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Rollin' with Dolan: Brett Favre

Admit it, when you first saw the title of this article you were slightly disappointed. We've all heard so many stories about Brett Favre's flip-flopping over retirement that, at this point, I don't think any of us care anymore.


08.25.09.sports.fallsports
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Sports teams gear up for fall season

Chris Parker / The Dartmouth Staff With athletes returning to campus for pre-season training, Dartmouth's fall sports teams are gearing up for their respective seasons.


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YOU DON'T KNOW BEANS: MLB Draft Reform

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There is something wrong with our National pastime. Something very, very wrong. I speak not of steroids, but of the MLB draft, and the signing of international players. A lot of people have probably heard about Stephen Strasburg, the number-one pick in the MLB draft this past June, and the will-he or won't-he see-saw that has accompanied his signing with the Washington Nationals.


08.21.09.sports.hockey
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Two new coaches to be added to hockey staff

Sarah IRVING / The Dartmouth Staff The hiring of new assistant coaches John Rose and Sara Simard to the men's and women's hockey teams, respectively, will lend a fresh perspective to both teams in the upcoming season, coaching staff of both teams said. Rose will join the College's men's hockey staff.


08.21.09.sports.football
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Football ranked 8th in media poll

Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff Preseason polls don't bother Buddy Teevens. When Teevens '79, Dartmouth's head football coach, heard the results of the 2009 Ivy League Football Preseason Media Poll which placed Dartmouth eighth among the eight Ivy League teams he found them "no surprise" given Dartmouth's 0-10 record last year, he said. "We certainly didn't anticipate a vote," Teevens said.


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ROLLIN' WITH DOLAN: Sports Media

On August 12th, Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Shane Victorino was pelted with a plastic cup of beer while fielding a fly ball at Wrigley Field.




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Alum to throw at Championships

<img alt="Sean Furey '04 Th '05 qualified to compete at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics with a 249'10" javelin throw at the U.S.



About 440 participants competed in the Stoaked Off-Road Triathlon at the Storrs Pond/Oak Hill Recreation Area on Saturday and Sunday.
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Town hosts off-road triathlon

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DOUG GONZALEZ / The Dartmouth Staff Mattie Govan '11 won the standard triathlon and Nils Koons '11 won the XTERRA triathlon for their age divisions at the Stoaked Off-Road Triathlon, held at the Storrs Pond/Oak Hill Recreation Area on Saturday.





Brendan Whittet
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Big Green's Whittet to coach Brown

Courtesy of DartmouthSports.com Correction appended Assistant men's ice hockey coach Brendan Whittet was named head men's ice hockey coach at Brown University on Friday.


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ROLLIN' WITH DOLAN: Vick's Back

On Monday, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced that, after a two-year suspension, former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick is once again eligible to sign with a team.


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Fischer '12 to try for Canadian team

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Courtesy of DartmouthSports.com Dartmouth women's hockey forward Reagan Fischer '12 will join 41 other skaters at the Canadian National Women's Under-22 team selection camp, Hockey Canada announced on Thursday, July 16. Fischer will travel to Calgary on August 7, to compete for one of 22 spots on the team, which competes in Ravensburg, Germany this January in the 2010 MLP Cup, an annual tournament that Canada has won six times in the past seven years.


Jon Torpey, former assistant coach of the Denver Pioneers, will join the Big Green lacrosse team as top assistant coach this September.
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Lacrosse hires new top asst. coach

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Courtesy of Dartmouthsports.com Courtesy of DartmouthSports.com Jon Torpey, assistant head coach at the University of Denver, will join the Big Green men's lacrosse as the top assistant coach this September, Dartmouth's new head coach Andrew Towers announced Monday. "He's exactly what I wanted for this job," Towers said in an interview with The Dartmouth.


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YOU DON'T KNOW BEANS: Pitcher Perfect

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On Thursday, July 23, White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle achieved perfection. During the Sox's game against the Tampa Bay Rays that day, he did something that only 17 other pitchers have done in the 116-year history of modern professional baseball, he threw a perfect game.