With the MLB playoffs in full swing, baseball fans across the country are treated to exciting, drama filled affairs on a nightly basis. If you have ever attended a live playoff game, you quickly get a sense that the atmosphere feels different. Each pitch is pivotal, each at bat could decide the outcome of an entire series.
After a year long battle against National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady decided to drop the appeal of his four-game suspension for being found “more likely than not” to have tampered with footballs in order to gain a competitive advantage.
The Blue Jays dropped a game against the sixth-ranked Franklin & Marshall Diplomats. The Diplomats scored their first and only goal with only 11 seconds left in the game, leaving the Blue Jays without enough time to catch up. The final score of Saturday’s game was 1-0.
The Hopkins Football team continued their undefeated record this season, with a 45-10 victory against the Dickinson Red Devils this past Friday. The Jays now hold an impressive 6-0 record.
The Blue Jays dispatched the Fords 2-0, moving their record to 11-1-2 on the season, including a perfect 6-0 in the Centennial Conference. Haverford dropped to 8-3-2, including a mark of 3-2-1 in conference play.
The Major League Baseball playoffs are in the League Championship Series round, so at this point we have a pretty good feel for all the teams and how their games have been played.
The Hopkins swim team traveled to Washington, D.C. this past weekend to compete in their first meet of the season. The meet also marked the team’s first competition since saying goodbye to their long-time coach George Kennedy last June and welcoming new head coach Sccott Armstrong.
The Blue Jays fell short against the sixth-ranked Ursinus Bears, with the final score standing at 6-2.
On Jan. 22, 2003, the Red Sox franchise changed forever. It was late in the offseason, and spring training was just weeks away. The majority of the biggest names on the free agent market had already found new homes. David Ortiz, who was released the month before by the Minnesota Twins, was signed by the Red Sox to a one-year $1.2 million contract. The move generated little buzz across baseball since Ortiz was one of several low-cost bats that the team brought in to bolster their lineup.
They call me the “Good Luck Charm.” It was a nickname that was not bestowed upon me immediately, of course. When I bundled up in layers and headed with my father to my first Army-Navy game at the age of eight in 2002, the Navy Midshipmen had been defeated by the Army Black Knights the year before. However, Navy would go on to steamroll Army in the game by a score of 58-12.
With the first week of the MLB Playoffs in the books, we have gotten a look at every team and already have one team with a ticket punched to a championship series. The regular season ended with lots of high stake games, but in the end there was no real shuffling, as the New York Mets and San Francisco Giants held their wild card slots in the National League and the Toronto Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles claimed the spots in the American League.
This past Friday, the Hopkins volleyball team’s six-game win streak came to a screeching halt with a 3-1 loss against the Randolph-Macon College Yellow Jackets. It would take just one day, however, to reinvent their momentum as Hopkins came to dominate both matches against the Ursinus Collge Bears and Manhattanville College Valiants on Saturday.
Believe it or not, five weeks of the NFL season are already in the books. Everything seems to be getting back to normal: Brady’s back, the Browns cannot find a QB and my fantasy team is awful.
José Fernández was one of the brightest young stars in baseball, and after two seasons filled with injuries, this season was finally the breakout campaign with the Miami Marlins that everyone had been anticipating. Fernández was truly on his way to becoming one of the best pitchers in all of baseball. But while out boating at 3 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 25, Fernández and two others were killed when their boat crashed into a jetty.
Halfway through the 2016 regular season, the Hopkins football team remains undefeated. Standing 5-0, the Jays knocked off yet another conference rival, the 3-2 Juniata Eagles, at Homewood Field last Saturday. The Jays put up 38 points in the first half and never looked back.
After a week of practicing in the rain, the Hopkins men’s soccer team was unfazed by the grim conditions, coming up with a 2-1 win in a rain-doused match against Gettysburg last Wednesday. The Jays entered the contest 0-2 in the Centennial Conference but proved their season was far from over in a triumphant win against the sixth-ranked Bullets, who entered play with a six-game undefeated streak.
Hopkins field hockey earned a 2-0 victory against Swarthmore College in their second annual “Defeat DIPG Yellow Game” last Friday. The Blue Jays came onto the field sporting yellow socks, the color for childhood cancer awareness, to support the Michael Mosier Defeat DIPG Foundation, which raises awareness for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma.
This past weekend, the Hopkins water polo team defeated Fordham University and fell to Wagner College in two of their most closely contested conference matches yet. Instrumental to the team’s success was this week’s Athlete of the Week, junior captain and goalie, John Wilson.
Heading into week three of the NFL Season, both the Carolina Panthers and Arizona Cardinals sat at 1-2 on the year. The NFL always has its surprises, but it was strange to see both participants in last year’s NFC Championship game get off to slow starts.
Is there anything more exciting than college football? Well, maybe March Madness, but beyond that, there is no other sport that provides as many astonishing comebacks and stunning upsets as college football. Just five weeks into the season, there have already been numerous instant classics which have paved the way for a thrilling stretch run as the nation’s best teams vie for four spots in the illustrious College Football Playoff.
