Thursday, December 03, 2009

Class

The story I freelanced on safety-turned-coach Kyle Cavanaugh has been posted on the Dartmouth website. It's hard to imagine anyone having worse luck with injuries than Cavanaugh had, and harder yet to imagine anyone handling such disappointments with more grace and class.

Speaking of injuries, former Dartmouth and Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Reggie Williams gets a mention in a Pittsburgh-Post Gazette about how the "tough-guy culture" in the NFL is changing.

The Boston Globe has a nice mention of Dartmouth quarterback Alex Jenny winning the Alan Hewitt ’34 and Robert Hewitt ’40 Award as the player who best epitomizes athletic performance with academic achievement.

On the opponent front, NFLDraftScout.com reports ...
Colgate senior wide receiver Pat Simonds (Sidney, N.Y.) has been selected to participate in the 85th East-West Shrine Game at the Florida Citrus Bowl in Orlando on Jan. 23. Simonds will join Fordham quarterback John Skelton and The Citadel wide receiver Andre Roberts as the only players from Football Championship Subdivision schools placed on the rosters.
New Hampshire will be facing Villanova Saturday in a battle of the Wildcats in the NCAA Quarterfinals. A columnist from The Sports Network predicts a 28-20 win for Nova in his capsule look at this weekend's playoff games.

UNH, of course, is coming off the Dartmouth schedule next fall, to be replaced by Sacred Heart. (future schedules link) The Pioneers finished this fall with a 2-8 record, the same as Dartmouth. The wins came against St. Francis, whose coach just resigned, and Bryant, which was in its second season since moving up from Division II.

In case you are wondering, Sacred Heart returns 10 of 11 defensive starters from the final two-deep and seven starters on offense from the final two deep. Starting quarterback Dale Fink returns after completing 61.1 percent of his passes with 17 touchdowns and 13 interceptions, but leading rusher Brian Friedman and record-setting receiver Steve Tedesco both graduate.

Find the Sacred Heart football home page here.

Foxsports.com has a video with fan interviews from the Harvard-Yale game. Some of it was probably set up, but it's actually pretty funny. Take a look and you'll get a few laughs.

And finally, I probably should have linked to this before, but the Daily Dartmouth has a look at some of the options Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim will consider as it addresses budget issues. Among them: adding up to 50 students per class. The local daily has an overview of the college's push to cut spending by $100 million over two years.

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