Split between Tulsa, Ok., and Providence, R.I., the men’s tennis team played in difficult tournaments meant to prepare the Bulldogs for the Ivy League season. Although captain Jeff Dawson ’09 and Mike Caldwell ’09 lost in their matches in the national All-American tournament, the other eight Elis fought toward a handful of victories at the Brown Invitational, with...
I’ll give you $10 if you can guess the highest-paid state government employee in Texas. Hint: It’s not the governor, the manager of the state’s $111 billion pension fund or a university president. It’s Mack Brown, the head football coach for the Texas Longhorns. Brown earns over $3 million per year in annual compensation and can take home another $450,000...
With high hopes of besting Harvard and Princeton this weekend, in a meet that comes to New Haven only every three years, Yale’s cross country teams met extraordinary disappointment: The men’s team lost to Harvard and the women’s team lost to both Harvard and Princeton. Both teams competed Saturday at the Yale Golf Course in the teams’ first Ivy race of the...
Eighty-degree weather in December. Girls in short skirts the whole year. College sports that people actually care about. These are a few of my favorite things. Fortunately, they are all in Texas. Unfortunately, I am no longer in Texas. Although it’s impossible to fix the first two — unless you live at Toad’s — I don’t think getting Yale to care about college...
One week after Quinnipiac University administrators threatened to ban the school chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists from campus for supporting the independent online student newspaper, the Quad News, administrators have finally broken their silence. In a memo posted Friday on...
HAMDEN – In the latest twist in the ongoing battle between Quinnipiac University administrators and student journalists, university officials have restricted the editorial content of an independent online student newspaper by denying reporters access to all varsity coaches, staff and athletes, the News learned Wednesday. In an e-mail provided to the News by a Quad...
Clinking silverware, hearty laughter and well-suited young men spinning upside-down chalices on their heads have been staples of a typical Saturday night at Mory’s for decades. It was by happenstance that Mory’s even became an Eli-only tradition. More than 140 years ago, a group of Yale crew members casually stopped by Frank and Jane Moriarty’s taproom — Mory’s...
There was a time when the world was normal. When people and things and events existed in regular shapes, sizes and manners. No more. Sports fans around the world got to see a summer of extremes. Athletic greatness, which has been redefined so many times in recent years, soared even higher this summer alongside the superheroes who destroyed box offices and the global...
Slideshow: The first overseas Harvard-Yale polo matchWINDSOR, England — A trio of Yale polo players, sheathed in unsullied white uniforms, chatted anxiously on the sideline of a Guards Polo Club field, not far from equally garrulous Harvard opponents. But the two teams were having very different conversations. The Crimson discussed strategy. The Bulldogs wondered whether they would have enough players to take the...
Frank Keefe, the head coach of Yale’s men’s and women’s swimming teams, has lost his fair share of athletes over the years. “There’s quitting,” he said, “and then there’s quitting for the right reason.” Keefe is not the only Yale coach to experience heartburn at the exodus of student-athletes, a number of whom leave their teams each year in order to...
Yale administrators and students and parents from middle- and upper-middle-income families were not the only ones to welcome the University’s much-hyped announcement of increased financial aid earlier this month. Another group, overlooked in the midst of the hoopla, had reason to celebrate, too: the Yale athletic community. Administrators in Ray Tompkins House and the...
Even if two new residential colleges increase the number of freshmen filing through Phelps Gate each August, the number making the early-morning trek to Payne Whitney Gymnasium will probably remain the same. University President Richard Levin said Yale College will most likely not admit more recruited athletes if the student body expands, although no official conclusions...
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