Super 26

A Boston Herald announcement of the Super 26 dinner for the best football players in Massachusetts reminds us that not one, but two Dartmouth recruits are on the list. Super 26 players heading to Hanover late next summer are Mark Dwyer, a 6-4, 250 early decision tight end from Woburn, and Nick Schwieger, a 5-11, 195 tailback from Bishop Feehan in Attleboro. Schwieger made the team as a defensive back. Sophomore Alex Jenny, who will come into the Dartmouth spring camp as the No. 1 quarterback, is a former Super 26 member from Wayland. (Find the Boston Globe's earlier Super 26 announcement here.)

When men's and women's basketball are at the top of the Ivy League heap it's a pretty good year for athletics at Cornell no matter what football and hockey are doing. Although there's concern about whether the Big Red can continue to compete in the face of the changing financial aid picture, things are pretty rosy right now. Stack Media, which calls itself, "the nation’s leading producer and distributor of sports performance, training and lifestyle content for high school athletes and high school sports community," has Cornell No. 39 in its top 50 best schools for "academically minded athletes." From the Stack web site:

After months of crunching numbers (wins, losses, championship titles, school rankings and academic progress), we offer you a groundbreaking compilation of information that you will need to choose a school that provides the right balance of academics and athletics.

Of Cornell, Stack writes:

The lone Ivy League rep, Cornell made it by dominating wrestling (3), lacrosse (3), hockey (5) and a little thing called the U.S. News rankings (12).

Stack's co-founder and co-CEO, by the way, is former Harvard tailback Nick Palazzo '03.

A lot of people who know me think I'm a bit of a prude and I don't deny it. (You can stop laughing now.) Anyway, I applaud the folks at Penn for discouraging the, "Hey, you suck," chant at the Palestra. The Daily Pennsylvanian has a story.

Two useless pieces of trivia I did not know before. The "source," is Wikipedia, so your mileage may vary:

1. There are only five players drafted ahead of Brad Ausmus '91 (48th round) still in the big leagues. They are: Ken Griffey, Jr., Mike Timlin, Reggie Sanders, Mike Mussina and Jeff Cirillo.

2. Etna, N.H., the rural Hanover village that is world headquarters of Big Green Alert, has a population of 814, including author Jodi Picoult and a certain family of four (not counting Cooper the Golden Retriever) on the shoulder of Moose Mountain.