Because McManus missed significant playing time due to injury last season and Scott was not on the team his freshman season, both players filed waivers with the College to be able to return to the team next fall. McManus’ request was granted, but Scott’s request was denied yesterday.Scott has appealed the decision.
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With this being the week of the US Army All-American Game, reprises of the performance by Cole Marcoux '14 in last year's event have started to pop up on the internet. Video highlights and commentary from his play in the game can be found here.*
A youth All-America game has been added at the Alamodome this year and lo and behold our little dirt road on the shoulder of Moose Mountain has a 7th grader chosen to play middle linebacker on the West team. Find a story here. His 23-player team features seven boys from Texas. The only other New Englanders who were chosen are a couple of kids from Connecticut, who will be on the East team. (In the interest of full disclosure, David played two years on my Little League team ;-)*
Missed this last month, but former Harvard captain Carl Ehrlich had an interesting column in USA Today headlined:Eyes on a prize: Heisman and Rhodes
Shouldn't we cheer a Rhodes Scholar as much as the next Heisman Trophy winner?
Shouldn't we cheer a Rhodes Scholar as much as the next Heisman Trophy winner?
From the column centered on Baltazar Zavala, Harvard's third-team wide receiver who was named a Rhodes Scholar:
Take Zar's response when the Rhodes interviewers asked him why he played football.
"I talked about how the challenges I faced with football have given me intangible skills that show up in my other work," he said. "When other students are complaining about 9 a.m. classes, I can just smile knowing I have been up since 6 a.m., when I crossed the river in zero-degree weather to work out."
Without the learned discipline of college football, maybe Zar dozes off in that morning class. In a field such as neurosurgery, in which the margin of error is slimmer than the width of a dollar bill, I'll take the doctor with that kind of resolve -- a resolve learned through amateur athletics.
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The Dartmouth men's hockey team takes on No. 1 Yale tomorrow night at Thompson Arena in what should be a great game. Harvard men's basketball certainly isn't No. 1 in the country, but the team that will invade Leede Arena Saturday afternoon proved again last night that it is no slouch. From today's Boston Globe:When the Harvard basketball team beat Boston College in 2009, it was easy to pass it off as an upset. The Eagles were coming off a victory against top-ranked North Carolina and clearly let down.In case you are wondering, Boston College isn't exactly having a down year in its first season under former Cornell coach Steve Donahue. The Eagles are 11-4 with wins over Maryland, Indiana, Cal, South Carolina and Texas A&M. Two of their four losses have come to Ivy League teams Harvard and Yale. Harvard is 10-3.
When it happened again last season, BC had no credible excuse and the loss was one of the transgressions that led to the firing of coach Al Skinner.
The unlikely streak reached three last night as the Crimson beat the Eagles, 78-69, before a crowd of 4,129 at Conte Forum.
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Speaking of Harvard basketball, after beginning the season with the Golden State Warriors, former Crimson guard Jeremy Lin was relegated to the Reno Bighorns of the NBA Developmental League in late December before being recalled by the big team. (link)*
One more thing. The 42nd Dartmouth Relays will be held this weekend at Leverone Field House. That Certain Hanover High grad will be working the event along with her teammates Friday and Saturday, before racing on Sunday afternoon.
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