Tuesday's Notes

Be sure to come back later today for a free Green Alert exclusive: an interview with Matt Dougherty, the Sports Network's national guru for the football division formerly known as I-AA. Matt will share thoughts on whether the Ivies get enough respect around the country, on whether top-20 voters give the Ivies a fair shake and about Zak DeOssie's draft prospects. You'll be able to read his thoughts on the I-AA/FCS nomenclature change and on how FCS football stacks up against FBS (nee I-A) football.

Say this for Dartmouth's recruiting: The Big Green isn't afraid to mix it up with the big guys. This story on Scout.com tells of a high school junior visiting UConn but being recruited by the Huskies, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Vanderbilt and Dartmouth. The 5-foot-11 safety plays at Immaculata High in Somerville, N.J., the alma mater of former Big Green defensive end Anthony Gargiulo.

For the official word out of Columbia sports information on the Lions' spring game (with stats), click here. ... To get a sense of how the Holy Cross spring game went, click here.

Clark Judge, a Dartmouth grad and senior writer for CBSsportsline.com has become a big fan of former Brown linebacker Zak DeOssie in the days leading up to the NFL draft. Find out why here. ... Harvard tailback Clifton Dawson gets a little love from an MSNBC columnist in anticipation of the draft here.

A certain Hanover 7th grader who is in love with baseball history of the 1950's didn't believe it when he was told Willie Mays would be receiving an honorary degree at Dartmouth's commencement. Maybe he will if he clicks here. ...

While I'm at it, if you visit the link mentioned above about Columbia's spring football, I hope your clicking-finger reflexes are up to par. The Columbia sports information page is one of those annoying sites that rotates the lead story while you are on the index page. There you are reading down a descriptive paragraph about a story and just about when you are ready to click on the "more," the story changes in front of your eyes. It's like one of those advertising thingies at the top of some pages where you try to hit the gopher over the head with a sledgehammer. Dartmouth's "new" site had the same technology when it first came up and fortunately the web people listened when the complaints started. (The Princeton and Penn pages change while you are looking at them also.)