A black eye for the game
Albert Belle. Latrell Sprewell. John Rocker. Add Marty McSorley's name to a growing list of players who have tarnished the image of their sport.
Albert Belle. Latrell Sprewell. John Rocker. Add Marty McSorley's name to a growing list of players who have tarnished the image of their sport.
Day one at the Middlebury carnival, which doubles as the Eastern Intercollegiate Skiing Association Championships, brought rain and top results for the crew of sophomore cross-country women. Louisa Hunker led the squad on the flat, fast freestyle course with her best finish thus far, 11th, in the women's 5k freestyle.
The scene is Monday, Feb. 21, 2000 in Vancouver. With 2.7 seconds remaining in a game where the Boston Bruins trail the Vancouver Canucks 5-2, Boston's Marty McSorley lifts his stick off the ice and strikes Vancouver's Donald Brashear square in the right temple.
Dartmouth stands in a three-way tie for fifth place, having slowly clawed its way out of the cellar after an 0-4 start. Before the season began, the Green were expected to contend for the top two spots in the Ivies with a depleted Princeton squad and the returning League champion Quakers.
Anyone who hasn't been following the women's ice hockey team this season should start today. With a combination of talented offense, hard-nosed defense and stellar goaltending, Dartmouth has marched into second place in the ECAC. With just two more games in their regular season the Big Green stand just a single point behind the number one team in the nation, the Brown Bears. After a convincing 4-0 win over Maine it looked as if Dartmouth was poised to defeat the University of New Hampshire and claim first place in the ECAC.
You've waited all year for this. You sat through the early non-conference games against the Keene States and Holy Crosses and watched the team try to find itself. You sadly read online reports of the Dec.
As the college basketball regular season winds down, Duke finds itself in a very familiar position -- near the top. To be precise, the Blue Devils are currently ranked second in both the Associated Press poll and the Coaches' poll, behind only Stanford.
Princeton 79, Cornell 43 Princeton defended its home turf with an all-out rout of the Big Red.
Now that the All-Star break has passed and the NBA regular season is in full swing with over 50 games finished most teams, it is time to evaluate the haves and have-nots, the contenders and the wannabees. In the Eastern Conference, the Miami Heat, New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers are, to no one's surprise, leading the pack.
One would expect that with only two weekends remaining in the ECAC regular season, the playoff picture would be relatively clear.
Before this weekend, Dartmouth, Harvard and Penn stood in a precarious three-way tie for first place in the Ivy League.
Bill Riley '46, a two-time All-American hockey player for Dartmouth in the 1940s and a member of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame, died Tuesday at age 77. Riley led Dartmouth to three straight Ivy League championships from 1946-49 after returning from a three-year stint in the military.
Quarterback Jay Fiedler '94 signed yesterday with the Miami Dolphins as a free agent, leaving the Jacksonville Jaguars, for whom he started one game in 1999. Fielder becomes the fourth quarterback now on the Dolphins roster now is not Dan Marino.
The past week in American sports has been quite interesting. The NBA All-Star game returned after a one-year hiatus.
Nearly 20 years has gone by since the men's hockey team has won the Ivy League title. This year, Dartmouth has a chance to win it, and it all depends on this weekend. The fourth-ranked Big Green (7-11-4) travel down to face Yale (9-10-4) and Princeton (8-12-3) for two critical ECAC match-ups. Both the Bulldogs and the Tigers rank fifth in the ECAC with a 6-7-3 record (.469) while the Big Green have a 6-6-3 record. "It's the most important weekend we've had all year and could put us in a position to challenge for the Ivy title," captain Ryan Burkart '99 said.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Maybe you realized this truism just three days ago when you cuddled up with a loved one who studies far away, but who managed to come and celebrate the day for lovers.
The Penn Quakers (14-7, 7-0) maintained their undefeated Ivy mark and upped their League lead to two games with a 55-46 victory at second-place Princeton (13-9, 5-2) on Tuesday night. A 360-degree slam dunk by Penn forward Ugonna Onyekwe with a few seconds remaining gave closure to a game that had been closely contested throughout. Princeton jumped in front with an early 12-6 lead, but the Quakers responded with a 14-0 run and led 25-18 at halftime. The Tigers got as close as 40-38 with 5:55 left in the game when their star of the game, Mason Rocca, hit a pair of free throws.
Curtis Wilgosh '99 will be remembered by many who met him during his years at Dartmouth as affable, gregarious and big (6'2", 200 lbs.). But most of all, people will remember his presence on ice. As a center for the Dartmouth men's hockey team, the Saskatchewan native played in 110 games, while netting 28 goals, 42 assists and 70 points.
St. Lawrence 5, Colgate 1 In a battle between the top two teams in the ECAC, St. Lawrence crushed Colgate in a 5-1 home victory last Friday. St.
With four games left to play this season, the Dartmouth women's ice hockey team has the opportunity to clinch one of the greatest seasons in the team's 22-year history.