As the brightly colored foliage begins to fall from the trees and cold winter weather descends upon Hanover, the action at Thompson Arena is just heating up. Friday night the women’s team began their defense of last year’s ECAC Hockey League championship with a 4-3 overtime win over Vermont. Yesterday, the Big Green men also played Vermont to start their 2007-2008 season. More »
Dartmouth’s men’s soccer team upset nationally ranked Harvard 1-0 Saturday night in Cambridge, Mass. A stellar goal by Craig Henderson’09 put the Big Green up one goal in the first half. Dartmouth’s renowned back line held the Crimson scoreless all game, breaking #12 Harvard’s 10-game scoring streak, and giving Dartmouth the win. More »
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Dartmouth battled through high winds and wet weather Saturday at Harvard, but in the end the Crimson strength did not yield and Harvard came away with a 28-21 victory. More »
Sometimes things just aren’t meant to be. There was little in the way of smiles on the bus ride home from Friday’s Ivy League Heptagonal Cross-Country Championship meet for the Big Green after one of the more disappointing races of the year. More »
Coming off a three-game slide, the Dartmouth women’s volleyball team (13-7, 6-4 Ivy) notched their thirteenth win of the season Friday against Brown, but split the weekend road trip, dropping a five-game nail-biter to Yale on Saturday. More »
Craig Henderson ‘09 Soccer Henderson provided the Big Green with all the scoring it would need in an upset victory at Harvard on Saturday. The New Zealand native notched the game-winner in a 1-0 affair in Cambridge, Mass. The Big Green stand at 3-0-1 in the Ivy League, good enough for second place. Dartmouth will take on Cornell at home next Saturday. More »
With a clash of the NFL titans looming next Sunday, Schmidley and I felt it appropriate to examine the league’s most pressing question: Brady or Manning? I know, it’s akin to comparing Grey Goose and Belvedere — nobody cares so long as the bottle doesn’t say Zhenka — but the mantle of best quarterback in the NFL must be bestowed upon one of them. After Eli’s older brother finally won his Super Bowl, it appeared that this debate had been settled. Unfortunately, Brady made things more complicated by creating the league’s most potent offense since the Madden 2000 St. Louis Rams. Sure, it doesn’t hurt that Brady has more weapons at his disposal than an inner-city school or that his coach is a cheater, but what he’s doing is downright impressive. More »
Manning or Brady? Brady or Manning? It’s the most intriguing player comparison in today’s NFL, and one of the most interesting in NFL history — regardless of your position. Both players, by the conclusion of their respective careers, will be locks for enshrinement in Canton. Both will also be right in the thick of the ongoing “greatest quarterback ever” debate, mentioned among the likes of Montana, Elway, Unitas and Starr. More »
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