Too Late for this Top 10

A Daily Dartmouth column lists the Top 10 things the writer would like to see as a Big Green sports fan. Too bad the columnist wasn't around a few years ago because a number of them actually happened:

• A Dartmouth game shown on ESPN (not what the writer calls the "B-side" stations like ESPN3 of ESPNU). Did you know Ivy League football once had a contract to show weekly games on the ESPN? The Big Green played on ESPN (yes that ESPN in 1988, twice in 1989 and once in 1990.)
  
• A WNBA player from Dartmouth because the Big Green, "will probably not produce another player in the NBA." Wonder if the writer knows that in bringing back Paul Cormier Dartmouth rehired a coach who produced not one, but two players who went on to the NBA? Walter Palmer '90 was the Jazz' top draft pick and also played with the Mavericks while James Blackwell '91 had cups of coffee with the Celtics and Hornets.
• A Dartmouth alum starting in the NFL. Hello Jay Fiedler. Hello Reggie Williams. And more recently, hello Casey Cramer one time.
  
• Hockey teams reaching the Frozen Four. Even the columnist notes that Dartmouth was there five years ago, which isn't really that long ago.
  
• An ESPN SportsCenter Top 10 number one play. Can't remember a number one, but I've seen a few make the top 10. The biggest splash was probably ESPN's Hidden Play of the Week in college football when placekicker Dave Regula scored a touchdown on his own kickoff at Penn.
  
• An undefeated Dartmouth football season. It's been a while but it's hard to complain too much about this. Here are the number of undefeated seasons (overall) for Ivy League teams since the start of formal Ivy League play:

4 - Dartmouth (1996, 1970, 1965, 1962)
4- Penn (2003, 1994, 1993, 1986)
2 - Harvard (2004, 1968)
2- Yale (1968, 1960)
1- Princeton (1964)
0 -Brown (none)
0 - Columbia (none)
0 - Cornell (none)

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Jim Fuller of the New Haven Register has a long story on Yale senior linebacker Jesse Reising, whose right arm is still in a sling and who spends around four hours a day in physical therapy as a result of the injury he sustained tackling Harvard's Gino Gordon in the final game of the season. The injury resulted in Reising being "dis-enrolled" from officer's candidate school although he still holds out hope that he will come back far enough to fulfill his dream of becoming a Marine Corps officer.

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Kyle Wilcox, the Florida running back who had expected to be "signing" with Princeton earlier this month only to learn he would not be receiving a likely letter from the school, will be visiting Bucknell and was visited by Penn coach Al Bagnoli according to this story out of Tampa. From the Tampa Bay Online story:

Wilcox is a national runner-up of the High School Football Rudy Awards for his inspirational story of overcoming the breakup of his family shortly before starting high school and becoming not only one of the top fullbacks in Hillsborough County, but also one of the area’s top students.