a halt. They have not scored a goal in over 132 minutes of play despite 60 shots on goal ...


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Women's water polo wins double overtime

The women’s water polo team opened its regular season on the road Saturday with a thrilling 15-14, double-overtime victory over George Washington University. Captain Kate Woods ’14 fired in her game-winning fifth goal with just 42 seconds left in the second extra period to give Bruno (4-4) its ...


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Hudgins ’14 leads women's lacrosse past Lions

Women’s lacrosse team captain Bre Hudgins ’14 came into her last Ivy opener ready to play, scoring four goals and one assist in the Bears’ 9-6 win Saturday over Columbia (1-1, 0-1 Ivy). Bruno (3-0, 1-0) has never lost to Columbia in its history and continued the streak to extend its undefeated ...


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Cohan '17: Advanced stats cannot capture essence of sports

“If the advance of science questions what we regard as precious, what do we do about that?” Professor of Physics Leon Cooper, famous for teaching me physics (and for winning a Nobel Prize), got me thinking with those words. Science threatening our beliefs is nothing new. When Galileo supported ...


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Svensson '14: Broken Jazz tanking its way to the top

The Philadelphia 76ers were in Salt Lake City Feb. 12 to play the Utah Jazz in the NBA’s marquee matchup of the night. (Just kidding, it was actually the Pelicans-Bucks game.) With five minutes left to go in the game, the score was tied at 91. At this point, I was nervously clenching my Jazz beanie ...


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Running back takes his chances in stride

Playing in the National Football League is a common, if elusive, dream for many young athletes. Only 335 out of about 9,000 college players were invited to the 2014 NFL scouting combine, the pool from which drafts are selected, according to the NFL Players Association. But running back John Spooney ...





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