Last month, general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers Sam Hinkie stepped down after three years of basketball misery. Normally, that would be expected, but for Hinkie, the situation is different. Three years ago, the 76ers hired him with the intention of being terrible for three years. They have deliberately ...
The Golden State Warriors have had the most successful regular season in NBA history. They finished 73-9, edging out the 1996 Chicago Bulls for the most wins in a season. The Warriors set a record that will stand for a long, long time. But if they don’t go on to win the NBA title, will this season ...
The baseball team opened Red Rolfe division play at home last weekend, facing Dartmouth (11-20, 5-5) in a four-game series before squaring off against UMass Lowell Tuesday. Brown 4, Dartmouth 2 Bruno (11-19, 5-7 Ivy) opened the series Saturday with ace pitcher Christian Taugner ’17 on the mound. Brown ...
Entering a four-game weekend against Dartmouth at 5-3 in Ivy League play, the Bears had an opportunity to take on Ivy League frontrunner Dartmouth and claim the top spot themselves with a sweep. But it was the Big Green (22-10, 12-0) who swept the Bears (16-16, 5-7 Ivy), maintaining its perfect Ivy ...
Heading into its fifth Ivy League matchup this season Saturday at Columbia, the women’s lacrosse team looked to capitalize on the momentum generated by a close 5-4 victory over UMass Lowell earlier in the week. Unfortunately for the Bears (5-8, 0-5 Ivy), a late-game rally fueled by senior captains ...
Playing in front of a record crowd at Stevenson-Pincince Field, the No. 4 men’s lacrosse team did not disappoint Saturday. The Bears (10-1, 4-0 Ivy) inspired the crowd to rush the field when they rallied to take down No. 1 Yale in one of the year’s mostly highly anticipated contests in all of college ...
It was an up-and-down week for the No. 2 men’s lacrosse team. After dropping a game against in-state rivals Bryant for its first loss of the season, Bruno got back on track by cruising past Ivy League foe Penn Saturday. The Bears are still undefeated in conference play with a huge matchup against ...
Coming off losses to Louisville and Sacred Heart, the women’s lacrosse team traveled to Cambridge this weekend for its fourth Ivy League matchup against Harvard. The Bears (4-7, 0-4 Ivy) hoped to secure their first conference win against the Crimson (7-3, 3-1) and snap a four-game losing streak, but ...
The baseball team continued nondivision play against Cornell and Princeton at home over the weekend, sweeping the Big Red (8-12, 2-3) but suffering a pair of defeats to the Tigers (13-13, 6-2). Brown 4, Cornell 2 As usual, Brown (9-15, 3-5 Ivy) started the weekend off by sending Christian Taugner ...
Women’s Water Polo The women’s water polo team played two games Saturday at George Washington, first defeating the host Colonials 17-12 before falling to Bucknell 13-9. Marisa Kolokotronis ’17 led the pack with a weekend total of seven goals, eight assists and six steals. Two first-years contributed ...
While some students enjoyed the sandy beaches of typical spring break locations like Miami and Cancún, the men’s soccer team made an 11-hour journey to Argentina for a mixture of play and pleasure. The team makes an international trip every four years, and this trip marked the second time it has ...
Over the past two weeks, the news of D’angelo Russell — a rookie point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers — recorded a video of teammate Nick Young talking about his affairs with other women has dominated sports media. The leaked video has been so heavily discussed because Young is currently engaged ...
Clay Buchholz followed up an underwhelming spring training campaign with an apologetic start against the Cleveland Indians Wednesday. Buchholz, who struggled with injury for much of the Red Sox’s 2015 horror show, entered this season with high hopes of returning to his prime from around 2010. In ...
Simon Jones ’16 is not quite ready to leave the Brown fencing program, and in his last competition as a student-athlete, he added another line to his legacy. Jones, who will return to the program next season as an assistant coach, qualified for the NCAA championship for the third time in his four ...
After two seasons as a varsity team, the women’s rugby team has become a powerhouse in the still-growing landscape of collegiate rugby in the United States. With a combined record of 17-6-1 over two years and an Ivy League title in 2014, it is hard to deny the impressive resume of the varsity team, ...
The No. 3 men’s lacrosse team did not have a traditional spring break. Instead of spending the week at the beach, the Bears were busy playing No. 6 Villanova (6-3) and conference rival Princeton (2-6, 0-3 Ivy). But the extra work paid off, as Bruno posted a pair of dominant, 19-8 wins to keep its ...
After an up-and-down start to the year, Brown (7-13, 1-3 Ivy) went on the road to open the Ivy League season against non-division opponents Penn and Columbia. Brown 8, Penn 5 First on the slate for Bruno was the Quakers (10-12, 3-1), last year’s runners-up in the Lou Gehrig division. The start time ...
Women’s Crew The women’s crew team proved why it is the top-ranked program in the nation, kicking off its spring season in a commanding fashion. Over the two weekends of spring break, the Bears faced off against stiff competition in then-No. 1 Ohio State, No. 11 Princeton, No. 17 Radcliffe and Dartmouth, ...
The softball team entered spring break having lost five of its last six after a promising start. But with a strong showing over the recess, which saw Bruno’s (13-10, 2-2 Ivy) first Ivy League games against Penn and Columbia, the team set a good tone for the rest of its season, notching five comeback ...
Willy Lee ’18 and Joshua Lu ’18 both had a simple goal, familiar to any college student: Find and bring together others with similar interests to their own. For some students at Brown, that means politics, advocacy or intramural sports teams. But for Lee and Lu, it was e-sports. Lee initially wanted ...
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