Dartmouth's dirty laundry is being waved in the public as this New York Times article looks into the election two years in a row of "outsider" trustees who were not endorsed by the alumni association but got on the ballot by way of petition. The Times writes about the turf war between "alumni critical of the college against loyalists who have risen through the ranks of the Alumni Association." At the heart of the battle, according to the Times: "The outsiders accused the college administration of sacrificing free speech to political correctness and of abandoning Dartmouth's historical focus on undergraduates to turn it into a 'junior varsity Harvard.' "
The Sporting News is the latest to suggest the Jay Fiedler-to-Tampa Bay scenario according to this Fly blog item. I'd send you to the link to the original story, but it doesn't work. My money is still on the Giants for Jay, but I've been wrong before ;-)
One more thing. In all the craziness of getting ready for our family cross country trip, I got our day of departure wrong. Today is Thursday. We leave Saturday so there will be a blog tomorrow. Before we leave I'll bore you with a little of our itinerary (so that if you see our '84 cream colored VW camper van with New Hampshire plates on the road -- or the side of it -- you can flash us the peace sign. {That's what people in VW buses do when they spot each other, sort of an homage to Jerry Garcia, I guess.})
Before I leave I'll have that last little piece on the Dartmouth recruit who was in town and played in the golf fundraiser last Saturday.
Finally, congratulations to the Hanover Green Machine Little League team that knocked off the only undefeated team in the Connecticut Valley Little League tournament semifinals last night. (True confession: I'm the co-coach and my son is the catcher and No. 3 hitter in the lineup.) The Green Machine goes for the title Friday night -- which is why our vacation was scheduled long ago to begin Saturday morning. Ya gotta believe.
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