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By Thomas Ross, Staff Writer Sports fans that enjoy manipulating rosters and envisioning themselves as their hometown team’s general manager for a day went to bed Thursday night disappointed in…
Sports Commentary -— Mark Dourmashkin ’14 Goodbye polar vortex, hello Spring training. Finally, we can start to think about putting this snowy and unpredictable Winter behind us and instead begin…
Sports Commentary — Thomas Ross ’14 Over the course of a week, Michael Sam has ascended from a middle-of-the-pack draft prospect into a role model for many leaders in the…
By MARK ROSSMAN Sports Editor The Olympics are already over a week in, and only five days remain. The United States has held its own, unsurprisingly, with a total of…
By SIERRA BLAZER Contributing Writer Saturday’s senior game, played in honor of Shea Costantino, Emma Lisle, Kristina McCarthy, and Sam Plunkett, served as an opportunity not only to reflect on…
BY JONATHAN BLADER ’17, Contributing Writer Before they even hit the course, the ride had already been a tumultuous one for the Jamaican national bobsled team. Returning to the Winter…
BY SOPHIE AFDHAL ’15, Associate Sports Editor “Every coach in America would like to have a player like Jon,” Head Coach Robinson said of Jon Salandra ’14. Salandra is a…
By Mark Dourmashkin ’14, Staff Writer Some of the best athletes in the world will take stage in Sochi, Russia for the XXII Winter Olympic games Friday, Feb. 7th. The…
By Joey Kimmel ’17, Contributing Writer On a cold Thursday night in Lancaster, the F&M Women’s Basketball team could not stop the hot shooting of Haverford College, and lost to…
By Mark Rossman, Sports Editor Patricia Epps, director of athletics and recreation, has been with F&M for over 35 years and has served as the College’s athletic director since August…
By Jonathan Pressman ’14, Staff Writer With just two weeks before the All-Star break, the NBA has effectively separated the good, the not so good, and the entirely hopeless. The…
By Jon Pressman ’14, Staff Writer In their first home meet of the 2014 season, the Franklin & Marshall men’s and women’s track & field teams registered some impressive finishes,…
photos by Scott Onigman ’15 Both F&M men’s and women’s basketball teams played Dickinson College Wednesday in conference play at the Mayser Center. The men defeated Dickinson 67-58, now 8-2…
By Sophie Afdhal ’15, Assistant Sports Editor Last Saturday, the F&M Baseball team participated in Warwick Little League’s evaluation day, where they spent the day assisting and evaluating the league…
By Lila Epstein ’14, Senior Editor While Diplomat fans gathered Saturday to watch men’s basketball take on Haverford College and win 62-56, what many of these fans might not have…