It’s time for baseball to make some dramatic rule changes. Attention spans have shortened during the internet age, and the game is rapidly losing younger fans to “more exciting sports” like football and basketball. Surprisingly, as of last season, more than half of all baseball fans were over the age of 50. As a result, […]
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After a successful indoor season, Wheaton Track & Field performed exceptionally well at the New England Division III Championships on Feb. 18 at MIT. Among those Lyons who placed, the most impressive may have been Abby Epplett ’18, who won the 600-meter run in record-breaking time, maintaining her undefeated title in the event. The Track […]
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Men’s Basketball season comes to a close
Wheaton Men’s Basketball ended its season at the NEWMAC quarterfinals last Wednesday in an overtime loss to Springfield. The season had gone well and the NEWMAC birth had proven to be an improvement from last season. The Lyons ended the regular season with a 10-15 record, which gave them the fifth seed in the NEWMAC […]
After the Patriots’ victory in Super Bowl LI, Boston earned its tenth major pro sport championship in 16 years. The decade-and-a-half of sports dominance in Boston is largely unprecedented and also invites questions about where Boston ranks among the sports cities in America, especially against Boston’s sports rival: New York. New York and Boston have […]
The Boston Bruins fired Claude Julien as head coach on Feb. 7 during the Patriots’ Super Bowl parade and replaced him with Assistant Coach Bruce Cassidy. The firing followed the Bruins’ failure to make the playoffs over the past two seasons. The Bruins’ rival, the Montreal Canadiens, picked Julien up as their new head coach. […]
The New England Patriots defeated the Atlanta Falcons in overtime on Feb. 5 to win Super Bowl LI. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady led his team back from a 25-point deficit in the third quarter to complete one of the largest comebacks in NFL postseason history. Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and Tom Brady captured their […]
The Wheaton Women’s Basketball team held a fundraising event on Feb. 4 called “Play 4 Kay” to help raise awareness and funds for women’s cancer research. The Lyons lost to Springfield in their fundraising game but, according to their donations page, were able to raise almost $580 for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund. Across the […]
On any weekend morning, it is a common sight to see Wheaton’s landscape ornamented by beer cans strung onto branches, or remnants of students’ trips to late-night Emerson scattered around campus. This past weekend, the sight was different. Numerous students signed a pledge of sobriety to raise awareness of alcohol misuse and abuse on campus. […]
President-elect Donald Trump read a letter to New Hampshire voters on Nov. 7, claiming that New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick had endorsed him. Belichick refused to answer questions about the letter in a press conference but later reported that the letter was non-political in nature. The NFL head coach has a very specific […]
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Women’s and Men’s Soccer in NEWMACs
The sixth-seeded Wheaton College women’s soccer team defeated the third-seeded Babson Beavers 1-0 during the quarterfinals of the NEWMACs. The game took place on Nov. 1 and started with Babson taking control, shooting multiple balls on Wheaton goalie Leanne Wolf ’19. However, during the 74th minute, captain Brooke Collard ’17 headed the ball into the […]