Big Week

This is a big week and no day of the week is bigger than Wednesday. Yup, that's the day classes begin for Hanover schoolkids.

What's that? Oh yeah, Wednesday also means football on Memorial Field. Finally. That's right, Dartmouth football practice kicks off that afternoon. And in case you are wondering, while Dartmouth is getting started later than other Ivy League schools, the number of practice sessions each school has before the opening game is the same as it is for the other Ivies. They are just distributed differently.

Stumbled across the following promo featuring Holy Cross coach Tom Gilmore, a former Dartmouth assistant. It's kind of funny although I've watched it several times and it has cut out each time before the end so I'm not completely clear on what it's all about.
Frenzy Promo featuring HC Coach Tom Gilmore


Speaking of Patriot League opponents, there's a nice offseason capsule on first-game opponent Colgate on the well-done Lehigh Football Nation blog. ... Call this Patriot League day because the Express Times has a Patriot League preview that has a look both at Colgate and Holy Cross and the Worcester Telegram writes about Holy Cross' fifth-year tight end, Ryan McGuire. (Sticking with the same theme, a full Holy Cross preview – the ninth of 10 Dartmouth opponent previews – will be posted on Green Alert premium this evening.) ...

Read about former All-America tight end Casey Cramer and his bid to retain a roster spot on the Tennessee Titans in this story in The City Paper. Titans' coach Jeff Fisher says of Cramer:

“He's very consistent. He knows what to do and how to do it, and he has fun doing it. He's a versatile player that you can plug in anywhere on special teams, and a number of different positions on offense. That's why he's been playing. He's found a home here, and we appreciate everything he's done and the things that are ahead.”

That sounds encouraging, but Cramer knows he's on the bubble and he sounds OK with that. He says:

"Whatever happens, I'll be fine. I obviously have a lot of fun playing football, but I'll be fine outside of football as well.”

Former Dartmouth women's soccer coach Erica Walsh, now the head coach at Penn State, has won a gold medal as an assistant with the U.S. women's soccer team in Beijing. There's a brief in The Collegian of Penn State.