Mark MacDonald '08 always knew he wanted to give back. But after trying out for a professional basketball team in Europe and then spending a year as a media consultant, he realized he did not want to wait to start his mission.MacDonald, who was captain of the men's basketball team his senior year at ...
Desperately needing a win to keep pace with Dartmouth in the Ivy League standings, the baseball team hosted the Big Green Tuesday and Wednesday. The games were originally scheduled for Sunday but had to be postponed due to rain. Despite jumping out to an early 1-0 lead Tuesday, the Bears lost the game, ...
Cornell has named Bill Courtney its head men's basketball coach, the school announced Friday in a press release. Courtney, who spent 15 years as an assistant coach, helped Virginia Tech to the NIT quarterfinals this past season."Courtney has been part of teams that have made eight postseason appearances ...
It was 6:28 a.m. Tight end Colin Cloherty '09 was walking into the Cleveland Browns weight room for a lift that was to begin in two minutes when his phone rang. A Browns representative told him he wouldn't need to work out today. He had been cut.Cloherty had until 11 a.m. to be out of his hotel room, ...
As reading period kicks off, Brown students are getting ready for final exams and papers. However, the spring sports teams will continue competing until the summer. Here is a look at their upcoming competitions:Baseball will face off against Yale in its last series of the season. The Bears will host ...
The first Monday after New Years Day, Bobby Sewall '10 walked into Mike Boyle's strength and conditioning gym for his first day of high-intensity training for the NFL. The top football talents in New England came in with him — from Boston College, the University of Massachusetts, the University ...
David Howard '09.5 slept zero hours the night before day three of the NFL draft. He didn't yet know the Tennessee Titans would select him in the seventh round. He didn't know which NFL city, if any, would be his next home. He didn't know if the last four months of high-intensity training — after ...
After two wild back-and-forth battles, Brown and Dartmouth's baseball teams are still deadlocked atop the Rolfe Division of the Ivy League. The Bears (12-25 overall, 9-5 Ivy) and the Big Green (19-13 overall, 9-5 Ivy) split two games at Brown's Murray Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Dartmouth eked out ...
Chris Nowinski, once known as the only Harvard graduate in professional wrestling, spoke as part of a panel in front of an almost full Salomon 101 Monday night. Nowinski spoke to both the personal effects and scientific research concerning concussions at Monday's event, which was part of a colloquium ...
The men's lacrosse team rose up to beat No. 8 Cornell, 13-10, Saturday in Ithaca, N.Y. The Bears outscored the Big Red, 9-2, in the second and third quarters, and then survived a furious Cornell rally in the fourth behind stout goaltending from Matt Chriss '11, giving the program a badly-needed statement ...
The women's lacrosse team fell to No. 6 Penn, 19-5, in an away game Sunday, leaving the Quakers to win their fourth consecutive Ivy championship.Going into the game, the Bears tried not to let Penn's national ranking and perfect record, 7-0, against other Ivies affect their play."Our game plan was to ...
As both professional and collegiate athletes continue to get bigger, faster and stronger, the risk of serious and lasting injury also continues to reach new and increasingly dangerous heights. With faster pitching, harder checking and bigger hitting comes even more potential damage — an issue ...
Defensive end David Howard '09.5 and wide receiver Bobby Sewall '10 aren't done playing football together. The Tennessee Titans drafted Howard as the 241st overall pick in the seventh round of the NFL Draft as they were on the phone with Sewall, working out a free-agent contract. The two Brown standouts ...
"I don't remember anything… just coming to and wondering what had happened." Three quarters into one of his first games last fall, tight end Bradley Griffith '12 walked off the field with a season-ending concussion. He received his first concussion 10 days prior to football camp last summer. Then, ...
Women's water polo tri-captain Sarah Glick '10 may only be 5 feet 4 inches tall, but she's been a huge part of the team in her time at Brown. Glick ranks as the all-time leader in points in a season and a career at Brown, as her 82 goals and 72 assists this season have raised her career totals to 282 ...
With four huge games coming up this weekend against division rival Dartmouth, the baseball team is slumping. After dropping their last two games against Harvard on Monday afternoon, the Bears (11-24) came home and lost both ends of their doubleheader against the Holy Cross Crusaders (19-16).Head Coach ...
After undertaking a national search for a new men's basketball head coach, Dartmouth looked backwards to rehire one of the most successful coaches in recent program history.Paul Cormier, who in his seven seasons posted two of the three winningest campaigns in the program's past 50 years, will begin ...
Of the nine players on the men's tennis team, five are first-years. With some of the veteran players out due to injury, four of the freshmen were in the lineup against Harvard at home Friday and against Dartmouth in New Hampshire Sunday. The Bears dropped both competitions, 5-2 and 6-1, respectively. ...
After an overtime loss to No. 11 Hartwick on Saturday, the women's water polo team bounced back to beat Harvard, 14-10, at home on Sunday. With the victory over Harvard — who had beaten Brown just the week before — the Bears clinched an automatic berth to the Eastern Championship.The win ...
The No. 65 women's tennis team battled two higher-seeded Ivy League opponents, No. 53 Harvard and No. 48 Dartmouth, this past weekend. After falling to the Crimson, 5-2, on Friday in Cambridge, Mass., the Bears came home two days later and defeated the Big Green by taking the doubles point and the four ...
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