Catching Up With Zack Walz

Work continued Wednesday on Memorial Field, including on the east stands. (Click photos to enlarge)

The Arizona Republic's azcentral.com site has a "Catching Up" feature on former Dartmouth and Arizona Cardinals linebacker Zack Walz. Now 30 and still living in the Valley of the Sun, Zack continues working with his company Interactive Sports Profiles, which helps connect athletes and colleges. I wrote a story about Zack's business about a year and a half ago that can be found here. Newcomers may not know that Zack was Pat Tillman's roommate in the pros. After Tillman died, I spoke with Zack and wrote this story.

This morning's newspaper has a story about the sale of the Norwich Inn, which it refers to as a "27-room landmark." The buyer: Joe Lavin, a former senior vice president of franchising for Marriott ... and the father of former Dartmouth placekicker Tyler Lavin '05. Lavin shares the Dartmouth record with four field goals in a game and is the only kicker in school history to hit more than one field goal of 50 or more yards. (He had three: 52, 51 and 50 yards). He probably would have had another one or two but he was injured most of his senior year when he did not make a single field goal.

In a Philadelphia Inquirer story about former Penn wide receiver Rob Milanese it mentions that he and Dartmouth grad Brian Mann were the only Ivy League players in the Arena League this year.

He's been mentioned before on the Blog, but today's Boston Globe has a full story about a two-sport captain and decorated offensive lineman coming to Dartmouth but not playing football.

A subscriber sent along a link to The New Yorker review of Game Theory, which tries to do for basketball what Moneyball did for baseball.

Today's Daily Dartmouth has a story about a former Dartmouth baseball player who won a charity drop-kicking contest with Doug Flutie.