NBA All-Stars -- Why to Watch?
The people at the NBA are waiting apprehensively for the weekend as it brings with it an All Star Game amidst a season of falling attendance, ratings and overall fan interest.
The people at the NBA are waiting apprehensively for the weekend as it brings with it an All Star Game amidst a season of falling attendance, ratings and overall fan interest.
For the first time this year, the Dartmouth men's squash team defeated an opposing Ivy League team.
By now I'm sure most everyone has become sick of the different stories surrounding the Super Bowl.
While this time of year the Dartmouth men's soccer squad is usually concentrating on their off-season training regimen, this week they have something else on their mind -- the departure of head coach Fran O'Leary. O'Leary was introduced yesterday as the new head coach at George Mason University in Virginia, taking the helm at a program that was coached by Gordon Bradley for 16 years.
'01 class puts the finishing touches on crowning season
You probably didn't know we took over the Canadiens the other day. The long awaited American conquest of that "country" to the north is finally underway.
Awful, just plain awful. Between the two teams, we witnessed twenty-one punts, a third down efficiency of 16.67 percent (5 for 30), 396 yards of offense, and a paltry twenty-four first downs.
Swimming and Diving Both the women's and men's swimming and diving teams hosted the University of Vermont yesterday.
The new year has been a bit of a ride for the men's hockey team, with the Big Green 5-1-2 since New Year's Day.
Princeton 6, Wayne St. 0 Andrea Kilbourne and Gretchen Anderson had three points apiece in Princeton's 6-0 defeat of Wayne State.
It was announced this week that the new Mile High Stadium, built next to the old Mile High in Denver, will actually be named "Invesco Field at Mile High." Invesco Funds Group, a financial services company, paid a reported $120 million for the name rights of the stadium over the next 20 years. Come on people?
Men's basketball drops heartbreaking one-point loss to UVM
The NBA on NBC was once the jewel of network sports. It's ratings were through the roof and people waited all week to see the Sunday action. That day is gone.
The New York Giants are back in the Super Bowl as underdogs, George Bush is back in the White House, and Tampa, Fla.
In winning three straight games, Dartmouth men's basketball has ridden the coattails of its once-again dominant pair of senior co-captains. Center Ian McGinnis '01 pulled down 16 rebounds Wednesday night at Albany after grabbing 13 last Saturday versus the same Great Danes in Hanover and 10 at home against Colgate four days before that.
The Dartmouth men's and women's swimming and diving teams shared the pool at Middlebury Wednesday night, competing simultaneously in separately scored meets against the host team.
This is a great country. Its greatness exists on so many levels, but I will concentrate on one aspect in today's column -- sports television.
Dartmouth made its return trip to Albany last night. The Big Green were looking to sweep the home-and-home series and garner their first road win of the season, and came away happy beating Albany for the second time in as many games, 72-58. Ian McGinnis '01 led the first half assault, scoring 10 points, all inside.
For the second year in a row, Dartmouth women's basketball narrowly pulled out a victory against the University of Hartford.
Both the men's and women's track and field represented Dartmouth well on Sunday at Yale. The men totaled 87 1/2 points in defeating Yale and Columbia, and the women placed second in the tri-meet hosted by Yale. The men's track and field team won nine individual events in this preparatory meet for the Heptagonal Championship that will take place in late February. Matt Colman '01 won the 800 meters with a time of 1:56.23 while Chris Lanese '04 finished first in the mile with a time of 4:17:01. "Coach Harwick wanted us to compete in this meet to get a feeling of what it's like to go head-to-head against other Ivy teams before Heps," Lanese said.