Archives - Danielle Douglas
Sports
On the verge of making history, Serena is eliminated
Coming into the 2015 U.S. Open, all eyes were on Serena Williams. Having won all three earlier major championships this season (Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon), Williams was one tournament away from making history and completing the Grand Slam, a feat last accomplished by Steffi Graf in 1998. Many believed that if Williams could […]
Sports
Fantasy football free agency: injury and opportunity
This past weekend marked the start of the 2015 NFL season. We are all thrilled to get back to the sacrificial Sunday experience of jumping from game to game in a perpetual state of homework avoidance. But football fans can further rejoice as the arguably more important fantasy football season kicks off. As I sit […]
Athlete of the Week
Lee Stagg – Women’s Soccer
Stagg, a junior, is a midfielder and forward on the women’s soccer team. Although she was injured for much of last season, she was named to the 2014 UAA All-Academic team. In Saturday’s game against Union College, Stagg netted the goal that put the game into an intense overtime. When did you first get involved […]
Sports
National League Central: better than ever
As the MLB regular season starts to wind down, the full extent of the performances by clubs and their players can be put into perspective. Outliers can be discovered, trends can be pointed out and bodies of work can be appreciated in full. After a long season of speculation and prediction, it’s nice to have […]
Men’s soccer clinches first season win in OT
During the first round of UR’s annual Flower City Classic, the UR men’s soccer team defeated Rutgers University-Newark 2-1 in a highly-contested overtime game on Friday. Junior midfielder Michael Cross netted the winning goal during an intense overtime period, tallying his first goal of the season. “The team fought really hard to gut out the […]
Sports
A glimpse into the upcoming NFL season
At long last, the great expanse is behind us: the rocky and unforgiving terrain of Tom Brady updates, fantasy football drafts and breathless training camp reports (“He’s added 25 pounds of muscle!”) have been traversed, and here we stand at the precipice of another NFL season. Will the Patriots repeat as champions? Will J.J. Watt […]
Sports
Varsity athletes first to experience UR
Over 1,000 new freshmen will caravan onto the UR campus when 9 a.m. rolls around on the morning of Tuesday, Aug. 25, their cars filled with family members and packed with entire closets worth of clothing. While lines of vehicles run down Wilson Boulevard and Intercampus Drive, and as students attempt to maneuver hefty boxes […]
Sports
All-Americans named
Even before the end of the spring seasons, 11 UR athletes across a wide range of sports have been honored as Division III All-Americans, and three athletes have been named to Academic All-American teams—with the possibility that more will be recognized within the coming weeks. After an intensive voting process involving coaches and sports information […]
Athlete of the Week
G.W. VanderZwaag – Golf
1. When did you first begin playing golf, and what motivated you to start? I first began playing golf around the age of seven when my dad and grandpa introduced me to the game. Their love for golf drove me to want to pick it up. I would go out and play with them at […]
Ed Observers
Cultivate your tastes: Support local arts
If I were to mention the phrase “buy local,” it would likely bring to mind an image of a farmers’ market filled with fresh fruit and bread, a place where the stereotypical shopper is the cliche “granola cruncher.” You would assume that the purpose of these markets is to support tight-knit communities as you shop […]
