Sports

By: Will Cunningham Basketball is back at the Nest, and your Eagles haven’t seemed to skip a beat in the eight months without a home game. Men’s basketball lived up to its expectations on Nov. 15, putting on a clinic against Cabrini in an 86-57 victory.  As I took a walk past the stands, I […]

By: Daniel Finegan In most sports movies, you don’t need to be told when something good happens. Most viewers are familiar with the visual language of a football player running down a field or a baseball player swinging his bat. “Touchdown” and “home run” are phrases that we not only know, but have incorporated into

By: Marin Dremock While reading James Joyce’s Ulysses, I came across the mention of a sport that I’ve never heard of. It’s called hurling, and it’s Ireland’s oldest and fastest game. Hurling is a combination of field hockey, lacrosse and baseball, according to the website Experience Gaelic Games. It involves two opposing teams trying to

By: Will Cunningham There’s an old saying that goes, ‘the end of one chapter is just the beginning of another.’ As the page chapter of the fall season comes to a close, we turn the page to a new chapter: the chapter of Eastern basketball. Now, basketball has been hyped up for quite some time

By: Will Cunningham Before the season began, I did a feature for the Women’s Volleyball team with one question in mind: “Could they repeat as conference champions?” The events that unfolded on Nov. 5 answered that question with a resounding ‘yes’ as the Eagles have once again won the conference after defeating Stevenson 3-2 in

By: Brian Lines Every four years, in the summer, the world’s largest sporting event takes place. The FIFA World Cup was last played in Russia in 2018, where France made their mark by defeating Croatia in the cup final.  Four years have passed since the spectacle that was the 2018 World Cup, but summer of

By: Will Cunningham The Philadelphia 76ers have something to prove. Their roster is full of talent, with a strong combination of star power and defense, yet year after year they disappoint in the playoffs. Case in point: nine months ago, they shot for the moon by trading for superstar James Harden. With Harden’s pick-and-roll abilities

By: Will Cunningham The Philadelphia Flyers are a strange team that I don’t know what to make of. They have young, promising talents that can lead a team deep into the playoffs, but they also struggle with consistency and competing on a consistent basis. If I were to describe them with an analogy, I would

By: Christian Lengkeek If you aren’t from Philly you won’t understand this article. You won’t understand how exciting it is to actually have wide receivers who can catch, or to have a legit secondary, not just guys signed from off the street. You definitely won’t understand how amazing it feels to have the best record

By: Brian Lines The Philadelphia Union, Philadelphia’s professional soccer team in Major League Soccer (MLS), have had a wonderfully successful 2022 season. The Union have ended in the top five in the Eastern Conference in the MLS the past four years, coming in sixth the year before. The Union finished the regular season this year