Give Me A D …
Like many, I have emotional scars from high school. There was, of course, a gaggle of rabid ribbon-wearing girls that wreaked havoc on my life. They were brutally ridiculous; I was helpless. More »
Monday, November 05, 2007
Dartmouth football scores 59 points to take down Cornell
If there was a question in anyone’s mind about whether Tom Bennewitz ‘08 would bounce back from last week’s game-ending interception at Harvard, he answered it early and decisively on Saturday. More »
Hockey opens conference schedule with weekend split
The Dartmouth men’s hockey team began its ECAC Hockey League campaign this weekend, defeating St. Lawrence 2-1 on Friday but losing to Clarkson 4-3 on Saturday. More »
Women’s soccer captures convincing victory on Senior Day
This season, the Dartmouth women’s soccer team has not gotten the results that it hoped for, but on Senior Day the team stepped up, walloping Cornell 3-1 in the last home game for the Class of 2008. More »
Volleyball swept by league rivals Penn and Princeton
After a split on the road last weekend, the Dartmouth women’s volleyball team still had a mathematical shot to clinch the Ivy League championship coming into this weekend. The squad hoped to beat Princeton and Penn, the top two teams in the conference, for a chance to head into the final homestand of the season a game back of second-place Penn. Dartmouth was unable to pull off an upset in either match, however, losing to Princeton 3-1 and Penn 3-0, effectively ending its conference championship hopes. More »
Toe to Toe (Schmidley)
Salary levels in professional sports have undergone an absolutely meteoric rise over the last quarter century. Since the turn of the century, the NFL and MLB’s highest payrolls have risen by $73 and $97 million, respectively. More »
Toe to Toe (Hodes)
Alex Rodriguez is the best player in baseball. He deserves to be paid as such. But the best player in baseball does not deserve to be paid $350 million. When Babe Ruth had baseball’s highest salary at $80,000 in 1930, he was paid $5,000 more than President Hoover. Well, Alex Rodriguez is asking for $34.6 million more per year than the President—something seems a bit off. More »
