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Dartmouth In The DesertIn honor of UNH week, former Dartmouth quarterback Mike Fritz '07 shared this photo of a ticket from the 2006 Granite Bowl game taken in Jordan. Fritz, on a five-month work assignment in Dubai, spent the weekend in Jordan with a Dartmouth friend. (click to enlarge)

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The PA announcer, media, fans and Dartmouth defenders apparently weren't the only ones having occasional trouble figuring out whether Colgate quarterback Greg Sullivan had the ball or handed it off to Jordan Scott during Saturday's game. Check out what Colgate coach Dick Biddle had to say in a Syracuse.com story:

"I didn't know who had the ball half the time. I couldn't tell, to be honest with you."

More from the story:

Eventually, Big Green defenders started leveling anyone who could have the ball, as Scott often found himself flattened while serving as a decoy.

"Whether I have the ball or not, I think the coaches are telling them just to hit me," Scott said. "I really do believe that. And that's fine with me, because he's (Sullivan) five, seven, eight, 20 yards down the field."

Scott, of course, finished with 239 yards rushing while Sullivan finished with 136 in Colgate's 34-20 win.

The Daily Pennsylvanian has a roundup of Ivy games here. ...

Here's a headline you never thought you'd see in the Brown Daily Herald: Defense helps football to victory over Stony Brook. If Brown is playing tough defense – for you Ivy League newbies, Brown has long been more WAC than Big Ten – the Bears are going to be, well, bears to beat. At media day last month Brown coach Phil Estes spoke very highly of his defense and the D-line in particular. Saturday did nothing to change his opinion. From the Herald story:

"Against a team that was big and physical, that had some great running backs and a big offensive line, we physically dominated the line of scrimmage," said Head Coach Phil Estes. "Today was one of the great efforts by a whole group of inspired defenders, and this was, since I've been here, one of the best defensive efforts."

The comeback of the weekend took place before 20,462 at Harvard Stadium where Harvard erased a 24-12 deficit in the final nine minutes to win, 25-24 against a very good Holy Cross team. Find the game story in the Harvard Crimson. ... The Princeton band did not exactly enjoy southern hospitality Saturday at The Citadel as the Daily Princetonian reports. ...

Back to the New Hampshire game ... Dartmouth will be facing a team that can both run and throw this weekend when UNH comes to town. Allan Lessels writes in the Manchester Union Leader that the Wildcats are simply taking care of business.

Time and distance have given Jay Fiedler a little more perspective on following Dan Marino as Miami Dolphins' quarterback. In this story from an ABC TV station, he opens up a little more than he seemed to in the past. Fiedler says:

"There were a lot of people who appreciated me at the time, but there was always that certain group on the talk radio, in certain papers, certain fans at games that would boo pretty loudly. I'm sure they're still wearing 13 jerseys in Miami. That's not going to change."

Did you catch the ceremonies from the final game at Yankee Stadium last night? Our TV has been out for about three weeks so I didn't get to watch it, but we listened to festivities on the Yankee radio broadcast. For a kid who grew up idolizing Mickey Mantle, Bobby Richardson and Clete Boyer, it was pretty touching stuff. One of my boyhood friends called last week to tell me he had two tickets and invited me to go, but it would have been too much on a busy weekend and there was that little matter of yesterday's jayvee game. Besides, I got choked up in Montreal when I went to the Expos' last game. I can't imagine how it would have felt to be at the last game in the stadium where I saw my first big league game as a young boy.

And finally, that certain Hanover High School junior finished 20th of 182 runners as her team ran away with the 26-team Black Bear Invitational Saturday. Hanover had 60 points to the next team's 109, and the third-place team's 149. Although she's still getting the hang of cross country – she said her first mile was ridiculously fast – she covered the 5K course in 19:50. They have an even bigger invitational this weekend in Manchester with schools from as far away as Rhode Island coming in. ... That certain Hanover High freshman will be on the field this afternoon when traditional rival Lebanon visits for a junior varsity game.

Tonight on Green Alert Premium: The first weekly installment of The Optimist and The Pessimist.