When I started writing this column, I swore to myself that I wouldn't fall into the same trap as some of the previous sports columnists for The Dartmouth who focused on random things jokes about 1990s sports movies and B-side analyses of pro sports.
Jorge Rodriguez '12 put forward the argument in this space last week that Dartmouth students have an obligation to attend sporting events because doing so will help boost the Big Green to more wins.
My younger brother sent me a text message Friday afternoon that said, "Who sucks more? You guys or Penn?" Like many, my brother was making his picks in ESPN's awesome Streak for the Cash game, which gave Friday's basketball game a bit of national attention since it was listed as an option. Whether ESPN chose to include the game in its daily menu of pick 'em's because of the two teams' embarrassingly bad records (Penn was 2-14 and Dartmouth was 4-14 at the time), the recent spotlight on the Ivy League due to No.
Talk of impending budget cuts is reaching a Super Bowl-like fever pitch heading into this weekend's Board of Trustees meeting, and the open letter to College President Jim Yong Kim and the Board, submitted this week by 75 professors, once again brought the athletic department to the forefront of the discussion ("Faculty protest layoffs in letter," Jan.
What a basketball game that was on Saturday night. I really hope that what we saw there was a true sign of improvement for the Big Green and not just a result of the Crimson's abysmal shooting from three-point range 11.8 percent.
Wow, the stories and rumors surrounding men's basketball head coach Terry Dunn's Friday resignation are juicy.
Courtesy of DartmouthSports.com Courtesy of DartmouthSports.com It's been just under three years since I walked into my first Dartmouth sporting event to cover it for the Sports section of The Dartmouth.
Jared Bookman / The Dartmouth Staff Alex Jenny '10 lined up at Columbia University on Saturday in a critical situation -- down a touchdown with less than two minutes on the clock, ready to lead a drive into the wind and pouring rain to tie the game. But in a season where little has gone right for the Big Green, the misfortune continued, as Andy Shalbrack picked off Jenny's pass over the middle, securing a 21-13 victory for the Lions. It was head coach Buddy Teevens' first-ever loss against Columbia (1-5, 1-2 Ivy), as a player or a coach. With the win, the Lions snapped their 13-game losing streak and extended Dartmouth's (0-6, 0-3 Ivy) drought to eight games without a victory. The Big Green is last in the league, while Columbia is now in seventh place. Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania are tied for first heading into next weekend's head-to-head contest in Philadelphia, Pa. Both teams were forced to battle a driving rain and swirling wind that gusted up to and above 40 miles per hour, breaking many of the umbrellas in the sparse crowd, officially listed at 2,161. Both teams used two quarterbacks in the game, but it was Columbia that found the mid-game swap to be more effective. M.A.
So that was 08X. Sure, there's one weekend left, and the last few days of classes, but it's pretty much over.
My distaste for ESPN is well-documented in these pages. That position may preclude me from ever landing a six-figure salary in the world of sports journalism, but I am holding strong to it.