SPORTS

Samantha Kiessling sakiessling@ursinus.edu It’s feeling like spring once again and it seems that hopeful energy is in full swing on the Ursinus Baseball team. The season felt like it had a rough start, but the team made sure not to let it stay that way and continued to put the...

Gavin Range garange@ursinus.edu “Gambling is not a vice; it is a expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table; some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.” – Jeanette Winterson, The Passion. Across America, college athletes are banned from participating in...

Quadai Brown: qubrown@ursinus.edu For the longest time, me and, well mostly me, wondered about the lack of a crew team here at Ursinus. We have a multitude of sports: from basketball, baseball, football and soccer, to tennis, lacrosse, field hockey and swimming, and yet we have no crew team here...

Katie Cressman kacressman@ursinus.edu The Ursinus College Women’s lacrosse team has completed around half of its season. Currently at 6-6, the team has produced multiple upsets and big-time wins. As they fight to keep playing, it’s worth asking who, or what, is the driving force behind this successful season for the...

Brian Tague: brtague@ursinus.edu In the spring of 1993 “The Sandlot,” hit theaters and with it came the line “You play ball like a girl!” Spoken by fan favorite character Ham as a way to insult a group of fellow young baseball players. playing ball like a girl is a supposed...

Vaughn DiBattista vadibattista@ursinus.edu It was July 22nd, 2022, and I was boarding a train to Connecticut to visit my teammate, roommate, and quite genuinely one of my closest friends, James Rapp. James and I scheduled this trip weeks in advance as a way to stay in touch over the long...

Disclaimer: this article was written for the April 1st issue and is a part of The Goofly. This Grizzly issue is satirical. The moment we have all been waiting for, the most anticipated, inconvenient, questionable addition to campus, the Health Hub is finally opening. And lucky enough for the male population on...

Disclaimer: this article was written for the April 1st issue and is a part of The Goofly. This Grizzly issue is satirical. Is going to a startlingly mediocre Division III institution starting to bum you out? Wishing Ursinus had more school spirit? Thankfully, Ursinus has a new sport that’s perfect...

Your Men’s Tennis Centennial Conference Player of the Week of March 13th, 2022, the 6’3” Welsh goliath from Connecticut, Darby Rogers! After a successful spring break week, going undefeated in singles and doubles, 10-0, Rogers earned this prestigious acknowledgment from the Centennial Conference. Rogers is expected to be one of...