Star Power

A funny thing happened on the Scout.com Dartmouth football recruiting page. All of a sudden quarterback Cole Marcoux has shown up.

Atop the list.

Rated three stars.

Ranked No. 69 nationally.

Check the Scout.com recruiting page out here.

Wonder who New Hampshire picked up to replace Dartmouth on the football schedule next fall? That would be Lehigh of the Patriot League. UNH, which has won five consecutive games over FBS opponents, will be in for a challenge trying to make it six when the Wildcats open at Pitt on Sept. 4.

You've heard of The Onion, right? Sure you have. Welcome to The Dunyun, which bills itself as "Dartmouth's Only Independent News Source." From the About The Dunyun blurb:

The Dunyun is a news source providing insights on Dartmouth College that have all been fact-checked twice.

And once in the morning.

One of The Dunyun's stories shortly before Christmas: "Football Team To Recruit Actual Moose." From the story:

After a string of losing seasons has left the Dartmouth football team in shameful standing in the Ivy League, the administration has at last folded to pressure from the coaching staff to alter the team’s recruitment process for incoming college athletes. Although head coach Bucky Stevens had been campaigning for the introduction of athletic scholarships in order to entice players with football experience beyond flag football games at their family reunions, the administration repeatedly refused and has instead offered a compromise. For three years, the team has played under the banner of the “Dartmoose” mascot, and now it seems the team is making metaphor into reality and recruiting real moose for the team.

Coach Bucky Stevens. That's pretty good ;-)

A Jan. 6 dunyun story was headlined, "Football Team to be Given 'Thanks for the Curve' by Palaeopitus."

Yesterday's blog linked to a New York Times story on the friendly rivalry between the women's basketball coaches and teams at Dartmouth and Harvard. The two archrivals met again last night (that's the teams, not the coaches) and in front of a crowd of 1,517 played what the college press release accurately described as "an instant classic."

Dartmouth saw the visitors whittle away a double-digit lead and trailed by one point with Harvard inbounding the ball under its own basket with six seconds remaining. All the Crimosn had to do was get the ball in and await the Big Green foul. Instead, Dartmouth's Margaret Smith made a diving steal of the inbounds pass, got fouled with 5.1 seconds left and nailed both free throws to give the Green a dramatic 45-44 win. Two-time defending Ivy League champion Dartmouth is now 5-9 overall and 1-0 in the Ivy League while Harvard is 9-5 and 0-1 in the conference.

In case you were wondering, since 1979-80, Dartmouth has won 17 Ivy League women's basketball championships. The Big Green has won at least a share of the title four of the past five years.

The news was not so good for the men's ice hockey team which lost to UNH in the annual Riverstone Cup game at Verizon Wireless Arena, 5-2, before a crowd of 7,573. The Big Green is now 4-12. The Union Leader reports.