Cornell Corners Coming On

We got about three inches of snow overnight. Hard to tell who's more excited; the kids or the 2-year-old golden retriever. ...

Improvement -- and interceptions -- by the Cornell cornerbacks have the Big Red targeting .500 in Saturday's game against Dartmouth according to the Cornell Sun.

From today's Trenton Times:

The parity that Ivy coaches have been talking about in recent seasons has crept up on perennial powers Penn and Harvard. Both have come off the open highway and perhaps into a demolition derby.

With attendance down at this year's Homecoming game, a Daily Pennsylvanian writer pulled together a story that included this quote from a Penn wide receiver that won't win him many fans with the school's recruiting coordinator: ""It is disappointing. Not even from this year to last, but that this school's not really a football school."

With the Harvard-Columbia game on tap, a writer for the Crimson offers an open letter to Columbia coach Norries Wilson in light of his outburst at Penn several weeks ago.

The Providence Journal has a terrific story about Lonnie Hill, the Brown wide receiver who caught a key touchdown pass against Penn just days after his mother died. I remember seeing Hill as a freshman in the preseason scrimmage against Dartmouth and thinking he was going to be another in the line of outstanding Brown pass catchers. As the story says, he's had his ups and downs, but he's still a talented receiver, as Dartmouth will find out in another week. (You'll need a password to access the Journal site but it's free, and with Brown coming to Dartmouth next week, it's worth signing up.)

A long, long Sports Network story winds down to picks ... and the pick in Ithaca is Cornell over Dartmouth. They've got Princeton over Penn, Yale over Brown and, hold the presses, Harvard over Columbia.

If you went Ivy, sent a kid to an Ivy or are thinking about sending a kid Ivy way, do read the following from the Princeton Packet. It's a little scary. Here's a taste:

The college advisor at the school did not think he was Ivy material. Nevertheless, the family decided to give it their best efforts. It was my job to make their dreams a reality.