Catch Up With the Green

A new website called Lateral Sports is serving as a "search aggregator" that provides links to streaming video, audio or live stats for college teams. Although it doesn't appear to distinguish between paid video/audio and freebies, it's an interesting concept and worth taking a look at. Find the Dartmouth Lateral Sports links for upcoming contests here.

Here's a fun one. On the Lateral Sports home page, type in your zip code and find a list of college athletes from your area.

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Dartmouth defensive back Chad Hollis has a column in the Daily Dartmouth that begins this way:

Think back to every great football movie you’ve ever seen. Now think about the last scene. Think about the epic goal-line push in “Friday Night Lights,” the inspiring halftime speech in “Any Given Sunday” and the amazing last-second touchdown in “Remember the Titans.” Now ask yourself: What do these moments all have in common?

Stumped? While you might be tempted to say large sweaty men or a soundtrack filled with inaudible grunts, the answer is a little more obvious. These three movies highlight three very different aspects of football that each contains a final football game under stadium lights.

And then the kicker ...

Dartmouth football finally has the chance to recreate one of these memorable moments. Last week, the Town of Hanover authorized the installation of permanent lights on Memorial Field.

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Speaking of night football at Dartmouth, have you checked out the poll over there to the left? It probably should have been mentioned that a Thursday night game would probably only be an option if it meant television.

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Dartmouth long-snapper Shane Peterlin gets a quick mention in a Massachusetts' paper story previewing the NFL draft. (link) As noted last night on the Green Alert site, Peterlin has been joined in Hanover by former Dartmouth punter Brian Scullin '09, who recently got a call from the Washington Redskins and is in town working out. He's also offering a little guidance to punter Daniel Barstein while he's in campus.

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Check out this Yale spring practice video. (I turned off the audio ;-) And this one that has a little more football.

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A Columbia Spectator columnist questions why Cornell is having so much athletic success and points at future job opportunities available to Cornell grads as playing a role in recruiting top athletes to Ithaca. Certainly Wharton doesn't hurt Penn's recruiting.

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When Dartmouth football plays host to Bucknell in Hanover on Oct. 19, 2013, these Bucknell recruits will be juniors.

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The news that UMass is expected to announce a move to the MAC and what used to be called Division I-A gets something less than an enthusiastic greeting from Dave Coulson of College Sporting News and the Lehigh Football Nation.