I’ve been watching a lot of Suns basketball lately. Why the Suns? Thanks to the Internet, I pretty much have my pick of any game. (Even if many of the best games are technically blacked out on an NBA League Pass, hypothetical websites may or may not exist to illegally stream even these elite games). ...
Hailing from Colts Neck, N.J., Lauren Clarke ’14 has played basketball most of her life. The current co-captain of the women’s basketball team and last season’s MVP for the Bears is coming to the end of her record-breaking career at Brown. She has been an integral part of the team, starting all ...
Barring an unlikely bid to a postseason tournament, the men’s basketball team will play its final two games of the season this weekend. The Bears will square off with Dartmouth Friday before taking on Ivy leader Harvard on Bruno’s senior night Saturday. If Bruno manages to win at least one game ...
The men’s lacrosse team rebounded from a tough loss to nationally ranked University of Massachusetts at Amherst last weekend with a 12-7 home victory Wednesday over Hartford. “I think we all as a team felt a little added pressure to win after the debacle last Saturday,” said Dan Mellynchuk ’14. ...
The Boston Red Sox enter the 2014 Major League Baseball season as reigning World Series champions and winners of three pennants in the last 10 years. Long gone is the Curse of the Bambino, and the team’s recent championships effectively exorcised any remaining demons from the club’s chicken and ...
After a disappointing 7-33 record and last-place finish in the Ivy League in 2013, the men’s baseball team is hoping to rebound this year with help from a strong freshman class and vocal senior leaders. Last season was difficult for the Bears in many ways. The team struggled with injuries and lost ...
The men’s hockey team begins its conference tournament journey on the road this weekend, starting its best-of-three series against St. Lawrence tonight. Bruno was in position to host this matchup all the way until the final game of the regular season, when the Bears (11-15-3, 8-13-1 ECAC) lost to ...
With a chance to lock up the eighth seed and home ice in the playoffs with a win or a tie, the men’s hockey team was swept at home by Rensselaer and No. 3 Union this weekend and will now have to travel to St. Lawrence in the first round of the ECAC tournament. The Bears suffered two identical losses. ...
After a convincing win over Quinnipiac to start the season, the men’s lacrosse team ran into a brick wall Saturday — No. 13 University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In a 15-2 blowout, Bruno trailed the Minutemen in nearly every significant statistical category: shots, ground balls, shots on goal, ...
After falling in three straight games to open a tournament at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington this weekend, the softball team roared back with two thrilling, one-run victories. Bucknell dropped the Bears 12-3 Friday morning in Bruno’s season-opener, but Brown (2-3) exacted revenge ...
The men’s swimming and diving team finished seventh overall at the Ivy League championships this weekend at Harvard, posting the same result as last year. Harvard ultimately outmatched second-place Princeton to take home the team title. Head Coach Peter Brown said the Bears’ final standing was ...
The men’s and women’s track teams both improved their overall scores over last year at the indoor season’s most significant meet, the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships. The women improved from their last-place finish in 2013 to sixth this year, and the men dropped one position to fifth. The ...
The men’s tennis team split on the road in North Carolina this weekend, falling to No. 40 Elon University 4-3 but defeating Gardner-Webb University 6-1. At the same time the women’s team defended its home courts, sweeping Bryant University 5-0, Providence College 5-0 and the University of Rhode ...
Early March — it’s a bleak time of year for sports fans. Football and Olympic action have faded away, but baseball and March Madness haven’t yet arrived. Perhaps worst of all, the NBA season of tanking has begun. As my fellow columnist Nate Svensson ’14 recently addressed, tanking in the NBA ...
A loss for the men’s basketball team this weekend — its fifth of the season in league play — officially knocked the Bears out of the chase for the Ivy League crown. The defeat, compounded by Harvard’s resounding victory over Columbia Saturday evening, left Bruno four games in the Crimson dust. The ...
With home ice on the line in this weekend’s homestand, Bruno collapsed, scoring no goals and falling to ninth in the conference. The Bears’ offense, typically average in the conference, has suddenly ground to a halt. They have not scored a goal in over 132 minutes of play despite 60 shots on goal ...
The women’s water polo team opened its regular season on the road Saturday with a thrilling 15-14, double-overtime victory over George Washington University. Captain Kate Woods ’14 fired in her game-winning fifth goal with just 42 seconds left in the second extra period to give Bruno (4-4) its ...
Women’s lacrosse team captain Bre Hudgins ’14 came into her last Ivy opener ready to play, scoring four goals and one assist in the Bears’ 9-6 win Saturday over Columbia (1-1, 0-1 Ivy). Bruno (3-0, 1-0) has never lost to Columbia in its history and continued the streak to extend its undefeated ...
As the five seniors on the women’s basketball team said goodbye to the Pizzitola Center for the last time in their careers, the Bears secured a surprising victory Saturday with a 61-58 win over Princeton, then the Ivy leader, after losing 70-54 to Penn Friday. The win against the Tigers came in the ...
“If the advance of science questions what we regard as precious, what do we do about that?” Professor of Physics Leon Cooper, famous for teaching me physics (and for winning a Nobel Prize), got me thinking with those words. Science threatening our beliefs is nothing new. When Galileo supported ...
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