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'Wide Receiver U.' ready for day one
By Ethan McCoy | September 11"There are a lot of wide receivers at Brown," said Jonah Fay '12. "They don't tell you that when you come here."
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Bears take Brown Soccer Classic
By Sam Rubinroit | September 11The men's soccer team earned the Brown Soccer Classic title this weekend, defeating George Mason University 2-1 and Temple University 2-0 in two hard-fought battles.
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Bruno keeps perfect start alive
By Sam Wickham | September 11The Brown women's soccer team kept its undefeated start to the 2011 season alive with a double-overtime 1-1 draw against the University of Vermont at Stevenson Field Saturday.
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Bears set sights on Ivy League title
By Sam Wickham | September 7Success in team sports is determined by many factors, but one that remains a topic of debate across the sporting world is the question of youth versus experience. For the women's soccer team, a combination of the two is responsible for its blazing start to the 2011 fall campaign. The Bears (3-0, 0-0 ...
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New head coach joins cross country squads
By James Blum | September 7As the men and women of cross country train for their upcoming seasons, they are joined by Mitchell Baker, the newly appointed head coach of women's cross country.
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New coaches, goalie look toward promising season
By Ashley McDonnell | September 7Each season, teams change — seniors graduate, first-year recruits arrive and, sometimes, new coaches are hired. But the field hockey team has undergone a more significant overhaul this past summer than usual, hiring Head Coach Jill Reeve and Assistant Coach Jillian Brown and adding eight ...
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Hockey players rescue teens at beach after Irene
By Ethan McCoy | September 7Like many adventurous Rhode Islanders, six Brown hockey players headed to the beach last Tuesday to test the choppy Atlantic Ocean churned up by Tropical Storm Irene. But for Mike Wolff '12, Jeff Ryan '13, Dennis Robertson '14, Mike Borge '14, assistant captain Bobby Farnham '12 and former Bear forward ...
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Bears struggle in first game, fall to Friars
By Sam Rubinroit | September 6Coming off of an impressive 2010 season that lasted until the third round of the NCAA Tournament, the No. 11 men's soccer team (1-1-0) stumbled out of the gate with a loss to Providence College (3-1-0) Friday, falling to the Friars 1-0 at the Ocean State Soccer Classic. But even with a squad depleted ...
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Ivy League limits full-contact football practices
By Ashley McDonnell | July 30Football fans love a big hit. But when that hit is a helmet-to-helmet collision, it can have major consequences: a concussion or even the possibility of long-term brain damage.
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Women's crew wins national championship
By Sam Rubinroit | June 1There are very few dynasties in college sports history — UCLA men's basketball under John Wooden, Alabama football under Paul "Bear" Bryant and Connecticut women's basketball under Geno Auriemma. Brown women's crew under Head Coach John Murphy added itself to that list by claiming its seventh ...
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Okafor '11 on way to pro soccer
By Sam Wickham | April 27Soccer player Jon Okafor's '11 childhood dream became a reality when he was drafted 40th overall in the Major League Soccer SuperDraft by Chivas USA Jan. 13.
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Bears swept by Big Green, playoff hopes threatened
By Lewis Pollis | April 27The baseball team's chances of making the Ivy League playoffs all but disappeared this weekend after being swept in a four-game series at Dartmouth Sunday and Monday.
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Bruno struggles in Ivy championships
By Sam Rubinroit | April 27The men's and women's golf teams concluded their seasons in New Jersey last weekend at their respective Ivy League Championships. The men finished seventh in a field of eight, and the women earned sixth in a seven-team field.
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Athletes join teams for love of the game, not money
By Sam Rubinroit | April 25By accepting less than 9 percent of its nearly 31,000 applicants, Brown is able to pick and choose the best and brightest from across the nation and even around the globe. And yet when recruiting elite athletes, the University often finds itself at a disadvantage. As a member of the Ivy League, Brown ...
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Squads hit the road, compete separately
By James Blum | April 25The men's and women's track and field squads split their forces this weekend as a majority of the members competed at Princeton's Larry Ellis Memorial Invitational, and a small group of athletes traveled down to Louisiana State University for the Alumni Gold tournament. Both meets were not scored, but ...
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Taekwondo wins first national title
By Amy Chen | April 25Correction appended. Twenty-five members of the Brown Taekwondo team brought home medals galore, trophies and, for the first time, the national title at the National Collegiate Taekwondo Association Championships April 9-10. The national tournament at the University of California at Davis hosted more ...
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Raining on the parade: Big Red demolishes Bears, 18-5, on Senior Day
By Ethan McCoy | April 24In a must-win game to keep its postseason hopes alive, the men's lacrosse team came up short at home in muddy conditions Saturday. The Bears (5-8, 1-4 Ivy) could not keep pace with No. 3 Cornell (10-2, 5-0), who clinched the outright league title with the 18-5 win.
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Women's crew shines under gloomy skies
By Sam Rubinroit | April 24The No. 6 women's crew team dominated through rain and shine last weekend in its final home regattas of the year.
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Athletes challenge administrators on team cuts
By Nicole Boucher and Claire Peracchio | April 24Seventy students whose teams are in danger of being cut, and the dozens more who showed up to support them, met with administrators in an emotionally charged Solomon 001 Friday at 8 a.m. to discuss controversial recommendations that would eliminate four varsity athletic teams.
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Sheehan: End-of-Year Awards
By Sam Sheehan | April 21I have been so transfixed these last few weeks with the drama on the court, ice and field on which Boston's teams tread, that I didn't see the end of the year coming.
