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Men's baseball looks for success in Whalen's 30th season

By Eric Vaughn | February 25, 2019

With the Dartmouth baseball team tying a program record last season by reaching 11 consecutive seasons with more wins than losses in Ivy League play, head coach Bob Whalen, now in his 30th season at Dartmouth, is hungry for even more. When asked simply what his goal for the season was, his answer was succinct: win a championship.

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Pucks in Deep: Let the Hurricanes Have Some Fun

By Sam Stockton | February 25, 2019

If you haven’t been following the NHL season too closely, you may not have heard about the audacity of the Carolina Hurricanes, who have been so bold as to enjoy winning hockey games on home ice.

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The Redshirt Senior: Zion, Paying College Athletes and the One-and-Done

By Evan Griffith | February 25, 2019

Welcome back to The Redshirt Senior, boys and girls. In this week’s news, Nike stock drops $1.1 billion, the University of North Carolina traveled down Tobacco Road and beat its most hated rival on the road, and the NBA is considering lowering the draft age to 18. All of this, believe it or not, originates from one incident.

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The Accidental Fan: The Return of My Boy Benny… And Others (Who Are Less Relevant)

By Sabena Allen | February 25, 2019

Have you ever experienced that feeling when your favorite character gets phased out of a television show or maybe just gets mercilessly killed off?

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One-one-one with Bob Gaudet '81, men's hockey coach

By Addison Dick | February 22, 2019

Head coach Bob Gaudet ’81 sat down with the Dartmouth and looked back on the seniors’ trip to the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament semifinals in Lake Placid, N.Y. in 2016 and their victory over defending champion Denver University last season. Gaudet also reflected on the character of the senior class and the team’s goal to return to Lake Placid this postseason.

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Women’s hockey stuns No. 4 Clarkson in 3-2 overtime win

By Evan Morgan | February 18, 2019

In a week that honored the Big Green’s seniors, it was a first-year who earned Dartmouth its biggest win in years.

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The Weekend Roundup: Week 7

By The Dartmouth Sports Staff | February 18, 2019

Women's hockey beats defending national champion Clarkson, lacrosse and women's golf play season openers, and more in this week's Roundup.

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Women’s Nordic ski team features depth of talent across classes

By Anna May Mott | February 18, 2019

This year, the Dartmouth women’s Nordic ski team has benefited from its extraordinary depth — a depth that now makes an already complicated choice all the more difficult for coach Cami Thompson Graves.

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Disciplined men's hockey is among nation's least-penalized teams

By Addison Dick | February 18, 2019

Tied in a scoreless game against No. 11 Clarkson University with under one minute to go in the third period, Drew O’Connor ’22 tipped in a centering pass from Clay Han ’20 to give the men’s hockey team a signature win. The game was a bit of an anomaly for the Big Green: the team committed six penalties on the night, tied for the most times the team has gone to the penalty box since November.

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Contributions from younger players anchor men’s basketball

By Baily Deeter | February 18, 2019

In the midst of one of its better seasons in recent years, one might guess that the Dartmouth men’s basketball team would be senior-heavy.

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Ivy leaders Penn and Princeton take down women's basketball

By Lili Stern | February 18, 2019

Dartmouth women’s basketball dropped both games at home this weekend against the two teams that sit atop the Ivy League standings: the University of Pennsylvania (16-4, 6-1 Ivy) and Princeton University (13-9, 5-2 Ivy). 

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No. 9 women’s squash prepares for nationals next weekend

By Kaitlyn Lees | February 18, 2019

The women’s squash team started the season with the goal of breaking into the top eight in the country and came very close, finishing in a tie at No. 9 with a 5-7 record.

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The Redshirt Senior: The Evan Griffith Completely Accurate All-Divison I First Team

By Evan Griffith | February 18, 2019

The college basketball season is about two-thirds of the way through, and we’re that much closer to the Madness. It’s a great Saturday for me as I write this column since Syracuse doesn’t play, so my heart rate will stay at a reasonable level.

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The Accidental Fan: What is a sport?

By Sabena Allen | February 18, 2019

Neither dance nor football is easy. Both take extreme skill and stamina. But while football is inarguably a sport, I wonder if dance can be classified as such.

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Pucks in Deep: Anatomy of an irrelevant deadline deal

By Sam Stockton | February 18, 2019

By all accounts, the recent deal between the Los Angeles Kings and Montreal Canadiens appears pedestrian, almost so boring that it’s hard to understand how the involved teams came to discussing it.

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One-on-one with James Holder

By Holland Edmonds | February 15, 2019

As soon as the last hand hit the pool wall on Feb. 1 to end their regular season, all members of the Dartmouth swimming and diving team immediately turned their attention to the real challenge: the Ivy League Championship. After a successful season for both teams, including the women’s first .500 season since 2013-14, expectations are high as the women head to Princeton on Feb. 20 and the men head to Brown on Feb. 27. In his third year as the head coach of the swimming and diving team, James Holder expects school records and top finishes from his swimmers. The Dartmouth sat down with Holder to discuss the team’s preparations for Ivies and the season so far. 

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Nef skis World Cup one week, Winter Carnival the next

By Elijah Czysz | February 11, 2019

Croatia, Switzerland, Austria. For many Dartmouth students, that’s a travel itinerary for a summer break. For alpine skier Tanguy Nef ’20, it’s the countries he’s had World Cup races in since the beginning of January — while taking classes and skiing three carnivals for the Big Green.

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The Weekend Roundup: Week 6

By The Dartmouth Sports Staff | February 11, 2019

Men's hockey slides in ECAC standings, women's basketball wins a pair in New York and more in this week's Roundup.

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Mangan took the road less traveled to Dartmouth and the Olympics

By Anna May Mott | February 11, 2019

Alpine skier Tricia Mangan ’19 didn’t participate in Dartmouth’s Winter Carnival this weekend, but not without good reason — she just happened to be racing at Snow King Mountain Resort in Wyoming.

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Men’s basketball recovers from close loss to split weekend series

By Baily Deeter | February 11, 2019

The Dartmouth men’s basketball team remained in contention in the wide-open Ivy League, splitting a two-game homestand this weekend with Cornell University and Columbia University.  

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