It's the calm before the storm here in Hanover. Calm as in astonishingly blue skies without even a hint of wind. Storm as in a Nor'easter headed this way. We've got about 10 inches of standing snow here on the mountain and could get another foot or more tomorrow. To quote the song, it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. If you are curious, it was one degree out when I headed down the driveway at 8 a.m., to get the morning paper.
That paper, by the way, had no mention I could find of the FCS national championship game played last night in Chattanooga between Appalachian State and Delaware. For App State the season had fabulous symmetry. It ended the way it began, with a win over a team with the funny helmet design that was was developed at Princeton and popularized in Ann Arbor. Final score: Appalachian State 49, Delaware 21. In case your morning paper ignored the game, find a story here.
A Chicago Sun Times story headlined Unlucky, ignored, they get no offers, tells of Chicago-area football players who were overlooked in the first wave of recruiting. One of those players is a defensive back from Notre Dame high school who has heard from Dartmouth, among others.
Not sure if Dartmouth was seriously involved, but a 6-4 quarterback from California who decided on Tulane apparently had the Big Green on his list along with the Green Wave according to this story.
And finally. ... A certain Hanover High sophomore who had been excited to start her winter track season along with 24 other schools at Leverone Field House tomorrow was disappointed to learn that the meet had been cancelled before the first snowflake flew. (Given the difficulty of scheduling Leverone, the meet cannot be rescheduled.)
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