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As an avid baseball fan, I’m angry. I’m Angry with the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) for producing a ridiculous hall of fame ballot. Writers across the country inappropriately acted as the morality police by keeping suspected steroid users and others with no connection to steroids out of the hall of fame. For the […]
Bates men’s basketball faced a tough road trip this past weekend, traveling to face NESCAC opponents Colby and Bowdoin on Friday and Saturday. The Bobcats convincingly defeated Colby 66-56 behind a strong defensive performance, but lost a heartbreaker to Bowdoin on Saturday, as the Bobcats were edged 61-60 in overtime. Against Colby, the Bobcats played […]
On January 7th, 2007, the SEC was just the Southeastern Conference, an unknown commodity in a college football world that lionized coaches who pounded the table about the merits of size and strength, and of the ability to line up and run the football, and the supposedly miniscule chance that the speed of the Southeastern […]
After a tough start in NESCAC play, the Bates women’s basketball team entered last weekend in search of their first league win. The Bobcats did themselves one better, spending Friday and Saturday beating up on their Maine rivals on the way to a 2-0 weekend and an outright sweep of CBB play. On Friday, Bates […]
Following a strenuous eight day training trip to Florida, the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams finished their winter break in Northfield, Vermont, enjoying a cakewalk over Norwich University before falling to Middlebury. The men wasted no time in blasting the Cadets 225-74. They were led by Andrew Buehler, Venkatesh Duvvuri, and Andrew Briggs, […]
Fresh out of winter break, the women’s squash team, ranked thirteenth nationally, traveled to Boston to take on Harvard University. The top-ranked Crimson shut out Bates, who were playing without sophomore All-American Nessrine Ariffin, their number one player. Junior Rakey Drammeh, freshman Lauren Williams, and senior Ali Bragg all played well, but could not come […]
For anyone who watched last weekend’s contest between the Seattle Seahawks and Washington Redskins, it would have been hard to miss the pain through which Washington rookie phenom Robert Griffin III played. After aggravating a knee injury he suffered weeks ago during the first quarter, Griffin stayed in the game. While game, Griffin was clearly […]
After starting their season 6-1, the men’s squash team stumbled during a tough road trip on which they faced two of the top three teams in the country. It could have been the long Christmas break. It could have been the pure dominance of their post-break opponents. Whatever it was, the Bobcats men’s squash team […]
Bates Football earned the 2012 Colby-Bates-Bowdoin trophy this past weekend with a hard-fought 14-6 victory over the Bowdoin Polar Bears in Brunswick, Maine. The win moves Bates to 4-3, with a strong chance to beat Hamilton next weekend and finish the season 5-3. Although the game was played at Bowdoin, the Bobcats possibly had just […]