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On Feb. 1, the Brandeis Judges hosted the Eric Sollee Invitational at the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center. The women’s and men’s teams posted a 7–5 combined record with the women going 4–2 with and the men 3–3.
Bryant killed in crash
Eli Manning has announced retirement after spending 16 years as a quarterback for the New York Giants. The Louisiana native is the son of former NFL quarterback Archie Manning and the brother of former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning. Manning played college football at the University of Mississippi and was the first overall pick in the 2004 NFL draft. He was originally drafted by the San Diego Chargers and was immediately traded to the New York Giants. Ernie Accorsi was the manager who traded for Manning, and in light of Manning’s retirement, Accorsi said, “that over a period of years he’s always going to be there. Those kinds of quarterback always give you a chance to win, and for 16 years, he did that for this franchise.”
Kobe Bean Bryant of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania passed away on Sunday, Jan. 26 in Calabasas, California in a helicopter accident along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant. Kobe Bryant was 41-years-old. He was best known for the 20 years he spent as an American professional basketball player. With the 13th overall pick in the 1996 NBA draft, the Charlotte Hornets selected Bryant from Lower Merion High School, and he was immediately traded to the Los Angeles Lakers for Vlade Divac. He remained with the Lakers for his entire 20-year career, at the time a record.
The Brandeis University men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams capped their Senior Day meet with a pair of wins on Jan. 18 at Wheaton College. The competition was held at Wheaton College because Brandeis’ Linsey Pool is undergoing renovations. The men’s team won 181–109 over the Keene State Owls and 178–96 over the Bridgewater State University Bears. The women were also victorious, with a sweep of 183–88 over Keene State and 195–82 over Bridgewater State. Overall, the Judges won 21 of the 32 events that took place that day.
After their blowout win against the University of Rochester and thrilling upset of Emory University last week, the Judges looked to continue their momentum in the Midwest. They suffered their fourth loss of the season in St. Louis on Friday night before escaping the University of Chicago in another down-to-the-wire finish.
The women’s basketball team has five University Athletic Association matchups under their belt. After splitting this weekend with one victory against the Washington University in St. Louis Bears and one loss against the University of Chicago Maroons, the team has a UAA record of 2–3. Overall, the team has a winning record of 12–4.
Ball Talk with Jon Soc is back! Here I am for some pro-sports talk for the first time in a little bit. Let’s dive in!
In partnership with Team IMPACT, the Brandeis men’s basketball team drafted Jack Dollar to be part of their team on Dec. 12, 2019. According to a Newton Wickedlocal article, Dollar, an 11-year-old resident of Newton, is a student at the Campus School at Boston College and lives with epilepsy.
Judges 65, Bowdoin 62
Willie Randolph is a former Major League Baseball player, coach and manager. Throughout his lengthy career, he won six World Series championships, was awarded the Silver Slugger award and is a Monument Park honoree. At the age of 65, Randolph is currently still contributing his expertise to the sport he loves as one of the coaches for the United States Baseball team. Randolph was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn and started playing for the New York Yankees at the young age of 21. Even though he was young,as he explained in an interview with the Justice, “I always played against and with guys that were older than me, so I was never really intimidated. I would get maybe a little anxious—I think that it is ok to be anxious.” At a young age, Randolph played baseball and tried to perfect his craft. Even though hitting a baseball is one of the hardest things to do in sports and most people claim that you have to be born with the talent, he believes that “you can be born with certain gifts, guys, but you really have to work on your craft and practice and you have to really love the game because it is a really frustrating game.”
Enes Kanter is a center in the National Basketball Association. He was the third overall draft pick in the 2011 NBA Draft. Originally drafted by the Utah Jazz, Kanter has since played for the Oklahoma City Thunder, New York Knicks, Portland Trailblazers and, most recently, the Boston Celtics.
Both the men’s and women’s fencing teams faced tough competition at the Brandeis Invitational held on Dec. 1. The men ended the day with a 2–3 record and the women had a 1–4 record for the day.
Basketball season has returned and the men of Brandeis’ Judges have picked up right where they left off last season. This year, the Judges lost two all-University Athletic Association players and captains in Corey Sherman ’19 and Latye Workman ’18, ’19 MA. A big question the Judges faced was how they would make up for the lost playmaking from these two.
Day one of the Gompei Invitational, hosted by Worcester Polytechnic Institute, was a tough day for the Judges, as they were up against some stiff competition. Of the competing teams, some of the real challengers were Bryant College, Merrimack College Women and Bentley University/St. Rose College. Through the first day of events, the Brandeis combined Swimming and Diving team found themselves in 10th place with a total of 555.5 points.
Judges 89, Vikings 49
The Judges’ men’s basketball team took two out of three games last week, winning a pair of close games at home on either side of a blowout loss at Suffolk University. The Judges are now 3–2 on the season and have exciting prospects going forward with impressive depth on their bench.
The Judges split their most recent games, defeating the Roger Williams University Hawks and losing to the Tufts University Jumbos. The Judges are currently at a record of 3–1 for the season and have yet to play any University Athletic Association Conference games. So far, the team is off to a decent start, and even their loss to the Jumbos was a very close contest.
Timothy (Tim) Frank Morehouse ’00 is a Brandeis alum and the Olympic athlete to graduate from Brandeis University. Morehouse was a silver medalist on the United States fencing team, competing in the men’s sabre division at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, and also a member of the 2004 and 2012 Olympic teams. In addition, he was a two-time individual United States National Champion in 2010 and 2011. A native of the Bronx in New York City, Morehouse decided to take up the sport of fencing in order to get excused from gym class at Riverdale High School. In addition to being captain of the fencing team, he was a four-year member of the Riverdale Country School’s baseball team and a one-year member of the cross-country team.