Yale Appoints New Athletic Director

Yale University has during this past year appointed a new leader of its athletic department. As our readers may remember, Yale’s athletic teams have made headlines of late — and not exactly for reasons the New Haven, Connecticut-based institution would like. An exposé in The Boston Globe shined a lantern … 

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Yale Captures Ivy League’s Automatic Bid to March Madness

Yale University has earned the right to represent the Ivy League in the 2019 edition of March Madness. Earlier today, the Yale Bulldogs (22-7) beat the Harvard Crimson (18-11) on Yale’s home floor 97-85 to capture its second bid to the NCAA Tournament in four years. Yale had fallen to … 

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Yale Athletics

There was an editorial yesterday in “The Yale Daily News” that is generating a bit of buzz. The piece was written by Cole Aronson and it’s entitled “Admissions and Athletics.” Aronson begins the piece with a headline grabber: “Yale should stop recruiting athletes. Nothing against sports — except that sports have … 

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