by Josh Springer in Sports
After three conference match-ups this season, the key word in the locker room is consistency. This objective has become imperative, it could be permanently written into the team's playbook. Reflecting on tough losses to St. Thomas and Augsburg this past week, both Head Coach Matt Parrington and his athletes stress the team's need to make plays through all seven innings.
Part 16 of Culture Sports: The athletics column for the anti-jock
by Daniel Kerwin in Sports
As you go about your daily life, molding yourself into the global citizen that Macalester strives for you to be, other students work behind the scenes to mold themselves into something else: deadly weapons.
There is indeed a strong presence on campus of students training in the martial arts, but the above statement may be an exaggeration.
by Will Kennedy in Sports
First, the bad news: Macalester men's and women's tennis suffered defeats by wide margins at the hands of their St. Thomas counterparts last week. The good news: despite these respective setbacks against their Summit Avenue rivals, both teams are playing the best tennis Mac has seen in years.
by Jamie Macpherson in Sports
It's seven thirty in the morning. A guard unlocks the gate to Shaw Field and turns to the group of women waiting to be let in. "Are you sure you want to be doing this?" He asks again. "What are you doing outside so early in the morning?"
"Rugby." they answer.
by Eddie Oliver in Sports
The Kansas Jayhawks won the NCAA Championship last Mondayand and I was mildly excited about it. Well, I guess you could say I was extremely happy. OK, I was hysterically ecstatic. Now that I think of it, it was the single greatest moment of my life and probably will be for some time to come, most likely overshadowing any future marriage or arrival of children.
