Jamie Mazzola ’21

On Feb. 8, in response to another bout between NBA superstar Kevin Durant and members of the press, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr referred to the league as a “soap opera,” with coaches and players as actors. The job of professional basketball players includes much more than being an athlete.

LeBron James stands in front of him, arms spread, feet shuffling. Harden dictates tempo as always, taking a few slow dribbles with his right hand before crossing over through his legs. Usually, a few more crossovers follow. Imitating the steady flow of ocean waves, Harden lulls his defender to sleep.

The women’s track and field team returned early to campus for interterm, holding daily practice and competing in several meets while much of the student body remained at home on winter break. The Mammoths first traveled to Wesleyan on Jan. 12 to compete in the annual Little Three Championships,

On Oct. 31, 2018, with a clutch block on Utah Jazz guard Dante Exum’s buzzer-beating three-point attempt, Derrick Rose sealed the Minnesota Timberwolves’ 128-125 victory in what might have been the best game of Rose’s career. In 41 minutes of play, the 2010-11 NBA Most Valuable Player put

Golden State is back. Sure, the argument could be made the winners of the past two NBA championships never left, but I’m talking about a different iteration of the Warriors — the highly-motivated 2015-16 Warriors who dominated the league to the tune of a 73-9 record. Spearheaded by the three-point

Competing at the historic Franklin Park cross country course, the Amherst women’s cross country team placed eighth at the annual NESCAC Cross Country Championships this past Saturday, with a team score of 213 points. At 47 points, Middlebury dominated the team race, ending Williams’ three-year win streak. The Ephs

The 2018-19 National Basketball Association’s (NBA) regular season has begun, and it’s finally socially acceptable to talk about basketball again. While the playoffs are still far in the future, discussion over which teams are true title contenders has begun in earnest, and will take place throughout the regular

Amidst cold and rainy conditions, Amherst women’s cross country stepped up to the challenge at the Connecticut College Invitational this past Saturday, placing an impressive seventh with 232 points in a deep 25-team field. In a tight race, Middlebury took the team title with 67 points, while Dickinson College

In an era where superstars like LeBron James and Steph Curry already function as pseudo-general managers in terms of their influence over roster construction, Jimmy Butler is taking the player-empowerment age of the National Basketball Association (NBA) to a different level. Before diving into the Butler saga, though, let’s

At the annual Paul Short Run hosted by Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the Amherst women’s cross country team placed 21st in the multi-divisional Brown race, scoring 564 points. Siena College, a Division I program, claimed the team title with 109 points. The University of Rochester was the top

The Amherst women’s cross country team traveled to Mount Greylock High School this past Saturday to compete at the Purple Valley Classic, hosted by rival Williams. With a score of 179 points, the women placed eighth in a 13-team field. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (67 points) defeated

Leicester City’s improbable 2015-16 English Premier League title redefined the role of smaller-sized clubs in top-flight English football. Currently dominated by a group of clubs known as the “Big Six” (Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool), the Premier League is notoriously top-heavy. With only six

The New Orleans Pelicans completed a four-game sweep of the Portland Trail Blazers in the first round of the 2018 NBA playoffs on Saturday, April 21. The win marked the first time in NBA history that a team seeded sixth or lower swept a first-round series in the modern best-of-seven