I’ll miss No. 2 on the field. I’ll never forget the five rings, the clutch at bats and the heroic plays at shortstop. He was the player our entire generation has idolized. All of that has been well-documented. But, the more I come to grips with the reality that Derek Jeter will never play another baseball game, the more I realize how much I’ll miss having an athlete that was universally loved.
I believe that New England or DC will walk away as Eastern Conference champions. Both teams would pose decent threats to whatever powerhouse succeeds in the West. But, with the Eastern Conference boasting more depth this year, the East could make some waves in this year’s playoffs.
With the victory, the Rams improve to 4-1 on the season. More importantly for head coach Joe Moorhead, the Rams are 1-0 in Patriot League Conference play.
For the fifth consecutive year, Fordham will be the home of the Liberty Cup. Fordham used yet another 100-yard rushing performance from freshman Chase Edmonds and senior quarterback Mike Nebrich’s best game of the season to blow out Columbia, 49-7.
Fordham football donned special patriotic uniforms for its Liberty Cup match up against Columbia. Playing on the road this season, this year’s jerseys featured much less maroon and placed a greater emphasis on red, white and blue.
After nearly 100 minutes of play, 31 shots and five yellow cards, the Fordham men’s soccer team stormed the field in victory after it defeated Temple University 1-0 in overtime last Wednesday, Sept. 17 on Jack Coffey Field.
After opening the season with a program best 6-1-0 record, the women’s soccer team lost a pair of road games this past weekend. Entering the weekend on a six-game winning streak, the squad attempted to make more program history with a seventh consecutive win, which would have surpassed the 2008 team’s six-game streak.
The Ryder Cup is a biennial exhibition that pits the very best American golfers against the best European golfers in a team match play high-profile event lasting three days. This year’s edition, to be held at the PGA Centenary Course at the Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland, begins in less than a week. It is sure to excite and entertain golf fans on both sides of the pond.
Fordham water polo headed to Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut, and then to Providence, Rhode Island, to face Brown University as it started conference play this weekend. The Rams finished the day with a 13-9 victory at Connecticut, but fell to Brown, 12-6. The results put Fordham at 7-3 on the season.
Jordan Chapman is a senior defensive back and one of the leaders of the Fordham football program. Chapman was a Second-Team All-Patriot League performer in 2013 and a three-sport athlete in high school, but did not play football until his senior year.
