Buddy Teevens near the start of his epic ride.I received the following email from a subscriber regarding Dartmouth football coach Buddy Teevens and the contributions his cross country bicycle ride raised for Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center through The Prouty, which takes place Saturday. This fellow wrote:
"I just put him at $14,001.00, let's see if you can drum up enough support in next few days to put him over 15K."Teevens' ride was not planned as a fundraiser. It just grew into that, and in some ways that has made the outpouring of support it has engendered even more wonderful.
The subscriber-turned-friend (a description I'd like to think applies to many of you) had already made a contribution in Buddy's honor, but like me, when he saw the total had stalled at $13,818 he could almost smell $14,000, and so he made it happen.
While $15,000 would be another nice, round number, it's probably too much to hope for at this point. But with 26th The Prouty on tap Saturday, this is the start of a final push to try to help the event reach its $1.5 million goal. As of this morning, it had raised $1,076.509. Coach Teevens is just outside of the top five fundraisers, an astonishing feat considering he's sort of a Prouty "write-in" rider.
If you'd like to help out, take a look over on the right and click on the CONTRIBUTE link, just below the Prouty logo.
Thank you.
I had a chance yesterday to visit with filmmaker Erik Anjou Greenberg and screen a rough cut of his upcoming Ivy League football documentary For Love & Honor. A former defensive lineman at Middlebury, Erik has a lot of time left in the trenches before the film is completed but it's clear this is going to be special. Erik is in Hanover collecting historic clips for the film, which may run two hours...I posted this link once before, but for an interesting Q&A with Erik that explains a little more about this film, click here.
The Daily Dartmouth has an interesting story about rules and regulations regarding summer employment of varsity athletes. There aren't many times when I read something and think, "I wish I'd thought about writing that story when I was still at the newspaper," but this is one of them. A couple of excerpts in case you aren't the click-a-link type:
To avoid problems with athletes receiving excess amounts of money or other compensation from employers, the NCAA requires all varsity athletes to fill out a form to identify athletes who work for alumni or boosters of athletic programs and to identify the nature of that relationship.
(T)he (student-athlete employment statement) asks the athlete to identify his projected employer, the athlete’s job title, the salary rate, the job’s connection to a work-study program, individuals who assisted the athlete in getting the projected job and those individuals’ known connection to Dartmouth athletics.The way Calgary defensive end Anthony Gargiulo's '06 alphabetizing talent(?) is gaining attention, he could end up on Letterman. (Actually, that's a pretty good idea. Anyone have any connections?) There's a blurb at the end of this column in the San Antonio Express News...After getting run over Sunday in Saskatchewan, the Stampeders have a quick turnaround for a Thursday game against the Toronto Argonauts. With injury issues on the defensive line, the Stamps hope big 92 is able to go. From a Calgary Sun story:
(O)nly Gargiulo, who missed the game Sunday with a thigh injury, has a chance at joining the lineup and reclaiming his starting defensive end spot, but that's only if he's healthy enough.
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