Rare Dartmouth-MIchigan Rose Bowl Video

It's not what you think. But if you want to start your week with a smile, click on this youtube link to watch the pregame show for the 2010 Rose Bowl between Michigan and Dartmouth. It's the stuff of dreams (or at least video games). ...

Columnist Norm Chad has some fun writing about NFL officials. He notes there's one back judge who graduated from Dartmouth and with tongue firmly in cheek writes, "Heck, Dartmouth's no more than DeVry with pine trees. It's time for the league to recruit officials from upper echelon Ivy League institutions." Anyone know if there really is a back judge from Dartmouth and who it might be?

On a more serious note, the Daily News-Record in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley writes:

The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas — in addition to the holiday overtones — might be described as the silly season in American politics. After a mid-year election, no one wants to focus on serious political matters until a new year.

This year’s silly season promises to be more ludicrous than most, staring with the abject apology offered by Dartmouth’s athletic director Josie Harper. She was profoundly grieved because Dartmouth’s college hockey team will soon play the University of North Dakota.

For a balanced look at the whole issue, check this Insider Higher Ed story.

Prose from today's Yale Daily:

For the first time since the turn of the current century, the Yale football community exited Harvard Stadium with heads held high, content and acutely aware of the Bulldogs' return to the summit of Ivy League football.