Nicholas Thorne
Football has parity. So what?

In line with the rest of the world’s infatuation with one-stop shopping, the sports industry has turned to single metrics to quantify success. In baseball, […]

A historic Sunday on deck in NFL

The biggest story leading up to Super Bowl XLI is not that Peyton Manning will finally get a chance to silence his critics or that […]

Giants’ Tiki is clearly worthy of Canton

When the New York Giants drafted Tiki Barber, they could never have expected him to produce the way that he did. In his 10-year career, […]

Cold War-era patriotism is long forgotten

Amid the clatter and commotion of last Thursday night’s fencing match versus NYU, I noticed something you don’t often see on collegiate uniforms: Emblazoned across […]

’07 wins it for football, Allain may for hockey

Ivy League Champions! It’s a phrase attached to Yale teams less frequently than some would like. So, to those members of the 2006 football team, […]

OK, so The Game might still matter

As of last Thursday or Friday, I would have told you that there was a new “Game” in town, that Harvard didn’t really matter, and […]

Armstrong’s finish proves dedication

Lance Armstrong has made a career of setting goals and achieving them. Actually, Lance Armstrong has made a life out of this process. When doctors […]

The science and the art of the fake

The play is called “Hard to Kings Right Idaho Yellow.” On paper, it’s a play action pass with the tight end dragging from the backside […]

Team sports: Just make everyone do it

“This is what college sports should be like. These are student-athletes,” proclaimed the father of a Yale club hockey left wing on Saturday night. The […]

The countless walks of Yale’s sporting life

It’s been dubbed the “Cathedral of Sport,” with its Gothic tower soaring characteristically above the New Haven skyline. Payne Whitney Gymnasium is to athletics what […]

Yankees will win the World

You can smell it in the air. The mercury is dropping. The leaves are turning. Fall has arrived. It’s October, and for some of us […]