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Volume 67, Issue 5
Bring
the Games to the World’s Biggest Stage
by Daniel Groner
Recently, New York City beat out San Francisco for the United States’ bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics. In three years, when the International Olympic Committee makes a final decision on where to hold the ceremony, New York will contend with such prominent cities as Paris, Moscow, Rome and Madrid. All of these cities are worthy sites for the Olympics. However, the disaster and trauma that New York faced last September gives international events held there a certain gravity unmatched in any other city in the world. The unity and selflessness of residents immediately following the attacks exemplified the ideals associated with the Olympics. What better place, then, than New York to serve as a ceremonial site of Olympic festivities?
Yeshiva Athletics Stages Mac Madness
2002
by Binyamin Muschel
Students and faculty members got a chance to go head to head on November 19th, and it wasn’t in the Belfer Hall. With a student versus faculty basketball game as its feature presentation, Yeshiva’s sports teams were officially introduced in the annual “Mac Madness” pep rally, held in the Max Stern Athletic Center.
Mac
Spotlight: Carlos Dolmo
by Binyamin Muschel
The Internet has brought many people many things, and just over two years ago it brought Carlos Dolmo to Yeshiva University’s wrestling team. Having wrestled throughout his college career, Dolmo wanted to stay involved with the sport, hoping to teach what he learned. Logging onto NYwrestling.com he discovered an opening with Yeshiva left by outgoing assistant coach Brian Ostrow. He contacted Head Coach Neil Ellman and, ever since, “Coach Carlos” has become a favorite among Yeshiva’s student-athletes
Wrestling
Team Preview
by Avi Mermelstein
As the weather gets colder, the sporting scene moves indoors for the winter and the Yeshiva wrestling season begins in earnest. Coach Neil Ellman returns to guide a team that features a strong batch of newcomers joining the returning wrestlers. He is rejoined by assistant coaches Carlos Dolmo (see article) and Victor Kupchynskyy, former coach of the Ukrainian national team.
Cross-Country:
Season in Review
by Avi Mermelstein
The cross-country team completed its short season November 3, with the tenth annual Halloween Invitational. The Invitational completed a season that saw Yeshiva field a full team of five every time out, an accomplishment that frequently eluded the team last season. Coach Stan Watson was glad to see that aspect of last season put behind him—it was the only time during his tenure as coach that Yeshiva did not field a full team.
YC
Hires New Golf Coach
by Binyamin Muschel
On Monday, November 11, Yeshiva announced the appointment of David Neiss, from Riverdale, New York, as coach of the men’s golf team. Neiss replaces retired Coach Allen Mittleman, who coached the team for many years. Dr. Richard Zerneck, Yeshiva’s Director of Athletics, was thrilled with the new addition. “David is one of the finest student-athletes ever to have attended Yeshiva University,” he said. “I am confident that he will be a wonderful addition to our coaching staff.”
Soccer
Season in Review
by Commentator Staff
The soccer team closed its season in a blaze of glory, losing each of its last two games only after putting up a mighty struggle. On the night of October 31 at picturesque Mt. St. Mary’s College, Yeshiva found itself undermanned and coach-less. With only two available substitutes making the long trip during midterms, and with their coach caught in holiday traffic, Yeshiva’s task seemed unenviable. Mt. St. Mary’s had just come off a big overtime win against Manhattanville and was playing its best soccer of the season. When Mt. St. Mary’s scored in the first minute of play, it seemed the rout was on.
Down and
Out in L.A.
by Alexander Chester
A month into the NBA season there have been few surprises. The Kings, Mavericks, and Nets are keeping up last year’s pace, while the Grizzlies and Cavs are off to the races in the “LeBron James sweepstakes.” But for the reigning champions, the 2002 season has not begun as expected. The Los Angeles Lakers are limping through the early part of this season, and while the players and coaches insist the current struggles are temporary, the losses are piling up quickly, which could come back to haunt L.A. as they try to recover in the deep Western Conference.
Time
to KO the Goons
by Daniel Groner
In a joke as old as Gordie Howe, a man tells his friend, “I went to the fights the other night and a hockey game broke out.” While the amount of humor left in the joke has long been negligible, the essential truth behind it has remained. Hockey, once designed as a sport of finesse and fine stick play, has, over time, devolved into a game of raging beasts trying to wallop their opponents while making semi-desperate attempts at puck poking. Though goals are being scored at a higher rate this season, the violent acts of “enforcers” are growing at a far greater pace. There is a good reason behind this phenomenon: teams want to send the message that if the opposition will come after their superstar players, they will respond by a battering of their own vicious thugs.
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