Still Waiting ...

Internet woes continue. You don't realize how much you've come to rely on having access to the web and email until you don't have it. We're at three days down and counting right now. Voice mail for the one-man show that runs the ISP is full and accepting no more messages. His web site has gone 404. :-(

I'm pirating that certain wife's dial-in access to post this. It took 25 minutes to load my usual selection of sites and even after nearly half an hour some of them hadn't finished loading. And so, for as dissatisfied as those of us in rural Hanover are with our radio internet provider, unless meetings looking into stringing cable down our country road produce results (read: $$$$) we are stuck with the status quo. It isn't true broadband, but at least is faster than dialup ... when it works. Several neighbors are considering going the DirecTV route but that's not something we've given much though to. ... Yet.

Without being able to troll my usual haunts, I have just one link for you today. Colgate released capsules of its recruiting class here. Of interest, Dartmouth recruits Austen Fletcher (6-2, 285, OL, St. Anthony’s, Melville, N.Y.) and JB Andreassi ( 5-11, 185, DB, St. Anthony’s, Melville, N.Y.) will have a high school teammate on the Raiders next year. So will Shawn Abuhoff (5-10, 166, DB/WR, Dade Christian, Miami, Fla.).

Did you watch Duke-Belmont last night in the NCAA Tournament? Those who would limit the tournament to the best 64 teams and eliminate automatic bids to mid-majors (doesn't there then have to be a "low-major?") don't understand that games like that are what make the first week of the tournament so compelling for many of us. I'm much more interested in seeing Drake, Butler or Davidson go after one of the giants than yet another SEC vs. Big 12 game that I could see all year. Speaking of which, Cornell-Stanford wasn't on CBS around here. It wasn't a good game but as an Ivy League fan I would have watched it.

Also, the Dartmouth women's hoop team saw its season end with a 69-50 loss at Vermont in the WNIT.

And finally, Damon Wright hit two homers and drive in five runs while going 4-for-4 as the Dartmouth baseball team saw Kansas come back and take an 8-6 win in Bradenton, Fla., yesterday.