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Clay Andrews '13

Staff Writer

Predicting Madness, Yeah Right

Beyond just entertainment, every year the NCAA Tournament does America a great service. It proves that everyone who thinks they know sports is just as hopeless at predicting the sports future as a monkey with a crayon and a bracket. I know there are some people out there who claim

Moving Past the Madness

As the scoreboard suggests, Amherst’s first-round game against Husson University didn’t stay competitive for long. With the Jeffs taking a 10-point lead in less than four minutes into the game and securing a 20-point cushion before the half, Head Coach G.P Gromacki was able to spread out

Rockin' the Rim

The game stayed relatively close early, as Amherst slowly developed a lead thanks to great effort from junior guard Kim Fiorentino who scored 10 points on perfect four-for-four shooting from the floor. With the score at 34-26 with just over three minutes left in the first half, the Jeffs dialed

The Contingency Plan for a Potential NFL Lockout

As that devastating thought sinks in, let’s figure out what next fall would be for sports fans without the NFL. We’re talking about a hole that roughly spans from the beginning of September to early February. That’s not including HBO’s Hard Knocks, the preseason and every

Women’s Basketball Stifles Trinity with Dominating D

The teams traded baskets early, tallying seven lead changes over the opening ten minutes of the game, neither team seeming to want to pull away. With Amherst leading 15-14 a little over halfway through the first half, Trinity star Kaitlyn Ciarleglio knocked down a pair of free throws to put

Top-ranked Women’s Basketball Crushes Early Season Fodder

The Jeffs put any doubters to bed last week with convincing home wins over Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), SUNY-New Paltz, Mt. Holyoke and Clark University, not that there were many that doubted a consensus number one ranked team returning every player from last year’s 32-1 record finish. Amherst outscored

Volleyball Forced to Settle for NCAA’s

Fortunately for the Jeffs, a spectacular regular season record (24-3) was more than enough to lock up an at-large bid, and a chance for possible second-round retribution against NESCAC foe Tufts, assuming that both Amherst and Tufts win their first-round matches. Saturday’s home court loss came as a bit