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NHL Player Boycotts Pride Event

On January 17, the Philadelphia Flyers celebrated their Flyers Pride Night. The event culminated in players taking the ice for warm-ups in custom jerseys, their numbers decorated with rainbow stripes, before changing into standard uniforms for the game itself. Yet one of the twenty-one members of the Flyers roster was mysteriously missing from warm-ups: defenseman […]

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University Sport: Getting Involved

Our guide to how you can get involved, whatever your year or level The idea of joining a sports club, whether you’re a new or returning student, may well appear daunting. The beauty of university sports, however, is the huge variety of niche activities on offer with little expectation of prior participation. Even clubs running […]

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Ice hockey: a warrior’s sport

It is not uncommon, as an American living in Edinburgh, to have people continuously shitting on American football in front of me. And to be fairly honest, when I saw my first game of rugby, I started to understand and admittedly sometimes partake in the aforementioned shitting. Compared to the rough and gritty nature of […]

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Edinburgh University Sports Round-Up

MEN’S HOCKEY 6/3/19 1st TEAM RESULT V HERIOTT WATT 2nd TEAM Edinburgh University vs Heriott Watt Varsity Day Result: Victory. 2nd TEAM/LEAVERS RESULT V HERIOTT WATT 1st TEAM Edinburgh University vs Heriott Watt Varsity Day Result: Loss on flicks. 3rd TEAM RESULT V STRATHCLYDE 2nd TEAM League Fixture: 5-0 Victory. 5th TEAM FIXTURE V 6th […]

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Historic basketball victory in this week’s Sports Round-Up

The Edinburgh University Basketball Club men’s 2s capped off their season with an impressive victory of 59-48 against Robert Gordon University 1s. This makes the team the 2017 Bucs 2A League Champions and sees them promoted to the Scottish 1A league: a first in the club’s history. The women’s 2s played Robert Gordon’s University 1s […]

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Netball club flying high in this week’s round up

Edinburgh University Netball Club had a fantastic four out of four wins at their home matches two Saturdays ago. EUNC 1s finished with a great result of 56-20 against the University of Glasgow 1s. The 2s faced the University of Strathclyde 1s, finishing with a 55-37 win. The 5s won convincingly, 59-15, against the University […]

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Edinburgh’s archers toast success in the latest round-up

Edinburgh University Archery Club hosted a Scottish Student Sport League match last weekend, which saw senior and novice teams taking the win. In Ireland at the Indoor Open Competition, two compound archers, Harrisson Ooi and Jordan Mitchell, earned gold and silver. Elsewhere, Sarah Prieels and Hope Greenwood travelled to Luxembourg for the GT Indoor Open […]

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Badminton make a racquet in the latest sports round-up

The Edinburgh University Badminton Club Ladies 1s played against Loughborough University 1s on Wednesday. Despite fighting hard in the singles matches, the 1s sadly lost both games. However, the doubles team ended on a fantastic note, with Edinburgh winning three out of four matches. Edinburgh University Basketball Club Women’s 1s had a tough game against […]