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Just look at the Golden State Warriors, who routinely trot out their acclaimed “Lineup of Death” with 6-foot-7-inch power forward, Draymond Green, starting at center. The Houston Rockets have raced out to the third best record in the NBA after moving on from center Dwight Howard in free agency.
Part of this cultural immersion included a live fútbol match. I had never been to a professional soccer game and, luckily for me, Real Madrid happened to be hosting a game the same weekend we were scheduled to visit the city. We excitedly bought tickets and entered the cavernous stadium, ready for a dazzling sports experience.
The Hopkins lacrosse team had a very quick turnaround between their first game against Navy and their second contest against the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Retrievers.
Senior team captain Jared Forman earned his second consecutive Centennial Conference title in the 174-pound match for the Blue Jays. With three key team members unable to participate in the tournament, Hopkins finished seventh overall in the Centennial Conference Championships, tallying a team total of 27 points.
This past Saturday, the Hopkins men’s basketball traveled to face off against Centennial Conference rival and the 21st ranked Swarthmore College Garnet at the Swarthmore College Tarble Pavilion. Despite the Jays’ strong start, the Garnet was able to pull away with a 70-48 victory, bettering their record to 19-4 on the season and 13-3 in Conference. Meanwhile, the Blue Jays fell to a still solid 11-5 in the Centennial.
The Conference has also experienced a lot of turnover: The Panthers and the Arizona Cardinals, the Conference’s two highest seeds two seasons ago, failed to qualify for the playoffs this past season. Meanwhile, the Dallas Cowboys and the Falcons, who missed out on the playoffs two years ago, captured the two highest seeds this season.
Two years ago, junior midfielder Joel Tinney electrified Homewood Field with a standout performance in his rookie year as a Blue Jay, tallying 28 goals. He formed a young core with classmates Shack Stanwick and Patrick Fraser to complement now-graduated veterans such as Holden Cattoni, Ryan Brown and Wells Stanwick in one of the most dangerous attacks in D-I lacrosse.
After cancelled flights and over a foot of snow, the Hopkins Blue Jays were undeterred by the Boston weather as they put together perhaps one of their best team performances on the track.
The Hopkins men’s basketball team faced off at home on Wednesday, Feb 1 against the Gettysburg College Bullets. Hopkins came into the home game riding a six-game winning streak and tied for first among Centennial Conference teams.
The grapplers of the Hopkins wrestling team were unable to claim victory in their dual meet this past weekend which pitted the Blue Jays against Centennial Conference foes Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT) and Washington and Lee University (W&L) in Lexington, Va.
Let me just start out by saying this: The collection of championships played over the last 12 months is the greatest I have ever seen. The bar was set from the start with the NCAA College Basketball Championships and the Villanova Wildcats’ buzzer-beater victory over the North Carolina Tar Heels in April. In the NBA, the Cleveland Cavaliers’ epic comeback against the Golden State Warriors followed in June.
Last week, the Hopkins women’s basketball team overcame a 10-point deficit at the end of the first half to seal the victory against the Gettysburg College Bullets in overtime. The final score of the game was 84-83.
The Hopkins men’s track and field team saw yet another weekend of Conference-leading performances and personal bests. The Blue Jays arrived in Collegeville, Pa. this past Sunday to compete in the Frank Colden Invitational hosted by Ursinus College.
The Anthony-New York marriage was supposed to end in confetti showers and parades down Broadway, as the hometown kid from Brooklyn wanted so desperately to bring a championship to his city. Now, it seems apparent that Anthony will be unceremoniously cast out of New York for cents on the dollar.
At halftime, it looked like the Patriots were going to be outright embarrassed in front of the whole country. After all, no team had overcome a deficit greater than 10 points in the Super Bowl, a feat that the Patriots accomplished against the Seattle Seahawks two years ago to win Super Bowl XLIX.
However, those who decided to bite the bullet and watch the tournament over the last two weeks were definitely rewarded, as this Australian Open turned out to be one of the most entertaining, historic and stunning tournaments in recent memory.
This past weekend, the Hopkins men’s and women’s track and field teams smashed records and posted nation-leading performances at the George Mason Patriot Games. The team traveled to Fairfax, Va. for the two days of competition that began on Friday, Jan. 27.
Despite a relentless second half comeback, the Hopkins women’s basketball team fell 11 points short to the Ursinus College Bears, losing 51-40.
Following a freshman year with very little action on the court, sophomore guard Michael Gardner is shining in his second season at Homewood.