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The softer side of sports
In the spirit of Thanks-giving, this week’s column doesn’t contain my usual diatribes against random athletes or organizations. It instead focuses on …
Women ECAC champs again
Sports in Brief
The third-seeded women’s soccer team came out on top of the ECAC South Region Championship Tournament for the third year in a row on Sunday with a 1…
Dips come back, drown Garnet
Despite some standout individual performances, the story on Saturday was the same for both the men’s and the women’s swim teams. Going up against a to…
Soccer reaches second consecutive Round of 16
Published November 19, 2009
In the final month of the 2009 regular season, the men’s soccer team won just twice in a five-game stretch after starting the year at 13-1. But in the first weekend of the 2009 NCAA Tournament, the…
Triumphant return of Frick boosts XC
After having been sidelined with a hip injury, Melissa Frick ’12 returned to the lineup for the women’s cross country team at the NCAA Mideast Reg…
Kudos to Belichick for audacious gametime decision
Surely by now, many of you know about the epic ending to the Patriots-Colts game Monday night and are preparing some sort of anti-Patriots barb for me…
On the Lambert scandal
Like many others in the sports world, my attention this week was turned to an unlikely place — the Mountain West tournament game between the BYU and…
Volleyball makes ECACs
The Swarthmore volleyball team’s historic conference campaign came to an end Saturday, as the Garnet fell to No. 25 Haverford in four sets in the Cent…
Men punch another ticket to NCAA tournament
As the ball left the right foot of David Sterngold ’12 with just over six minutes remaining in the game, the crowd, gathered at Varsity Field on the c…
Women search for third ECAC title in a row
It’s the worst way to lose in soccer.
In one of the game’s cruelest tricks, the Swarthmore women’s soccer team (13-4-1, 7-3-1 CC) found itself in a …
Soccer to play Hopkins in conference semifinal
After two straight draws, the men’s soccer team returned to its winning ways on Saturday, defeating Haverford on the road with a 4-2 final score.
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