Any Given Sunday

Several times last fall and I believe at least once this spring I was walking past the football locker room in Davis Varsity House and heard an inspiring pep talk blasting through the walls and windows. It wasn't coach Buddy Teevens. It wasn't one of his assistants. It wasn't one of his captains.

It was a recording of Al Pacino in the film Any Given Sunday. No doubt, it's a pretty impressive speech. See Pacino deliver the speech and listen to it by clicking below (warning: there's a little language):



The film's web site can be found here.

It will NEVER happen in the Ivy League, but talk continues about letting college football players have five years of eligibility. Not four years and a redshirt, but five years to play the game. Check out what legendary commentator Beano Cook has to say about it here. (Scroll down the right column and click on Cookin' With Beano.) Cook, by the way, expects it to happen and that wouldn't be good news for the Ivy League.

Princeton grad Brig Walker, who is of Japanese heritage, is in Japan playing in the third annual IFAF championships. There's a story in the Japan Times. Walker helped Team USA beat Germany last Thursday, 33-7.