The women’s basketball team suffered its first defeat of the season Tuesday 78-69 to cross-city foe Providence College. The Friars (1-2) started the game strong, jumping to a 10-2 lead less than three minutes into the game. But the Bears (1-0) overcame the early deficit, responding with a 13-4 run ...
When All-Ivy goalie Shannon McSweeney ’15 pulls her helmet over her head — just before the whistle blows — she doesn’t see a 100 x 60 yard piece of wet astroturf.
Point guard Tavon Blackmon ’17 and power forward Cedric Kuakumensah ’16 set the tone for the men’s basketball team Friday, as the squad kickstarted its 2014-15 campaign with a convincing 70-58 victory over St. Peter’s University at the Pizzitola Center. Blackmon showed little rust in the season’s ...
Dartmouth handed the men’s soccer team its worst loss of 2014 Saturday — a 3-0 rout that ended the Bears’ season on a sour note in Hanover. “They finished their chances, and we didn’t finish ours,” said Head Coach Patrick Laughlin. “It’s a difficult score line, but we felt like we ...
On Saturday night, five seniors ended their collegiate volleyball careers under the familiar lights of the Pizzitola Sports Center. Friends and family members gathered to cheer them on during their last minutes in Brown uniforms, snapping picture after picture, during an emotional close to the season ...
The women’s basketball team opened its season with an 81-76 road win over the University of Vermont Saturday that featured a career-best performance by Jordin Alexander ’16 in new Head Coach Sarah Behn’s first game. The Bears started off strong with an early 5-0 lead, but the Catamounts quickly ...
It had been 1,009 days since the men’s hockey team gave up a total of 12 goals in consecutive games — on Feb. 11, 2012 the Bears lost to Colgate 7-6, capping off a weekend in which they also lost to Cornell by a 5-2 final tally. Now, that clock has to be reset: Bruno (1-4, 0-4 ECAC) fell to Harvard ...
In 1972, things in America were going crazy. The war in Vietnam was raging and causing all sorts of controversy among youth in America. The Cold War was as tense as ever. Watergate shocked the nation. But a piece of legislation of relative insignificance at the time has had ripples that deeply ...
When the football team headed to Hanover to take on Dartmouth, its matchup pitted a team whose Ivy title dream was still alive against one whose hopes had already been shattered. When the final whistle blew, it was clear which team was which. After a closely contested first half, the Big Green (7-2, ...
In spite of last weekend’s superb offensive demonstration, the women’s hockey team fell short and handed conference victories to Cornell, 5-1, and Colgate, 4-3, this weekend when the Bears hit the road and returned to conference play. Coming off an impressive sweep of the University of Maine, Bruno ...
The women’s rugby players began their season as a first-time varsity squad, crossing their fingers that they could beat Harvard in their opener and earn a place in history as the winners of the first Ivy varsity rugby match. They topped the Crimson and have not looked back since, sprinting to the ...
After the men’s hockey team fell in its opening conference games last weekend against St. Lawrence and Clarkson — who were playing their ninth and 10th games, respectively, while Brown was playing its second and third — the Bears might relish the opportunity to play two Eastern College Athletic ...
The men’s soccer team has plenty of motivation this week, traveling to New Hampshire to take on Dartmouth in a game with immense implications for the Ivy League standings — just not for the Bears. The Big Green (10-4-2, 4-1-1 Ivy) sit in a tie with Princeton (10-3-3, 4-1-1) atop the conference ...
The football team was eliminated from Ivy title contention last weekend with a loss to Yale and a win by Harvard. For many teams in this position, it might be tough to stay motivated, but the Bears (4-4, 2-3 Ivy) have plenty left to play for. “It’s a little bit of a bummer,” admitted co-captain ...
An electrical fire broke out in the men’s track and field locker room at the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center Thursday morning, destroying runners’ personal belongings and injuring one student. Just after 7 a.m., several runners were preparing for a morning run when they noticed a “weird smell” ...
Rather predictably, the past 10 weeks of the 2014 NFL season have made us all look like fools. Seattle and San Francisco challenging for NFC supremacy? Please. The Jets’ sneaky resurgence? Yikes. But unpredictability is perhaps sports’ biggest draw. Forget the odds, we’ll take the possibilities. The ...
The game of table tennis may just be changing forever. Two years ago, Marco Santini ’07 created INCLUSION, a game that provides an innovative twist on traditional table tennis — it consists of patented Plexiglas side walls that attach to existing table tennis tables. It has since evolved into a ...
With a veteran presence in the locker room and an on-court gravity that bent defenses toward him without fail, Sean McGonagill ’14 wreaked havoc on defenders around the Ivy League. For four years, McGonagill helped Head Coach Mike Martin ’04 instill a winning culture in what had been a floundering ...
Capturing the Ivy title was just the first step in the women’s rugby team’s journey through postseason play. The squad will travel to Poughkeepsie, New York, this weekend to compete as the number one seed at American Collegiate Rugby Association Regionals, vying for a spot in December’s Final ...
Despite grabbing an early lead and later mounting a spirited comeback, the football team could not bottle up Yale’s explosive offense and fell below .500 in its third Ivy game versus the Elis, 45-42. A pair of early Yale (7-1, 4-1 Ivy) turnovers stalled its top-ranked offense, and the Bears capitalized ...
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