Stopping the Bad Guys

With 46 tackles as a senior in 2001, Dartmouth linebacker Joe Vinci showed he was pretty good at stopping the bad guys. Turns out that was pretty good practice for what he'll be doing in the future: stopping the bad guys. Vinci, a government major at Dartmouth, has been appointed a police officer in his hometown of Westwood, Mass.. ... Something I did not know: In a very nice story about NFL hopeful Kevin Boothe on the ClevelandBrowns.com web site, the 6-foot-4, 316-pound Cornell product said that his college visits came down to UConn, Columbia and Dartmouth. Oh what might have been! Boothe, by the way, is projected in the story as a late first-day draft pick. ... Lots of stories today about Penn men's basketball coach Fran Dunphy making the move to Temple to replace John Chaney. Here's one of the better stories. Now the speculation begins as to a successor at Penn. Among the names being bandied about are Brown coach Glen Miller and Cornell coach Steve Donahue, a former Penn assistant. It is extremely rare to see a head coach moving directly from one Ivy team to another, so let's see what happens. ... Switching sports for a second, the Dartmouth baseball team is off to a 6-2 start in Ivy League play, with both losses by a single run. That despite losing co-ace Stephen Perry to arm trouble before the season. Winning three-of-four games in each of the first two Ivy weekends is the good news. The bad: Dartmouth plays in the Red Rolfe Division, where the four teams just so happen to be the four best in the league. Harvard and Brown are both 7-1 in the league and Dartmouth and Yale are at 6-2. Penn and Columbia lead the Gehrig Division with 4-8 records. Think about it. Dartmouth is, essentially, tied for last in its division. If the Big Green played in the Gehrig, it would be the runaway leader.