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Emerson College’s only independent, student-run newspaper since 1947

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Emerson College’s only independent, student-run newspaper since 1947

The Berkeley Beacon

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Men’s tennis coach faces tall task with small team, new competitive conference

Men’s tennis coach faces tall task with  small team, new competitive conference
March 20, 2014

The Emerson men’s tennis team was one of the school’s most successful squads in the spring of 2013. Finishing with a 10-2 overall record, the team reached the Great Northeast Athletic Conference...

Patricia Nicol accepts job to become Emerson’s new athletic director

Patricia Nicol accepts job to become Emersons new athletic director
March 18, 2014

Emerson has hired Patricia Nicol to be its new athletic director, according to Dean of Students Ronald Ludman, and a statement released by the college today. Nicol is currently serving as the athletic...

Freshman infusion has baseball looking forward

Freshman infusion has baseball looking forward
March 13, 2014

The Emerson College men’s baseball team completed its annual spring break trip to Fort Myers, Fla., and returned to Boston with a 2-7 record and a bounce in its step. Emerson’s two victories...

Softball underestimated heading into NEWMAC

Softball underestimated heading into NEWMAC
March 13, 2014

Emerson softball coach Phil McElroy remembers seeing the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference preseason coaches’ poll and thinking his Lions were ranked a little bit low...

Unconventional path takes Johnson from walk-on to star

Unconventional path takes Johnson from walk-on to star
February 27, 2014

Sometimes, the best things in life you never see coming.  That was the case with Emerson women’s basketball coach Bill Gould and one breakout sophomore, whom he now counts on as one of the...

Emerson alumnus Barboza lands at ESPN Boston

February 27, 2014

As a freshman at Bishop Connolly High School in nearby Fall River, Mass., Scott Barboza ran two weeks’ worth of sprints during the preseason for the school’s freshman basketball team and promptly...

Women’s basketball MVP: Kristin Brice

Women’s basketball MVP: Kristin Brice
February 27, 2014

Junior forward Kristin Brice scored nearly double the number of points of any other teammate this season, starting all 25 games and racking up 346 points for an average of 13.8 points per game, which ranked...

Men’s basketball loses Emerson’s first NEWMAC playoff game at MIT

Men’s basketball loses Emerson’s first  NEWMAC playoff game at MIT
February 27, 2014

One of the most noteworthy seasons in Emerson College athletic history came to a close Wednesday night in Cambridge as coach Jim O’Brien’s blue collar men’s basketball fell in a competitive...

Beacon winter sports awards: For men’s basketball, Goldberg, Thorpe lead the way

February 27, 2014

Emerson’s men’s basketball team (13-12, 6-8) made an unexpected run to the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference playoffs this season, bolstered by strong offensive...

A Skype date with men’s basketball great John Karalis

A Skype date with mens basketball great John Karalis
February 21, 2014

John Karalis, 40, was the first in a string notable men’s basketball players to graduate from Emerson College during the tenure of longtime coach Hank Smith, who led the team from 1994-2011. Karalis...

Chance of a lifetime: Journalism major interns at ESPN Boston, hooks on as Red Sox beat writer

Chance of a lifetime: Journalism major interns at ESPN Boston, hooks on as Red Sox beat writer
February 20, 2014

Most of the 250,000 college students in the Boston area saw the Red Sox’ improbable run to the World series on a television screen, enduring every rant Fox commentator Tim McCarver could rattle off...

Masked crusader takes over NEWMAC

Masked crusader takes over NEWMAC
February 20, 2014

For the past two weeks, a mysterious, masked man has been spotted practicing and playing with the playoff-bound Emerson men’s basketball team.  His teammates have already created several nicknames...

East meets west: volleyball welcoming to California kids

East meets west: volleyball welcoming to California kids
February 20, 2014

If the state of Texas is known as the mecca of high school football, then the same can be said about California and its intensive volleyball scene. No state produces more players than the Golden State. Just...

AD search group decides on four finalists, Nance included

AD search group decides on four finalists, Nance included
February 20, 2014

The long process to hire a permanent athletic director at Emerson College has finally entered its final stages. On Feb. 14, an email from Dean of Students Ronald Ludman to athletic staff and team captains...

Lions roar: WPI win highlights historic week

Lions roar: WPI win highlights historic week
February 18, 2014

Emerson’s transition into the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference brought with it fresh challenges that were too much to overcome for the other five team sports that have...

Gross Gains

Gross Gains
February 13, 2014

When the Emerson men’s volleyball team played nationally ranked Massachusetts Institute of Technology earlier in the year, sophomore libero Jared Gross had one of the best sequences of his career,...

Gould leads from his post

Emerson womens basketball coach Bill Gould during a game in 2016. Photo: Evan Walsh / Beacon Archive
February 6, 2014

Bill Gould has enjoyed a lifetime of basketball from the sideline spanning 27 years, and he said it all stemmed from an early decision to give up his career on the court.  “As far as the world’s...

Boston’s Jim O’Brien

Bostons Jim OBrien
February 6, 2014

When a sports fan hears the name “Jim O’Brien, Boston basketball coach,” it conjures memories of the former Rick Pitino assistant who went on to coach a couple of low-ceiling Boston Celtics...

Against stiffer competition, men’s basketball begins to adjust

Against stiffer competition, mens basketball begins to adjust
February 6, 2014

The Emerson men’s basketball team is now fully immersed as a member of the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference, which is widely regarded as one of the toughest in all of...

Emerson sports roundup: Jan. 30 – Feb. 6

Emerson sports roundup: Jan. 30 - Feb. 6
February 6, 2014

MEN’S BASKETBALL Record: 10-9, 3-5 NEWMAC Feb. 1: Babson 77, Emerson 71 (OT) Player of the Game: Jon Goldberg Senior captain Jon Goldberg led the Lions (10-9, 3-5 NEWMAC) with 23 points and nine...