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This year, Wrestling head coach Mark Cody has reason to be excited as his team prepares to improve upon last year's two win season.
Throngs of protesters gathered Saturday to express their opinions on current military action in Iraq at the anti-war rally Saturday on the National Mall.
Ladies Rugby loses toward end of scrimmage, 15-10
Several national and international groups, including AU professors, are planning to protest an upcoming exhibit at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, .
Chances are everyone has heard Jersey power-pop quartet Fountains of Wayne, but not everyone knows it yet. In the band's off time, songwriting duo Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger penned and performed the title song from the motion picture "That Thing You Do!" and wrote the songs performed in "Josie and the Pussycats," as well as the theme from Comedy Central's "Crank Yankers."
The piano, bass and drums of the Danilo Perez Trio offered a two set, hour and a half jam session that mesmerized the packed audience at Blues Alley Friday night. This contemporary jazz group added ingenuity and a Latin spice that injected the air with a unique rhythm. The band had a great time and each member seemed to be excited about what the others would do next. Creativity and improvisation ran rampant on stage, a usual offering at Blues Alley.
"This is the f--- 'em tour," joked veteran comedian Harry Shearer, standing in front of a packed audience at Visions Cinema in Dupont Circle. When Shearer isn't recording voices for his famous personalities like Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders and Principal Skinner on "The Simpsons," performing concerts with Christopher Guest's comedy troupe for their latest film, "A Mighty Wind," or broadcasting his political radio show entitled "Le Show," he's speaking to audiences across the country, fielding questions about his new film "Teddy Bears' Picnic."
After a two-year hiatus, tours of the White House are available starting tomorrow to all people requesting a tour through their member of Congress, according to White House spokesman Scott McClellan in a briefing.
AU Volleyball is 32-0 in two seasons of Patriot League play, sweeping all but six of those matches, and has made the NCAA Tournament the past two years. The team returns four players this year who last fall earned all-league honors, including Karla Kucerkova, the 2002 Verizon Academic Player of the Year. But as the number of victories and honors rise, one thing remains constant for head coach Barry Goldberg's team: the drive to play better.
AU Men's Soccer scored the first goal Maryland has conceded this season on Sunday. But it wasn't enough to uproot the No. 1 Terps, who dismissed AU 2-1 in the Maryland/Adidas classic at College Park.
In a stuffy yet luxurious tour bus parked across the street from Irving Plaza in New York City, a tall, heavily tattooed, but soft-spoken drummer sat, awaiting one of the biggest shows of the year.
I sure do love opening week. The air is full of excitement and the tingle-iest of all emotions, anticipation. As we surge into this new semester, I am sure that both the new American Eagles and the seasoned veterans have been looking forward to making this a year that wont be forgotten.
Monday night, AU professor and former Washington Post columnist Colman McCarthy spoke about how to achieve peace in a time filled with conflict.
It was a banner season for AU Cross Country in 2002 as Samia Akbar qualified for the NCAA championships and the Men's and Women's teams each won their first Patriot League titles.
Sweat-drenched and feeling bitter at being the oldest people there, three members of the Eagle staff took on the 2003 Van's Warped Tour from four U.S. cities. In its ninth incarnation, the Warped Tour crisscrossed the nation from Idaho to New Jersey, bringing the biggest names in punk rock and extreme sports to over 40 cities.
Every year, our nation's leader gives the State of the Union address, outlining the successes and failures of our country. I'm no president, and I won't talk about a country, but here is the State of the D.C. Sports address.
