Chase Field No. 3 will be converted to an AstroTurf field
Construction is currently taking place on Chase Field No.3, where a crew is hard at work transforming the pitch from natural grass surface to a new AstroTurf synthetic surface.
Construction is currently taking place on Chase Field No.3, where a crew is hard at work transforming the pitch from natural grass surface to a new AstroTurf synthetic surface.
As a sports columnist for The Dartmouth, I get copied on some of the most important emails and letters sent in the sporting world.
Kevin Garland / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The NFL Pro Bowl is notorious in that everyone wants to be named to the Pro Bowl and make the trip to Hawaii in February, but no player actually wants to play in the game.
The Big Green women's basketball team was recently named a part of the 2007-08 Women's Basketball Coaches Association Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll for NCAA Division I.
Courtesy of The Dartmouth Despite improvement over the last four years under the direction of head coach Buddy Teevens, Dartmouth football has stagnated without a dominant quarterback at the helm of the offense.
Shamelessly, I enjoy Will Smith's music. Granted, that may not be the most popular statement I've written, but I'll stand by it with pride.
Photo Courtesy of Gil Talbot While Dartmouth's sports teams have not been competing over the summer, Topher Bordeau, the head coach of the men's heavyweight crew team, coached the Under-23 United States national team eight to the gold medal at the FISA World Championships in Brandenburg, Germany. This continues a great summer for the Dartmouth heavyweight crew program.
My distaste for ESPN is well-documented in these pages. That position may preclude me from ever landing a six-figure salary in the world of sports journalism, but I am holding strong to it.
Courtesy of DHMC Four Olympics and sixteen years ago, Kristine Karlson, M.D., rowed for the United States as a member of the women's quad sculls crew, finishing in fifth place at the 1992 Barcelona games.
Maggie Goldstein / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth tennis players from both the women's and men's teams were dominant at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Summer Circuit tournament, held at the College from July 12 to 15.
Aspiring Upper Valley athletes now have the opportunity to learn from members of several Dartmouth varsity squads, thanks to Athletes United, a newly-formed organization responsible for organizing and overseeing one athletic league for children in the Upper Valley each term.
Tonight, to mark the halfway point in the 2008 baseball season, Major League Baseball will send its best players to fabled Yankee Stadium for the 79th All-Star game, where it will once more be determine that the American League is indeed better than the National League.
COURTESY OF THE DARTMOUTH AEGIS Long-time Dartmouth men's hockey assistant coach Brendan Whittet was recently selected to serve as assistant coach for the 2008 U.S.
It's been a quiet week in the world of sports, and in the Hanover bubble. The Wimbledon final is in the books as one of the greatest matches of all time, Major League Baseball is holding its breath before the All-Star Game and trade deadline, and nothing interesting is happening in the golf world. On the home front, the initial athletic enthusiasm on campus has waned.
Photo Courtesy of Talkhockeytome.com Former Big Green hockey defenseman Ben Lovejoy '06 was signed to a one-year, two-way contract with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, an affiliate of the 2008 Stanley Cup finalist Pittsburgh Penguins, on Monday. After an impressive season in the American Hockey League, the Pittsburgh Penguins assistant general manager Chuck Fletcher announced that the organization would offer Lovejoy a contract that includes the possibility of playing in the NHL. "I am definitely excited about going back to the Pittsburgh organization," Lovejoy said.
BEN GETTINGER / The Dartmouth Staff Every two years, hundreds of America's top sailors compete in a grueling five-day race from Newport, R.I., to Bermuda.
Topher Bordeau, head coach of the Dartmouth heavyweight crew team, has been tapped to help coach the United States Under-23 National Team, which will be competing at the world championships this summer.
Everybody's talking about it. The Chicago Cubs are approaching the halfway point of the 2008 baseball season with one of the best records in the game.
Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff Adam Estoclet '11, a sophomore forward on the men's ice hockey team from Orono, Minn, was arrested in Minneapolis for burglary in what the police described as a "drunken crime spree" just after 2 a.m.