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Round 1
The Dartmouth indoor track teams took to the oval this weekend and came away with seven victories between them. Hosting the Dartmouth Winter Classic held in Leverone Field House, the teams took their cue from strong freshman performances.
Almost two years ago, I wrote a glowing article about Jim Tressel and the Ohio State Buckeyes. They were fresh off a national title and Tressel was the golden boy of a sport under a persistent cloud of scandal. I touted Tressel as the next Joe Paterno: disciplined, conscientious and truly mindful that his charges were students first and athletes second.
Jamal Lewis ran for 116 yards on 28 carries on Sunday night against the spiraling Washington Redskins, more yards than the entire 'Skins offense could manage on national television. It was far from a spectacular effort from the man who holds the single-game rushing record, but it was a worthy effort from one of the NFL's best backs.
You ever been to Calgary? Chances are, you haven't. It is a beautiful, modern city with wide boulevards and ample evidence of active urban planning. A small cluster of suburbs surrounds the city before giving way to rolling foothills, and visible from most vantage points in the city is the towering grandeur of the Canadian Rockies.
Dartmouth's track teams concluded their indoor league season this past weekend by competing in the Indoor Heptagonal Championships hosted by Cornell University. Both the men's and women's team were carried by the outstanding performance of their multi-eventers, with Mustafa Abdur-Rahim '04 winning the heptathlon and Kelsey Wiegmann '06 taking the pentathlon.
The Carolina Panthers look eerily similar to the 2001 Patriots, right down to the second-string quarterback guiding the team into the Super Bowl. This collection of unheralded no-names quietly amassed an 11-5 record in the regular season before clawing their way into the championship game by knocking off three top NFC teams -- the Cowboys, Rams and Eagles. Across the frenzy that is pre-Super Bowl media week, they see a confident, hyped team that has been there before, much as the 2001 Rams once looked to the Patriots.
The track teams of Dartmouth College returned to the familiar oval of Leverone after a one-week hiatus from the dome. The men and women followed last week's tri-meet by dominating Saturday at the Dartmouth Invitational. Combined, the two teams won more than half of the events, the men taking 11 of 16 while the women won nine of 17.
The combined might of the men's and women's indoor track teams took the road this past weekend to open the Ivy League season. Both teams competed in a tri-meet against Yale and Columbia at New Haven.
The last brick came tumbling down on Jan. 3. A protective wall that had a taken a lifetime to erect was finally gone, and behind it we found a man prostrate before the nation. He spoke quietly, asked for forgiveness and offered his sincerest apology to anyone that happened by.
Both the men's and women's indoor track teams open up their season at home in the comfortable confines of Leverone Field House with the running of the Dartmouth Relays. This year marks the 35th anniversary of the event that was started by former Dartmouth track coach Ken Weinbel, who will be honored for his work in starting the meet.
The trading deadline has come and gone and while the waiver market is still open, most major moves are done in the world of baseball. The trades have been analyzed and the prognosticators have been prognosticating since Opening Day, but this here is not mere conjecture, this is fact: The Red Sox will win the American League East. You may scoff, as the evil empire has claimed this honor seven of the last nine seasons -- with the Red Sox last winning in 1995 -- but the off-season moves combined with the surprise trading deadline prowess displayed by Theo Epstein clearly sent the message that the Sox are no mere wild card team.
As someone for whom going to class this term can best be described as a secondary activity, I've decided I should invest the mental energy normally directed to my primary reason for being at Dartmouth into what has overtaken academics in importance -- golf.
Have a little tact, a little empathy, a little respect. All these qualities (and many more) seem to be lacking in any great measure in the current crop of college athletic directors.
In the words of Big Green men's team captain Tyler Haney '03 "things have come full circle" and for the first time since his freshman winter, the Indoor Heptagonal Championships return to the comfortable confines of Nathaniel Leverone Field House here in Hanover.
Despite the inescapable pull of the most Hallmark of holidays, both the men's and women's track teams were able to pull themselves away from Hanover to compete in the Valentine Classic hosted by Boston University. Ignoring any yearning to be in more comfortable confines than the new, pristine Track and Tennis Center in Boston, both teams turned in memorable performances, headlined by the record-breaking women's distance medley relay.
Despite temperatures that climbed into the 30s on Saturday, both the men's and women's track teams were fighting it out inside in Leverone Field House at the Dartmouth Invitational. Fight, and fight well they did, with seven members of the men's team and seven members of the women's team winning their events with an eighth placing second only to a Dartmouth alumnus.
Members of the men's and women's track teams competed this past weekend in the Boston University Classic. The meet displayed progress for many members of both teams as eight men posted times that qualified for the IC4A meet while six members of the women's team qualified for the ECAC meet.
Ever look at someone and suddenly, unbidden, the thought "Old School" emerges from the depths? Not old school in the sense of Dr. J with a huge Afro or a helmet-less Bobby Orr, but rather a sense of pervading dignity and honor in the mold of Dean Smith or Joe Paterno. These heroic figures (for heroes they are) stand unwavering in the stream of professionalization in major college athletics, holding onto principle and honesty that is increasingly lacking from collegiate athletic departments (see Bob Huggins, Jerry Tarkanian, anyone associated with Alabama football).