Newsflash to basketball fans in the D.C. area: The best player in the league still resides in the District, still shoots jumpers on the MCI Center floor, and still leads the hometown team to the playoffs year in and year out. It's not Michael Jordan, but Miss Jordan, as Washington Mystics superstar Chamique Holdsclaw is frequently called. Her Airness, if you will, is the most dominating force in an improving WNBA, which includes stars such as Lisa Leslie, Sheryl Swoopes and Sue Bird. Since joining the Mystics in 1999, Holdsclaw has turned the team into perennial Eastern Conference contenders. While Miss Jordan is leading the Mystics to the promised land, fans still flock to see D.C.'s best version of chickens with their heads cut off, the Wizards. I know Michael Jordan is the main reason why the Wizards sold out every home game this past season. I was one of the spectators who frequented the MCI Center to see the greatest player on earth in his final go around, but quite frankly, the basketball played there was less than impressive. While the Mystics boast the league-lead in attendance (no big feat considering the WNBA's pathetic attendance) at just over 16,000 per game, they don't even come close to the Wiz, who sell out nightly. Abe Pollin's boys have an inexperienced coach, no superstar (unless Jerry Stackhouse returns) and are stuck with over-the-hill veterans (Bryon Russell, Tyronn Lue) and underachieving youngsters (Kwame Brown, Jared Jeffries). But in the summer, the disheveled mess that is the Wizards turns into a fine-tuned basketball machine. Unfortunately, fans will never sell out MCI because we'd rather watch crybabies with gold handkerchiefs than pony-tailed women playing for a fraction of what the men earn. Holdsclaw is the biggest star this city will see for the next decade, strutting her 20-point, 12-rebound stuff around the country's capital city. Unfortunately, though, too many people miss her magic. Combined with Stacey Dales-Schuman and Coco Miller, the Mystics have a solid core that will contend for a WNBA title in the next couple years. Compared to their co-tenants, the Mystics have a lot more promise than Pollin's band of dysfunctional kids. Even more disturbing than the Mystics not selling out is that they lead the league in attendance. The WNBA is floundering, having resorted to moving a team to a casino (The Connecticut Sun playing at Mohegan Sun casino) in an effort to increase fan interest. While the New York Liberty advance to the league finals every year, the NBA's New York Knicks are the laughingstock of the men's game. However, their arena is rarely full for the WNBA, but a constant sellout for the biggest joke on earth. The Los Angeles Sparks have won two WNBA titles in a row behind a run-and-gun, fun fast-break offense featuring Lisa Leslie and Tamecka Dixon, but fans would still rather watch the incompetent Clippers at the Staples Center. The WNBA has even resorted to old-NBA bad boy Bill Laimbeer to coach its Detroit Shock. While he does draw some fans, attendance can't even compare to the boring, defensive game that the Pistons play. I appreciate what WNBA President Val Ackerman has done. She has put the best quality of basketball on the floor, but it just doesn't work. Fans prefer the boys (no matter how bad they are) over the girls. And I am just as guilty as anyone else. I said I frequented the MCI Center this year for MJ's farewell. What I omitted is the fact that I didn't go to watch the Jordan that still runs this city-Miss Jordan, a fact I will be sure to change when I get back in the District. Fans in the D.C. area, myself included, need to look at what Holdsclaw is doing. She is turning a local team into a championship caliber squad, something Michael Jordan, Jaromir Jagr of the Capitals and Steve Spurrier of the Redskins have not been able to do. And, if she does in fact lead the Mystics to a title, it will be D.C.'s first since the Redskins of the early-90's. Oh wait, didn't MLS's D.C. United win a couple titles? Who are the United? Yeah, that's what I thought. It's another successful D.C. team that's under-appreciated and ignored.
It is 30 degrees, sunny, cold and blustery. It is the kind of day where the leaves that remain on the trees are torn from their branches, and people hide under their overcoats and earmuffs. For D.C.'s bike messengers the wind and cold weather are quite fitting considering the way they see themselves perceived around the city.
"$15 million is not money. Money is what you take to the grocery store. Money is what you get out of an ATM. $15 million is not money. It's a motive waiting for someone to take it." It's this kind of dialogue that made Quentin Tarantino famous. Well, that and a lot of guns. However, Tarantino did not write this piece of dialogue. It's a line from the new film "The Way of the Gun," written by Christopher McQuarrie, who won an Oscar for writing "The Usual Suspects." This is also McQuarrie's directorial debut. "The Way of the Gun" is the kind of film that flooded the film world after "Pulp Fiction." People act tough, they yell and many of them get shot. However, there are a few differences between this and the many "Pulp Fiction" knockoffs from the mid-90s. Mainly, this one works.
Elliott Milstein is calling it quits as dean of the Washington College of Law. A 22-year AU veteran in his seventh year as dean, Milstein will step aside at the end of the 1994-95 academic year for his as-yet unnamed successor. He will remain in WCL as a professor.
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