North Of The Border, Eh?

Barring a change of plans, Derham Cato '05 and Anthony Gargiulo '06 should be in their respective Canadian Football League camps now. Cato, a defensive tackle, is with the Toronto Argonauts while defensive end Gargiulo is with the Calgary Stampeders. Find Cato's bio on the Argos' web site here. Helping Cato since graduated has been Select Athlete Services. His fact sheet with SAS is here and you can access video of him running the 40 here. ... Find Gargiulo's bio with the Stamps here. (Although it lists him at his college weight of 235, he's now over 250.) ...

The Palm Beach newspaper lists some of the celebrities who turned out for the inaugural Raymond Floyd Invitational, which raised $200,000 for the Don Shula Foundation for Breast Cancer Research and the Sandler O'Neill Assistance Foundation:

"Legendary Hall of Fame Coach Shula, his wife Mary Anne and son David Shula, Old Palm Members, joined hosts Raymond and Maria Floyd and their entire family in welcoming guests like former Dolphins quarterback Jay Fiedler, Hall of Fame Dolphins quarterback Bob Griese ..."

Lacrosse seems to be a quickly growing sport but a commentary in Lacrosse Magazine wonders why the men's version of the sport hasn't exploded on major college campuses in the spring and still takes a back seat to offseason football at many schools. An interesting story includes this surprising fact:

(N)ot since Notre Dame's first varsity season of 1981 has the sport seen a major football-playing university add men's lacrosse. Michigan State, a prominent Big 10 school, dropped its varsity team in 1997.

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Some of you know that while a certain Hanover 7th grader moved up to 90-foot bases this spring, I stayed behind to help coach his old Hanover Green Machine Little League baseball team once again. I just updated our stats and have to share this. Believe it or not, we have a player batting a legitimate .839 with eight home runs in the 12 games in which he has played. No one else on the team has hit one homer. The Big Dog has 36 RBI's. Next on the team: a player with five. The Green Machine, by the way, is 10-2-1 heading into tonight's regular-season finale.