Green Loses One To The Wild Blue Yonder

The Air Force Academy wins a recruiting battle with Dartmouth and Georgetown for a Georgia quarterback/defensive back named Andre Morris according to this story. ...

From today's Daily Dartmouth:

"College President James Wright has appointed a task force to consider policy changes for scheduling colleges and universities with Native American mascots."

Green Alert Take: Um, that cow left the barn some time ago and I could be wrong, but I don't think it's coming back.

Former Princeton quarterback Jason Garrett will be the: a) offensive coordinator; or b) head coach of the Dallas Cowboys according to this story in the San Antonio Express News. For a closer look at Garrett and some reaction, check out this Express News story.

A subscriber asked about listing all of Dartmouth's early decision recruits here so check back over the next few days and those names that have been released or appeared in the local daily will be posted.

Today: Basketball and Baseball

Basketball
Men
John Marciano, 7-1, 265, Roselle Park, N.J., Roselle Park H.S.
Clive Weeden, 6-9, 225, Stow, Mass., Northfield-Mount Hermon
Matt Chisick, 6-7, 210, Carmel, N.Y., Canterbury School

Women
Cassie Cooper, 6-1, Chelsea, Maine, Cony H.S.
Brittney Smith, 6-1, Fort Worth, Texas, All Saints Episcopal H.S.
Louise Vandenbosch, 5-8, Kettering, Ohio, Alter H.S.
Meghan McFee, 5-9, Manchester, Conn., East Catholic H.S.

Baseball
Sam Bean, OF, Needham, Mass., Buckingham Brown and Nichols
Colin Britton, LHP, Poughquag, N.Y., Arlington H.S.
Jason Brooks, INF, Westlake Village, Calif., Oak Christian H.S.
Jeff Onstott, INF, Houston, Langham Creek H.S.
Brendon Parks, C, Mission Viejo, Calif., Capistrano Valley H.S.
Jake Pruner, RHP, Woodbridge, Va., Forest Park H.S.


And finally, for those of you keeping score, the temperature here on the mountain last night got down to 12.2 degrees below zero. If you haven't spent much time in weather like that, here's something you may not know: If you turn on your car radio and scan stations, the scanning goes v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-ly. Cracks me up every time.

We used to have an outdoor digital thermometer that radioed the temperature inside. I was amazed several years ago at how often it bottomed out at 24.9 below zero. Eventually, I got suspicious and emailed the manufacturer. According to the response I received, the problem was with the batteries in the outdoor monitor and wouldn't matter what batteries we tried, it would never register colder than 24.9 below.

I hope we can get temperatures that cold again with this wired digital thermometer to see if we can finally hit that elusive 25 below. I mean, there's bragging rights at stake.