Iron Men

The Dartmouth football lift test has been posted on YouTube. Either the video got flipped or they shot it off the mirrored walls but either way, it will wear you out. (Note: If you are over, say, 40, you might want to keep the volume down ;-)

SEC commissioner and former Dartmouth athlete/administrator Mike Slive has been inducted into the Greater Utica (N.Y.) Sports Hall of Fame. Find a story in the Utica Observer-Dispatch.

After completing the Covered Bridges Half Marathon yesterday that certain Hanover High junior catcher went to her softball banquet where she received a plaque for highest batting average (.468 although that's probably too high), another for the team MVP award and still another for the team Sportsmanship award. She also was named a captain for the second year in a row.

And finally, I was sitting here at the laptop a few minutes ago looking out the window while I typed when two relatively large black bears strolled briskly across the lawn. I scrambled for the camera and got my only snap off just as the hind quarters of the second of the bears was swallowed up by the woods. I've seen moose, a rare fisher cat, bears, fox, deer, turkeys and assorted other critters while blogging in the morning and you'd think I'd be smart enough to keep the camera at arm's length. But no-o-o-o ...