Teeing It Up For Teevens and the Green

The football golf outing is today at Hanover Country Club and you'd be hard-pressed to have a much better forecast. OK, it's going to be a little warm (83 degrees) and there's a chance of isolated thunderstorms, but given how soggy and cool the spring has been in Hanover this is about as close as we've had to what I like to call a "chamber of commerce" type day.

I'll have a story of some sort about the golf outing tonight or tomorrow morning.

I just stumbled across an Atlanta Journal Journal-Constitution story from a couple of weeks back about the search for a new NFL commissioner. It lists five top candidates including former Dartmouth linebacker Reggie Williams. For each candidate the writer offers his pros and his cons. Here's what he says about the onetime Cincinnati Bengal:

• Pro: Has turned Disney into a sports hotbed, with the Braves, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Orlando Magic all training there.

• Con: Served on Cincinnati's City Council. Can you really trust a former politician?

The column includes remarks from the potential successors to Paul Tagliabue. Here's how it quoted Reggie:

"Every career afforded me unique skill sets that were transferable to the next level. Politics more than anything taught me the ability to bring disparate voices together to achieve consensus and in the corporate world. If you can't achieve consensus you can't get anything done."

Brown tailback Nick Hartigan has signed a contract with the New York Jets. The undrafted Ivy Leaguer was offered the deal after impressing the Jets at a minicamp May 12-14.

Columbia has announced that is its going to offer a Master of Science in Sports Management. Now, I don't think a graduate degree in sports management will have much of an impact on the intercollegiate program at Columbia, but it won't hurt. The Ivy League web site says it will be:

"a rigorous program designed to train students for management positions in all sectors of the sports industry. The curriculum is designed to broadly educate sports managers about the industry while providing industry-specific training in finance, personnel management, law, marketing, and facility/event superintendence."