Dartmouth dean takes heat for his athletics snub
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It's a picture near to the hearts of many Dartmouth College alumni: a crisp autumn day, a sea of green shirts in the stands, and a football team driving its way to another Ivy League win.
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There was something eerie about Harvard's loss to Dartmouth last season. No squeaker, that game. Nothing accidental about a 30-16 score that ended the Crimson's six-game winning streak.
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Critics of college rankings say universities aren't like their sports teams: you cannot settle who is best with head-to-head competition on the playing field. But in a new paper, a group of economists and statisticians begs to differ.
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Big-time college athletic departments who assert that their teams' success leads to increased alumni donations and a better applicant pool have created an &quot;arms race&quot; for athletic supremacy when funds could be better spent elsewhere on campus, according to a study by the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.
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Democratic congressmen from Florida and Michigan asked national party chairman Howard Dean on Tuesday why he has been silent about punishing New Hampshire if it moves up its presidential primary while their states may lose all their delegates.
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Much as it pains me, I cannot vote against Sports Illustrated&#39;s pick of the Boston Red Sox as Sportsmen of the Year. Similarly, I cannot say that in any other year since 1918 Michael Phelps, or perhaps Lance Armstrong, was not a worthy choice.
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You couldn't blame Boston College fans for thinking the schedule-maker had made a small oversight as they watched their team struggle to preserve its undefeated record. The schedule said the Eagles were playing Yale, but for much of yesterday's game, they made the Yalies look like another team from the Nutmeg State -- the University of Connecticut -- that is ...
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American gymnast Paul Hamm, who was  asked to return his Olympic gold medal in the men's all-around  because of a scoring error, may have received another snub.
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The thought of going to Boston College, whose football camp Dan Orlovsky attended for three years when he was in high school, was dashed when the Eagles did not offer him a scholarship.
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With no students yet on campus and a sporadic rain falling on Boston University's Nickerson Field, there wasn't much of a turnout backing the home team at last Sunday's soccer game against UMass-Amherst.
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Tim Washington remembers that, among his Syracuse teammates, Division 1-AA college football wasn't given much respect. They mocked it, looking at it as "a joke" filled with "guys that really couldn't make it." Since transferring to a 1-AA program -- like 14 of his University of Massachusetts teammates -- Washington has realized just how misguided that idea was.
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There's no denying the logjam in Hockey East this season. Perennial contender Boston University is down in the standings and Boston College has gone from a slow start to a point out of first. Northeastern, which showed promise last season, is atop the conference. New Hampshire, which is always flirting with the top spot, is tied with the Huskies with ...
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The Olympic speed skating medalist Joey Cheek will not be able to play on Princeton Universityâs sprint football team because he is considered a professional athlete, the Ivy League has ruled. The ruling stemmed from Cheekâs decision to retain an agent for paid speaking engagements that draw on his status as an Olympian, the university said. Cheek, a 27-year-old freshman, would have gained publicity for sprint football, which has a weight limit of 172 pounds. Five teams â Army, Cornell, Navy, Penn and Princeton â compete in the Collegiate Sprint Football League.
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They're visiting the defending Division 1-AA national champions, the top-ranked team in both preseason polls, in a venue that is one of the most difficult for visiting teams. They're trying to turn around what was once one of the best 1-AA programs in New England but has had six losing seasons in seven years.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- An overall increase of 1 percentage point in graduation rates might not seem significant. NCAA president Myles Brand disagrees.
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Alex Barnett scored 21 points, DeVon Mosley added 17 and John Ball grabbed 10 rebounds Friday night as host Dartmouth ended a four-game losing streak with a 73-56 victory against Harvard. The teams split the season series.
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Zak DeOssie is sweating, dark pools forming on his T-shirt as fitness guru Mike Boyle pushes him through an odd-appearing set of leaps, bounds, skips, dips, and dashes. It is a bright but frigid February morning at Boyle's strength and conditioning complex in Winchester, an hour's drive from the Brown University campus DeOssie calls home. He has been ...