Times Chimes in on the Ivy Race

The Sunday New York Times has a brief look at the Ivy League race under the headline ...

Harvard Is Favored; Penn Likes Its Odds

The story includes this line, which my grad school professors would have circled in red:

Columbia, which won three league games last year, and Dartmouth, which won two, are hoping to improve.

No kidding. They hoping to improve, huh?

*

Peter Gammons has a story on MLB.com about Oakland A's pitcher Trevor Cahill, a star in the making. Or maybe a star already. From the story:

If it hadn't happened the way it did, Trevor Cahill would have graduated from Dartmouth College this June and would now be out in Tri-City, State College or Lowell, getting ready for the Instructional League.

Eye-popping stats from the story:

So here we are in the final weekend of August, and the 22-year-old Cahill is 14-5 with a 2.43 ERA that is the second-best in the American League, behind Red Sox youngster Clay Buchholz. Cahill had a run of 20 consecutive starts in which he allowed six or fewer hits, a feat matched only by Nolan Ryan over the past 30 years.

The final line:

If the A's can find a kid to turn down a Dartmouth education and four years later be in the Cy Young discussion, they may be able to do most anything.