Sports retirements, like bad hookups, often generate unfulfilling climaxes that fail to live up to hype. Careers are either over too soon, leaving questions of unfilled potential, or athletes don't retire quite soon enough, making you go coyote ugly in the morning as you wonder why you ever wore a player's ...
The guys at the office I worked for a few summers ago used to tell the story of Elaine Warner, a lawyer in capital cases who had dominated the 2002 NCAA office pool. One year, Elaine had spontaneously entered a bracket in the office's annual March Madness tournament. Although she was the gambling type, ...
All-American fencer Ruth Schneider '06 closed out her collegiate career this weekend with a 24th-place finish at the NCAA Championships in Texas. It was her third time qualifying for the national championship, her career-best finish coming sophomore year, when she placed fifth. This season, Brown's ...
I must have been around eight or nine when the legend of Kirby Puckett first appeared on my radar screen. Sprawled on the floor of my family room, I sorted through a new pack of baseball cards as my father watched a game on TV. Red Sox players got their own pile, Yankees players another. For everyone ...
For my 19th birthday my little brother gave me a series of photographs depicting a Red Sox jersey-wearing Nomar Garciaparra in different parts of his swing. Hanging next to my computer, it serves as a daily reminder of his beautiful, obsessive-compulsive swing, honed with guidance by Teddy Ballgame. ...
Breck Bailey '06 is the captain of the men's squash team. Despite being hampered by a knee injury for most of the season, he was awarded collegiate squash's highest honor, the Skillman Award, at last week's national championships. He was the first ever Brown squash player to garner such honors.
For the first time in about nine years, I didn't make it all the way through the Super Bowl. Despite winning a whopping $12.50 on a no-skills-required randomly selected gambling grid at the end of the half, I went home at the beginning of the fourth quarter to finish some reading, my interest expired. ...
It is week eight of football season, something that would normally catch me by surprise as I wake up from a seven-month-long baseball-induced coma at the end of October. But this year, an early Red Sox elimination and an anti-climatic World Series helped me locate the couch on Sunday afternoon a lot ...
When Elizabeth Davis '06 came to Brown, she never imagined she would be a veteran marathoner by the time she graduated. A cross-country runner throughout high school, a half marathon was the longest distance Davis had ever run competitively before coming to college.
As we head into the baseball postseason, I think it's necessary to educate some of the "newer" fans to the game of baseball. I'm talking about the ones that like to show up in October and feign that they've been reading Peter Gammons or glued to NESN all summer. You know, the pink shirt-wearing, wrong ...
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