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On the heels of the heavyweight crew team’s sweeping home victory against Brown last weekend, the lightweight crew team will open its spring season this Saturday against Navy in Princeton, N.J. The Bulldogs will take on the Midshipmen in four races — the varsity eight, junior varsity eight, second junior varsity eight, and freshmen eight »

Last Thursday, University President Richard Levin invited the 33 varsity captains across all Yale sports as well as the teams’ head coaches to his house for a dinner in recognition of the student leaders of the University’s athletic programs. Levin, who described captainship as a “breeding ground for leadership skills” in an interview with the »

Despite cold wind, choppy water, and racing only three boats against Brown’s five, the heavyweight crew team managed to sweep all three races of its season-opening regatta on Saturday morning. Yale hosted Brown at the Gilder Boathouse in Derby, Conn., for the annual Yale-Brown regatta, which consisted of three races: the freshman eight, the junior »

The heavyweight crew team will kick off its spring season this weekend with the first of two consecutive home regattas at the Gilder Boathouse in Derby, Conn. Yale’s varsity 8+, junior varsity 8+ and freshman 8+ boats will race against Brown on the Housatonic River, starting at 10 a.m. on Saturday. They intend to defend »

As the winter sports season comes to a close, four Yale teams are gearing for their second, more contentious season of the school year. Crew, golf, sailing and tennis are kicking off their second competitive season for the academic year. For three of the four sports, the fall season does not affect the more heated »

This March, Superfly, the Yale men’s Ultimate Frisbee team, is hoping that one of the sport’s first tournaments — the Yale Cup — will be a step on its road to a national championship. Yale’s Superfly team is one of the oldest college Ultimate teams in the country. Yale was home to the nation’s first »

Chair of the Yale School of Drama’s Playwriting Program and Yale Repertory Theatre playwright-in-residence Paula Vogel’s 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning play “How I Learned to Drive” just reopened off Broadway on Feb. 13, marking the first time it has played in New York in 15 years. The current production is scheduled to run through March. On »

In its last weekend of play, the women’s hockey team ended its worst season in history with its highest-scoring game of the year, albeit a loss. The Bulldogs (1-27-1, 1-20-1 ECAC) fell 10-5 to Dartmouth (18-8-2, 14-6-2 ECAC) on Friday night in Hanover, N.H. Saturday night saw the team shutout 4-0 by Harvard (20-8-1, 17-4-1 »

Saturday marked a significant effort by the Green Party to expand its influence in New Haven. On Saturday morning, members of the Green Party of Connecticut sat down in the children’s activity room of the New Haven Free Public Library to discuss the future of their party’s platform. The meeting, the first of its kind »

While Ivy rivals Harvard, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania and Princeton are scheduled to take on some of Inside Lacrosse’s pre-season Top 20 teams this season, Yale will not be facing any of those fearsome opponents. Non-conference strength of schedule is an essential part of an NCAA lacrosse team’s NCAA Tournament candidacy. Though the champion of »

On its last weekend of home games this season, the women’s hockey team managed to break its 18-game losing streak with a tie against ECAC rival Colgate. The Bulldogs (1–25–1, 1–18–1 ECAC) finished Friday’s game versus the Raiders (10–19–2, 5–13–2 ECAC) with an even score of one-all after three regular periods and a five-minute overtime. »

The women’s hockey team played strongly in the first two periods of its away games against St. Lawrence and Clarkson this weekend, and if hockey games consisted of only two periods, the team might have managed to tie a game. Women’s hockey was just trailing by one point at the end of the second period »