By Eilat Herman, Hoya Sports Columnist
• October 23, 2024
Happy playoffs. Or sad playoffs. Depends on what team you like, I suppose, but I’m assuming you’re a New York Yankees fan because otherwise you surely would’ve gotten sick of my column months ago.
We’re...
By Eilat Herman, Hoya Sports Columnist
• October 7, 2024
“On October 3rd, he asked me what day it was. ‘It’s October 3rd,’” said Lindsay Lohan in the (fantastic) movie “Mean Girls.”
Close enough; it’s “October 4th.” That means the first...
By Eli Blumenfeld, Hoya Sports Columnist
• October 7, 2024
When I first envisioned what “Rounding the Diamond” could be in the spring of my first year at Georgetown University, I thought it would be clever — albeit a bit self-indulgent — to weave my favorite...
During game four of the highly contentious Braves-Phillies National League Division Series, I received a WhatsApp message from my dad (I make him use WhatsApp because he has a Google Pixel and I can’t...
For years, the MLB playoffs have been pretty vanilla. In the American League, the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees have always had their success. The Los Angeles Angels have been consistently good,...
The St. Louis Cardinals clinched a spot in their fourth consecutive National League Championship Series on Wednesday night. For those who are counting — and as an avid Cardinals fan, I am — that makes...
The day after the Giants won the World Series in 2010, I remember going to HOPE Services, a community center in my hometown of San Jose, Calif., as part of a class field trip. As we got close to the facility,...
William “Wild Bill” Hagy was a cab driver from Dundalk, Md., who sported a straw cowboy hat, sunglasses, a big beer belly and an even bigger personality. An original super fan, Wild Bill was an institution...
