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I must confess that I haven't been watching a lot of sports recently, but if you haven't either, you can now get up to speed in The Hardcore Truth's Guide to Professional Athletics.
I must confess that I haven't been watching a lot of sports recently, but if you haven't either, you can now get up to speed in The Hardcore Truth's Guide to Professional Athletics.
Women's soccer falls as Hartford launches 15 shots on goal
After nearly two weeks off from game play, Dartmouth's field hockey team came into this past weekend aching for a challenge.
As the days get shorter and colder, I find myself more and more intrigued by the closing games of the major league baseball season.
Upset-minded Big Green can't beat upend Princeton in Ivy opener
Regularly one of Dartmouth's most successful athletic programs yet often overlooked, Dartmouth's sailing squad once again started off in strong fashion in the 2001-02 season. The team competed in the Penobscott Bay Open Regatta while several of the veterans on the squad were engaged in singles competition at Connecticut College and on Lake Mascoma here in New Hampshire. In the Regatta's A Division, Dartmouth sent the team of veteran Thalia Pascalides '03, a returning All-American and fellow classmate Amanda Dwelley.
Kate Roiter, two-time captain of Harvard's Ivy title teams, has been appointed the next Dartmouth women's tennis coach. Roiter has both competed and coached in the Ivy League.
The following will recount my recent pilgrimage to the Mecca of Red Sox Nation: Fenway Park. This is a trip I try to make a few times every baseball season.
The men's and women's crew teams posted impressive results in the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta this past weekend, with the men coming up short of first place twice by a few seconds, and the women performing well despite being dealt an unlucky draw. Led by co-captains Matt Muffelman '02 and Alex Hamlin '03, the men's team participated in the Senior A Lightweight 8 Final on Saturday and the lightweight 8 Dash Final under the "North Country RC" team name that same day. Both times the men were defeated at the regatta, an annual rowing event held in St.
The game of baseball has been repeatedly berated by yours truly for the various problems that allow a team such as the New York Yankees to effectively buy championships.
A couple weeks ago, Fred McGriff vetoed a trade from the last-place Tampa Bay Devil Rays to the first-place Chicago Cubs before reversing his decision last week.
Just a few years ago the stage was set for an intense golf rivalry between Tiger Woods and David Duval.
The task at hand, the thing that keeps popping into my head, is the state of baseball today. This should be a summer for the baseball fan to revel in. We have Barry Bonds on pace to obliterate Mark McGwire's single-season homerun record.
In a stunning and unexpected victory, Dartmouth's heavyweight men's crew team won Sunday's Ladies' Challenge Plate at the Henley Royal Regatta at Henley-on-Thames, England. Henley has been described as one of the world's most highly respected races. Although Princeton University -- the reigning Eastern Sprint champion -- was the heavy favorite in Sunday's race, the Dartmouth heavyweight team pulled ahead in the final 10-15 strokes, winning by a mere fraction of a boat-length. Princeton had held the lead at the beginning of the race, pulling to an intimidating lead. "It was an incredible race and a great win," Dick Grossman, Dartmouth men's crew team coach, said last week.
About a month ago on Commencement Weekend, I was eating at Murphy's with a few of my '01 friends when one of us noted a picture hanging on the wall of three Boston sports legends autographed by each of them.
This sucks. No doubts about it, no questions asked, this plain, old sucks. The Boston Red Sox, who have led the AL East for six weeks and have been one of the five best teams in the American League the entire season, will have only one, count 'em one, representative at the 2001 All-Star Game in Seattle. "How could such a thing happen?" a reasonably intelligent person might ask.
The National Basketball Association displays the world's greatest basketball talent barring none.
Making sense of the 2001 Major League Baseball season is somewhat like reading "A Clockwork Orange." At first, you just don't get it, it's not written in English.
As the summer means a quiet time on Dartmouth's social scene, many students are forced to look for more creative and original ways of entertaining themselves. Many students have gravitated westward to the Connecticut River in an attempt to enjoy themselves.
There are a few delights that come around only during the summer. There is the feeling of jumping in the water for a swim after a long, hot day's work.