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The Dartmouth
October 18, 2026
The Dartmouth
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Eleven Degrees of Separation

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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.


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Dartmouth to face Brown, Yale

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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.



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Harvard, Cornell falter in ECAC

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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.


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Bye, Bye Ulfie

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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.


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Track shows heart at BU Invite

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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.


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A Tale of Two Coaches

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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.


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ECAC has a new leader: SLU

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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.





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Waking Jim O'Brien

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After years and years of deep lamentations from the Boston faithful, we actually have reason beyond our stubborn Massachusetts pride to cheer for the boys opposite old North Station.


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Penn, Princeton dominate

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Penn and Princeton reasserted their decades-old dominance in men's basketball this past weekend. The twin towers completed sweeps of Brown and previously undefeated Yale to rise to the top of the league standings. Let's check out the entire weekend's results. Princeton 66, Brown 62 The Tigers held on at home to continue the nation's longest home winning streak against one team in the nation.


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NBA All-Stars -- Why to Watch?

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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.




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O'Leary leaves for GMU

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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.