CAA Football

Checking out a UNH note this morning I was scratching my head at a question about how the Wildcats would do in the CAA this year. My first thought was they left the "N" out. They must mean the NCAA of course. But no, it's the CAA: the Colonial Athletic Association. It took a couple of seconds before I recalled that the Atlantic 10 football conference would be rolled into the CAA starting this year. If I forgot, maybe you did too, so here's a reminder: an old release mentioning the change. I won't forget again (hopefully) but count me as one who misses the old Yankee Conference. ...

Several readers have asked where Buddy Teevens Jr., is headed to school next fall and if he's planning on playing football. I had a chance to ask his old man Friday and the answer is Coastal Carolina, and at this point he's not planning to give football a try. The younger Teevens, who is listed at 6-foot-3, 170, finished off a solid season last fall for Connecticut's undefeated Salisbury School, catching 35 passes for 477 yards and five touchdowns. Find his game-by-game stats here. Interesting that he wore No. 6, one more than his dad. ...

Don't pencil Jay Fiedler in as Eli Manning's backup with the New York Giants quite yet. The former Dartmouth quarterback won't work out for the team until after the NFL draft if the New York Post has it right.

At the Frozen Four NCAA hockey championship, Dartmouth senior Dan Shribman was awarded the first Derek Hines Unsung Hero Award, honoring former Army hockey captain Derek Hines who was killed in Afghanistan in 2005. Hines' sister Ashley plays field hockey and lacrosse at Dartmouth.

The Dartmouth baseball team opens its home season today at Princeton! As this story in the Ithaca Journal suggests, when the FieldTurf surface is installed at Red Rolfe Field, home-away-from-home games will be a thing of the past. While Red Rolfe turf would have been cleared of snow, I'm not sure how it would feel taking a fastball on the handle today. It was 12 degrees when I got up. ;-)

From a story in the San Francisco Chronicle about the increased selectivity of liberal arts colleges:

"Colgate is now where Dartmouth was. Dartmouth is where Amherst was. Amherst is where Brown was. Brown is where Stanford was. Stanford is where Harvard was, and Harvard is all by itself taking 9 percent."

I could be wrong but I'm not sure how that ordering of admissions will play among certain Dartmouth folks.