On The Road

10:45 update to movies list: The Sandlot. Thanks for a subscriber for bringing it up. I saw it for the first time with my kids a few years ago and we now own a copy. A very sweet movie.

(PS: I'm sure I'll have another few additions ...)

2007 Football Travel Accomodations

UNH Sept. 22
Holiday Inn
Portsmouth, N.H.

Yale Oct. 6
Four Points Sheraton Meriden
Meriden, Conn.

Holy Cross Oct. 13
TBA

Harvard Oct. 27
Sheraton Braintree Hotel
Braintree, Mass.

Brown Nov. 10
Marriott Providence
Providence, R.I.

It's a slow football Thursday so for a change of pace, check out the amazing halftime show at a Dartmouth basketball game this winter featuring a pair of Big Green tennis players (and do watch it to the end because they do stuff you won't believe):


For a story about twins Jennifer and Danielle Murray, click here.

Now, I warned you that it's a slow football Thursday, so here's a real change of pace. I've always wanted to compile a list of my favorite all-time movies and finally did so late in the winter. You'll quickly notice I'm not much of one for high-brow flicks. In no particular order, the current list (subject to change when I think of one I missed):

• Casablanca
• On Golden Pond
• The Graduate
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Back to the Future
• The Sting
• Wizard of Oz
• Endless Summer
• The Year of Living Dangerously
• Das Boot
• Rocky
• E.T.
• Breaking Away
  
• The Purple Rose of Cairo
• Animal House
• Hoosiers
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Field of Dreams
• The Paper Chase
• Somewhere in Time
• A Christmas Story
• The Great Santini
• Tender Mercies
• Tin Cup
• The Electric Horseman
• Toy Story
• Witness
• Apocalypse Now
• City Slickers
• Jeremiah Johnson