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Men's Ultimate wins championship

(10/19/21 10:00am)

The Brandeis Men’s Ultimate Frisbee team, better known as TRON, won the Metro Boston Sectional Championship this past weekend in Easton, MA. TRON provided a strong showing on Saturday, sweeping their slate of games against several opponents from the Metro-Boston area. The tournament, hosted by Stonehill College, saw TRON take on local rivals, such as Stonehill College and Bentley University, for a chance to punch their ticket to the DIII New England Regional Championship Tournament, which will take place in November. The Sectional Championship Tournament was Brandeis’ first intercollegiate competition in over 600 days, dating back to March 2020, at which time they were ranked 12th in the nation, according to Ultiworld.com. 


Simmons makes surprise return

(10/19/21 10:00am)

When the Philadelphia 76ers played the Brooklyn Nets on Monday night, many fans expected the game to be a regular preseason game, where established players would be warming up for the season and those without a confirmed role would try and impress teams in hopes for a place on a team’s roster. All was going well until a 6-foot-10-inch Australian who had been missing from the team since June strolled through the doors of the Wells Fargo Center in downtown Philadelphia. 





Ben Simmons leaves 76ers

(10/05/21 10:00am)

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. 



Brady returns to Gillette Stadium as a Buccaneer

(10/05/21 10:00am)

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? 






Judo world champion Sagi Muki advocates for unity between nations

(03/02/21 11:00am)

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.


Super Bowl or super spreader?

(02/16/21 11:00am)

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?



Dodgers clinch first World Series since ’88, controversy ensues

(11/10/20 11:00am)

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.


Who was Jackie Robinson?

(11/03/20 5:00am)

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? 


NLCS and ALCS reach Game 7, Dodgers and Rays advance to the World Series

(10/27/20 10:00am)

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. 


Cheerleading may be coming soon as an Olympic sport

(10/20/20 10:00am)

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. 


A historic weekend occurred at Roland-Garros

(10/13/20 10:00am)

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.