Sunday Assortment

From an SI.com story about Atlanta Braves phenom Jason Heyward:

Word was that Heyward allegedly wanted to go to Harvard because he wanted to trump both his parents who went to Dartmouth. Not true, he says. While his parents did indeed meet at Dartmouth and he's obviously no iron head, Heyward (sorry, couldn't resist), said he was never going to the Ivy League and was in fact set to play at UCLA before the hometown Braves made the McDonough, Ga., product the No. 14 choice of the 2007 draft. It's so obvious now that he's going to be a star that 13 scouting directors have to be re-checking their notes as we speak.

The president of the University of Hartford in an opinion piece in the Hartford Courant:

Six years ago, during an NCAA Division I board of directors meeting, I heard Jim Wright, the former president of Dartmouth College, say something that has stuck with me ever since: "The greatest success story of the NCAA over the past 25 years is not the explosive success of the BCS or the men's basketball tournament, but the growth of women's sports."

The Washington Post after Dartmouth president Jim Yong Kim stopped by the paper's editorial offices during the week:

He was here to discuss health care reform -- more specifically, the leadership role he believes universities should play in actually reforming health care, as in delivering it at higher quality, at lower cost, with fewer mistakes.

It's an area called health care delivery science, and Kim believes it will be a vitally important field, say, 20 or 30 years from now. At present, it's a neglected discipline. Dartmouth is starting a degree program in health care delivery, and he hopes the nation one day gets behind the endeavor in the same spirit with which it tackled AIDS and cancer research.

Today's trivia: Dartmouth's scoring plus/minus since 1987, the first year of Buddy Teevens I:

Coach Buddy Teevens:
1987 (2-8) -192 points
1988 (5-5) +11 points
1989 (5-5) -8 points
1990 (7-2-1 ) +90 points
1991 (7-2-1) +74 points
Coach John Lyons:
1992 (8-2) +161
1993 (7-3) +70
1994 (4-6) -21
1995 (7-2-1) +85
1996 (10-0) +171
1997 (8-2) +43
1998 (2-8) -84
1999 (2-8) -162
2000 (2-8) -157
2001 (1-8) -99
2002 (3-7) -48
2003 (5-5) -50
2004 (1-9) -97
Coach Buddy Teevens:
2005 (2-8) -134
2006 (2-8) -107
2007 (3-7) -76
2008 (0-10) -214
2009 (2-8) -121