Monday, November 9, 2009

Show Me the Money: Corporate sponsorship of Dartmouth athletics

By Dan Lentz

On DartmouthSports.com, advertisements for Muscle Milk — the “ready to drink functional beverage” — have become seemingly omnipresent. The product’s presence on the site, which began just this year, is a result of Muscle Milk’s recent corporate sponsorship of Dartmouth athletics. More »

Football beats Cornell in overtime

By Liz Sullivan, The Dartmouth Staff

A 40-yard field goal by Foley Schmidt ’12 propelled the Big Green to a 20-17 win over Cornell — Dartmouth’s first ever double-overtime victory — on Saturday afternoon at Memorial Field. The game marks the Big Green’s second win of the season, as the team snapped a 17-game losing streak with a victory over Columbia two weeks ago. More »

Volleyball has weekend sweep with wins over Brown, Yale

By Tianchi Xu, The Dartmouth Staff

In its last homestand of the season, the Dartmouth women’s volleyball team gave the home crowd a memorable performance, outlasting Brown in a tight five-set tiebreak on Friday night and rallying past Ivy powerhouse Yale on Saturday. More »

Men’s hockey falls to league foes Cornell, Colgate

By Stefanie Lazow, The Dartmouth Staff

The Big Green men’s hockey team remains winless in the 2009-2010 season as the team scored just one goal during 14 power-play opportunities — while giving up five penalty-kill goals — in a pair of road games against No. 5 Cornell and Colgate University this weekend. More »

Women’s hockey beats St. Lawrence, falls to No. 2 Clarkson

By Bianca Zlatea, The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth women’s hockey split its weekend at home as the Big Green conjured up two goals in the final period to rout No.7 St. Lawrence University 4-2 on Friday, but could not carry the momentum over to its contest against No. 2 Clarkson University on Saturday. More »

Women’s soccer beats Cornell on Senior Day

By Donghan Zhao

In her last game in Big Green uniform, co-captain Kelsey Quick ’10’s strong play propelled the Dartmouth women’s soccer team to a 2-0 victory over Cornell in the season finale on Saturday. The victory gave Dartmouth a winning record in the Ivy League for the season. More »

The Power Rankings

By Ivan Zlatar, The Dartmouth Senior Staff

So Dartmouth athletics is now partly sponsored by Muscle Milk. Cornell is apparently sponsored by some sort of gum (ba-dum-tsh). Psi U is sponsored by Jack Wills. I think we can do better. Here are some more corporate sponsorships that Dartmouth should have: More »

ONE-ON-ONE: Michael Reilly ’12

By Jack Barrett, The Dartmouth Staff

I sat down with Big Green wide receiever Michael Reilly ’12 and discussed his time on the team this season and the team’s recent successes. Let’s start by hyping yourself a little bit. You’re second on the team in receptions, yards and touchdowns this year, including a team-best 57 yarder. What do you credit your success this year to? More »

Briefly Noted

By Kenji McCulley, The Dartmouth Staff

A blog about the Boston Red Sox written by Orli Kleiner ’12 was nominated in several categories in this year’s Weblog Awards. “Boston Soul” is up for Best Blog, Best Sports Blog, Best Blog Design and Best Hidden Gem. “I started the blog in May 2008, and I was nominated last year,” Kleiner said. “I found out about the awards through my blog platform because I got a lot of hits from it. I was extremely honored and humbled by the nomination.” Voting for the preliminary round takes place online, and ends in mid-December. More »