And Away From Sports ...

A little news brief of the non-football variety to start the day. ...

PayScale has released its latest report on salaries/salary potential and Dartmouth not only leads the Ivy League in mid-career median salary ($129,000), but it also leads the nation as a New York Times posting shows. The Atlantic has a piece that, while originally mentioning Dartmouth University, also includes this disclaimer on the study:

The pool of respondents is not randomized, but rather self-selected and the statistics are self-reported online. PayScale only included respondents whose highest degree was a bachelors, which counts out lawyers, doctors and other jobs that require a degree.

Green Alert Take: When it comes to rankings like this and the U.S. News & World Report college rakings, as long as you are in the top tier, quibbling about where you fall within that tier is silly. Still, it's always nice to finish at the top in anything.

With the 2009 season around the corner, here's an old College Sporting News reminder of how the 2008 Ivy League season went. (Dartmouth fans read at your own risk.)

Whether Harvard can build on the nation's best winning record this decade is yet to be determined, but the Crimson continues to get respect. When defensive back Matthew Hanson was named a preseason All-American, he became the fourth different Harvard player to be so named this summer. The Crimson now has had a preseason All-American each of the past 10 years. Find a story on the Harvard website.

The Daily Pennsylvanian's look at incoming freshmen in West Philly turns this week to defensive linemen. Find the story here.

Several years ago I suggested Dartmouth add a question on a form it sends to incoming athletes in all varsity sports asking if there's anything about the student-athlete that the media might find really unique or interesting. (We writer-types eat that stuff up.) Don't know if the folks at Lehigh do the same thing (although I suppose I might find out a year from now) but in the case of an incoming football player, they don't need to. The Morning Call has a story about a Mountain Hawk recruit who moonlights as a successful drag racer. Neat story.