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Internet is back up. Methinks someone showed up at the office, saw a light was out and threw a switch. Voila. ...

If you were thinking UNH is losing David Ball and so next year's game against the Wildcats should be a little more manageable, consider what coach Sean McDonnell told the Manchester Union Leader:

"We've got the quarterback coming back. Three running backs coming back. We've got four offensive linemen coming back. We've got two very good receivers coming back. A lot of weapons on offense coming back."

Amazingly, New Hampshire lost twice to UMass this fall on batted fourth-down passes within sniffing distance of the end zone and they were knocked down by brothers. Here's the Union Leader story.

Check out the story in last Friday's Princetonian that began with this lede:

Athletics deserves as much intellectual inquiry as the liberal arts, Trinity College philosophy professor Drew Hyland '61 said in a lecture yesterday, asking the audience to imagine a world where wrestling vies with mathematics as a main school subject.

Ivy League basketball coaches at six of the eight school and hundreds of players from their teams have argued for years in favor of the conference joining the rest of the free world and holding a postseason tournament. (Penn, Princeton and their fans, with a vested interest in the status quo, have argued even more vociferously against a tournament.) According to a story in the Norwich Bulletin, the Ivy presidents are giving the concept a little more thought than usual. Advocates of allowing the Ivy League football champion to go to the I-AA tournament will be watching what happens on the hardwood closely. Yale Athletic Director Tom Beckett on the possibility of a postseason basketball tournament:

"It comes up all the time. But this is the first time that there's been enough interest that has turned into, or developed into, an ad hoc group that's been asked to asked to study it further."

A letterwriter takes the Cleveland Plain Dealer to task for not publishing anything about the Princeton-Dartmouth game where Chagrin Fall's resident Jeff Terrell led the Tigers to a share of the Ivy League title.

A columnist from SEC country takes in Harvard-Yale and comes away impressed.

If you haven't read the letter the University of North Dakota president sent Dartmouth President Jim Wright regarding the Fighting Sioux controversy, you can find a PDF file of it here. It's a powerful letter to say the least.

Problems continue with our Internet service. It took 13 minutes to bring up Blogger on dialup (it's v-e-r-y slow here on the mountain) and other pages still haven't loaded, so I'm punting. I'll be talking with our provider it a bit to see what the prognosis is. I am heading into town in a bit for a story and I'll use wifi at the Hanover town library while I'm there to finally update the blog.