Brownsword 鈥18: The Brown community can't miss the chance to impact men's basketball history
By Matthew Brownsword | March 1Friday and Saturday night mark perhaps the most important Brown men鈥檚 basketball games in over a decade.
Friday and Saturday night mark perhaps the most important Brown men鈥檚 basketball games in over a decade.
On May 28, President Christina Paxson P鈥19 announced the University鈥檚 athletic program would take on a new direction: After the University demoted 11 varsity teams to club level, the remaining teams within Brown athletics would build competitiveness within the Ivy League by advancing coaching and ...
For those remaining Brown University sports fans 鈥 and I know how few of us there have been over the years 鈥 please don鈥檛 take women鈥檚 head soccer coach Kia McNeill for granted. After former women鈥檚 head soccer coach Phil Pincince, an Ivy League legend, announced his retirement ahead of the ...
The 2017-18 college basketball season has been really, really bad. It started with the dismissal of long-time Louisville Head Coach Rick Pitino after a scandal that involved the basketball program overseeing meetings between prospective players and prostitutes. Then Michigan State鈥檚 Tom Izzo was wrapped ...
The Ivy League had long been resistant to change in the sport of men鈥檚 basketball: While nearly every other conference adopted the exhilarating postseason tournament, the Ancient Eight sent the team with the best league record to the NCAA tournament 鈥 until 2017. Now, the NCAA鈥檚 oldest basketball ...
A column written by a Patriots fan before the weekend of the team鈥檚 eighth Super Bowl appearance in the past two decades will seem quite unnecessary. I struggle to imagine what straw arguments Patriots doubters could be desperately grasping for, with Tom Brady skipping the Pro Bowl for the third time ...
For LeBron James, the self-proclaimed King, success on the basketball court has become the expectation. The statistics speak for themselves: He鈥檚 been to seven straight NBA Finals, eight total, accounting for four MVPs and three Finals MVPs along the way. When James ends his career, his legacy will ...
While football takes Thanksgiving Day, college basketball predominates my television screen during the rest of week. As I watched a pre-game show Saturday, I saw Nigel Hayes, one of my favorite players, walking around the set with a sign reading: 鈥淏roke College Athlete. Anything Helps,鈥 with his ...
It was a tale of two 10-minute stretches for the women鈥檚 hockey team (3-9, 1-7 ECAC) Saturday as it fell behind early and staged a late effort to even the scoreboard before eventually losing the Mayor鈥檚 Cup to crosstown rival Providence (8-8-1, 4-4-1), 7-3. Calla Isaac 鈥20 got the first start ...
For the seniors of the field hockey team, this was a finale four years in the making. Katarina Angus 鈥17.5, Brooke Bonfiglio 鈥17, Lucy Green 鈥17, Leah Zavalick 鈥17 and Herald arts and culture editor Jaclyn Torres 鈥17 have encapsulated Bruno鈥檚 potential over the course of their careers. ...