Aussie Rules: Wall '02 rocks slopes
Brad Wall '02 is going to the Winter Olympics. Not hopefully, or eventually, or someday -- he's going next year.
Brad Wall '02 is going to the Winter Olympics. Not hopefully, or eventually, or someday -- he's going next year.
A couple thoughts this week: First off, Dale Earnhardt, Sr., "The Intimidator," died this week at the age of 49 in a head-on collision with the wall at the Daytona 500.
As the next chapter in the 2000-01 Ivy League men's basketball season draws nearer, it's worth looking at the teams that comprise the three-way tie for the league lead. As everyone expected, Penn and Princeton are tied for the lead.
With two weeks to go in the regular season, life in the ECAC has become a little tight. Namely, Dartmouth and Harvard are tied for fourth place and sit just two points back of Cornell, which has 23.
It seems like just yesterday when the New York Yankees walked away with the World Series title once again, yet ball clubs have already begun to make the trek to the warmer climes of Florida and Arizona for Spring Training. Although it's difficult to even consider baseball in mid-February, it's about time to start looking at the 2001 season, and as of now the most significant development in the game will be the new strike zone. Attempts, as most everyone knows, have been made in the past to fix the strike zone, but the last two times it was going to be expanded to coordinate with the rule-book definition, absolutely no results were seen.
Tennessee replaced Notre Dame atop The Associated Press women's basketball poll Monday, a familiar spot for the Lady Vols but one they haven't held since February 1999. Tennessee (26-1) received 33 of 40 first-place votes and 992 points from the national media panel, moving up from No.
As NCAA Tournament fever begins to sweep college basketball fans around the nation, the Ivy League is stirring up its own March Madness.
As the Ivy League season winds down, Penn is opening up its lead in the standings and is looking towards the NCAA women's tournament in March.
All season long there have been nights when a bounce here and a bounce there have meant the difference between a win and a loss for Dartmouth men's hockey.
North Carolina is the best college basketball team in the nation. Sportswriters and coaches agree on that and they don't need a BCS to tell them that.
Despite a 13-point loss last Saturday at home against Penn, Dartmouth men's basketball has good reason for confidence going into this weekend's games at Brown and Yale. For one, the Big Green defeated Princeton, Penn's Ivy League co-leader, last Friday night while their best scorer, Greg Buth '01, was held to just eight points.
In a match up for first place in the Ivy League, Princeton traveled to the Palestra to take on the Penn Quakers Tuesday night.
Here's a brief recap of last weekend's ECAC hockey action: Yale A 1-1 affair turned into a nightmare for the Bulldogs on Friday night as a five-minute major to Lee Jelenic opened the floodgates and made way for three power play goals for Colgate.
In my daily perusal of the online sports media yesterday, I came across some sad, sad news. Much to my surprise and dismay, I read that defenseman Ulf Samuelsson, a 16-year veteran of the league, is retiring.
Now is the time for Dartmouth track and field to be hitting its stride. It is halfway through the indoor season, the Heptagonals are at Harvard in two weeks and the IC4A's and ECAC's are the week after. Over the weekend at the Valentine's Invitational at Boston University, the Dartmouth men's and women's squads went a long way to proving they are ready.
Rick Pitino and Jerry Tarkanian. Yin and Yang. Day and night. Good and evil. Clearly, Fresno State head basketball coach Jerry "The Shark"Tarkanian and recently retired Boston Celtics headman Rick Pitino are at opposite ends of the coaching spectrum.
Every game counts as teams continue to grapple for postseason positioning. There were a couple blowouts and a couple nail-biters this weekend, and when the dust settled, St.
With no Psi U keg jump on the schedule for Winter Carnival, you may think the only athletic pursuits taking place this weekend will involve modified ping pong paddles or a pair of die.
The Dartmouth College men and women's squash teams both suffered devastating losses to the Bulldogs from Yale today.
The 2000-2001 season has been, by any standard, a remarkable one for women's hockey at Dartmouth.