By: Maroon-News Sports Staff

QUESTION OF THE WEEK: In which Winter Olympic event would you most like to participate?...

By: By Kyle Blum

We’ve reached the midway point of conference play in college basketball, so it is time, however premature, to take a look to who will be cutting the nets down in March....

By: By Stephen Urban

We all recognize Hail to the victors, dotting the “I”, the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, the Big Game, the Iron Bowl the Apple Cup, etc. These games clearly gain their mystique from the storied programs that define them. Howeve...

By: By Scott Blumenfeld

We all knew what was going to happen. Peyton Manning would get the ball back in the waning minutes of the fourth quarter and would promptly orchestrate a game-tying touchdown drive to send Super Bowl XLIV into overtime. For a few minutes, it seemed as if ...

By: By Michael LeClair and Jaime Heilbron

On May 14, 2004, FIFA made a move unprecedented in international sports, awarding the World Cup to Africa for the first time. Since then, South Africa has been at the center of numerous controversies, ranging from construction strikes to accusations of co...

By: Alyssa Tamburrino

The Colgate women’s basketball team was able to continue its winning ways this past week by defeating the Army Black Knights 61-47 on Saturday, followed by an overtime victory over Lafayette last night, 60-57....

By: Bill Stoklosa

The Colgate women’s hockey team entered this past weekend desperately in need of points, and they got mixed results. Colgate beat Princeton by a score of 4-3, but their offense sputtered the next day as the Raiders fell to Quinnipiac, 2-1....

By: By Jaime Heilbron

It was a tale of two teams for the Colgate Raiders this past weekend. On Friday night, Colgate obtained its first victory at Princeton since the 2006-2007 season with a 3-1 win, thus completing its first season sweep of its Ivy League rival since the 2004...

By: Paul Kasabian

The Raiders have been outscored by double digits a whopping 12 times in the second half this season, including five times in Patriot League play. Two of those instances occurred in their 63-49 loss at Army Sunday and 74-73 win at Lafayette last night. Whi...

By: By Jackie Finn

The Colgate men’s tennis team opened its spring season last weekend in the most unusual fashion, participating in Brown University’s first ever Rock & Roll Classic, where they fell to the Bears, 5-0. The tournament dual match was composed ...

By: Assorted Maroon-News Staff

Noah Merksamer Maroon-News Staff Although my heart is with the Saints, it is impossible to pick against Peyton Manning. Since the beginning of the season, Manning’s record in meaningful games is 16-0. As we saw in the AFC Championship game, his det...

By: Barry Rothbard

Kevin Durant is the third best player in the NBA. Right now. Durant is on one of the greatest hot streaks in the history of the NBA and has shown no signs of slowing down. If given the choice to start their franchise over, any NBA General Manager in his r...

By: Jaime Heilbron

Where is the Rafael Nadal that dominated Roger Federer in the 2008 French Open final at Roland Garros? How about the one that dethroned him at Wimbledon in the same year? Or the one that, until this past May, had a 31-game winning streak on clay?...

By: Radoslav Ivanov

Two weeks before the restart of the UEFA Champions League, most of the powerhouses look primed to face the challenges of the elimination playoff rounds. Looking at the pairs in the Round of 16, we have three compelling matches, and five matches where we c...

By: Paul Kasabian

The men’s basketball team ended the first half of the Patriot League season with a 100-91 loss at Navy on Saturday night, keeping the squad in a tie for last place....

By: Bill Stoklosa

Last Friday the Raiders headed to Clarkson to battle the number one team in the ECAC and third-ranked team in the nation, getting blanked 3-0. Things turned out much better the next day as Colgate beat St. Lawrence 2-1, getting revenge for a disappointing...

By: Jaime Heilbron

This past weekend the Colgate men’s hockey team made a slight move up the ECAC Hockey standings as the team earned a split at home against North Country foes Clarkson and St. Lawrence. The Raiders beat down the Golden Knights 6-1 Friday night and dr...

By: Alyssa Tamburrino

The Colgate women’s basketball team earned a spectacular victory Saturday when they defeated Navy, 56-54 on Cotterell Court. First-year guard Jhazmine Lynch hit the game-winner on a driving layup with 13 seconds left. Keeping with the Colgate tradit...

By: Rebecca Silberman

On Senior Day, it was a pair of first-years who made waves, breaking records as the men split, beating Lafayette 157-106 and losing to Army 195-77, while the women won against both opponents, defeating Army 206-73 and Lafayette 219.5-56.5.On Senior Day, i...

By: Michael LeClair

Images from Haiti have pervaded the media and blogosphere over the past week and a half, with scenes of disaster ever-present on the American consciousness. Donations and relief aid have come from all parts of our society. With the disaster seemingly in a...