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(12/09/25 11:00am)
Thank you to Maeve for sending in this week's take. For those unfamiliar with the rules in the NHL, a shootout occurs at the end of game if the score is tied and the five-minute overtime period has elapsed. Each team chooses three players to take penalty shots at a set distance from the goalie. The teams alternate shots and the team with the most shots made at the end of all attempts wins the game. If you’ve ever watched soccer it’s essentially the same as penalties. Maeve’s second point is that teams shouldn’t get points at the end of a match before overtime. The NHL’s playoff bracket uses a slightly different method than a win-loss system. Instead, they use a points system, with a win counting for two points and a loss counting for zero. If both teams make it to overtime, the loser receives one point and the winner gets two. Historically, the points system is in place since tying used to be a possible outcome for a game, but since the shootout was added into the NHL rules, a tie is no longer able to occur. Therefore, the two things Maeve has suggested to remove are already antithetical to each other, so I will try to answer which of these should stay and which has to go. My immediate impression is that the points system is erroneous since it differs from most other sports that have a regular and post season. A huge factor in both of these systems that can’t be entirely accounted for is fan enjoyment. The simple fact is that most people don’t want to watch a hockey game that lasts for over three hours, hence why shootouts exist. The argument for points being added to a team's overall total when overtime starts really boils down to an incentive to increase competition and give teams a reason to not entirely give up if they’re down points, but mounting a comeback tie is only marginally less difficult than mounting a comeback victory and teams already have an incentive to win. The points system is already outdated since ties are no longer possible, so I half agree with Maeve’s take. I think shootouts should stay, but teams getting points for making it to overtime has no real precedent for being a part of the NHL.
(11/18/25 11:00am)
Brightly colored posters with messages such as “Is your friend always on sports betting apps?” have become mainstays at bulletin boards and shuttle stations on campus since the start of the academic year. Displayed in their bottom right corner is the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s seal, and just beside it is a logo for its “Let’s Get Real About Gambling” initiative. A document promoting the initiative claims, “We don’t just want to help individuals dealing with problem gambling; we want to mitigate harms associated with problem gambling in Massachusetts.” Meanwhile, on the bottom left corner of all posters, a quick response code links to the department’s “Problem Gambling” page.
(11/18/25 11:00am)
Inspired by quidditch, a fictional sport from “Harry Potter,” quadball boasts a complex set of rules and an opportunity to get involved with a sports team in a relatively low-stakes and fun environment.
(11/18/25 11:00am)
The League of Legends world championship, also known as “Worlds,” had its 15th final on Sunday, Nov. 8. The final was held in Dong’an Lake Sports Park in Chengdu with 18,000 fans in attendance and online viewership reaching a peak of 6.7 million people. The best of five series was between two South Korean teams, KT Rolster, and arguably the greatest esports team of all time, T1. While Korea is usually a favorite for Worlds each year, both teams in the final were the bottom two seeds coming into the tournament.
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CONTENT WARNING: This articles contains mentions of sexual assault and domestic abuse.
(11/04/25 11:00am)
Since sports talk shows have become a greater part of sports media, debates comparing various players throughout a sport’s history have become more pertinent. A main draw of sports talk shows is hearing bigger personalities, such as Stephen A. Smith or Shannon Sharpe, make broad claims. Who is the best? Who is the greatest? It's a deceptively simple question that fuels endless arguments across every sport, and yet after decades of debate, no clear answer has emerged. Why? Because fans keep conflating two words that aren't the same. Best and greatest are not synonyms. Nevertheless, if you turn on your TV you will hear sports analysts give a passionate soliloquy interchanging the words. The two words may sound similar but they measure totally different things: one is about peak dominance and the other is about lasting impact.
(11/04/25 11:00am)
The 2025 MLB season wrapped up on Saturday with the Los Angeles Dodgers winning their second consecutive World Series. The Dodgers fought past the Toronto Blue Jays in seven incredibly intense games that featured a total of 10 extra innings, 19 home runs and several controversial calls.
(11/04/25 11:00am)
If you’ve spotted a wagging tail and a pair of eager eyes patrolling campus lately, you’ve already met Justice, Brandeis University Police’s newest and arguably most beloved team member. Justice isn’t your typical officer, she’s a comfort K9 with the Brandeis Police Department, here to spread a little joy wherever her paws take her. The idea for introducing a comfort dog to campus came from Chief Matthew Rushton, who recognized the growing importance of emotional support programs in law enforcement and higher education. “Seeing the success of similar programs at other universities and police departments, it was kind of a no-brainer. The chief saw how effective comfort dogs could be in creating connections and reducing stress, and from there, everything just fell into place” explained Officer Dave Thompson, Justice’s handler in an Oct. 30 interview with The Justice.
(10/28/25 5:39pm)
The 2025-26 NBA season is only a week old and we’ve already seen historic performances, big surprises and involvement from the FBI. The season kicked off last Tuesday with an instant classic between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Houston Rockets. The game went to double overtime and came down to a single missed shot from the Rockets’ Jabari Smith Jr. to decide the game, with the Thunder coming out with the season’s first win. This game would prove to be prophetic of what would come over the next week.
