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Women's crew team makes a splash in California
By Sam Rubinroit | April 18Correction appended.
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Sailing turns few heads despite cruising to No. 1 ranking
By Nikhil Parasher | April 17Though Brown's sailing team goes unnoticed by much of the student body, the squad is on everyone's radar in collegiate sailing circles. The women's team is currently ranked No. 1 in the country, and the co-ed squad is ranked seventh.
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Bears continue losing streak against Ivy teams
By Sam Wickham | April 17Several strong defensive stands were not enough for the women's lacrosse team, who posted a 14-7 loss to Cornell in Ithaca Saturday. Despite controlling the draws throughout the match, Bruno (5-7, 1-4 Ivy) could not muster enough firepower to outshoot the Big Red (4-7, 2-4). The loss is the latest in ...
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Second half kills men's lacrosse, lifts No. 14 Yale
By Ethan McCoy | April 17The men's lacrosse team jumped out to a 3-0 first-quarter lead over Yale, but the Bulldogs outscored Bruno (4-7, 1-3 Ivy) by six goals in a one-sided second half to notch a 10-6 victory Saturday in New Haven, Conn. The win propelled Yale (8-2, 3-2) to a tie for second place in the Ivy League, while ...
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Squads find success at first home meet of the season
By James Blum | April 17Despite Saturday's cold and windy weather, the men's and women's track and field teams had strong showings at the Brown Invitational, the first home meet of the outdoor season. Though the Bears have hosted a meet in mid-April for the past 20 years, Bruno had anything but an average performance. ...
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Brown head coaches paid 22 percent less than league average
By Ashley McDonnell and Jake Comer | April 11The Department of Athletics must live up to a high standard of competitiveness to assert itself as a powerful player in the Ivy League. But with an average salary for head coaches more than $18,000 below the Ivy League average, Brown may be losing its competitive edge off the field when attempting to ...
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Committee nears budget proposals for athletics
By Tony Bakshi | April 11With the charge of cutting the already-limited athletics department budget, a committee will inform President Ruth Simmons next month of its recommendations to raise the department's revenue and cut expenses, which could include eliminating teams.
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Bruno drops two weekend nail-biters
By Sam Wickham | April 11The women's lacrosse team fell to Ivy foe Harvard and No. 4 Duke at home this weekend, extending its losing streak to four games. Both games came down to the wire, but a late scoring streak from the Crimson (5-4, 3-1 Ivy League) and an overtime goal from the Blue Devils (11-2) were enough to down Bruno ...
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Brown struggles to compete for middle-class recruits
By Ethan McCoy and Lindor Qunaj | April 11A month ago, the men's lacrosse coaching staff sat down to review the financial circumstances of a high school student-athlete they had identified as a strong fit for the Brown program. Upon looking at the recruit's file, Head Coach Lars Tiffany '90 said he learned that with Brown's financial aid offer, ...
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Bears win three of four against Ivy rivals
By Lewis Pollis | April 11After a disappointing start to conference play last weekend, the baseball team won both games in a doubleheader against Columbia Saturday and split two games against Penn Sunday.
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Track squads led by first-year sprinters
By James Blum | April 10The men's and women's track teams garnered three first-place finishes at the unscored University of Connecticut Alumni Invite Saturday.
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Bears snap skid, maul pacifist Quakers over weekend
By Ethan McCoy | April 10The men's lacrosse team snapped a three-game losing streak and posted its first Ivy League win in a back-and-forth thriller against No. 12 Penn Saturday on the Bears' home turf. Bruno (4-6, 1-2 Ivy) outscored the Quakers (5-4, 2-2) 10-3 in the middle two quarters and survived a four-goal Penn run in ...
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Bruno drops double-header to Siena
By Ilan Isaacs | April 7The men's baseball team (3-17, 1-3 Ivy) was swept by the Siena Saints in a doubleheader Wednesday afternoon. Two big innings from the Saints' offense sent the Bears to their 10th and 11th losses in 12 games.
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Sheehan '12: Contenders, pretenders and Jared Jeffries
By Sam Sheehan | April 7As the basketball season winds down and we head into the final week of the year, the playoff picture has begun to take shape. There are only a few seeds up for grabs in the end-of-season scramble — the bottom of both conferences, a battle for third seed in the West between the Dallas Mavericks ...
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Fencers tie for 13th at NCAA Championships
By Ashley McDonnell | April 7In the 2001-2002 season, three fencers represented Brown at the NCAA Championships, and the team came in 16th place. In the following years, only one or two fencers have qualified for the championships each year.
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Bears swept on West Coast trip
By Lewis Pollis | April 4It was a disappointing week for the baseball team, as the Bears lost all six games of their West Coast road trip before dropping three of their first four conference games of the season against Princeton and Cornell.
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Women shine, men drop to last place
By Sam Rubinroit | April 4The men's and women's golf teams enjoyed some much needed sunshine as they spent their spring breaks competing in tournaments out West.
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In early test, Bruno runs, jumps, throws to victory
By James Blum | April 4The men's and women's track and field teams turned in strong performances this past weekend at the Bryant University Invitational in Smithfield. The meet was a test in the early stages of Brown's outdoor track season.
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Squads post mixed results in Ivy opening
By Madeleine Wenstrup | April 4A week and a half before the season began in January, the men's and women's tennis teams hit a setback. A monstrous winter storm took down a part of the Paul Bailey Pizzitola Memorial Sports Center's membrane roof, and a large patch of snow landed in the middle of the tennis courts. But the teams took ...
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Bruno falls to two ranked opponents
By Sam Wickham | April 3Riding a two-game win streak going into spring break, the women's lacrosse team (5-4, 1-2 Ivy League) fell to ranked opponents No. 9 Stanford University and No. 18 Dartmouth last week. Scoring streaks from both the Cardinal (9-1) and the Big Green (6-2, 3-0 Ivy League) at crucial points in both games ...
