Sunday's Links

The large "baggy" covering the right side of the Floren Varsity House has been removed, exposing the brick front in this photo shot Saturday. The field has again been cleared, allowing the Dartmouth baseball team to work out Saturday morning. The end zone bleachers are now folded up and sitting in the Leverone Field House parking lot. (Click photo to enlarge)

A couple of prominent players Dartmouth football has faced the past few years are in the news this morning. Whether Brown linebacker Zak DeOssie was a hit on the field at the NFL Combine is to be determined. It's clear he was a hit in the media room according to this story. It notes, "he certainly wasn’t shy about being in front of the camera. DeOssie stole the show on Saturday, speaking for more than 30 minutes and creating numerous outbursts of laughter from media members."

I like this quote from UNH receiver David Ball in a story about broadcasting of the NFL Combine: "I'd rather not have my job interview taped."

Ricky Santos, the UNH quarterback who has lost his offensive coordinator to Oregon, wasn't crazy about quarterbacks coach Chip Kelly at the start of their relationship according to this story. But he came to a valuable realization: "He was just giving me all the keys to the castle," Santos told the paper. Got that right.

The Dartmouth men's lacrosse team gave Duke a good run in the early going but couldn't match up with the emotionally charged Blue Devils over the long haul, losing 17-11 before a crowd of 6,485 in Durham, N.C.. This story says the atmosphere was, as expected, electric.

Back in Hanover, the men’s hockey team knocked off Colgate, 3-1 to earn a first-round bye in the ECACHL playoffs and the No. 3 seed. Across the street, the men's basketball team pushed Ivy League-leading Penn to the edge only to drop an 80-78 decision, the Quakers' 21st consecutive win in the series.

In case you are counting, attendance figures: men's hockey drew 4,212, men's basketball at the same time attracted 1,324 and women's hockey in the afternoon pulled in 1,096. (The 25-4-2 women's team defeated RPI, 3-1, to advance to the ECACHL semifinals.)