Basketball 'teams' wait in sad state
Sports columnist Phil Turner discusses the decline of the NBA and basketball in the United States.
Sports columnist Phil Turner discusses the decline of the NBA and basketball in the United States.
The AU Men's Soccer team boosted its Patriot League regular-season title hopes Saturday, dismissing Army, 2-0, in an afternoon affair at West Point, N.Y. Senior midfielder Shawn Kuykendall and senior forward David Marut each scored second-half goals for the Eagles.
The AU Men's Cross Country team easily snagged its third straight Patriot League title Saturday at the PL championships in Lewisburg, Pa. Senior Pat McAdie seized the individual title by completing the 5-mile course in 25:37.00. But he was only a portion of the big story - one-quarter of it, to be exact.
Two sports briefs from The Eagle's Sports Desk: a draw for womens' soccer and volleyball's continuing success.
In what has become a sort of regular ritual, the AU Men's Golf team traveled to North Carolina with high hopes and came back with disappointment. Playing without senior and emotional leader Phil Kief, the Eagles stumbled and slipped their way to an 11th-place finish at the Old Dominion University/Seascape Collegiate Invitational in Kitty Hawk, N.C.
The Eagle sports staff is here to remind you that life goes on after the World Series. Here are the top 10 things to do now that game 4 is over.
Sports columnist Jesse Epstein composes an ode to Curt Schilling, the man who "delivered the Boston Red Sox to the threshold of heaven's door because they took a chance on an over-the-hill, past-his-prime hurler who left the desert heat for crisp, autumn air."
The AU Tennis teams took their show on the road to the Wilson/Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Regional Tournaments this past weekend. In Philadelphia, the women's team was represented by sophomores Julia Colarusso and Rachael Honig. Participating in their first ITA Regionals, Colarusso and Honig lost, 8-3, to Quinnipiac.
The AU Field Hockey team closed its regular season with a convincing 4-1 win against the Towson Tigers on Wednesday afternoon. Sophomore Heidi Herschberger and freshman Denise Infante formed an attacking duo, each scoring twice for the Eagles, who improved to 16-2 on the year.
Senior Natacha Cornaz led the AU Eagles Volleyball squad to a dominant 3-0 sweep of the Morgan State Bears on Tuesday night in Bender Arena. Cornaz, who has been plagued by injuries all season, tallied a career-high 18 kills. She sparked the Eagles early with six kills in eight attempts in Game 1, and finished the night with only one error in 27 swings.
The eighth-ranked AU Women's Field Hockey team completed a weekend series that saw it wrap up a perfect Patriot League regular season and defeat No. 20 Syracuse. On Saturday's first game, the Eagles defeated Colgate 5-2 to finish up Patriot League play with a perfect 5-0-0 record.
The AU Volleyball squad started the second half of the Patriot League season on the same strong footing that it started the first - by sweeping Navy, 3-0, on Thursday night in Bender Arena. Senior Erin Algaier led the Eagles with 18 kills, while junior Cutrina Biddulph produced another strong effort, contributing 14 kills in the win.
The AU Men's Rugby team advanced to the Potomac Rugby Union semifinals Saturday, flying past the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays, 29-12, at the National Rugby Pitch on the National Mall. Kevin Gemmingen and Nick Profita broke through with first-half tries for the Eagles. Though the ensuing conversions failed after each try, the Eagles still had a commanding 10-0 lead going into halftime.
The AU Women's Soccer team lost its second straight game for the first time this year after a 3-2 heartbreaking loss to Bucknell Universityon Saturday at Reeves Field. Bucknell's Krista Lee Gentile notched the game-winner with less than five minutes left in the second overtime.
The eighth-ranked AU Women's Field Hockey team completed a weekend series that saw it wrap up a perfect Patriot League regular season and defeat No. 20 Syracuse. On Saturday's first game, the Eagles defeated Colgate 5-2 to finish up Patriot League play with a perfect 5-0-0 record.
The AU Men's Soccer team suffered its most disappointing, if not most damaging, loss of the season Sunday, losing a 1-0 Patriot League clash at home to Bucknell University on the Eagles' Senior Day. The Eagles dominated possession and scoring opportunities, outshooting the Bison 23-8. But Bucknell stayed organized and confident its game plan - stealing a goal through the PL's co-scoring leader, Scott Visnic.
While early November will mark the end of the 2004 MLB season - one that may or may not feature a ticker-tape parade through Boston - it will also herald the beginning of a truly fascinating second season. The Hot Stove League, which lasts from November to March, is the name given to the off-season's flurry of big trades and exorbitant free-agent signings. It features the same nail-biting tension, high-stakes match-ups and record-breaking numbers as the regular season, even if those match-ups are between agents and general managers, and those numbers are usually preceded by dollar signs.
Pat MacAdie placed second in a field of 322 runners at the Penn State National Invite Saturday, leading AU's cross-country team to its third straight title of the 2004 season. The Eagles (49 points) outpaced 37 other teams. Pennsylvania was a distant second with a total of 83 points.
8:15 p.m.: As I sit down to watch the last game of this bizarre series, I have no clue what to expect. I don't think I've ever seen any game with such possible historic consequences before. The Red Sox could be the first team to come back from 3-0 down at the expense of the Yankees. Wow. 2-0-0-4 is hard to chant. What could happen in Game 7 to top this thing off? A Sox win would do it I guess.
In a crosstown non-conference showdown against George Washington Tuesday night, the AU Volleyball team cruised to a 3-1 victory with a potent .302 hitting percentage. With both teams having reached the midpoint in their seasons, the clash in Bender Arena was important for yearly District bragging rights and recruiting battles.