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Grim preparations for 2022 Qatar World Cup
Worrying about things seven years in advance might seem like overkill to some people, but the degree to which the 2022 World Cup has already been mucked up might just convince them. The World Cup is set to be played in winter 2022 in Qatar and, somehow, the results are already disastrous. For starters, there’s […]
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Michelle Landis – Women’s Club Ultimate Frisbee
1. How did you first get into ultimate frisbee? Ever since I could walk, I’ve always loved to play competitive sports. So, after school volleyball season ended my senior year of high school, I played some casual pick up with some friends and played a bit at summer camp. I knew I wanted to play […]
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Finally, Mayweather and Pacquiao will fight
That’s right everyone, it is finally happening—the fight that we have all been hoping would come to fruition, albeit quite a few years after we had expected. Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. and Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao will meet in the ring May 2. This is easily one of the biggest fights in the history of boxing. […]
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Women’s Tennis starts season strong
Women’s Tennis won their first match of the season last weekend, beating intrastate rival, Ithaca College, 6-3 at home on Saturday, Feb. 21. Five different ‘Jackets won matches on the day, with junior Christine Ho and sophomores Dorothy Tai and Lauren Zickar all grabbing wins in both singles and doubles. In doubles, Rochester jumped out […]
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In Cleveland, Women’s Basketball puts up tough fight overtime
On Sunday, Feb. 22, the UR Women’s Basketball team was defeated 72-79 in Cleveland by the Case Western Reserve University Spartans. The game came just under a month after the original face-off between ‘Jackets and Spartans’, in which UR topped Case in a closely contested 55-54 victory. This weekend, however, the Spartans came out looking […]
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Squash excels in prestigious Potter Cup
This past weekend, the UR Men’s Squash team traveled to Trinity College to compete against the top eight teams in the nation for the coveted College Squash Association (CSA) Potter Cup, the National Championship of college squash. To begin the tournament, the ‘Jackets were seeded sixth and matched up against the number three seed Harvard. […]
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The most intruiguing trades at the deadline
In one of the most hectic trade deadlines in recent memory, with about nine percent of NBA players switching teams, almost 40 players—not including draft picks—were traded on deadline day. According to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst, this is the most trades in history. There isn’t enough room to even come close to touching upon all of […]
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Jerome Kersey, Trail Blazers great, dies at 52
Jerome Kersey, one of the all-time greats of the Portland Trail Blazers, died on Feb. 18 of a pulmonary embolism caused by blood clots in his lungs. He was 52 years old. Kersey, a native of Clarksville, Virginia, was taken as the 46th overall pick in the 1984 NBA Draft out of the tiny Longwood […]
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Men’s Squash looks to playoffs
This past week, the University of Rochester Men’s squash team was back in action after a nearly two-week break from matches. They took on Cornell and University of Western Ontario after a tough, hard fought loss to Franklin & Marshall College. The team clearly demonstrated that one loss was not going to impact the continuation […]
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Swim team competes in UAA championship
With the four-day-long UAA championship events taking place in Atlanta, it has been an exciting week for the Rochester Swimming and Diving Team. The Yellowjackets performed extremely well, earning one NCAA qualifying score as well as breaking a school record. Overall, the Women’s team ended the weekend placed sixth out of eight teams, while Emory, […]
