Sports

We’re in the business of making bold predictions. Our aim is not to incite, but rather to enable, you, the passing observer, with the ability to accurately talk about an Amherst sports team. Perhaps it is just to a casual acquaintance or to your uncle who played football in

Amherst women’s soccer is as dominant, if not more so, than Alabama football (no, seriously). In Division 1 college football, teams from the top division, the 1A, routinely play teams from the second tier, 1AA in “tune-up” games that prepare their starters for the rest of the season, allow

In between downpours, the softball team battled rival Williams in a weekend series. The matchup saw three games, one on Friday at home and a double header on Sunday in Williamstown. The first game was a pitcher’s duel, as Lorena Ukanwa ’19 battled Williams ace Mackenzie Murphy. Hitting for

In sporting news that many at Amherst definitely missed, Rugby Australia recently revoked the contract of star player Israel Folau. His firing from the national team for purely conduct-related reasons sparks questions about the intersections of sports and politics, and provokes questions as to how we view the role of

Sunny evenings, rising temperatures and blooming flowers can only mean one thing around Amherst: it’s almost finals season. As students gear up for the home stretch before summer vacation, one former University of Massachusetts Amherst student just a few months older than me is preparing for a different kind