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After Mercedes decided to fit Lewis Hamilton’s engine with a new internal combustion engine and faced a 10-place grid penalty, Valterri Bottas inherited pole position and started first on the grid with Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc and Fernando Alonso behind. Given the wet conditions, all drivers started with the intermediate compound of tire.
Ben Simmons came into the National Basketball Association as one of the brightest stars who bore comparisons to the NBA legends Magic Johnson and LeBron James. Having been drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers in the midst of their rebuilding process, Simmons was expected to be the light that took the team out of the depths of the NBA, along with teammate Joel Embiid.
The Brandeis women’s soccer team has started their season strong with five wins, two losses and two ties overall rounding out their nine games this season. As of Sept. 28, Brandeis was ranked #22 nationally for the United Soccer Coaches Top 25 DIII programs.
On the morning of March 17, 2020, I stood mindlessly scrolling on my phone in my high school hallway. I sighed in distress. COVID-19 had just taken the world by storm, and my hometown was close to a shutdown. That wasn’t what I was sighing about, though. On what would be my last day of school due to the pandemic, only one question was on my mind: Is Tom Brady going to stay on the New England Patriots?
The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies hosted a Zoom conversation on Feb. 28 with Israeli judo world champion Sagi Muki. With Keren Schneidinger ’22 moderating the event, Muki talked about his career as a judo player, or judoka, with particular emphasis on how his experiences shaped his commitment toward using sports to promote empathy between countries with fractious relationships.
I want to start by saying congratulations to Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on winning the Super Bowl, and I hope everyone enjoyed The Weeknd's performance. The game was great, but I want to talk about something other than Tom Brady winning his seventh ring. Even though the stands were not something that most people look at while watching the game, I couldn't help but notice the amount of people that were inside the stadium in the height of a pandemic. Why were people allowed to be there? And were there regulations in place to ensure their safety?
The COVID-19 pandemic seemed to shut down the world of sports almost overnight. Many guessed that with so many months without any sports, when sports eventually started up again, they would be more popular than ever. That, however, has not seemed to be the case.
The road to the Dodgers’ World Series-clinching moment actually began several innings earlier, when Tampa Bay Rays manager Kevin Cash pulled his starting pitcher, Blake Snell, after only 5.1 innings. Snell, the former American League Cy Young winner, threw just 73 pitches and struck out nine through his 5.1 scoreless frames. Snell had not pitched into the sixth inning all season, and Cash pulled his dominant starter in favor of Nick Anderson, the Rays’ best reliever this season. The decision immediately backfired, however, and the Rays saw their 1–0 lead evaporate. From there, the Dodgers were in full control, winning Game 6 with a score of 3–1, propelled by dominant pitching, offense and defense to win their first championship since 1988. Corey Seager was named World Series MVP, following his National League Championship Series MVP title.
The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Tampa Bay Rays last week in the 116th Major League Baseball World Series. It may be easy to overlook this recent event with an upcoming contentious national election and the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. Still, baseball has played a large part in our national identity and culture and has earned its title as our “national pastime.” This reality has not been lost on Madison Avenue, who told us that “Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet, they go together in the good ol’ USA,” according to a June 2016 Tri-County Times article. Thus, it is not surprising that changes within baseball, and in all sports, will reverberate into society as a whole. With the Dodgers' historic win in this unimaginable year, the Justice looked back at another historic Dodger moment: when Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play Major League baseball in the spring of 1947. It was a monumental moment in American history. This leads to the question: who was the man behind the ballplayer?
Down 3–1 in the National League Championship Series against the Atlanta Braves, the Los Angeles Dodgers roared back, winning three games in a row to return to the World Series. Although the Dodgers’ postseason narrative of the last few years has shifted — after losing in 2017 to the Houston Astros, in 2018 to the Boston Red Sox and in 2019 to the Washington Nationals in the National League Division Series — the Dodgers find themselves, once again, in a familiar spot, set to return to the World Series this year.
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a sport is defined as a physical activity completed for enjoyment and exercise. The Olympic Games are the ultimate sports competition in the world. In ancient Greece, the Olympic Games were a sports competition held once every four years. The modern version of the games began in Athens in 1896, and 13 countries participated in over 40 events, according to a 2010 History Channel article. 1992 was the last year that the Summer and Winter Games were held in the same year. Now, the Olympic Games occur every two years alternating between the two seasonal events. Cheerleading is a sport that is projected to enter the Olympics in the next few years.
History was made at the French Open on Saturday when the unseeded 19-year-old Pole, Iga Swiatek, decisively won the championship against American world number four Sofia Kenin. This was Swiatek's first time in the Grand Slam, as well as the first Grand Slam won by any Polish player. She is also the youngest woman to win the French Open since a 16-year-old Monica Seles won in 1992, and the lowest-ranked woman to win since rankings were introduced in 1975. The match provided a glimpse into the future of women's tennis, as Kenin is also just 21 years old.
The Lombardi Trophy is presented to the Super Bowl Champion each year. It's a silver trophy with a regulation-sized silver football mounted in a kicking position on a pyramidal stand consisting of three concave sides. Tiffany & Company has produced the trophy since it was designed in 1967 for the first NFL-AFL Championship game. According to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, in January 1971, in the lead-up to Super Bowl V, the trophy was named after the late legendary football coach, Vincent “Vince” T. Lombardi, who died in the summer of 1970. Lombardi, who is still considered by many to be the greatest football coach of all time (with due respect to Bill Bellichik) even a half-century after his death, is revered because of his character as much, or more, than his coaching ability.
After a hectic offseason and a lack of preseason, the season officially kicked off the night of Thursday Sept. 10, as the defending Super Bowl Champions, the Kansas City Chiefs, faced the Houston Texans at Arrowhead Stadium. Another 15 games were played throughout Sunday and Monday, providing fans with plenty of action and a semblance of sports normalcy.
For many of us, the start of the NFL season is a much-anticipated event. We will relish in rooting for our favorite team and marvel at the apparent super-human exploits of our masked and helmeted heroes — heroes who seem to be modern-day gladiators, risking and sacrificing their bodies in a violent sport. The masks may accentuate the tendency to view these players only as warriors. However, they are not just warriors. They are people with families, feelings, personal lives and dreams.
On Monday Aug. 31, Tom Seaver (aka Tom Terrific, The Franchise), widely considered one of the greatest baseball pitchers of all time, passed away at age 75. In a statement from Seaver's wife, Nancy, and daughters, Sarah and Ann, they expressed, "We are heartbroken to share that our beloved husband and father has passed away. We send our love to his fans, as we mourn his loss with you," per a CBS Sports article. He passed away from complications of Lewy Body Dementia and COVID-19.