It's Penn Week

The Ivy League office has its Dartmouth-Penn preview for the weekend up. Find it here. ...

Villanova, which had just four interceptions a year ago, had seven against Penn last week alone. The Daily Pennsylvanian explains how the Wildcats did it here. ... A DP columnist mulls what he would be thinking if he were the Quaker backup quarterback here. ...

South Florida high school quarterback Connor Kempe, who orally committed to Dartmouth last week, gets a mention (as does his decision) in this story. ...

Former Dartmouth assistant coach Don Brown, now head coach at UMass, is inducted into the Norwich University Hall of Fame. ... Jay Fiedler -- remember him? -- gets a mention in this story about injuries sidelining some of the NFL's Jewish players. It's unclear from this story if the writer spoke with Jay or is making assumptions about Fiedler's football future. ...

Yes, Dartmouth has seen the last of Ricky Santos. But the Big Green probably hasn't seen the last of the talented UNH quarterbacks. Freshman R.J. Toman opened eyes with his play against Dartmouth Saturday as this story reports. (I can see the headlines now: Toman poisoning UNH opponents) ... The UNH defensive philosophy: Bend don't break and then turn 'em over according to this story.

And finally ...

Here's a weird one. I type a lot of words every year. I mean, A LOT of words, all on my Mac iBook. I wore the imprint off a bunch of letters on the keyboard some time ago but Saturday brought something new. My left pinky finally wore a hole right through the plastic on the "A" key. I'm going to have to get some epoxy and fill it.

In case you are curious, the letters I've worn out are: A, S, D, E, C, N, L and M. I kind of expected the missing letters might be R, S, T, L, N, and E, didn't you Vanna?

(An aside: It's pretty funny when someone borrows my computer to send an email and asks me where one of the missing letters is. I have a little trouble with that until I sit down and put my hands on the keyboard. I guess my fingers have been trained to work a little faster than my brain ;-)