Dartmouth isn't slated to kick off practice for almost three weeks (April 14). To be honest, with the FieldTurf on Memorial Field clear of snow, practice could start at any time. Keep in mind, the lacrosse teams played their first games on Memorial Field a full month ago.
Having said all that, there's still some of the white stuff around. For kicks, I thought I'd share a few pictures I shot this morning up here on the shoulder of Moose Mountain. (Click to supersize 'em):
I chipped enough ice out of the driveway for a very small three-point arc because the kids wanted to get outside and shoot baskets. It's pretty narrow on the sides because the piles of snow are about 5-6 feet high and easily 10 feet deep along the driveway. 
We had a standing seam roof put on our house last fall. The good news: No ice dams that can cause the roof to leak. The bad news: When you have as much snow as we have had this winter (more than 10 feet) the snow cascades off the roof and builds piles. Big piles. This free standing lantern, which was tilted by the snow, is 6 feet off the ground. Until a couple of weeks ago all that was visible was the cap on top.
Lest you think the driveway is cleared, here's a glimpse at what my wife got stuck on this morning with our four-wheel drive. Fortunately I was able to rock the car enough to get it out. The ice is probably 3-4 inches thick the length of the driveway. Given the forecast, it's going to be here for a while.Back to football ...
Dartmouth assistant JJ Jackson gets a mention in this Tulsa World story about the Tulsa Talons Arena football league team.
If you thought Dartmouth might not see Colgate's Jordan Scott next fall because of the star tailback's legal problems don't write him off just yet. He's pictured on the cover of the Raider spring prospectus. (Find a PDF of the prospectus here.) Of Scott, the prospectus says:
He has the opportunity to become Colgate’s all-time leading rusher this coming season. Senior All-America running back Jordan Scott (5-11, 205) enters the final season of his outstanding career needs 748 yards to accomplish that goal. One of the premier tailbacks in the Football Championship Subdivision he has recorded three straight 1,000 rushing seasons for the Maroon and White. Last season, Scott led the nation with 170.5 yards per game while increasing his career rushing total to 4,473 yards.Even in a hypothetical Columbia Spectator story about the Lions winning next fall's Ivy League championship, Dartmouth doesn't get any love. It all goes to HYP. From the story:
The Lions have forty-five juniors and seniors, several players who dominate their positions, and a decent amount of depth. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton will be stacked next year, but if all the bad luck from last season balances out, then it’s not unreasonable to imagine the Lions grabbing at least a share of the title.The Daily Princetonian has a slide show from Princeton's Quidditch match with Middlebury. Not sure if Quidditch, the game "popularized" by the Harry Potter books, is sports page material, but there you go.
And finally this. That certain, very excited Hanover 8th grader got up at 6 this morning to watch the major league baseball season opener. He's a big baseball fan and was beside himself about the start of the season. Lo and behold, he headed downstairs and turned on the TV only to find what you Personal Computer types refer to as "the blue screen of death." (We Mac types don't know about such a thing.)
Turns out that while ESPN was hyping the game up, down, in and out, those of us who live in what is termed "Red Sox Nation," were blacked out (blued out?) on ESPN because the rights to the game were owned by New England Sports Network. Because ESPN is part of our regular DirectTV package and we won't pay extra for NESN, we were left out in the cold. Not that ESPN let us know that in advance. (In fact, I came down to see that certain disappointed 8th grader watching Sports Center and being told by the anchor, "We don't have to tell you what's happening in the game because it's being shown right over at ESPN2," or something to that effect. Um, not for all of us, big fella.)
Now, I suppose I understand why NESN has to be protected from having the whole season's slate of games available on the DirectTV "baseball package," which we bought last year after being promised we'd get the Sox. (My wife is the big Sox fan in the family and she gave the three of us the go-ahead to get the baseball package mostly so she could watch her beloved Sox. Boy did she get duped.) But it's really annoying to find ESPN or ESPN2 just sitting there with a blue screen when the Sox are on nationally.
It's incredibly shortsighted of major league baseball not to have the season opener for all of baseball available to everyone who has cable or satellite TV. Sorry for the rant, but it didn't exactly put that certain 8th grader in a good mood this morning.
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