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(02/07/17 12:17am)
In what will be called the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history, quarterback Tom Brady led the New England Patriots to an unforgettable victory over quarterback Matt Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons. As Brady hoisted the Lombardi trophy in his right hand for an NFL-record fifth time, he lifted his fourth Super Bowl MVP trophy in his left. Brady’s unprecedented comeback, powered by wide receiver Julian Edelman’s miraculous catch, was capped by a sudden-death overtime touchdown by James White.
(02/07/17 12:14am)
The men’s and women’s fencing teams were in exciting action this past Sunday at the Eric Sollee Invitational, hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. The men’s side performed admirably, winning exactly half of their six matches against an elite variety of competition. The women’s team recorded an even more impressive result, claiming victories in four of the six matches.
(01/31/17 4:12am)
Housing in Waltham has become increasingly unaffordable, said students and local organizers in a ’DEIS Impact event on Sunday.
(01/31/17 4:12am)
This week, justArts spoke with Victoria Richardson ’20, the winner of the Slam that took place at Chum’s this past Saturday.
(01/31/17 1:00am)
The men’s basketball team lost two road conference games this weekend. On Sunday afternoon, the Judges fell to University Athletic Association foes the University of Rochester and Emory University on Friday evening.
(01/31/17 12:33am)
The Brandeis fencing teams were on the road this week as the women’s team competed at Wellesley College on Wednesday and both women’s and men’s teams made their way to Brown University on Saturday for their second Northeast Fencing Conference meet of the season. Both teams performed at a high level and move forward into the final stretch of the season with well-deserved confidence.
(01/24/17 5:54am)
The year the indies triumphed. Not one blockbuster, enjoyable as some exceptions were (“Captain America: Civil War,” “Deadpool,” “Rogue One”), managed to reach my top ten favorite movies of 2016. The year’s movies averaged out a B- grade, but the following films were all at minimum an A-. They outweighed the duds that were “Suicide Squad,” “War Dogs” and “Magnificent 7.”
(01/24/17 4:49am)
In his most recent press-related tantrum, President Donald Trump called journalists “among the most dishonest human beings on earth” in response to their inauguration crowd estimates, according to a Jan. 21 New York Times article. While White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s insistence that Friday saw “the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period,” despite evidence otherwise, seems almost laughable, the president’s continued attacks on press credibility and his ever-growing vendetta should be more cause for concern than laughter.
(01/24/17 2:22am)
Brandeis University ranked ninth in a list of elite colleges that enroll the highest percentage of low- and middle-income students, according to recent data from the Equality of Opportunity Project released in a Jan. 18 New York Times piece.
(01/24/17 12:17am)
As the NBA season nears the halfway mark, Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook stands on the brink of one of the most unprecedented seasons in league history.
(12/06/16 12:53am)
The Brandeis men’s basketball team had a very promising week, as they took home two hard-fought wins over a long week of play. The team beat the Salem State University Vikings and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Corsairs but lost by just two points against the undefeated Tufts University Jumbos. Through the beginning of the basketball season, the squad has shown that it is prepared to work hard and has the grit needed to succeed in its conference.
(11/22/16 5:13am)
Climate change is real, and it is caused by human activities — but Donald Trump is employing a climate-change skeptic, Myron Ebell, as head of his Environmental Protection Agency transition team, and that will only make global warming worse.
(11/21/16 11:05pm)
The women’s basketball team starts their season determined to prove themselves to the league. The Judges finished a hair below .500 last year, closing out the regular season with a 12-13 record. In conference play, the Judges struggled to find their pace, posting a 5-9 record.
(11/21/16 11:03pm)
The men’s basketball team had a tough season last year, going 9-16 and losing multiple players along the way.
(11/21/16 10:51pm)
The women’s basketball team started their season off strong this past week winning two of its first three games.
(11/21/16 10:50pm)
The men’s basketball team began its 2016 to 2017 campaign last Tuesday with an 87-78 victory at home against Suffolk University. The squad relied on much of its core from last season while also nicely rotating in new complimentary players.
(11/21/16 10:48pm)
The past two weeks have been busy but successful for the men and women’s cross-country teams as their season concluded on Saturday. Both the men and women sent one of their players to compete at the NCAA Division III National Championships in Louisville, Kentucky. For the women, Emily Bryson ’19 earned the second All-American honor of her career at Nationals, as she finished 24th overall. For the men, Ryan Stender ’18 just barely missed his first All-American award, finishing in 37th. The week before, the teams participated in the NCAA New England Regional Championships in Westfield, Massachusetts where the men finished 9th overall and the women 6th. On the women’s side, Bryson improved immensely from the previous season, as she finished a commendable seven spots ahead of last year’s race. She came in a respectable 31st the year before and improved her time by an amazing 34 seconds with a time of 21:09.9. After the race, Bryson explained her mentality: “I just kept thinking of all my girls, my team; that’s all I thought about. I gave it everything.”
(11/15/16 4:48am)
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(11/15/16 4:44am)
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(11/14/16 10:04pm)
The first half of this year’s NFL season has come to an end and not in the way that many had expected. While the New England Patriots have dominated the AFC East standings in routine fashion, despite a brief interlude of quarterback drama, the defending champions Denver Broncos sit in third place in the AFC West. Furthermore, the reigning NFC champion Carolina Panthers currently sit at a dismal 3-5 overall record and are in dead last in the NFC South.
