The NCAA is rolling back several of the rules that shortened college football games last fall. From a story on ESPN.com:
On Thursday, the rules oversight panel approved two major timing changes that would revert the rules to what they were in 2005 -- stopping the clock on possession changes and not starting it on kickoffs until the receiving team touches the ball.Cornell has brought cycling's yellow jersey to the football field. Read about it in the Sun.
Yale is posting the audio play-by-play of last November's win over Harvard in The Game on iTunes for a free download. According to the Yale Daily, the school is looking at more ways to marry podcasting with athletics.
College Sporting News has a nice story about former quarterback Jim Gregory -- "Grambling's White Tiger" -- returning to Louisiana to mourn former coach Eddie Robinson. It's a particularly timely story given the anniversary of Jackie Robinson joining the Brooklyn Dodgers. Eddie Robinson, like Jackie Robinson, was a pioneer, deciding to bring in the first white player ever to play at one of the historically black colleges. From the story:
In the late 1960s, Robinson had decided he was ready to integrate Grambling at a time when most mainstream, southern universities had never fielded a black player on any of their rosters.It's not about football, but this New York Times story about a switch-throwing pitcher at Creighton University is too good to miss. Harvard had a switch-throwing pitcher several years ago as well.
Still on baseball, this weekend's Dartmouth doubleheaders against Brown have been moved to Providence thanks in no small part to 6-8 inches of snow in these parts yesterday. That means the entire home Ivy League slate this "spring" will consist of a doubleheader against Harvard on April 28. Add it up and Dartmouth will play two out of its 20 Ivy League games on Red Rolfe Field. If Tuesday's game against Vermont can't be played -- and the snow on the field combined with a dicey forecast makes it highly unlikely -- the first 32 games of the season will be played somewhere other than on Red Rolfe.
If the UVM game is postponed and not made up, Dartmouth's home season will consist of three games: The Harvard twinbill and a subsequent single game with Hartford.
Barring a change, spring football is slated to start Monday at 5 p.m., on Memorial Field. Here are the "highlights" of the upcoming forecast:
Sunday: Rain and snow showers
Monday: Snow and wind
Tuesday: Rain and snow showers
Wednesday: Few showers
Thursday: Few showers
Friday: Showers
Bring your umbrella!
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