Author: Tom McCann The recent evidence for the coming of the Apocalypse is becoming increasingly compelling as time continues. The Chicago Cubs have advanced to the National League Championship Series, the Boston Red Sox have done the same in the American League and the Middlebury women's tennis team ...
Author: Jack Donaldson After last week's heartbreaking home loss to Colby, which put the Middlebury season into an early hole at 0-2, the Panthers rebounded strongly this weekend, traveling to Amherst and pulling out a 17-14 victory against the Lord Jeffs. Amherst, who was undefeated going into Saturday's ...
Author: David Lindholm As I sat before the big screen in The Grille on Monday night, surrounded by about 50 Red Sox fans and a lone Athletics devotee, my mind wandered. First to five days earlier, when Byung-Hyun Kim put two on in the ninth, and Alan Embree allowed the hit to tie the game, setting ...
Author: Dave Freedman Middlebury's men's soccer team came out of Amherst this past Saturday with its second consecutive tie, a 0-0 draw that put the team to 6-0-2 for the year, and at 12th in the nation in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll. "I thought it was a very well played ...
Author: Sean Breen Troubled by his aching arm, Mike DiRaimondo '05 has hung in the shadows of the men's tennis team's young stars this year. Nevertheless, this past weekend, in what might have been his last foray with competitive collegiate tennis, DiRaimondo managed to conquer the odds and rose to ...
Author: Andreas Apostolatos In a season marked by firsts, Middlebury's women's golf team suffered the first setback of its inaugural season in the Wellesley Invitational on the weekend of Oct. 4 to 5. In what can only be called a necessary learning experience, the Panthers managed a meager fifth-place ...
Author: Sally Hartman Last Friday marked another victorious day for both the men's and women's cross country teams at the 2003 Vermont Cross-country Intercollegiate Championships. Amidst a field of local schools such as Norwich, Lyndon State, Castleton, St. Michaels and Green Mountain College, Middlebury ...
Author: Mike Kennedy The Middlebury women's soccer team fell from atop the NESCAC standings this past weekend, dropping a 2-0 contest at Amherst on Saturday. The Panthers slipped into a four way tie for second place in the league with the loss, where they sit one game behind Williams, who they will ...
Author: Ryan Reese On the banks of the Merrimac River in Lowell, Mass., on Sunday, spectators bore witness to a promising season opening regatta for the men and women of Middlebury crew. The Head of the Textile was the site of successful pulls for both the men and women, with each squad capturing one ...
Author: Tom McCann In every sport, every team chasing a championship will have one week, weekend, or game that could potentially make or break the season. The past week might have been that period for the Middlebury field hockey team. Facing a home game against Keene State, and then a crucial trip to ...
Author: Peter Yordan The men's and women's rugby teams braved marginal conditions this weekend to play a pair matches of against lightly regarded opponents. While the men pounded on their unfortunate opponents 63-0, the women suffered a frustrating set-back.The men's team, riding a strong victory over ...
Author: Dave Freedman The Middlebury men's soccer team gave up its first goals of the season this weekend, but preserved its undefeated record with a 4-1 victory over Colby College and a 1-1 tie against Bowdoin College. "I think that the team is playing extremely well right now" said traditional start ...
Author: Sean Breen In one of the toughest spots the squad has ever found itself in, the Middlebury men's tennis team acquitted itself this weekend with a truly memorable display of grit and fiery determination at last weekends ITA Regional Championship in MIT. The young squad of Nathan Edmunds '06, ...
Author: Tom McCann Middlebury College has a long and proud tradition of sporting excellence, but in few sports has Middlebury ever dominated to such an extent as the men's rugby team does. The visit of Williams to Middlebury last Saturday did not upset the form book and indeed the Panthers recorded ...
Author: Andreas Apostolatos After having not lost a single set in its first two meets of the season, The Middlebury Women's Tennis team continued its convincing success with a 9-0 triumph over Wesleyan on Sept. 27, before losing to Tufts by 5-4 the following day. Despite breaking into the loss column, ...
Author: Jack Donaldson There are few things more frustrating for an athlete than a lack of cooperation from above. Such was Middlebury's experience this weekend at Taconic Golf Club, Williams College's home course, for the NESCAC Championship. In fact, the Northeastern tear of Hurricane Isabel that ...
Author: Tom McCann The Middlebury women's field hockey team recorded their fifth and sixth consecutive victories of the season this weekend against Colby and Bowdoin. All three teams were perfect before the games this weekend, giving both games an added importance for all of them. As it turned out Middlebury ...
Author: Andreas Apostolatos Despite a strong overall performance, the Middlebury football team fell to 0-2 on the season with a 15-13 loss to Colby on Saturday Sept. 27. In what can only be called a game that could have gone either way, a Colby player managed to deflect a 34-yard field goal attempt ...
Author: Peter Yordan In the wake of another controversial book chronicling the discrepancies between student-athletes and non-athletes in elite liberal arts institutions, attention is once again being focused on Middlebury's admissions policies."Reclaiming the Game", the follow-up to the ground-breaking ...
Author: Sally Hartman "There's no place like home, there's no place like home..." The unexpected wisdom of The Wizard of Oz's protagonist Dorothy proved to be true this weekend in Cumberland, Maine as the men and women's cross country teams faced off with conference and non-conference teams alike. ...