Bryson Dechambeau’s Unique Approach Overpowers Competition at Winged Foot
Cam Cobey, Sports Staff
September 22, 2020
Bryson Dechambeau dominated the competition and came out victorious to win his first major at the 120th U.S. Open golf tournament last weekend, held at the famous Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York. The course was tough — U.S. Opens are always known to be brutal. The staples of U.S. Open...
How the MLB Awards Will Look at the End of the Season
Aaron Notis, Assistant Sports Editor
September 22, 2020
While fans are ecstatic to have even a taste of baseball back this season, this abridged MLB season has been strange and fraught with injuries and Covid-19. The 60-game regular season saw numerous games canceled when teams were exposed to Covid-19. There was no 2020 All-Star Game and several players, such ...
NBA Conference Finals Matchups Show a Shift Away From Superteams
Aaron Silverstein, Sports Editor
September 22, 2020
In the unimaginable year that has been 2020, let us all take a moment to go back to the previous decade — the 2010s. A.K.A the decade of the NBA superteam. The trend that changed the complexion of the league began even before the decade did with Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett linking up with Rajon Rondo and...
Five Takeaways from Matchweek One in the Premier League
Hunter Firment, Assistant Sports Editor
September 15, 2020
Leeds United Look Poised To Be Better Than a Relegation-Battle Squad Dealt with the impossible task of playing world superpower Liverpool in their first Premier League match following a 16-season hiatus, Leeds United made dreamers of football fans everywhere. The lads from West Yorkshire were def...
The Biggest Takeaways from Week 1 in the NFL
Zach Schiller, Sports Editor
September 15, 2020
Making judgements off the first week of the season is always difficult. Even with months of offseason training and preseason games, it often takes teams a couple of games to find the rhythm and chemistry one would expect to see. For example, last year’s Baltimore Ravens team started out 2-2 before rat...
Dallas Stars Advance to Cup Final Against the Grain
Edward Bass, Maroon-News Staff
September 15, 2020
After Monday’s 3-2 overtime win against the Las Vegas Golden Knights, the Dallas Stars have advanced to their first Stanley Cup Finals in over 20 years. Thanks to goals from Stars captain Jamie Benn and forward Joel Kiviranta as well as an overtime blast from rookie Dennis Gurianov, the team has p...
Student Athletes Return to Practice
Zach Schiller, Sports Editor
September 15, 2020
The end of Colgate's two-week universal quarantine has brought about a series of newfound freedoms for the Colgate student body. For student-athletes, one of these freedoms included the ability to finally return to their first practices since March. Following the school’s transition to Gate 1 on Sept. 8...
Winners and Losers from the U.S. Open
Cam Cobey, Maroon-News Staff
September 15, 2020
The U.S. Open Tennis Championships concluded this past weekend. Although it was an odd U.S. Open–no fans, masked ball boys and many of the sports’ top players not participating– it was still exciting and entertaining. Dominic Thiem was crowned champion on the men’s side on Sunday in a thrillin...
Athletics Staff Deliver Meals, Help Reopening Efforts During Quarantine
Aaron Silverstein, Sports Editor
September 15, 2020
During Colgate’s initial two-week universal quarantine, cross-campus staff volunteers took on thousands of shifts to carry out necessary tasks while student activity was restricted. The majority of these necessary tasks were carried out by various coaches and personnel from Colgate’s Department of ...
Racist Incident Sparks Campus-Wide Response
Kirby Goodman and Kelsey McGeough
November 7, 2019
The Maroon-News' full coverage of the racist message written on a dorm whiteboard after updates on 10/30 and 11/2 A racist message written on the whiteboard outside a suite in Russell House, a first-year and sophomore residence in the Bryan Complex, was reported to Campus Safety late in the evening...
The Colgate Maroon-News Editorial Board
June 5, 2020
We stand in solidarity with our Black classmates, professors, administrators, staff and greater Colgate community of color. As a predominantly white staff, we acknowledge...
Veritati: Let Us All Reconvene
April 7, 2020
Veritati: Continuing Coverage and Maintaining Momentum During COVID-19 Pandemic
March 20, 2020