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The No. 27 women’s tennis team (12–3, 0–0 Ivy) will finally begin Ivy League play when they face Penn (5­–6, 0–1) today at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center. Saturday at noon, the Bulldogs will take on the No. 70 Princeton Tigers (8–8, 1–0). Having defeated Quinnipiac and Rutgers last week, Yale enters Ivy League play on »

On Friday, the No. 26 Bulldogs (12–3) stroked their way to a 6–1 victory over Rutgers (8–8, 2–2 Big East) and moved to 6–0 at home this season. Coming off the win, the team is expected to move back into the top 25 in the April 3 Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings. Coach Danielle McNamara, recently »

After taking down Stony Brook and Boston University two weeks ago, the No. 21 Yale women’s tennis team (10–3, 0–0 Ivy) traveled to Miami this weekend and kept rolling against Florida International University (4–12, 0–0 Sun Belt) before the No. 12 Miami (Florida) Hurricanes (10–1, 3–0 ACC) brought the Bulldogs’ three-match winning streak to a »

This weekend, the No. 25 women’s tennis team (7-2 overall, 0-0 Ivy) underwent some growing pains. On the heels of an impressive 6-1 win over No. 59 College of William and Mary (2-7 overall, 0-1 CAA) on Saturday, Syracuse (8-4 overall, 3-1 Big East) took down the Bulldogs 4-3 on Sunday. Against the College of »

In beating Princeton on Sunday to win the ECAC Indoor Championship for a fourth consecutive year, the No. 25 Yale women’s tennis team (6-1 overall, 0-0 Ivy) continued its torrid start to the spring season. Hosted by Yale at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center, the tournament featured eight teams from the conference and three days of »

Undrafted just a year ago, former Harvard guard Jeremy Lin became an instant legend when he burst onto the NBA scene last week. In his first five career starts, Lin has poured in 136 points, more than any other player in NBA history since the NBA-ABA merger in 1976. But his success was not always »

The men’s basketball team did not spend New Year’s Eve more than 1,000 miles away from New Haven without purpose. On Dec. 31, the team traveled to Gainesville, Fla., to take on No. 7 Florida in a nonconference game. Although the Elis expectedly fell, 90–70, the final score was of little importance. The Bulldogs scheduled »

The first 25 head coaches of Yale football were alumni of the team. Each had a winning record. But the first coach hired from outside of Yale, Spike Nelson in 1941, posted the first sub-.500 coaching record in University history. Even today in the Ivy League, athletic departments and coaches seek familiarity: many coaches shuffle »

The women’s team finished the year as it started: No. 1. This weekend, the women’s team sliced through the choppy waters of the East River to secure a first-place finish at the SUNY Maritime-hosted Women’s Atlantic Coast Championships (ACCs), which pits the best teams from the East Coast against each other. The victory was a »

This weekend, Yale sailing proved worthy of its No. 1 national ranking. At the ICSA National Singlehanded Championships, Cam Cullman ’13 became the new men’s national champion in Lasers, while Claire Dennis ’13 and Emily Billing ’13 finished second and third in the women’s national championship. Lasers are one-person boats, and sailing them requires a »

In spite of frigid weather conditions for much of the weekend, the No. 1 coed and women’s sailing teams took care of business, each qualifying for the Atlantic Coast Championships (ACCs), which match the best teams of the East Coast against each other. The ACCs will take place the weekend of Nov. 12. The coed »

More than in any other sport, sailing is subject to the elements. Accepting that is part of being a good sailor. Throughout the season, the Bulldogs have had to demonstrate such patience. This weekend was no exception, as uncooperative wind conditions made the racing schedule particularly unpredictable. For the second straight weekend the No. 1 »