The first time I attended a Red Sox game at the historic Fenway Park, I was bored out of my mind. My five-year-old attention span couldn’t grasp the complexities of baseball, so I spent the entire afternoon counting airplanes in the sky. I think there were 50-something. But eventually, baseball dug ...
It took Will Cross ’16 just 53 seconds of extra time to break a scoreless stalemate and lift the men’s soccer team to a victory over the University of New Hampshire Tuesday. Cross’ goal gave the Bears their first overtime win of the season — the team was 0-1-5 in its first six extra-time games. The ...
In January’s AFC Championship game, Peyton Manning’s Denver Broncos galloped all over the New England Patriots, who searched the entire game for a spark but came up empty-handed. Embarrassed on the biggest stage of their season, the Patriots now seek redemption, and Sunday is just the time for them ...
A new, pass-happy offense helped the football team to its first Ivy League win last weekend against Cornell, and the aerial strategy could also lift the squad over Penn as the Bears look to secure their second Ivy win Saturday. Bruno (3-3, 1-2 Ivy) will likely face hostile conditions when it travels ...
After wrapping up a 5-2 victory over Colgate University during January’s last game, the men’s hockey team sat at 9-8-3, appearing to be on the precipice of a winning season with a high tournament seed heading into college hockey’s most important two months. What followed could only be considered ...
Despite playing well in the Ivy League this season, the women’s soccer team was still seeking its first conference win as it entered its Family Weekend contest with Cornell. With a pair of first-half goals and a stout defense, the Bears found the elusive win Sunday. The Bears (6-6-3, 1-2-2 Ivy) have ...
For all the records and accomplishments of this year’s field hockey team, the Bears consistently stumble when faced with one hurdle: Ivy League opponents. Bruno (9-5, 1-4 Ivy) went down early to Cornell (10-4, 4-1) under some questionable circumstances and could not recover, allowing two second half ...
A goal by Cornell’s Eric Nuss exactly half an hour into the game Saturday ostensibly erased the men’s soccer team’s hopes of winning an Ivy League title. The Bears battled for the full 90 minutes, but came up short by a tally of 1-0 against a stifling Big Red defense. “The guys are hurting,” ...
After a pair of close losses to open its Ivy slate, the football team finally grabbed its first conference win of the season Saturday, obliterating Cornell 42-16. The Bears (3-3, 1-2 Ivy) had looked inconsistent in their previous games against Harvard and Princeton, collapsing for a quarter in each ...
The women’s rugby team ended its first regular season as a varsity team with a perfect 6-0 record Saturday with its 46-12 victory over visiting Navy at Marvel Field. With scores of family members and friends attending the match, the squad took the muddy pitch ready to battle for a win that would ...
During Saturday’s contest at Princeton, football captain and quarterback Marcus Fuller ’15 made history, doing something nobody in Ivy League history had ever done before. The star player chucked a conference-record 71 pass attempts, part of an impressive aerial attack that came close to leading ...
“Rebounds, with their reliable uncertainty, are part of what makes basketball beautiful. There are general rules that dictate the nature of missed shots. But thanks to the perfect design of the basketball hoop, there will always be randomness.” This quote — at the end of a Kirk Goldsberry article ...
The U.S. Naval Academy is the rugby team’s last stumbling block on the path to what might be Brown’s only chance at a perfect regular-season sport this fall. If Bruno beats Navy (1-3), its only non-conference opponent, on Saturday, it will cap off an undefeated conference record secured last weekend ...
This weekend, the volleyball team has an opportunity to exact revenge against Yale — this time in Bulldog territory. Nearly a month ago, Yale swept Bruno in three games, and Friday, the Bears will seek to even the score. “We are a very different team from the last time we played them,” said Assistant ...
The football team may still be winless in the Ivy League, but there’s no cause to panic just yet. The Bears (2-3, 0-2 Ivy) will look to rebound from their loss to Princeton when they come home this weekend to host Cornell (0-5, 0-2). An 0-2 mark in conference is always alarming, but the Bears have ...
In Worcester, Massachusetts — 42 miles west of Winchester, where Meghan O’Donnell ’15 grew up, first handled a field hockey stick and first experienced the thrill of the ball hitting the net — she scored a goal Wednesday that accomplished what she had been inching toward her entire collegiate ...
The men’s soccer team enters its fourth round of Ivy League play clinging to the top half of the standings. Following their 1-1 draw with Harvard, the Bears will face a surprisingly underperforming Cornell that has just three points after as many games of conference play. Last weekend, Bruno (3-4-5, ...
All year, the women’s field hockey team has been patient: The squad waited to get its first Ivy League win after suffering two huge losses, waited until the dying embers of games to snatch wins — particularly during overtime wins against Sacred Heart and Harvard — and, in its biggest win of the ...
The women’s soccer team took on Harvard Saturday at Stevenson Field in pursuit of its first conference win, but the Bears will have to keep searching after suffering a 2-0 loss against the Crimson. Due to Harvard’s first place standing in the Ivy League, the matchup served as a prime opportunity ...
After a series of close conference losses, the volleyball team bounced back nicely this weekend, taking down Columbia and Cornell in five-set thrillers. The Bears (8-11, 3-4 Ivy) had lost three of their last four contests in a deciding fifth set, but were able to overcome their recent misfortunes and ...
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