Spring Break
Early in the season, after a blowout loss to Penn and heartbreakers to Rider and Delaware, it looked like the high expectations set for the Drexel men's basketball team may have been unrealistic. Don't tell that to this squad. Drexel fans are just now seeing a glimpse of this team's potential.
The Drexel Dragons traveled to Penn on Jan. 16th to take on Wagner and the nationally ranked Quakers. Drexel earned a split in the dual match leaving them 7-7(3-1 Colonial Athletic Association). After the day was over, team captain Mark Cartella, Ryan Hluschak, Carl Schmidt, and heavyweight Chris Cowen all came through undefeated, while Chris Renninger earned his forth pin of the season.
Whoever coined the phrase "only a game" had obviously never been to Philadelphia. This Sunday's 'Battle of the Birds' is, technically, only a game. But let's be honest here, folks. There are 1.2 million hearts that will break, simultaneously, should the Eagles lose this 'game.
The Drexel men's and women's swimming and diving teams defeated Binghamton Jan. 15 by a score 134-89 and 152-85 respectively. For the men, sophomore Barbaros Cem Pasaoglu won the 500 meter freestyle and 1,000 meter freestyle which earned him his second Colonial Athletic Association Performer of the Week honor.
So far in the month of January, the Drexel Dragons men's basketball team has lost on a last second shot to the most dominant team in the Colonial Athletic Association in Old Dominion; they won in overtime versus one of the other CAA's "best" teams in Hofstra; they took down Virginia Commonwealth on a last second fling from Bashir Mason; then they made cheese steaks the fans' focal point of the game in their win over William and Mary; and finally, with the help of some guy from N.
In the closing weeks of the regular season and the first week of the playoffs, all I heard on the radio and TV and on the Internet was how the NFC was so wide open, how any team could win it, even teams like the Panthers, Rams, Saints or Vikings, teams that made or would have made the playoffs with an 8-8 record.
We are nearing the end of January, a month always known for its barren music release schedule. The year of 2005 has already provided us with some disappointments with new albums from ...And You Will Know us From the Trail of Dead and Low, but has also delivered us a brilliant EP/mini-album by the Fiery Furnaces and a great sophomore effort from M83.
