New Scrimmage Time

With baseball's Ivy League Championship Series between Dartmouth and Columbia slated for neighboring Red Rolfe Field at noon Saturday, the Green-White football scrimmage has been moved up to 10:30 a.m., to avoid a time conflict. The scrimmage had originally been set for 11 a.m.

The decision to postpone Monday's practice to this afternoon was well-advised. It was completely rotten yesterday. Today should be better. It is expected to be "mostly" rotten. ... I suppose they could call practice off again today, but with spring ball slated to wrap up Saturday and three sessions to go before then, the window is closing. If they don't go today, they would have four consecutive days of practice.

A second Ivy Leaguer has agreed to a free agent contract. That would be Harvard offensive tackle Andrew Brecher joining the Cowboys. There's a story in the Harvard Crimson and another on the Harvard website. Columbia quarterback Craig Hormann had earlier agreed to a deal with the Browns.

UNH quarterback Ricky Santos will be flying out to Kansas City this weekend after reaching a deal with the Chiefs. There's a Seacoast Online story here and a Concord Monitor story here. I don't know if Santos will make it to the NFL in his first shot, but he sure looks like a good fit for the Canadian Football League. ...

Dartmouth alum and former athletic administrator Mike Slive, the commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, "will put forth for discussion a viable, detailed and intelligent plan for a seeded 'plus-one' model (essentially a four team playoff) for determining college football’s national champion." Check out the Yahoo.com story.

The Providence Journal has a nice column about Brown alum Chris – you can call him Boomer or The Swami – Berman and the infancy of ESPN. Yes, kids, ESPN wasn't always there. The column notes it was in Berman's junior year that ...

"... Brown won its first Ivy League football championship. To this day, Berman says he remembers that, and that he covered the game. To this day, he remembers those games clearer than all the Super Bowls he’s covered.

More important, by then he knew he wanted to be a sports broadcaster when he got out of Brown.

And finally, that certain Hanover 8th grader is supposed to have his first baseball game today. He was in a panic trying to find his catcher's mitt as the bus was coming this morning and was less than pleased when I offhandedly said, "You aren't going to need it." ... His sister, meanwhile, finished third in the 19-and-under group at a 5-K Sunday. She hasn't been able to run as much as she'd like while playing catcher for the high school softball team, so she treated it like a training run. Must be nice ;-)