Manifest Destiny
Arizona, Stanford, UCLA. Western basketball has long been dominated by these Pac-10 Conference powerhouses.
Arizona, Stanford, UCLA. Western basketball has long been dominated by these Pac-10 Conference powerhouses.
Stowe, Vt. -- Dartmouth's Erin Quinn-Hurst '02 brought life to the women's cross-country team with a second place finish in Saturday's 15K freestyle race, holding off the Vermont Catamount star Ekaterina Ivanova.
Harvard 67, Cornell 57 Cornell men's basketball remained winless in the Ivy League, losing at Harvard on Friday night.
For all you who missed it, Sunday afternoon the North American All-Stars took on the World team in Toronto for the 50th annual NHL All-Star game.
With only 40 seconds remaining in the game, defenseman P.J. Martin'03 scored the game-winning goal to lift the Dartmouth men's hockey team to a 2-1 away victory at Union last night before a crowd of 1448. The Big Green now have a sole possesion of fourth-place in the ECAC with a .577 winning percentage (6-4-3 ECAC, 7-9-4 overall). Dartmouth's newest second line had another impressive game as Chris Taliercio '02 gave Dartmouth a 1-0 lead in the first period.
This week provided another installment in the John Rocker saga, but before we discuss this further, let's get one thing straight: Don't have sympathy for the man.
The name Dartmouth should strike fear into the heart of any team that is so unlucky to face the women's hockey team this winter.
With men's and women's hockey and women's basketball away this weekend, Dartmouth men's basketball will be one of the only games in town.
Neither Latrell Sprewell nor Isaiah Rider made the 2000 NBA Eastern Conference All-Star squad. Coincidence?
New Hampshire The University of New Hampshire Wildcats are tied for fourth place in the ECAC standings, but their back-to-back non-conference losses to Minnesota over the weekend are sure to hurt them in the national polls. Last Saturday, the Golden Gophers used three power play goals and a short-handed goal to maintain an early 2-0 lead.
Not since 1976, when the Indiana Hoosiers accomplished the feat, has a Division I college basketball team finished the season undefeated.
The "heavies" of Ivy League men's basketball played their first conference contests of the season last weekend, with predictable results. Penn and Princeton spent last Friday night dissecting Columbia and Cornell.
Did you see the Super Bowl weekend? Heckuva game, huh? Well, did you notice who was playing? Tennessee and St.
Colgate 4, Cornell 0 Colgate blanked the visiting Cornell Big Red on Friday. Colgate Goaltener Shep Harder earned a shutout with a 33-save performance.
Women's Track The Dartmouth women's track team, aided by a pair of 1-2 finishes, was able to capture third place in the Northeastern Invitational with 76 points on Friday night in Boston. Dartmouth had the top two finishers in the 1000 meter run, qualifying both for the ECAC meet.
A snowstorm was raging outside and there was no running water inside, but everyone in Leede Arena was focused on the drama being played out on centercourt. Going strictly by the numbers, Tuesday's game against the 5-12 Albany squad should have been easy for the 8-6 Big Green.
Last week was a little disappointing. Both championship games were less than stellar. They were downright boring.
One of the NBA's top 50 players of all-time visited the Big Green last week to promote his former teammate, Bill Bradley, in the upcoming New Hampshire Primary.
Tucked away in a corner of Cincinnati, a teenager flips on his stereo and presses play on the CD player and the disc whirls for a few seconds before the voices of the Barenaked Ladies fill the room. He sits down at the computer to begin loading and reloading a web site, hoping each time that Ken Griffey Jr.'s indelible smile will pop up adorned by the hat of the Big Red Machine.
The freefall continues. Last night at Leede Arena Dartmouth men's basketball lost its seventh straight game to the University of Vermont, 85-66.