Perrennial Cellar Dwellers?

This is the third time in a week a blog posting disappeared. Very frustrating.

From the Columbia Spectator: "...(T)he Princeton Tigers were given a preseason rank of sixth in the Ivy League, just ahead of perennial cellar-dwellers Dartmouth and Columbia." How jarring is that? It's not untrue, of course. From 1998-2005, the Big Green has finished last -- or tied for last -- in the league four times. Columbia: five times. Ivy League wins since 1998: 1. Penn 45; 2. Harvard 39; 3. Brown 35; 4. Yale 31; 5. Princeton 25; 6. Cornell 24; 7. Dartmouth 13; 8. Columbia 12.

In the Spectator, a story headlined Tigers, Elis Unexpectedly Top Ivy Football

Harvard coach Tim Murphy quoted in the Boston Globe about this weekend's matchup with boyhood chum Buddy Teevens: "Our friendship happens the other 364 days a year. On Saturday we'll be competitors and that's the only way we'd both have it."

The Wall Street Journal has a story about the fight over Dartmouth's alumni constitution. Among those mentioned in the piece: Buddy Teevens and Jeff Immelt.