January 14, 2013
Filed under Features, Sports
By Paulo Fugen and Ralph Martins
Northwestern University in Qatar's Lady Wildcats kicked off the women's basketball tournament at Education City with a commanding start that ended in a 41-14 victory over the Texas A&M at Qatar team Sunday evening.
The Lady Wildcats ju...
December 2, 2012
Filed under Features, Sports
By Ralph Martins
The Pirates star left forward, Jaser Alagha, inspired the Pirates to a 4-3 win over the Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies (QFIS) in the Hamad Bin Khalifa University Football Tournament on Saturday evening.
Alagha scored two and set up a third in ...
November 30, 2012
Filed under Features, Sports
By Ralph Martins
Georgetown came back from a goal down to beat the Pirates 2-1 in a hotly contested Hamad Bin Khalifa University football tournament game Thursday night.
A game the Georgetown captain reportedly described as his team's toughest this season was a ...
November 23, 2012
Filed under Features, Sports
By Ralph Martins
The NU-Q Pirates season came to an end slightly ahead of schedule after a highly controversial game against the Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) team Thursday evening.
After a first h...
November 16, 2012
Filed under Features, Sports
By Ralph Martins
The Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies (QFIS) held on to best the Pirates 2-1 after a hard-fought game Thursday evening.
Looking to pile men into the penalty area early on, the QFIS side didn't allow the Pirates to settle, repeatedly robbing them ...
November 9, 2012
Filed under Features, Sports
By Ralph Martins
The Pirates registered their first win of the HBKU Football League with a 13-0 demolition of UCL Thursday evening.
Dominant from the opening whistle, the Pirates rarely conceded possession to the hapless UCL team, creating chance...
October 25, 2012
Filed under Sports
By Ralph Martins
An unstable team, tough luck and questionable refereeing meant that the NU-Q Pirates search for their first win must continue over Eid after a bitter defeat to the Academic Bridge Program (ABP) football team Wednesday evening.
The Pirates were left shaki...
October 19, 2012
Filed under Sports
By Ralph Martins
The Pirates quest for their first win in the HBKU Football League continued Thursday evening after they were handed a 2-0 defeat by Cornell.
The hard-running Cornell midfield and fro...
October 18, 2012
Filed under Features, Sports
By Ralph Martins
There's a new pack of Wildcats at NU-Q.
This semester, soccer enthusiasts Maha Al-Ansari and Dana Al-Mesnad kicked off the first ever Northwestern University in Qatar's female soccer ...
December 6, 2011
Filed under Sports
By Mohammed Noorudeen
Northwestern University in Qatar and other Education City universities wind up their football season this week, with NU-Q fighting the Faculty of Islamic Studies Tuesday and Weil-Cornell Medical College in Qatar.
Teams play their opponents twice every season. Afte...
