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Deep inside you knew he would do it. The aging star, three years removed from the game, would return triumphantly to the ice, and lead his team to victory.
Deep inside you knew he would do it. The aging star, three years removed from the game, would return triumphantly to the ice, and lead his team to victory.
Every so often in sports, everything comes together for one particular team that simply plays at a higher level than the competition.
The Dartmouth men's heavyweight crew finished an impressive second out of 41 teams at the Foot of the Charles Regatta in Boston on Saturday to close out its season.
Ahh, the Boston Celtics. One of professional sports' most venerated franchises, with 16 NBA Championships to their credit and 28 members of the Basketball Hall of Fame. And now they suck.
Every other Sunday evening when I relax on my couch in hopes of writing this column, my initial impulse tells me to write something humorous and witty, something that will force the reader to enjoy the words I write.
The Dartmouth women's squash team debuted excellently in their annual home Invitational this weekend versus Franklin & Marshall, Smith and Williams, winning against all three. "We knew we were the strongest team going into the weekend," remarked team Co-captain Lindsey Bishop '01. Dartmouth held its own in all three matches, shutting out Smith and winning eight matches to one loss against both Franklin & Marshall and Williams, its toughest competitor. Number-one Dartmouth player Charlotte Haldeman '03 lost the only match-up in the Franklin & Marshall contest, to Anjali Ponni Rajkumar.
What better way to top off the highest-scoring Ivy League season ever than with some notable offensive accomplishments? Penn won its second Ivy title in three years over Cornell 45-15 powered by 628 yards of total offense.
Dartmouth's swimming and diving teams competed this weekend at the Karl Michael Pool on campus. In their first meets of the season, the Big Green men were defeated by Brown 193-50 and the Navy 191-52.
Since the dawning of the Ivy League in 1956, the Dartmouth football team has won 17 conference championships.
Matt LaBarre '04 was named the 2000 Ivy League Rookie of the Year Wednesday after leading the Big Green men's soccer team in scoring in his first season.
When the Dartmouth men's hockey team takes to the Thompson Arena ice this Friday, it will be ready for battle.
The scientific community was shocked this week when a team of astrophysicists from NASA announced the discovery that Florida is, in fact, the center of the known universe. That's right.
The Dartmouth sailing team raced at the Atlantic Coast Championships this past weekend. Selected freshmen sailors went to St.
The Dartmouth men's ice hockey team returned to Hanover with its first win of the season, but overall the weekend was bittersweet.
They are an embarrassment, plain and simple. They are an embarrassment to Boston, to Massachusetts, to all of New England.
For once, the action, intensity and sheer drama lived up to expectations. Two weeks ago, the greatest city in the world --the city that never sleeps -- was the battleground for baseball's fall classic.
In two games this weekend at the Northeast Tournament at Renessalaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, the Dartmouth women's rugby club defeated Cornell on Saturday and then UMass on Sunday to capture the tournament title and earn a berth in the national tournament, which will be held in the Spring. The semifinal game against Cornell was played in muddy, rainy conditions, with the Big Green taking an almost instantaneous 5-0 lead 15 seconds into the game as 8-man Sarah Foy '01 broke away and set up a try by outside center Bridget Waitkus '02.
Two Dartmouth men's teams discovered yesterday they will be competing in their respective NCAA tournaments. The men's soccer team, which failed to win the Ivy League's automatic bid to the tournament when it fell to Brown 4-1 on Saturday, earned an at-large bid, and will head to the University of Connecticut on Sunday.
The last two days in the United States have caused clamoring in the nation for a complete upheaval of the Electoral College and other major tenets of our political process.
If a dead guy can win a Senate seat in Missouri, the Dartmouth football team can certainly beat Brown.