The month of February is typically the doldrums of the sports world. Yet this year, I have found a new way to fill the void of meaningful sports in February: European soccer. ...

In the United States, we value dominance in sports. Unfortunately, in the United States we value something else in sports: being American. ...

Sporting events do not take place in a vacuum. Game dynamics are an intricate interplay of location, athletes, fan participation and atmosphere. Vassar athletics are no exception: Games are influenced by fan participation and turnout. ...

Coming off a year in which he reached the NCAA Championships for the first time, men's fencing Captain Brian Rouse '12 enters his final season at Vassar with goals to repeat his career highlight. ...

Now in her 17th season as head coach of the men's and women's swimming and diving team, Lisl Prater-Lee has always been inspired by the potential of her Brewers. ...

This past weekend, the Vassar women's squash team hosted the Seven Sisters Championships, a competition that brings the Brewers together with teams with which Vassar shares a long history. Though Vassar placed fourth out of four in the compe...

Cydni Matsuoka '14, Captain of the women's basketball team, is no stranger to heroics. Twice this year the sophomore guard gave her team the ...

Over her three-and-a-half years at Vassar College, Caroline Shannon '12 has spent countless hours in the pool and on dry land preparing for meets. The fruits of this effort have been generous, with two times on Vassar's record board in the 200- and 400...

Reacting to Vassar's impressive victory over No. 4 New York University (NYU), new men's volleyball Head Coach Robert Wolter emphasized how his players achieved their first major objective of the se...

While one might expect Vassar coaches to be experts in just one sport, many demonstrate a surprising amount of versatility, teaching physical education classes in fields unrelated to their varsity duties. 'Every coach here has more than just their coac...

This Sunday, millions of people around the country will be watching Super Bowl XLVI. Some want to see the rematch of the Super Bowl four years prior. Others are interested in the new commercials that are set to debut. I, however, will be focusing much ...

The Brewers (10-7 overall) will host the Thoroughbreds (11-6 overall) in a matchup that will go a long way towards determining the teams that will earn spots in the Liberty League tournament. Both squads sit in a tie for fourth place at 4-4 in the conf...

It is one of the more depressing realities of sports that professional athletes, for the most part, rarely ever know when it is time to leave the game and move on with their lives. To be so mindful and introspective as to know precisely when one's tale...

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In their first home match of the season, the men's volleyball team upset No. 4 New York University (NYU) 3-0 (25-21, 26-24, 25-22), to improve to 2-1 on the season. The victory marked one of many triumphs for Brewer teams this past weekend, although th...

Now that the New York Giants are a game away from winning their second Super Bowl in five years, sportswriters such as Bill Simmons and Rick Reilly have brought up the possibility that perhaps Giants quarterback Eli Manning will end up having a better ...

Sports Editor Corey Cohn provides an update on upcoming sports events and games. ...

Ethan Shanley, '12, can play. Does this means scoring 18 points in the Vassar men's basketball teams first win against Union College since 2008-09, or performing on his trumpet for the popular on-...

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Hailing from Defiance College, where he was the program's first-ever head coach, men's lacrosse Head Coach Marc Graham took the reigns of the team just four weeks ago, becoming the eighth head coach in program history. ...