It’s a strange and violent game, dating back to an English youth soccer match in 1823, when an 11 year-old boy named William Webb Ellis picked up the ball and started running. At the time, nobody seemed to realize that he had just created a new sport. It took a few years for the game to develop, but now the name of the town in which the fateful soccer match was held is synonymous with one of the roughest sports in existence: Rugby. Go to article

It’s often said that life imitates art. You see, the CMS vs. P-P meet did not start last Saturday in the pool, but when our P-P women swimmers, in preparation for their annual pre-CMS meet painting of Walker Wall, prepped a section of said wall with Sagehen blue, only to find it defaced by the likes of those classless jocks also known as the Athena swim team! Go to article

Three weeks ago the Pomona-Pitzer women’s basketball team hit the low point of their season. They started SCIAC play with three consecutive losses, the last coming from just across Sixth Street against CMS. Playing in a league in which the champion often only loses twice, a successful season seemed unlikely for the Sagehens. To add insult to injury, Nick Grudin ’01 blamed the CMS loss on a lack of energy in his Guru article. Luckily for Pomona-Pitzer, the scheduling gods lined up to SCIAC bottom feeders and Caltech for the next week. The Hens dismantled these foes and regained their offensive rhythm just in time for a two-week run against the top four SCIAC schools. Go to article

"In the biggest game of the year, on the biggest stage there is, I sucked," New York Giants’ quarterback Kerry Collins told reporters after his offense was held scoreless in the Superbowl. "It’s as simple as that."

If only it were so simple. Go to article

Swimming is an individual competition. Nothing but one man and the water ahead of him in a race against the clock; a struggle to perform against time. Gary Hall Jr., Mark Spitz, and this year’s Olympic giant Ian Thorpe; individuals who have made the sport so exciting and popular with the kids. Unfortunately, swimming is a team sport here. Go to article

January 21: The team wakes up at 6:20am and gets straight on the road to Santa Barbara to face the mighty female ruggers of UCSB. The jerseys were new, the spirits were high and the Claremont women were ready for whatever slack-ass team Santa Barbara had to offer. Who knew UCSB had such fast backs? Not our fault, not our fault… While Claremont may not have "won," per se, they definitely schooled ‘em at the drink up. Definitely. Go to article