The piles of snow surrounding Memorial Field have been moved and the facility is ready for spring practice to kick off in just under three weeks. (Click photos to supersize)
The new ballfield is awaiting the return of the Big Green from the West Coast.
A look at the "batter's eye," in center.Dartmouth placekicker Foley Schmidt gets a nod in a Minnesota high school hockey blog that takes a look at where members of the 2007-2008 Minnesota Class A state championship St. Thomas Academy Cadets skaters ended up. Turns out Foley isn't the only one playing college football.
The Daily Pennsylvanian has an update on spring practice in West Philly and it includes this on the Penn quarterback situation:
The Quakers started spring practices last week, and the coaching staff seems to have united behind behind (Keiffer) Garton as No. 1 for now. For the first time in three years, Penn has a clear succession plan.And ...
Garton was essentially the anti-Irvin: slightly smaller and with a weaker arm, but more agile and more comfortable outside the pocket.Robert Irvin was the Penn starter last year.
More from Penn: The school paper also reports that men's basketball coach Glen Miller, who has come under heavy scrutiny after the Quakers had another un-Penn like year, will return next season amid speculation that a change could be in the offing.
Still another Penn note: Former Penn quarterback-turned-big leaguer Mark DeRosa was a jack-of-all trades with the U.S. Team in the World Baseball Classic. From a New York Times story:
Because DeRosa preferred football over baseball as a quarterback at New Jersey’s Bergen Catholic High School and at the University of Pennsylvania, it actually aided his transition from shortstop to utility man. Before Atlanta drafted DeRosa in 1996, he relied on his athleticism to play baseball and did not study the sport as intensely as he studied blitz packages. DeRosa called himself “an athlete who was playing baseball.”From a mind-boggling story shared by a reader:
Teams have lost basketball games at the charity stripe. They've lost because a referee wearing black and white stripes made a bad call.A New York Times basketball story shared by a reader chronicles a sixth-grade basketball phenom from Seattle who ...
Losing partly because of a stripe on their uniforms is a little rarer.
But that's what happened before the opening tipoff Friday at the Illinois 3A state semifinal basketball game in Peoria, where referees assessed a technical foul on North Lawndale College Prep because stripes on the sides of its uniform violated a National Federation of State High School Associations rule.
... has his own line of clothing emblazoned with his signature and personal motto: “When the lights come on, it’s time to perform.” His basketball socks, which also come gratis, are marked with either his nickname, Zo, or his area code, 206. He’s expecting a shipment of Under Armour gear soon, thanks to Brandon Jennings, last year’s top high-school point guard and now a highly paid pro in Italy. He is flown around the country by A.A.U. teams that want him to play for them in tournaments — and by basketball promoters who use him to add luster to their events. A lawyer in Seattle arranged for Trier’s private-school tuition and academic tutoring to be paid for by the charitable foundation of an N.B.A. player, and the lawyer also procured free dental care for Trier.
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