Sunday Musings

We'll give the Helmet Poll Redux one final day to try to build a little momentum and then post a poll that ought to get folks talking. Stay tuned. ...

A little uniform/equipment news (although not about the helmet): The Big Green will be expanding its wardrobe this fall, adding white game pants to the green game pants it wore all of last season. No official word has come down yet, but it seems to make sense that the white pants will be worn with the green shirts and the green pants will be worn with the white shirts. Green Alert Take: Call me old-fashioned but I think green-and-white, and white-and-green combinations would be a step in the right direction. The green pants/green shirt combination was a little too, well, a little too green. Or I could be wrong and it could be green-and-green and white-and-white. We'll see.

The Ivy League has a not completely undeserved reputation for being "holier than thou" around much of the country. Now it's the Big Ten's turn. Commissioner Jim Delany is taken to task in this column by Yahoo sports columnist Dan Wetzel for remarks he made on the conference website regarding National Signing day recruiting classes. Delany wrote:

"I love speed and the SEC has great speed, especially on the defensive line, but there are appropriate balances when mixing academics and athletics."

Memorial Field is covered with snow and another storm could be in the offing later this week, but there's a hint of spring in the air. Huh? Stephen F. Austin is kicking off Spring Football 2007 today. It's true. Click here if you don't believe me.
Speaking of spring, you can catch the Dartmouth men's lacrosse opener against Duke next Saturday at 2 p.m., on ESPNU.

And finally this, the Dartmouth women's basketball team won again last night to keep pace with Harvard as it bids for a third Ivy League title in a row. The Big Green won last year without 6-foot-4 center Elise Morrison, who missed virtually the entire season after a Lisfranc ligament injury in her foot sidelined her. Morrison, one of the top centers in the nation as a high school senior, was expected back this season but complications have cost her this year as well. Today's paper confirms that rather than take an injury redshirt, Morrison will graduate this spring and perhaps play elsewhere next year as a graduate student.