Hockey Rebounds; Strong Start for Lyons' Team

Kudos to the Dartmouth men's ice hockey team for bouncing back from Friday's disaster against Harvard in the ECACHL semifinals to post a 3-2 win over Colgate in the consolation game. I've covered the tournament in Albany just one time and never had the opportunity to ask the coaches and players how they feel about participating in a consolation game. I'd think after a 10-1 loss to your archrival in the opener, opinions on hitting the ice again would run the gamut. Some people might simply want to get out of Dodge as quickly as possible. Others might want to do something -- anything -- to erase the taste of the humiliation the evening before. ... Former Dartmouth coach John Lyons enjoyed a successful debut as defensive coordinator for the NFL Europe's Cologne Centurions. Lyons' defense stymied a Hamburg offense quarterbacked by Brock Berlin, holding the Sea Devils to 235 total yards and 10-for-32 passing with four interceptions in a 14-10 win before 15,243 in Hamburg. ... The Jay Fiedler Celebrity Golf Classic fund-raiser is set for April 3 in Florida. Read a little bit about it here. ... It happens more often than you'd imagine. A solid high school athlete goes through the recruiting process, gets a little extra help from admissions to get through the door and presently quits the team that recruited him or her. To get an ethicist's read on that scenario, click here. Or if you are signed up for a free New York Times subscription, click here. ... I'll be staffing the Dartmouth-Rutgers NCAA women's basketball tournament game in beautiful downtown Trenton, N.J., tonight. If 6-foot-4 Elise Morrison hadn't been lost for the season, the Big Green would probably have gotten a higher seed and had a better chance to spring an upset. But this is a well-coached, veteran team with terrific guard play, always a key at tournament time, so stay tuned. ... The next edition of "10 Questions" will be posted Monday.