As a college football fan, I am constantly bombarded by folks on the internet claiming that NIL, the new system through which college athletes can get paid, and the 12-team playoff have ruined college football. People point to how the transfer portal has created a system where players are chasing money instead of remaining loyal to their team.
Conference championships and NCAA playoffs are underway in an exciting week for Hopkins Sports! Women’s soccer and field hockey both brought home the Centennial Conference Championship. Volleyball finished off their regular season with two more conference victories, while men’s and women’s basketball had undefeated opening weeks. Here’s everything you need to know about this week of Hopkins Sports.
This early-season snippet proves the league’s thrilling journey is still ahead. Among breakout candidates, team rebuildings, rising talents, player narratives, new coaching styles and adjustments, familiar rivalries, tense showdowns and more, the NBA fandom is brought to the edge of its seats. Up next? The October to November in-season NBA cup!
It’s an exciting time in the world of Hopkins sports. The fall season is climbing to an exciting culmination and the winter season is slowly heating up. Now is an amazing time for everyone to go and catch a game, either outside if you can brave the chill or inside at the gym or pool.
The Blue Jays are well and truly in the final leg of the season, heading towards conference championships and playoffs! In what is almost regular fashion at this point, the teams at Hopkins put together another stellar week of performances. Let's take a look back at some of the best from the week...
The WNBA is a growing industry: from selling out crowds to record breaking viewership, there has been massive growth within the league over the last two years. New talent including Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers have massively elevated league popularity, with additional newfound respect for league veterans like A’ja Wilson, Alyssa Thomas and Napheesa Collier.
Juan Soto decided to call Queens his home for the next 15 years, signing an eye-watering $765 million dollar contract. As the 2025 season played out, the Mets would fall short of the World Series contenders that they should have been. How could a team who added a top-five player in the world completely miss the playoffs?
The USGP is one of the six weekends of the 2025 F1 season that showcases a sprint race. Sprint race weekends are slightly restructured from the usual three-day format. Like usual, Friday involved practice, where the drivers refamiliarize themselves with the track. Then came sprint qualifying, where Max Verstappen secured pole position followed by the two McLarens.
The Fall Classic is set! Starting this Friday, Oct. 24, it will be the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Toronto Blue Jays in the 2025 World Series. Two teams loaded with talent, but who took very different paths to get here.
After a year of regional competitive play, the 15th annual League of Legends (LoL) World Championship began in Beijing on Oct. 14, 2025. South Korea’s T1, the defending world champions, faced off against China’s Invictus Gaming in a best-of-five series.
I know everyone is eagerly awaiting our two days of freedom from class and the relaxing long weekend it affords us. While we’re all studying into the night for the barrage of exams professors give before break, don’t forget that Hopkins sports teams are still playing and you can take some much needed breaks to catch the excitement!
On Sept. 21, the Hopkins swim team participated in the Swim Across America event to raise money for cancer research at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. They attend this event annually, as it allows them to support a good cause that is especially meaningful since they are able to support a Hopkins-associated initiative.
Hello everyone, and welcome to another week of Hopkins Sports in Review! It might be midterm season for all Blue Jays, but for fall sports the Centennial Conference season is well underway. Hopkins teams are vying for seeding in conference tournaments as they hope to claim the Centennial Conference crown.
Cricket runs deep in Pakistan’s national identity, predating the nation itself. After all, cricket in the Indian subcontinent emerged in the colonial era, eventually serving as a vessel of nationalistic pride against the British.
The 2025 WNBA playoff finals are upon us after a record high 44-game-long regular season of play has come to an end. The 29th season of the league is soon to culminate and crown this year's world champions.
Established by Abby Yoo, Club Golf is a Hopkins club sports team founded to provide a space for golf-lovers to practice. Although golf is a sport with a strong following nationwide, Hopkins students have historically lacked an organized outlet for playing it on campus. Yoo created the club to fill that gap.
The race to the College Football Playoff is in full swing, with seasonal altering matchups taking place across the CFB landscape. As the season unfolds, contenders are proving themselves while pretenders are being exposed. This week brought notable upsets and compelling storylines, headlined by a thrashing delivered by Indiana and a marquee Southeastern Conference (SEC) matchup between Auburn and Oklahoma.
Welcome to another week of Hopkins Sports in Review! By now, we’re in the full swing of the academic year. Things might be busy due to exams, but it’s still the fall sports season and lots of exciting events happened over the past week.
Now more than ever, parity reigns in Major League Baseball. It’s unlikely there will be a single 100-win team this season. The top three, and even the top 10, are tightly packed in terms of talent, with many teams poised for deep playoff runs. Here’s how they stack up in early September:
Week One of the NFL season is officially complete, and as such, there is no better time to take a preliminary look at what could be some of the best teams in the league this year. Will this hold up by season’s end?
