Recognize Anyone?

Find two of the coaches from Saturday's Green-White scrimmage over the cover of this old Dartmouth media guide for sale on eBay. One is then-coach Joe Yukica, honorary coach of the White team. The other? He's the quarterback wearing No. 5.

Instead of lifting weights for one week in February, the Brown football team lifted some other things. Like, hammers. Or maybe saws and shingles as the Bears joined in the effort to build a home for a Rhode Island family as part of the ABC television show, Extreme Makeover – Home Edition. The Brown website has a story.

The good news for the Dartmouth football team: There won't be a Ricky Santos or a David Ball on the other side of the field when UNH comes to town for the home opener on Sept. 27. The bad news: No fewer than eight starters return from an offense that racked up 35.8 points per game last fall. The Cats have seven starters back on defense. Find a story here.

Off the subject of sports, the Harvard Crimson has a nice overview of the bizarre case of the former Dartmouth professor threatening to sue her students and write a book about her experiences teaching in Hanover. There's a temptation to jump into this one with two feet, but I'll let you read the stories and come to your own conclusions. There's an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal and a story in the New York Daily News. ... Dartmouth students, by the way, have the option of receiving credit without a grade in the course, according to the Daily Dartmouth.

At noon today the Dartmouth baseball team picks up the quest for its first Ivy League title since future major leaguers Mike Remlinger '88 and Mark Johnson '90 (also the Dartmouth quarterback) helped the Big Green with the EIBL championship (Ivy League plus Army and Navy) in 1987. This year's best-of-three Ivy League championship series was postponed from the weekend because of inclement weather and so Red Rolfe Division champion Dartmouth plays host to Lou Gehrig Division winner Columbia in a pair of 9-inning games today. If the teams split, they will play the decisive game tomorrow. The games will be streamed for free here. Veteran sportscaster Bob Lipman, the voice of the minor league New Hampshire Fisher Cats, will call the action with Wayne Young doing color.

And finally, it was a good day for both that certain Hanover High sophomore and her 8th grade brother. In four trips to the plate the softball player had an RBI double over the center fielder's head, a single, two walks and three runs scored as she helped Hanover improve to 2-3. As a catcher, she also had a handful of snap pickoff throws at the corners and might well have gotten a runner off first but the call wasn't favorable ;-). The 8th-grader, a catcher like his sister – but playing this day at second base – had a pair of Texas League singles and made several strong plays in the field for his team, which dropped a close game.