Get Your Kicks - Blocked

Dartmouth's notes for Saturday's game against Cornell have been posted here. A nod to sports pub director Rick Bender for following a hunch and doing the legwork that the NCAA doesn't do to and digging up exactly where the Big Green stands nationally in blocked kicks/punts. Here's a list of the teams that lead the country:

• Eastern Kentucky 9
• Central Conn. State 8
• Bryant 7
• Mississippi Valley State 7
• Old Dominion 7
• Wagner 7
• Dartmouth 6

The official Dartmouth release on Saturday's game can be found here. And if all you are looking for is the depth chart, click here.

The Los Angeles Japanese Daily News, not a publication often linked to here, has a story about a strong safety from Harvard-Westlake School who is collecting Ivy League "offers." From the story:

I got my first offer from Columbia in the summer. Air Force offered a little bit later. That was just based on my junior film. Then I went to a bunch of camps this summer. That’s when Princeton offered. Then I visited the Yale campus. They heard about my other three offers and I think that made them want to offer too. And I just got offers from Cornell and Dartmouth last week.

The Wall Street Journal Online has an amusing bit on onetime Dartmouth quarterback that goes this way:

Former Dolphins quarterback Jay Fiedler got one perk in his post-NFL stint as a beach volleyball player: a taste from a $2,250-a-bottle Jose Cuervo 250 Aniversario, which contains tequila that is over 100 years old. Jose Cuervo, a sponsor of the AVP Tour when Mr. Fiedler competed, offered VIP samples before the liquor's release to the general public. "I never tasted any tequila like this," says Mr. Fiedler. "I thought a $6 pint of Guinness was the good stuff!"

From the Shutdown Corner sports blog (video follows):

"In a semi-pro football game last week, Mauriece McIver of the Las Vegas Cobras made a clean, open-field tackle on a punt returner. The only problem? The guy he tackled was on his own team."

@ Yahoo! Video

Extra Point

If you are driving up to Hanover this weekend for the game, beware of moose on I-89. They have been known to wander onto the highway this time of year and they do get hit. (We hit one with our VW bus – actually it hit us – a few years ago up north, but I digress ...) So be on the lookout for moose but that's not all. A motorist (how anachronistic is that term?) hit a wild boar just north of Exit 11 Sunday night. True story you can find here.