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You have to give credit to guys like Tracy McGrady and Paul Pierce. There they go, putting up 40-plus points on the road, playing out of their minds to help their teams advance in the playoffs. They work tirelessly, carrying the physical and emotional burden of leading their teams in impressive upsets over Detroit and »

Last night, Michael Jordan played his last game ever. And he lost. Every year, or so it seems, there comes a time to pay tribute to Michael Jordan. To thank him for blessing us with his grace, his drive, and those simply incomprehensible moments when he defies the greatest odds and comes out on top. »

When Brown comes to town Friday, much more than just one game could be at stake for the men’s basketball team. In their Ivy League season-opener, the Bulldogs will face the only team that came away with a win at the John J. Lee Amphitheater last season, a game that eventually kept Yale from an »

On the biggest stage of their basketball careers, the big men of the men’s basketball team came up big-time. In Yale’s 70-69 overtime victory over Manhattan Saturday, the Bulldogs’ frontcourt — in particular, Mark Lovett ’05, Matt Minoff ’04, and T.J. McHugh ’03 — looked right at home at Madison Square Garden, the self-proclaimed “World’s »

Saturday at noon, the men’s basketball team will tip off in New York City to play Manhattan College at a court on the corner of 32nd Street and Seventh Avenue. Its name is Madison Square Garden. For the first time since 1957, the Bulldogs will play at what many consider to be the Mecca of »

Just 17 seconds into the men’s basketball game against Penn State Sunday, guard Alex Gamboa ’05 missed the team’s first shot, a three-pointer. But Gamboa’s miss was hardly a sign of things to come. For the second year in a row Yale rained three-pointers on Penn State, shooting a blistering 15-for-22 from beyond the arc »

The men’s basketball team tips off its 2002-2003 season tonight in Stillwater, Okla., against the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Yale hopes to begin a journey culminating in an Ivy League title and an NCAA Tournament berth. “We were right on the doorstep last year,” Ime Archibong ’03 said. “It’s game time.” Yale finished last winter 21-11, »

Every freshman on campus will have stories to tell when they return to school from Thanksgiving break. But only Dexter Upshaw ’06 and Juan Wheat ’06 will be able to say they spent the week trying to find a place on the defending Ivy League Champion men’s basketball team. Upshaw and Wheat are the newest »

In the biggest game of its history, the women’s soccer team came up just short. Yale lost to the University of Nebraska 1-0 Sunday in the second round of the NCAA Women’s Soccer Tournament. The loss ended the Bulldogs’ record-setting season in which they finished with a 12-5-2 record. Nationally ranked No. 18 Nebraska scored »

With all the hoopla surrounding men’s basketball, it’s been easy to forget the other winter sports team that’s preparing to defend its Ivy League title and make waves on the national level: women’s fencing. Yale begins its 2002-03 season Saturday at the Penn State Invitational in State College, Pa. The tournament is the first of »

After months of competing against one another, the men’s basketball team finally saw some outside competition this weekend — hockey style. The Bulldogs scrimmaged Vermont Saturday afternoon, playing three 20-minute periods at the State University of New York at Albany in preparation for their Nov. 22 season opener at Oklahoma State University. Although no one »

In its final tournament of the fall season, the men’s golf team finished 13th Monday at the Prestige at the La Quinta Mountain Course in La Quinta, Calif. The Bulldogs finished with a flourish, shooting 291 in the final round to cap the two-day, three-round tournament. “It was good to finish on a positive note,” »