Word: player
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...make up for a lack of flight, for example, all players must carry a broom between their legs at all times. Chasers run down the field with the Quaffle (a volleyball) while attempting to evade other Chasers, Beaters throwing Bludgers (dodgeballs), and the Keeper (that’s me) to score a goal through the opposing team’s hoops. In the meantime, off the field, Seekers fight to catch the Snitch, a neutral player dressed in a gold track suit who is allowed to run anywhere on the college campus. A goal is worth 10 points...
...result is sheer, brutal anarchy, an absurd and ludicrous hybrid of rugby, dodgeball, basketball, and soccer. Serious injuries abounded among other teams at the Middlebury Quidditch World Cup this past October. One player from Emerson College broke a Chaser’s clavicle, another team’s Beater broke a few fingers, and rumor has it that in a past year’s tournament one player robbed a girl of her cornea. There may truly be no better two words to describe the appeal of the game than those of a Crimson reporter: “badass mayhem...
...game will feature a matchup between two of the country’s best players, Harvard senior forward Andre Akpan and Monmouth’s junior forward Ryan Kinne. Akpan, the Ivy League Player of the Year, had 11 goals and 28 points during the regular season. Kinne, the NEC player of the year, had 10 goals and 27 points...
...attack also features the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, Brian Rogers, the team’s second leading scorer with six regular-season goals. Rogers and Akpan will have possibly their toughest challenge of the year going up against the NEC’s defensive player of the year, senior Dan Bostock, and elite goalie Bryan Meredith...
...Face it, Irish fans: our underdog status against the 1998 World Cup champion, and 2006 second-place finishers, helped ignite the anti-Henry outrage. If a relatively anonymous Irish forward pulled the same stunt to send the French home, he'd probably be lauded as a plucky player who happened to outfox the refs. And say the game was replayed, and Ireland came out and destroyed a distracted French team - would that really feel good? If the Henry handball never happened, who's to say France wouldn't have scored a few minutes later? Or won the game...