The football team finally found an answer to its red zone scoring woes, and his name is Johnny Pena ’17. After watching numerous scoring opportunities slip through their fingers the first five weeks of the season, the Bears (4-2, 2-1 Ivy) turned to their junior running back to finish drives Saturday. ...
Coming off a pair of hard-fought games against middling Ivy League opponents Princeton and Penn, the women’s volleyball team began the second half of the Ivy season with a matchup against a dominant Yale squad. After falling to the Bulldogs 3-1 earlier in the season, Bruno (10-10, 4-4 Ivy) emerged ...
Ever since LeBron James joined Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade on the Miami Heat and counted all the NBA Finals that he was never going to appear in, modern sports has revolved around the idea of the Big Three. Teams from all sports have built and marketed themselves around three stars — from FC Barcelona’s ...
When I was 10 years old, I found my life’s calling: I was going to grow up to become a professional baseball player, as I matter-of-factly stated in my fifth-grade yearbook. Every occupation other than shortstop for the Red Sox just seemed trivial. In my mind, I was the logical choice to succeed Nomar ...
A new season of the NBA is upon us. This week, I’ll preview the Atlantic and Central divisions of the East, the conference equivalent of Goose to the Western Conference’s Maverick, if you will. I’ll rank the order that I think each team will finish in its division and include a best-case scenario, ...
Anyone going to Meehan Auditorium at 6 a.m. on a Tuesday will be able to find the women’s ice hockey team, as part of an unusual regimen under new head coach Bob Kenneally ’90. Kenneally likes to tell his players they are likely the only Division 1 team practicing at that hour — while most of ...
With an undefeated conference record and just three losses overall, the men’s water polo team traveled to Princeton this weekend to participate in the Ivy League Championships. The Bears (15-3, 8-0 CWPA) faced off against Dartmouth and Harvard in the semifinal and final contests, respectively, securing ...
Women’s crew The prestigious Head of the Charles Regatta this weekend gave the women’s crew team an opportunity to show its might. The team’s top boat cut through the cold Boston air to place second overall in the Championship Eight event. The University of California’s top boat was the only ...
On the first play of the game, electrifying All-Ivy kick returner Alex Jette ’17 took the opening kick and raced 99 yards to give the Bears a seven-point lead. On the last play of the game, Richard Jarvis ’17 slammed the Princeton quarterback into the ground for a sack that clinched a Bears victory ...
After an emphatic victory Tuesday against a Boston University team that had not lost in six games, the men’s soccer team looked to play streak-buster again in a key weekend match against Harvard. Unfortunately for the Bears (6-5-1, 1-1-1 Ivy), they could not duplicate their midweek magic and fell ...
Princeton has owned the Brown field hockey team over the last three years. Before Saturday, not only had this year’s seniors never taken a lead against the Tigers, but 15 classes of seniors before them had not done so either — Brown had not led against Princeton since 2000, in a game the Bears lost ...
The sport of rugby, in all its roughness and brutality, can hardly be considered easy, but watching Uzoamaka Okoro ’16 Saturday might have fooled you. The senior made the game look easy all afternoon, collecting passes on the wing and gliding past Columbia defenders. The women’s rugby team showed ...
After a 4-0 shutout of Marist last Monday, the women’s soccer team entered the week with a chance to turn its season around. Preparing for their annual matchup against Harvard, which Head Coach Phil Pincince called “the longest rivalry in women’s soccer in this country,” the Bears (4-7-2, 0-3-1 ...
When the number 33 is mentioned in or around Boston, one name generally comes to mind: Larry Bird. Dion Lewis, however, is giving the number new meaning for the Patriots. From 1999 to 2011, Kevin Faulk wore number 33 but was never the Patriots’ primary running back. But he did end up being one of ...
I’ve been spending a lot of time on my computer screen recently. Not because of an increase in work, and not because I’ve found a new computer game to play (I was terrible at all of them, so I gave that up awhile ago). The culprit: DraftKings, or more broadly, daily fantasy sports betting. They ...
Since the turn of the millennium, the women’s soccer team has played 261 games. It has scored three or more goals in 44 — or 16.9 percent — of those games. Before last Monday, only four of those games featured a player who managed to generate all three goals on her own. But against Marist College, ...
For the women’s field hockey team, a period of sustained success against any perennial opponent has remained elusive. Brown’s longest winning streak against an Ivy team in the last five years has been a two-game stretch against Harvard, in which the Bears won 2-1 and 4-3 in consecutive years. But ...
To a Holy Cross football player, Grant Senne ’16 is the boogeyman. The senior kicker booted a game-winning 35-yard field goal Saturday, propelling the football team to a 25-24 victory over the Crusaders and replicating his 23-yard game-winner over Holy Cross last season. “It was a bit of deja vu,” ...
The women’s rugby team lost for the second straight week, falling to Quinnipiac at home Saturday, 55-7. Bruno is all too familiar with Quinnipiac, which has been a varsity program with recruited players since 2010. The Bobcats (5-1) ended the Bears’ undefeated season last year, knocking them out ...
Since the option to end a game in a tie was taken out of collegiate field hockey and Columbia joined the Ivy League — 1995 and 1997, respectively — no team has ever won the Ivy League title with fewer than six victories. For the women’s field hockey team — after a disappointing late loss to ...
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