I Beat You And You Beat Them And ...

A reader sent along the following chain of results that proves without doubt why Dartmouth would beat Ohio State this year:

Dartmouth beat Cornell, Nov. 3
Cornell beat Bucknell, Sept. 15
Bucknell beat Fordham, Nov. 17
Fordham beat URI, Sept. 1
Rhode Island beat UMass, Nov. 3
UMass beat Hofstra, Nov. 17
Hofstra beat Furman, Sept. 8
Furman beat Georgia Southern, Nov. 10
Georgia Southern beat Appalachian State, Oct. 20
Appalachian State beat Michigan, Sept. 1
Michigan beat Illinois, Oct. 20
Illinois beat Ohio State, Nov. 10

(Editing note: Being a Michigan State person, he didn't capitalize the M in michigan. Funny.)

Anyway, when I complimented him on the chain, I asked, somewaht hesitantly, if he'd worked it up by hand. (I suspected he had, and turns out I was right.)

I probably shouldn't have, but I then sent him this link to a program that does the same thing automatically. His humorous response: "There's an ONLINE PROGRAM? Arrgh. There's 20 minutes of my life I won't get back."

The incoming early decision recruit class is now up on the regular site. I've got links to more background on each of the players that I will post in another day or two, but right now I've got to hurry into West Lebanon to beat the holiday traffic. No, I'm not shopping. I've got to get to the town dump, which requires passing through that entire strip on the Saturday before Christmas, and folks, that's nothing less than a nightmare. If you don't think there's heavy traffic in our little corner of the world, try going to Best Buy in West Leb today. It could take you an hour to go one mile.

And finally, today's the first indoor track meet of the season for a certain Hanover High sophomore. She's running the 3,000. Should be fun to watch ... unless I get caught up in traffic heading back from the dump so ... I'm outta here.