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| Dartmouth players and coaches pose for pictures at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home of the Indy 500. |
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| Kissing the bricks at the Brickyard is a tradition. |
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The daily Dartmouth game preview can be found here.
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Lots of news about Butler sports in the Indianapolis Star. All of it about basketball, it would seem. Click here.Maybe there's something in the print edition but I wouldn't count on it. It might be even harder to be a football player here than at Georgetown – and these guys win!
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The Sports Network has capsule looks at games featuring three Ivy League teams and picks all three to stumble. TSN thinks Fordham will toppled Columbia, Lehigh will beat Princeton and, perhaps surprisingly, San Diego to beat Harvard.
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The Harvard Crimson writes about the number of big questions facing Tim Murphy's team this fall. It includes this interesting fact about the team that figures to have the least-experienced quarterback in the league:In 10 of the last 12 years, the Crimson signal-caller has earned at least All-Ivy honorable mention.The story ends this way:
Media members chose the Crimson to finish second in the preseason poll. It was a safe pick. Harvard has taken first or second in the league in 11 of the last 12 seasons. For over a decade, Murphy’s team has been the given in the Ancient Eight.
But this year, who knows? With so many questions, Harvard might be the least sure bet of the lot. If you want more insight than that, call me when the credits roll. For now, enjoy the show. It should be one of the most unpredictable in years.
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The Daily Pennsylvanian writes about the Quakers' bid to do something unprecedented: win four outright Ivy League titles in five years.
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An Ithaca Journal story about 30-year-old Cornell coach David Archer calls hi, "prepared, polite and a perfect fit."
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