Season's last home stand critical for men's hockey
Dartmouth plays host to Princeton and Yale this weekend, hoping to string together two straight wins for the first time in three weeks.
Dartmouth plays host to Princeton and Yale this weekend, hoping to string together two straight wins for the first time in three weeks.
Everyone who reads about sports knows about the Alex Rodriguez " New York Yankees marriage. Virtually everyone has asserted that this team will hit better than the 1927 Murderer's Row or the 2003 Cowboy Up Red Sox.
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.
Well, the fateful day has arrived. Dave Faucher has resigned as the head coach of the Big Green men's basketball team, effective at the end of the current season. In covering sports for a college newspaper, one often runs the risk of becoming too close to the coaches and athletes to remain a fair and objective journalist.
The Big Green men's tennis maintains a winning record thus far this season, now standing at 5-3 for the year.
The Dartmouth Club Hockey team finally left Thompson Arena as actual winners this past Sunday. Despite Dartmouth's laid back approach and apparent lack of formal attire, the Clubbers still managed to reduce their suit-wearing competition, the Boston Junior Blackhawks, to shambles with a final score of 6-4. The absences of team bruiser, Anthony Balsamo '04, and defensive bulwark, Russ Daiber '06, only fueled the passion of team captain Jon Webster '04 to deliver an inspired pre-game sermon, which he later explained to those fortunate enough not to have been present at the time of its dramatic unveiling.
When I was two years old, I received a set of U.S.A. hockey replica pajamas, and I didn't take them off until I was four.
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.
Last year, the crowd at Thompson Arena chanted "overrated" as then-number four Dartmouth toppled then-number three Minnesota by a 6-3 score.
The Dartmouth women are exactly where they want to be: tied for first place in the Ivy League and gearing up for a home weekend against the only other undefeated team.
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Still basking in the afterglow of satisfying wins over Cornell, the Dartmouth men's and women's squash teams headed into the past week with some positive momentum for the busiest stretch of the regular season. Beginning on Thursday, Jan.
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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.
The track teams of Dartmouth College returned to the familiar oval of Leverone after a one-week hiatus from the dome.
Dartmouth men's swimming fell to both Yale (193-95) and Penn (173-125) in a double-dual meet on Saturday.
The national poll for women's hockey was released on Monday night, and it looked tighter than the BCS rankings in January.
Big Green swimmers and divers returned Sunday night from a rough weekend of races on the road that resulted in losses to the University of Pennsylvania (232-68) and Yale (243-57) on Saturday followed up by Princeton (163-118) on Sunday. "What the scores from this past weekend fail to show is that we held our own given the circumstances," said senior captain Lauren Gilhooly, "and performed better overall in these two back-to-back meets than we have in the past few years." In Philadelphia, freshman distance sensation Melissa Kern posted her best time of the season for the 1000 freestyle and the third fastest in Dartmouth history with a 10:28.57.