Back At Ya

Shortly before sacking out Sunday night I spotted the welcome green light on our Apple Base Station. Internet is once again alive and well on Moose Mountain. (For the time being, at least.) ...

Let's see what we have today. First, for those who doubt the positive impact resulting from a college having a significant athletic success (read: Davidson basketball), a study purports to show the Flutie Effect is real. If you don't know, or can't figure out what the Flutie Effect is, skip ahead ;-)

Sophomore defensive back Muhammad Abdul-Shakoor ran an 11.04 100 meters at the Baldy Castillo Invitational at Arizona State over the weekend. Former wide receiver Brian Evans was clocked in 11.13. Evans bested Abdul-Shakoor in the 200, finishing in 22.49 to the d-back's 22.70.

Dartmouth is mentioned in connection with junior Bucky Kennedy, a 5-11, 195 running back from Ridge View High School in South Carolina. Say this about Dartmouth's recruiting tentacles: It's hard to judge exactly what they are bringing in, but they are certainly mixing it up with some well-regarded football programs. Kennedy is said to have attracted interest from Clemson, Auburn, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest and Duke. Oh, right. And Harvard, Yale and Princeton.

The latest installment of former Harvard wide receiver Corey Mazza's diary about playing football for Italy's Parma Panthers is up at the ESPN The Magazine site. Find Week Three here. If you missed the first two installments, Week One is here and Week Two is here.

Speaking of Davidson, I'm not too proud to say I had the Wildcats winning their first two games in my NCAA bracket. I would have had them in my Final Four bracket (you earn the total points of the seed for each of the five teams you choose who make it to the Final Four) but never got my entry in on account of our internet woes.

And finally, Dartmouth's spring teams are back on campus this week and being welcomed by something-less-than spring temperatures. It was 10 degrees this morning on the mountain and the forecast is for single digits overnight. We could hit the 40's the next two days but that might well be it until next week. They had a snowblower out on the baseball infield Saturday.