Women's hockey punishes Harvard in home upset

Jennifer Garfinkel / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth women's hockey soured Harvard's return to the ice Monday night, beating the Crimson 3-1 Monday night at Thompson Arena.

Big Green squash bests Cornell

Eben Clattenburg '09 limped back into the squash court at the Berry Squash Center and muttered something inaudible in French.

Men's tennis slams Army, falls to No. 25 Clemson

Emma Haberman / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Before the Dartmouth men's tennis matches at West Point, N.Y., last weekend, senior Raj Shrestha '06 said he was confident that the squad could start 2006 on the right foot. "Last year, we had a pretty good team," he said, "but this year this team is a lot better.

Princeton sinks swim teams in regular season finale

Teresa Lattanzio / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth swimming and diving teams took advantage of the weekend competitions as they set their sights on the EISL and Ivy League Championships that begin at the end of next month. The women's squad (2-8, 1-6 Ivy) completed an impressive non-conference victory over Northeastern on Saturday, and both the men's and women's squads showed their individual strengths with encouraging performances against powerhouse Princeton on Sunday. In Boston on Saturday, the women's team swim played to a virtual tie that was finally broken on the meet's final event.

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Associated Press I've been meaning to write an NBA column.

Women's hockey crushes Union

Dartmouth's women's hockey team (8-8-2, 5-5-1 ECACHL) made the most of the trip up to Schenectady, N.Y.

Big Green track competes with some of nation's best

Teresa Lattanzio / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth track and field teams flashed their potential this weekend, as several Big Green athletes posted personal bests at Boston University's Terrier Classic.

Ski team takes third at weekend carnival

For the second straight weekend, the Dartmouth ski team took third place in Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA) competition.

Men's hockey treats alumni, fans to weekend sweep

Emma Haberman / The Dartmouth Senior Staff A season of inconsistency and frustration may finally be turning around for the men's hockey team.

Club Corner

Men's and women's Ultimate Frisbee traveled to Williams last weekend to play in their first tournament of the year. Not having played competitively since November, the men lost the first game to Williams 15-10.

Men's basketball drops double-overtime thriller to Brown

Dartmouth (2-15, 0-4) resumed Ivy League basketball this weekend with a pair of games on the road.

For the Lady Green It's nothing but net

Asafu Suzuki / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth women's basketball team played like champions last weekend, capturing wins against Ivy League rivals Brown (9-8, 3-1 Ivy) and Yale (1-16, 0-4 Ivy) at home in Leede Arena. The Big Green improves its record to 12-4 and moves up the rankings in the Ivy League with a 3-0 record, tying the Princeton Tigers -- who were idle last weekend -- for first place. On Friday night, Dartmouth handed a struggling Brown squad its first league loss of the season in a 73-51 decision. "Brown was supposed to be a very good team, and I think we shut them down pretty well.

Boston College shuts out women's tennis at Boss Center

Straight from the Mule's Mouth

Over the past forty seasons, the Steelers have advanced to the Super Bowl five times, losing only once. Since joining the league thirty years ago, the Seahawks have never made it this far. The last time we saw a franchise in its first Super Bowl appearance, the Buccaneers easily handled the Raiders.

Women's basketball assumes role as '06 Ivy favorite

Asafu Suzuki / The Dartmouth Staff The Big Green has Jeannie Cullen '06, the three-point specialist with more than 1,000 career points; Angie Soriaga '06, the senior guard with 296 career assists; Krista Perry '06, the underappreciated defense-woman; Sydney Scott '08, the sophomore who stepped up to the plate this season and replaced All-Ivy selection Elise Morrison '07; and Ashley Taylor '07, the versatile junior who can do just about everything. But for those of you that are not too familiar with Ivy League basketball, fortunes can change hands in as short a time span as two years. It is astonishing to think that the Dartmouth women's basketball team (10-4, 1-0 Ivy) was an underdog in the league only two seasons ago.

Men's hockey faces off against Union, Rensselaer

Samantha Ceppos / The Dartmouth Staff Ten more games.

Men's basketball stumbles into the heart of the Ivy season

Emma Haberman / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The men's basketball team currently has a record of 2-13.

Big Green tennis prepped for dual-match season opener

Emma Haberman / The Dartmouth Senior Staff After a strong finish at the Big Green Invitational in November, the Dartmouth men's tennis team will look to start off the dual-match season with two victories this weekend when it takes on Army and Clemson at West Point, N.Y. "We were just talking at practice about how much fun it is to play matches," said assistant coach Dave Jones.

Ski teams fight conditions, take third at Colby Carnival

Jennifer Wang / The Dartmouth Staff The carnival season got off to a bizarre start at this weekend's Colby Carnival at Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine.

Bringing together Communism, A-Rod and the mafia

Associated Press By Max Schwartz I'm back again, and like Howard Stern on satellite radio, I'm raw and uncensored, with little oversight and no insight.