One of my fondest freshman-year memories to date was in February 2014, when Alice Kerr invited our orientation group to come to her house and watch the opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics in Sochi,...
Forty-nine years after Washington, D.C., last hosted the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, the annual festivities will return to the city in 2018 for the first All-Star Game to be held at Nationals...
Washington, D.C., lost its bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, with the U.S. Olympic Committee’s announcement last Thursday that it had instead selected Boston to represent the country.
Despite...
Hola Georgetown friends! I hope you all are having an amazing time raging, sleeping and possibly working? (I am so sorry)
I am a huge proponent of adventurous summers — I tried sitting around and working...
In the NHL, a team is awarded two points for a regulation, overtime or shootout win. Meanwhile, a team receives zero points for a loss in regulation, but receives one point — the “loser point” —...
As the Olympics wrap up this weekend, it’s time to reflect upon the past few weeks. We’ve watched Olympians ski, jump, race and skate around, representing their countries in the most competitive sports...
With the Olympics going on, I know you're all wondering it. When curling begins, immediate confusion commences.
As much as we like to pretend we know what is happening, it's a lot easier just to make...
Everybody knows why Sochi has been having unexpectedly high temperatures these past few days: The Olympians there are just too hot! It's an understatement to say that the athletes competing in the Sochi...
Oslo, Lake Placid, Nagano, Vancouver. Are these future celebrity children names? Close, but no. These are really the past sites of the Winter Olympics. You heard right, THE OLYMPICS!
This year, the Winter...
With its opening ceremonies Friday evening, the XXII Winter Olympic Games kicked off in Sochi, Russia under a cloud of negative media attention. Yet for all of the seeming deficiencies in the game’s...
With barely 100 days left until the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Russia is scrambling to make all the pieces fit together. It will play host to approximately 2,800 athletes from over 80 countries...
With Tokyo chosen as the site of the 2020 Olympics, a local nonprofit is looking ahead to 2024.
D.C. 2024, which is not affiliated with the D.C. government, aims to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics and...
