Score One for the Non-Scholarship Guys

Those of you who fall back on the argument that the Ivy League wouldn't be competitive as a reason not to go to the NCAA football playoffs might want to check out what happened in the Lehigh-Northern Iowa game yesterday. Congratulations to the Patriot League champion Mountain Hawks, 14-7 winners, who made a statement by dealing No. 16 UNI an opening-round loss in the playoffs for the first time in 16 years. The Des Moines Register has a story. Lehigh will now visit No. 3 Delaware on Saturday.

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Congratulations, as well, to the Dartmouth men's ice hockey team for its first sweep of Harvard since 1995-96, and to the men's basketball team for an 80-63 win over Colgate.

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Next on tap: a huge men's soccer game between Dartmouth and UCLA in the NCAA Sweet 16. You can access live audio of the game here.

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It was breezy in the absolute top row of Rentschler Field yesterday, but That Certain Hanover High Student and his best buddy thoroughly enjoyed UConn's 38-17 win over Cincinnati that puts the Huskies in the driver's seat for a BCS bowl game. The stinging in my face from the constant wind (did I say breezy? Wrong.) subsided a couple of hours after our three-hour drive home ;-)

It was kind of fun to watch UConn's Jordan Todman run for 175 yard. His name frequently popped up on my web searches for Dartmouth a few years ago because he was a star running back at Dartmouth High School in North Dartmouth, Mass. Todman is second in the nation in rushing at 148.1 yards per game, behind only Oregon's LaMichael James.

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And finally, finish off your Thanksgiving Weekend with a look at the NFL Today video, Chris Henry's Legacy Lives On from CBS TV. Keep a hanky handy. (Thanks for the link.)