This past Saturday afternoon, McGill’s chapter of Right to Play—an organization devoted to promoting and funding youth athletics in Africa and Northern Ontario—prevailed in a poutine-eating contest over students representing Concordia’s John Molson School of Business. McGill’s Andrew “Junger” Jung, Nicholas “Big Cheese” Norkser, John “Dirty Mike” Hopkins-Hill, and Doug[Read More…]
Author: Jonny Newburgh
Capital bound: Redmen set eyes on Nationals
Head coaches want nothing more than their teams to come together at the right time, so first-year McGill Redmen baseball Head Coach Jason Starr must feel like the luckiest guy on the field. Fresh off qualifying for Nationals, the Redmen swept the Carleton Ravens to claim the Northern Conference title[Read More…]
Redmen rally falls short, lose heartbreaker to Stingers
With playoff hopes and pride on the line, the McGill Redmen hosted the Concordia Stingers on Saturday afternoon in their final home game of the regular season at Molson Stadium. Unfortunately, despite an amazing fourth quarter comeback, the McGill Redmen fell just short of the Concordia Stingers 43-40. Entering the[Read More…]
McGill wins bronze at preseason tournament
The McGill Martlet volleyball team enters its 2012-2013 campaign following an unexpected bronze medal at the CIS Championships last season. The team surged to another bronze medal finish this weekend in the 22nd annual Martlet Invitational at Love Competition Hall. Five teams from across Quebec, Ontario, and the Maritimes joined[Read More…]
Around the Water Cooler
In case you spent your week preparing to jump back to Earth from space, here’s what you missed this week in the world of sports… BASEBALL — Is there anything like October baseball? All four Division Series this year went the distance, and every night featured a different dramatic finish.[Read More…]
2012 MLB Awards
With playoff baseball underway, the MLB’s best individual performances from the season will be awarded in the coming weeks. A Tribune contributor predicts who he thinks will take home the hardware. National League MVP: Buster Posey The San Francisco Giants finished last season with a disappointing 86-76 record, having lost[Read More…]
Sports Briefs
Martlet Hockey: McGill opens Regular Season with a Win, Daoust Records Five Points in Victory Ranked as the number two team in Canada in the inaugural CIS Women’s Hockey Top 10, McGill opened its RSEQ schedule with an authoritative 8-1 away victory against Concordia last Saturday. Second-year centre Mélodie Daoust led the[Read More…]
Redmen win first game in front of Homecoming crowd
The McGill Redmen had a busy Homecoming weekend, facing off against two OUA East division foes. On Friday night, the Redmen’s slow start to the season continued, falling to Ottawa 4-2, and placing them at 0-3-0 on the year. This changed on Saturday night, when McGill (1-3-0) overcame a 2-0[Read More…]
In heaven at Angels Stadium
Since the departure of the Montreal Expos following the 2004 season, baseball fans in this city have had to look elsewhere for their fix of America’s pastime. Most are not Washington Nationals fans, though the team descends from the Expos franchise. I became a fan of the then Anaheim Angels,[Read More…]
FEATURE: McGill Then and Now…
86-year-old Betty McCullough watched the televised celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee this summer and thought back to one of her fondest memories as a student at McGill’s graduate school for nursing. At 25 years old, she’d clutched her camera as she waited amongst a crowd of students, staff,[Read More…]
