Sabermetrics transform the understanding of baseball
The Oakland A's were the first team to extensively (and successfully) use sabermetrics, or scientific, statistical baseball analysis.
The Oakland A's were the first team to extensively (and successfully) use sabermetrics, or scientific, statistical baseball analysis.
After a season of dealing with key injuries, a stubbornly frozen lake and an annoying-yet-adorable newspaper correspondent, the Dartmouth sailing team is finally reaping its rewards, and deservedly so.
Earlier in the season, Scott Shirrell '04 etched his name in the Dartmouth record books by collecting more hits than anyone ever to don the Big Green uniform.
By beating Tufts 15-1 in the game-to-go at North East Regionals Sunday in Rhode Island, Dartmouth won its first-ever bid to Nationals.
In their final tune-up before the Princeton Tigers come to town for the Ivy League Championship, the Dartmouth (25-15, 15-5 Ivy) baseball team ended the 2004 regular season schedule with a losing 11-3 effort against the Boston College Eagles on Wednesday. The usually prolific Big Green offense was shut down by a solid Boston College (22-21) pitching staff.
Dartmouth softball hosted Vermont (6-33-2) Tuesday, winning both games easily to end their season with a 17-20, 5-9 Ivy record. Senior pitcher Danica Giugliano pitched Game One, the final game of her collegiate career, leading her team to a 3-0 shutout.
Dartmouth women's water polo returned from California Polytechnic University of San Luis Obispo this weekend as the number-two club water polo team in the country.
Following in the footsteps of such journalistic luminaries as Mike Wallace, Barbara Walters and Ed Bradley, The Dartmouth's Mark Sweeney catches up with the big names on campus and asks the questions that others have too much professionalism or integrity to ask.
Two new stadiums debuted this April: Citizens Bank Park, the new home of the Phillies, and PETCO Park, home field of the Padres.
A third-place conclusion at the Ivy/Patriot League Challenge Sunday, May 2 brought a solid finish to an up-and-down year for the men's golf team.
It's pretty cool, and by cool I mean totally sweet, to qualify for a national championship regatta.
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Dartmouth softball (15-18) won an impressive doubleheader against Siena College (12-23-1) Wednesday.
This past weekend was a big one for both the men and women's golf teams, as the men prepared for the upcoming Dartmouth Invitational while the women concluded its season.
There were no rumors about the demise of the Dartmouth women's lacrosse team following Saturday's 17-8 loss at Princeton, but if there had been, they would have been greatly exaggerated. Wednesday night, the Terriers of Boston University found that out the hard way, as the 10th-ranked Big Green triumphed, 10-4, in front of 150 fans at Scully-Fahey Field.
At the 38th Women's New England Championships hosted by Boston University, only the top six finishers would qualify for Nationals, out of a gritty 18-team field.
The Dartmouth men's varsity lightweight eight took on a pair of higher-ranked opponents in Yale and Rutgers Saturday in Derby, Conn.
Big Green women's water polo earned its fifth consecutive trip to the National Championship Tournament with its victory last weekend over Yale.
As of this writing, the Detroit Tigers are 11-8, a strong third place in the AL Central division.