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Playoff would resolve Ivy ties

By Austin Zalkin | February 24, 1999

If you've been wondering what happens if the women's basketball team winds up tied for first place in the Ivies at the season's end, the answer has arrived. The Ivy League publicly announced its way of resolving ties yesterday: teams with identical Ivy records will enter a playoff at Lehigh University's Stabler Arena on Friday, March 5. The women's team, which currently stands one game behind Princeton for first place, will face Brown and Yale at home this weekend before traveling to Harvard next Tuesday night.

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Pride of the Red Sox

By Liam Kuhn | February 24, 1999

I'm a Red Sox fan. Always have been, always will be. Where I come from, it's sacrilege to root for the BoSox, and I've taken nothing but flack (defined as name-calling, elbow-throwing, and good-natured drunken heckling in the Yankee Stadium bleachers) for it.

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Women's hockey prepares for big ECAC weekend

By Lou Scerra | February 17, 1999

Tempers have been hot and flaring in Hanover over the past week. Some of that heat will reach Thompson Arena this weekend when the Dartmouth College women's hockey team tackles one of its biggest weekends of the season in hopes of securing home-ice advantage in the hotly-contested ECAC playoff race. The Big Green will take on cellar-dwellar Colby on Saturday afternoon before meeting cross-state rival New Hampshire on Sunday. Dartmouth will enter the weekend in seventh place in the conference standings, just two points above the final playoff spot held by Cornell, but only seven points away from second-place Brown. With six league games remaining on their campaign, the Big Green,11-5-4 ECAC, has 26 points. Harvard sits in the league lead with 37 points, followed by Brown with 33 and Northeastern with 31.

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Issues on campus can relate to the world of sports

By Kevin Demoff | February 11, 1999

As sports imitate life, so too does life imitate sports. In recent months, the NBA has undergone a turbulent transition and is now searching for a new identity: Michael Jordan retired, owners locked players out and fans threatened never to come back to the games. Today's news of impending change at the College reminds me of the NBA situation as it appears that Dartmouth is searching for a new identity.

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Princeton edges Penn with a big comeback

By Austin Zalkin | February 10, 1999

In the 1986 World Series, Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner let a Mookie Wilson ground ball through his legs and precipitated a remarkable Mets comeback victory. In 1992, the Buffalo Bills rebounded from a 35 point first half deficit to win a playoff game against the Houston Oilers by a field goal. These amazing turnarounds might just be on par with that of the men's basketball game between Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania last night at the Palestra. In the opening period, Penn worked its home fans into a frenzy, outscoring Princeton 33-9.

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Green athletes honored as All-Americans, All-Stars

By Lou Scerra | February 2, 1999

While Dartmouth winter athletic teams paused yesterday to catch their collective breaths after an exciting weekend in which both basketball squads and the women's hockey team went a perfect 2-for-2, Dartmouth athletes from both the fall and the spring made individual headlines. Practice officially began for several spring sports yesterday including baseball and lacrosse and therefore College Lacrosse USA -- regarded as the top web site about college lacrosse released its preseason all-American teams with four Big Green juniors filling spots on the women's side. Midfielder Jacque Weitzel, who scored 62 goals and 10 assists for the Big Green a year ago was named to the all-American first team for attack while Melissa Frazier was named to the first team's defensive corp.

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Frenzied Falcons to Feast On Broncos

By Jeff Bradford | January 29, 1999

The Falcons have never been to a Super Bowl. They have never even been close. But if anyone thinks the Falcons can't win, they haven't been watching much football this season. Still, all the chips seem to fall on Denver's side.

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Dartmouth aquatics drop pair to Lions, Tigers

By Edward Thomas | January 26, 1999

In an unorthodox contest featuring events such as the 25-yard freestyle and the 800-yard individual medley, both the Dartmouth men's and women's swimming teams fell to perennial power Princeton on Sunday at Karl Michael Pool, after the men had suffered a loss to Columbia Saturday. Dartmouth's diving duo of Toby Hays '99 and Courtney duBois '99 took top honors in both the men's and women's events, with Hays defeating a strong Princeton cast in both one- and three-meter competition and DuBois winning the one-meter event by over 30 points. "I had my best meet ever on three-meter... it was considerably my highest score," Hays said. Hays also led the Big Green men in their close loss to Columbia on Saturday, which featured standout performances from Mike Hooper '99 and Ryan Utsumi '01. Despite falling to the Lions 181-112, Dartmouth turned out several season's best performances.

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