To the Editor: Both as a Brown alum and as a former managing editor of The Herald, it was with great disappointment that I read Monday’s letter to the editor written by Lindsay Gantz ’17.5 (“Letter: Hermano Fortes feature falls short,” Nov. 14). Gantz seemed to miss entirely a key part of The ...
On Sept. 18, 2002, my first column for The Herald's sports section ran. It was a response to a column that had run previously, written by Adam Stern '06 - no, I don't think he's related to the Red Sox outfielder - that suggested Major League Baseball would be better off contracting teams.
The spring athletic season may not be over quite yet, but with The Herald wrapping up publication Thursday, it's time to look back at the highlights and lowlights of the spring semester in sports.
Technically, the men's crew had a race against Dartmouth Saturday on the Seekonk River. But the three Brown boats, including the No. 4 varsity eight, dismantled the struggling Dartmouth crew, making what should have been a day of races look more like a glorified practice.
You may notice that The Herald sports page did not have an Athlete of the Week feature this week. This is a fun little feature we run every week in which we ask an athlete at Brown a bunch of funny questions and, hopefully, get funny answers.
The baseball team's quest for the Ivy League title got a lot more difficult this weekend. Hosting a quartet of games against Dartmouth, the Bears suffered a power outage, failing to get key hits in dropping three of four games. In the first of three intra-division weekends, Brown won the opening game ...
Last weekend, the baseball team took three of its first four Ivy League games, recovering from some poor play over spring break that led to an 0-12 start. On Sunday and Monday, that reversal of fortunes became a full-on winning streak, as the Bears swept visiting non-division foes Princeton and Cornell ...
You know the bit about the tree falling in the forest? The whole thing about if nobody hears it, does it make a sound? (No, I don't mean the one about it hitting a mime.)
Know that song, "The Final Countdown," by Europe? The one with the cheesy synthesizers that, believe it or not, came out 20 years ago?
The Tae Kwon Do Club - notable for walking around campus carrying big white and red pads - competed in the National Collegiate Taekwondo Association Tournament last weekend in Cambridge, Mass., with expectedly outstanding results.
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