In defense of the wild card
Since its inception in 1995, the Wild Card playoff format has been successful. The format changed baseball, but in the process increased competition.
Since its inception in 1995, the Wild Card playoff format has been successful. The format changed baseball, but in the process increased competition.
Every time I turn around, the first something-or-another of the millenium is happening. We live in a society that has become almost obsessed with the time period that we live in.
The key difference between an athlete and a sports star lies far beyond the stat sheets and the playing field.
Dartmouth women's soccer team hosted the University of Vermont Catamounts yesterday at Chase Field.
ATTENTION: Baseball fan desperately seeking team to root for. Big-market, high-payroll teams need not apply. With 22 teams missing the post-season, most baseball fans are looking to "rent" a ball club to root for until the end of October.
Brown 3, Loyola 0 Brown continued its superb form on Sunday afternoon, destroying Loyola-Chicago by a margin of at Stevenson Field. Senior Raffaella Kalishman scored her first collegiate goal for the Bears with less than five minutes remaining in the first-half.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The Dartmouth women's tennis team visited Harvard this weekend for the Harvard Invitational, and turned a few heads. The seven-player team that Coach Jennifer Callen brought consisted of five freshmen, one sophomore and one junior.
When you're hot, you're hot. Jero Esteve '03, who shot even par at the Toski Men's Golf Invitational in Amherst, Mass., was hot on the links. He was also running a 102-degree fever just hours before he teed off in Sunday's opening round, heading for the hospital instead of the driving range. "I was real sick on Saturday, but it actually helped me I think," Esteve said.
In a week filled mostly by non-league play, Cornell moved into a tie with the Princeton Tigers for first place in the Ancient Eight with a 3-0 League record.
In case you didn't realize, let me tell you that the whole hockey world is holding its breath until Oct.
It was not a happy end to a four-game homestand for the Dartmouth women's volleyball team yesterday.
For years he was the cornerstone of a franchise that just couldn't quite get over the hump. He was always stuck behind Michael Jordan and the Bulls' dynasty of the '90s or mired in an abyss of early playoff disappointments that characterized the '80s for his team.
This is it. There's no room for error. Dartmouth football had its "pre-season" and now the games really count. True, the first two games of this year -- a 42-24 loss to Colgate in Hanover two weeks ago and a 42-21 defeat at New Hampshire last weekend -- count in the standings.
This fall, for the first time in nearly three decades, men's basketball at Indiana University will begin without Bobby Knight as head coach.
It's a long road from Hanover to Sydney. For Crawford Palmer '93, it's been winding too. The 6' 10" center Palmer began his hoop dream journey as a part of three Final Four teams at Duke University, including the championship '91-'92 squad, before he transferred to Dartmouth for a final two years. But the highlights in college don't compare to his performance since graduation.
I'll admit it -- I have Olympic fever. The thought of the best athletes in the world competing for their respective countries has to stir the blood of every sports fan in every nation.
This past week featured several key Ivy League women's soccer match-ups. Several top teams squared off to establish an edge early in the season. Brown 2, Harvard 0 Bekah Splaine of the Brown Bears nailed in a shot from way out just 43 seconds into the match, scoring what proved to be all that was necessary for victory on the day. The Bears' goalie tandem of Mary Jo Markle and Sarah Gervais made the real difference in the game, saving 10 shots versus three saves for Brown.
Monday evening, as I sat on my couch watching the Olympics (which I tend to constantly do), I noticed a teaser for the upcoming series between the New York Mets and the Atlanta Braves.
The Dartmouth men's soccer team, with a little help from a Vermont defender, captured its fourth victory of the season by a score of 1-0 at Vermont yesterday. The only goal of the game came on a free kick in the 19th minute, when a Vermont player headed the ball into his own goal. The rest was left to Dartmouth keeper Ben Gebre-Medhin '02, who had yet another impressive game with six saves.
Maybe Dartmouth men's soccer fans shouldn't be too excited by the team's 3-2 record (1-0 Ivy). But hey, the Big Green's three wins this season are as many as they had during all of last year's tough campaign. If nothing else, believe that Head Coach Fran O'Leary knows how to win.