(10/28/25 5:39pm)
While the Winter Olympics are months away, figure skating competitions are in full swing around the world as athletes continue to train and prepare. The International Skating Union Grand Prix of Figure Skating series is made up of six events that take place around the world. The first of the season was the 2025 Grand Prix de France that took place in Angers, France from Oct. 17-19.
(10/28/25 5:38pm)
If a team is undefeated through the ninth week of the college football season, they are very solidly one of the best teams in the nation. This season, six teams can claim the feat of going 8-0 at this point in the season. Classic powerhouse programs like The Ohio State University and Texas A&M University have yet to lose, which isn’t particularly surprising for teams of their caliber. Some up-and-coming programs like Brigham Young University and University of Indiana-Bloomington remain undefeated as well, establishing themselves after creating promise last season. Georgia Institute of Technology crashed the party this season, led by head coach Brent Key and potential Heisman candidate Haynes King, blowing expectations out of the water. The last undefeated team this season, perhaps surprisingly, is the United States Naval Academy.
(10/28/25 5:39pm)
On Oct. 26, Jannik Sinner played Alexander Zverev in the finals of the Erste Bank Open — commonly known as the Vienna Open. The two players previously met in the 2025 Australian Open in January, where Zverev had fallen to Sinner in straight sets with a score line of 3-6, 6-7, 3-6. In Vienna, Zverev had a chance to redeem himself, but he fell short again.
(10/21/25 10:00am)
This year has already been historic for the Association of Tennis Professionals tour, with Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner showing levels of dominance that haven’t been seen since the Big Three: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. Between the two of them they won all four of the Grand Slam tournaments and three of the Masters 1000 tournaments. This raises some questions: How will the rankings shape out beneath the top two, and who would’ve won these tournaments if Sinner and Alcaraz weren’t there? The Shanghai Open gave some interesting insight into these questions.
(09/30/25 10:00am)
Tucked away in the back of Goldfarb Library is the Automation Lab — home to DeisRobotics, Brandeis’ very own robotics club, which competes regularly in National Havoc League tournaments in Norwalk, Connecticut and holds informative workshops for students interested in engineering and associated skills. Last semester, the team qualified for the NHRL world tournament and won second place in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Combat Robot Competition.
(09/30/25 10:00am)
The Brandeis Board of Trustees has named Arthur Levine ’70 official president of the University at the Sept. 16 installation ceremony held in the Napoli Room at the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center. Joined by about 60 trustees, senior administrators and several local alumni and donors, Levine was sworn in and presented the University medallion and charter. Having served as interim president since Nov. 1 2024, following president emeritus Ron Liebowitz’ resignation, Levine has taken office as tenth president of Brandeis.
(09/30/25 10:00am)
The first few weeks of the college football season have shown how even the playing field has become. We have seen historically powerful programs like the University of Notre Dame and Clemson University finding themselves with losing records. Meanwhile, more obscure football schools like the University of North Texas and the United States Naval Academy are in the conversation to be among the top 25 teams nationally. The athletes themselves are also more evenly matched; there aren’t any runaway favorites for the John Heisman award, given to the top player in college football. In recent history, the award has been given almost exclusively to quarterbacks, running backs and wide receivers. That trend will seemingly continue this year, although nobody has truly separated themselves from the pack through five weeks of action. Who are the true contenders for the award and what makes this year so different?
(09/30/25 10:00am)
In an email sent on Sept. 11 of this year to the Brandeis community, Brandeis Athletics announced changes to its fencing coaching staff. One of the coaches mentioned in the email was Matthew Zich. With a strong focus on sabre, Zich is entering his seventh year at Brandeis having started in January of 2019. In the upcoming 2025-26 season, Zich will continue his work on the Brandeis fencing team as a full time assistant fencing coach. This is the first time someone has been named a full time assistant fencing coach at Brandeis.
(09/16/25 10:00am)
All six states of New England struggle to produce talented and successful players for the National Basketball Association. Although New England has a great history of basketball with the Boston Celtics,a large population of basketball fans and a general population of 15 million people, there are still only eight active players in the NBA from New England. The state of Washington alone has nine active players compared to a population of 7.9 million.
(09/16/25 10:00am)
Soon to appear above trash cans in the Shapiro Campus Center is “Oscar Sort,” which is a “smart recycling assistant” according to Intuitive Artificial Intelligence, the creator of the new technology. The “zero-touch zero-waste stations” will use camera sensors to determine which form of waste an item is and prompt users to drop their waste into the appropriate bin. Oscars are already in use across national airports, universities and sporting arenas including TD Garden in Boston. On campus, the technology will help reduce the amount of waste incorrectly sorted as trash which often finds its way into landfills or the ocean instead of recycling or compost plants where they can be properly processed.
