Penn marched down the field in the fourth quarter on Saturday, eliciting flashbacks of the Big Green’s loss to Colgate, but a controversial call in the endzone sealed a 21-13 Dartmouth victory. More »
On Saturday, the women’s soccer team began its Ivy League schedule with a contest under the lights against the Tigers of Princeton University. Despite the team’s strong performance, the Big Green women fell 2-1. More »
In a thriller at home, the Big Green needed goalkeeper Sean Milligan ‘09 to come to the rescue in a 1-0 victory over Vermont. With a supportive crowd at Burnham Field, Milligan’s brilliant saves kept the Catamounts off of the scoreboard, and the Big Green attack responded in the 84th minute when Ben Salmon ‘10 put a header past Vermont goalkeeper Tom Critz to put the More »
Only a few miles down the road from the College at Lake Mascoma, the Dartmouth sailing team is in the midst of cultivating a new team. Under the tutelage of new coach John Pearce and returning coach John Storck, the team looks to recreate much of the success it had last year. This task may be a difficult one as the team lost its top sailor, Erik Storck ‘07, to graduation. Erik is now coaching at Stanford University and training for an Olympic bid with his brother John. The team is hoping that a few incoming freshmen can step up and fill in the void left by the graduating seniors. More »
In light of the troubling criminal developments that have plagued the reputations of several major sports recently, Hodes and I thought a column on sports heroes would kick off the Fall term appropriately. As fans, we need nothing but positivity as we approach the most exciting yearly stretch in professional sports action - the glorious month of October, highlighted by exciting NFL midseason action and of course, the MLB playoffs. More »
Over the past few months, we’ve seen countless athletes fail to live up to their responsibilities as role models. In many ways, we’ve come to a point where we expect our heroes to disappoint us, much like the season premiere of NBC’s Heroes. We’re constantly bombarded by stories of all that is wrong in sports. Bonds, Vick, Ankiel, Pacman, OJ (again), all athletes who could have been celebrated; instead, they’ve all found themselves in the news for the wrong reasons this summer. More »
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