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Popular swing returns

By Jeremy Skog | June 25, 2001

A winding forest trail begins at the corner of Downing Road and Maple Street. For students adventurous enough to walk through residential Hanover and a quarter mile to the slow-moving Connecticut River, a recently restored piece of local history awaits -- the famous rope swing has been restored. Five wooden steps lead up the side of a heavily angled tree where the jumper first grasps the new rope and then clutches it as he swings over the water.

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An End of an Era

By Michael P. Hamilton | June 21, 2001

Today there is no joy in Mudville. The entire community of baseball fans, diehards and casual fans alike, has learned it will soon be losing the epitome of the durable, gritty and, above all, reliable ballplayer. Yes, that is right folks, baseball's Iron Man, Cal Ripken, Jr., will be hanging up his spikes at the end of this season. You may remember Ripken as the man who broke Lou Gehrig's seemingly unbreakable record of 2,130 consecutive games in 1995.

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Studs of the Year

By Janos Marton | May 30, 2001

It's that time of year -- blessed with the opportunity to write The Dartmouth's last sports column of 2000-2001, I will take the time to address the true studs who made this another incredible year in sports.

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Dirt Cowboys

By Adam Small | May 29, 2001

It's time for the sea of red, the sliding, the dirt and the slow-ass moonballers. Once again it is time for the French Open in tennis.

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Crazy Eights

By Dan Kay | May 25, 2001

This year has been a reasonably mediocre one in the world of sports. No one seems too excited about the NHL or NBA playoffs; and to be honest sometimes I even forgot that they were still going.

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Nickerson, Luckenbill recognized for efforts

By Adam Small | May 23, 2001

With the year drawing near its close, Dartmouth presented its major athletic awards Monday. Taking home the Kenneth Archibald Prize, which is given to the senior who has been "the best all-around athlete with regard to moral worth and high standing in scholarship," was Brian Nickerson '00 the Big Green baseball co-captain. The award caps off an outstanding career that left Nickerson as Dartmouth's all-time leader in base hits and which propelled him to signing a contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers last week.

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Young Blood

By Rob Kim | May 21, 2001

Much has been said about the decline of the NBA and of professional basketball in general. Steep prices, diminishing talent due to expansion and the "bad-boy" behavior of many professional basketball players have all contributed to this accepted view of pro b-ball as a wayward animal.

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In your face failure

By Janos Marton | May 17, 2001

Vince McMahon and NBC will have a lot of thinking to do over the next few months. The controversial billionaire and the uncontroversial multi-billion dollar conglomerate will have to come to terms with the loss of 35 million dollars, but more importantly, the disappointment of the XFL's failure, the end of "the end of pansy football." I share in their shock and confusion; how could an 11th hour organized collection of bad football players in predominantly small markets that started playing the week after the Super Bowl be so unsuccessful? After all, the first set of games posted a 10.4 Nielsen rating, more than any NHL hockey game (I didn't know anyone watched hockey). I think the realization that most people came to a week after the Super Bowl was that if they weren't already tired of football after a full college and NFL season, they definitely grew tired watching the performance of the New York/ New Jersey Hitmen, who most Midwestern high school teams could take out on a bad day.

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