Monday, February 25, 2008

Spring Sports Preview

By Jordan Rose, The Dartmouth Staff

Although the weather right now would seem to indicate otherwise, Dartmouth’s spring sports teams are already gearing up for their respective seasons. Here’s a brief look at the expectations and outlooks for each team: More »

Men’s hockey splits weekend in seniors’ last homestand

By Heita Miki, The Dartmouth Staff

Though Dartmouth’s men’s hockey team had impressive performances throughout the weekend, its efforts were enough to win only one of two games. On Friday, the Big Green suffered a frustrating loss to Brown 5-4, but Dartmouth rebounded the following night, defeating Yale 7-2 and sending the Big Green seniors off with a victory in their final home game. More »

Women’s hockey clinches No. 3 seed with impressive wins

By Cameron Nutt, The Dartmouth Staff

The Big Green women’s ice hockey capped off a successful regular season with two resounding road victories this weekend over Cornell and Colgate. More »

Men’s basketball bounces back after disappointing loss

By Ryan Karr, The Dartmouth Staff

After one of the season’s worst performances against the University of Pennsylvania, the Dartmouth men’s basketball team bounced back with a performance against an overmatched Princeton squad on Saturday night, in a game that was indicative of the capabilities the team possessed earlier this season. More »

Controversy surrounds men’s squash team’s final ranking

By Sarah Rohrbach, The Dartmouth Staff

Though the season has come to an end, Dartmouth’s men’s squash league has recently become involved in a minor ranking scandal involving Williams College, which is ranked seventh in the College Squash Association rankings. More »

Toe To Toe (Hodes)

By Alex Hodes, The Dartmouth Staff

“What’s that? Uh — Playoffs? Don’t talk about — playoffs? You kidding me? Playoffs?” Well, as foolish as Jim Mora may be, he’s exactly right when discussing Ivy League basketball. Last term, Schmidley and I debated the merits of a playoff system in college football. I didn’t support one for college football, and I don’t support one for Ivy League basketball. More »

Toe To Toe (Schmidley)

By Will Schmidley, The Dartmouth Staff

As I am sure you already know, the title ‘league champion’ is currently given to the Ivy League team with the best regular season conference record — a formula that, on the surface, seems to be sufficient to find out which Ancient Eight team is best. More »