Brown Coach: This Is My Game

There's a good preview of the Dartmouth-Brown game in the Providence Journal. The story is built around the fact that Brown coach Phil Estes was born in New Hampshire and went to school at UNH. It sounds as if Estes means business as he tries to fire the Bears up after last week's heartbreaking loss to Yale. From the story:

"We have to get back on track," Estes said. "We can't sit and dwell on what could have been. Sunday, I could see a different mood on the team, and my job was to change the whole tone of this game. I'm making Dartmouth my vendetta. I've been out there screaming at them all week, 'This is my game!' "

The Boston Globe has a story about senior Mike Shannon's 6-foot-6, 300-pound brother Chris, who has been offered scholarships by Maryland, Duke and UConn, and has received recruiting interest from a number of top programs. Referring to Mike's life-threatening illness several years ago, Chris -- who has written a column about his recruitment for espn.com -- told the Globe:

‘‘If there’s ever a time when you’re having a bad day or things just aren’t going your way. I think of what my brother went through.’’

Harvard's Clifton Dawson needs just 54 yards to pass Ed Marinaro's Ivy League career rushing record, but there's no such thing as a sure thing. This Harvard Crimson piece recalls the sad story of Cornell back Chad Levitt, who in 1996 was on pace to break the mark set by his predecessor in Ithaca when a broken arm ended his season just 58 yards short of the record.

Maybe it's the Penn Stater in me, but -- to the chagrin of at least one Green Alert subscriber -- I'm no big fan of Ivy League band shows. I take that back; I like Cornell's traditional band. To get a sense of what an Ivy band is like, read this story in the Daily Princetonian. ... The paper also has its top 10 reasons why Princeton students should go to New Haven for the big game against Yale this weekend.

From the Ivy League web site: "More than half of the ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District I football team was made of Ivy Leaguers." You can find the team here. Dartmouth is not represented.

Finally, and you know this book and this story won't be well received on campus, alum Chris Miller '63, has written the "true story" behind the movie Animal House. The book is entitled: "The Real Animal House: The Awesomely Depraved Saga of the Fraternity That Inspired the Movie." The Daily Dartmouth quotes Miller:

"I am curious as to what sort of ... what the coloration of the official Dartmouth College response with this will be. They were not too pleased with me when 'Animal House' came out. (The book) is very politically incorrect. But very accurate and honest of our serial drinking and sexual escapades and acts of depravity."

If you want more, check out what the New York Times has to say:

His book is sophomoric, disgusting, tasteless, vile, misogynist, chauvinist, debased and at times so unspeakably revolting that any person of decent sensibility would hurl it into the nearest Dumpster. I couldn’t put it down. I make this self-indicting admission with all due trepidation, but there it is. For better or worse, this an utterly hilarious book.