The Philadelphia 76ers were in Salt Lake City Feb. 12 to play the Utah Jazz in the NBA’s marquee matchup of the night. (Just kidding, it was actually the Pelicans-Bucks game.) With five minutes left to go in the game, the score was tied at 91. At this point, I was nervously clenching my Jazz beanie ...
Playing in the National Football League is a common, if elusive, dream for many young athletes. Only 335 out of about 9,000 college players were invited to the 2014 NFL scouting combine, the pool from which drafts are selected, according to the NFL Players Association. But running back John Spooney ...
In his collegiate debut against Quinnipiac Saturday, men’s lacrosse attackman Dylan Molloy ’17 scored four goals, leading Bruno to a 13-6 victory. Starting in place of the injured Henry Blynn ’16, Molloy notched Brown’s first goal of the season early in the contest. As the game progressed, ...
The men’s basketball team enters the penultimate weekend of the Ivy League season with hopes of winning the title all but lost. Bruno trails Yale by two games and Harvard by three in the conference standings. With just four contests left to make up this ground, the Bears would need monumental collapses ...
Sitting in eighth place in the conference as the last weekend of the regular season approaches, the men’s hockey team’s sole focus will be on holding its ground against No. 3 Union and Rensselaer in order to keep home ice in the first round of the ECAC tournament. The Bears currently hold a one-point ...
The women’s lacrosse team opened its 2014 season in strong form at home this weekend, taking down Iona College (0-1) and Sacred Heart University (0-1) by identical 13-goal margins. Brown (2-0) downed Iona 17-4 Saturday and Sacred Heart 19-6 Sunday, posting impressive stats across the board. “We’re ...
The NBA’s website has a cool little feature. When a game is close in the last few minutes, it sends a “Buzzer Beater Alert” to my desktop. I honestly have no idea how it is doing this. I certainly didn’t ask it to. But the feature is reliable. If there’s ever a close game (that isn’t on ...
The men’s hockey team lost to Dartmouth but beat Harvard to stay in eighth place in the ECAC this weekend, fighting for every point in a bid for home-ice advantage in the upcoming first round of the conference tournament. The Bears’ two weekend points keep them one ahead of St. Lawrence, which ...
The men’s hockey team stumbled out of the gate this month, but with wins in two of its last three games, the squad has shown it will not roll over. At the end of January, the Bears were sitting pretty. After beating No. 19 Colgate (16-11-5, 12-5-3 ECAC) by a score of 5-2 at home on Jan. 31, Bruno ...
In its first action of the season, the men’s lacrosse team took down Quinnipiac 13-6 on the road. After falling to the Bobcats in last season’s opener, Bruno improved its all-time record to 5-1 against Quinnipiac. Both the starters and the reserves produced for the Bears (1-0) on the offensive ...
The women’s ice hockey seniors laced up for the final time in Brown uniforms this weekend, skating to two losses against Ivy rivals Dartmouth and Harvard in its final showdowns of the season. Brown (4-20-5, 3-16-3 ECAC) was blanked by Dartmouth 3-0 Friday and fell to Harvard 3-1 Saturday. While the ...
The women’s swimming and diving team took to the pool for the Ivy League Championships over the weekend, competing at home in the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center. Familiar waters seemed to lend Brown an edge, as the Bears defeated Cornell and Dartmouth to finish sixth overall — an improvement ...
In its preseason finale, the women’s water polo team traveled to Hartwick College this weekend, losing 17-10 against its home-turf opponents but bouncing back to beat Marist College 13-9. Emily McNamara ’14 stepped up for Bruno (3-4) this weekend, scoring five goals against Marist (4-9) and getting ...
The women’s squash team traveled to Princeton, N.J. to play in the College Squash Association Team Championships Friday. Bruno’s No. 10 national ranking earned it the tournament’s second seed. The Bears defeated No. 15 Williams College before falling in the semifinals to No. 11 George Washington ...
The men's basketball team endured two emotional games over the weekend, dropping a heart-wrenching 70-68 loss at Columbia before topping Cornell 81-75 in overtime. Here is a breakdown of Bruno’s performance in the Empire State. What’s strong The Bears showed heart in their first overtime ...
The women’s basketball team had a tough weekend at home, falling 66-59 to Columbia Friday and 78-53 to Cornell Saturday. The two losses eliminate the chances that Bruno (8-16, 2-8 Ivy) had at a winning conference record. The Bears, who had scored over 70 points in five of the last six games, struggled ...
A weekend filled with tension, drama and late-game heroics boiled down to a split for the men’s basketball team. Columbia came back from an 11-point deficit Friday to beat the Bears by two with a pair of last-second free throws. Bruno took down Cornell the next night in a nationally televised game ...
The wrestling team suffered a weekend sweep at the hands of No. 20 Lehigh and Columbia. The 26-17 loss to the Mountain Hawks came on Senior Day at the Pizzitola Center before the Bears lost the following day to the Lions 33-9 in New York. “The emotions were definitely high — wrestling your last ...
Diana Walters ’16 launches into the air, flips and sticks the landing, beaming as her teammates mob her and the crowd erupts.
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