Poll Position

Last week's poll question:

How do you feel about Dartmouth once again playing Harvard in a preseason "game?" (a scrimmage against an FCS team outside of the Ivy is unworkable.)

A whopping 61 percent liked playing Harvard. The next choice was playing a DIII school (22 percent) followed by playing a different Ivy (9 percent). Six percent preferred no outside scrimmage.

Since I've been on the scene Dartmouth has scrimmaged Columbia, Brown and Plymouth State. Selfishly, I like the Harvard preseason action because it is played as a game instead of a scrimmage with different "situations."

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Wednesday's BGA blog had a note about former linebacker Matt Royer '93 and his wife teaming up on a children's book called Nightbear & Lambie. Today we go a little farther afield.

Carl Romero '90 – AKA Cha-Cha – was a placekicker for the Big Green. His wife is Cathy Carter-Romero. And her brother-in-law (are you following all this?) is Tom Earle, a former Dartmouth hockey player. Well, Tom has written a young adult novel called The Hat Trick. Find information about it on Amazon.ca.

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The Sports Network has a look at the Patriot League up. TSN has capsules on each team and predicts the race will go this way (Dartmouth opponents in italics):

1. Colgate
2. Lehigh
3. Holy Cross
4. Lafayette
5. Bucknell
6. Georgetown
7. Fordham (ineligible)

TSN picks Holy Cross safety Anthony DiMichele as the league's defensive player of the year.

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Speaking of Holy Cross, the Boston Globe has a story about 6-foot-3, 245-pound Crusader defensive end Mude Ohimor, the preseason PL Defensive Player of the Year as named by the conference coaches. (The photo accompanying the story is from the Dartmouth game.)

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Back to The Sports Network, columnist Craig Haley writes about the return of Princeton tailback Jordan Culbreath and Grambling defensive lineman Christian Anthony who is now facing his own frightening illness.

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We'll be at the Manchester Fisher Cats (Class AA ) minor league baseball game tonight where the Green Machine Little League team I helped coach is being honored after a 16-0 championship season. Fun stuff for the kids, who will walk out to their positions for the National Anthem with the players. Our fireballing reliever will throw out the ceremonial first pitch. Should be fun.

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I wasn't sure I would be able to make it to Manchester tonight before the Dartmouth practice schedule came out. Fortunately, the team will be on Memorial Field this morning, so I'll be zipping off to practice No. 3 shortly. Check BGA Premium later this afternoon for a look at how it went. And while you are at the main site, do look back over the opponent previews if you haven't already. A ton of work went into them and there's some interesting thoughts about the teams standing between Dartmouth and its goals.