Monday Night Football on the 24th November saw the Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off against the Los Angeles Rams. However, it was not the play of the teams that night that will forever go down in NFL history. For the first time in the National Football League’s history, an all-Black officiating crew worked a game….
UEA Sport final round-up
The end of the academic year has not stopped the flow of successful news stories from UEA’s clubs. Many summer sports like Rowing, Cricket and Cycling have only recently sprung into life with BUCS fixtures coming thick and fast. With the end of the season now upon us, we’ve also decided to take stock of…
Pirates Promoted to Premiership
UEA Pirates American Football team have been promoted to the BUCS Premiership for next season after wins over Bath and Exeter in the Southern play-offs. UEA will face Coventry in the BUCS Trophy national final in Loughborough on Sunday, hoping to become the country’s best university American Football team outside of the Premiership. After their…
Pirates reach post-season playoffs
UEA Pirates American Football team have won their league, and continue to progress in the playoffs. The team sealed the Division 1 South-East championship with a 47-6 win at Queen Mary in their last match of the regular season to make it seven wins out of eight and as they enter the end of season…
Concrete meets… UEA Pirates American Football
The only encounter I’ve had with American Football was two years ago, when I went to film a match at Colney Lane on a freezing day. Since then, I have been following their results and keeping up to date with how they perform as a team. In reality, I still don’t know the rules and…
Campus-wide sporting success for UEA!
How can you choose a sport for the back page when everyone is doing so well? With the sporting season fast reaching its climax for many of UEA’s nearly 60 clubs, there has been campus-wide success in the last fortnight. UEA women’s Lacrosse team (pictured) are now firing in the league with comfortable home victories…
Most anticipated albums of 2019
The Dangerous Summer – TBA At the beginning of 2017, I resigned myself to the fact that one of my favourite bands of all time, The Dangerous Summer, were never coming back. Then they did. Last year saw them drop their self-titled fourth album, go on two world tours and record another album. Excited? An…
UEA Pirates plunder win from first match
UEA Pirates American Football team got off to the best possible start in BUCS South East 1A as they beat Queen Mary Vipers 39-15 in their first match of the season. Corneilius Walters was the star for the Pirates, crossing three times against the newly-promoted opposition. There was a healthy Sunday lunchtime crowd lining the…
High hopes? Sport editor Sophie Christian looks at UEA’s chances
The highly-anticipated Derby Day is fast approaching between UEA and Essex, but can UEA win for a sixth consecutive year when sport teams head to Colchester to battle the Blades? The last time Essex won Derby Day was in 2012 when Essex hosted the annual event at Colchester. Last year saw UEA thrash Essex with…
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