Spring Practice Schedule

Tracked down the schedule for spring football practice. Keep in mind that weekday times might be moved up when changes in track practice allow and weekend times are still to be decided. Should the worst happen – a late snow – a date may be shifted.

Week I
Monday, April 13 - 4:45 p.m.
Tuesday, April 14 - 4:45 p.m.
Thursday, April 16 - 4:45 p.m.
Friday, April 17 - 4:45 p.m.

Week II
Monday, April 20 - 4:45 p.m.
Wednesday, April 22 - 4:45 p.m.
Friday, April 24 - 4:45 p.m.
Saturday, April 25 - TBA

Week III
Monday, April 27 - 4:45 p.m.
Wednesday, April 29 - 4:45 p.m.
Friday, April May 1 - 4:45 p.m.
Saturday, April May 2 - TBA

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Thanks to a regular reader for a reminder that it is the time of year once again to consider the absurdity of using length of season as an excuse for keeping Ivy League football teams out of the playoffs.

Here are the numbers:
63 – days between first Dartmouth football game and last
90 – days between games if Dartmouth goes to the NCAA championship game
112 – days between first Dartmouth men's basketball game and last regular-season game
142 – days between games if Dartmouth goes to the NCAA championship game
162 – days between games if Dartmouth men's hockey goes to NCAA championship game

and for grins ...
182 – days between first NCAA hockey game and NCAA championship game

Let's hope the new Ivy League executive director can come up with a better explanation for the ban than length of season.

(And if you think I sat here with a calendar counting days, I'm not that crazy. Check out this handy website.)

Go figure, but the Columbia Spectator has a story about Dartmouth freshman pitcher Kyle Hendricks turning down a chance to sign with the Los Angeles Angels after being drafted in the 39th round and choosing instead to come to Hanover.

A pitcher who decided to take the money is Trevor Cahill, who might have been in the Big Green rotation last weekend but instead was prepping for his first big league start tonight with the Oakland Athletics. From a recent story:

By his own admission, (Cahill) was no big thing athletically until his senior year in high school. He chose the A's over Dartmouth after being picked in the second round of the 2006 draft. Forty-five minor league games later, he's penciled in to start the second game of the 2009 major league season.

Find Cahill's Oakland A's bio here.