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In this video, Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens talks about spring football with a look ahead to the Green-White.

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Speaking of spring football, Columbia's spring game a couple of weeks ago was "sponsored by Rack & Soul," and in Providence tomorrow you can catch the Brown vs. White Spring Football Game, presented by Office Max. (italics are mine) Not sure what the schools get out of the corporate connection – it's surprising that the press releases don't go out of their way to emphasize what it means for the fans – but it's clear the big-time is filtering down.

Cornell's spring game at 4 tomorrow will include a live chat during the contest. Columbia had a "live blog" during its game.

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Dartmouth will introduce its 2011 captains at halftime of the Green-White. Another reminder that this is the year of the quarterback in the Ivy League is the fact that QB Kyle Newhall-Caballero has been named a captain at Brown, junior QB Sean Brackett is a captain at Columbia and QB Tommy Wornham has been named at Princeton.

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From last night's Big Green Alert:

Taken by the New England Patriots with the 17th pick of the draft was 6-foot-9, 315-pound offensive tackle Nate Solder of Colorado. He almost ended up in New England once before.

The story has been told many times before but Solder chose playing football at Colorado over playing basketball at Dartmouth.

What is less known is that Solder might have ended up as a two-sport athlete at Dartmouth.

“His brother John played for me at Stanford,” Teevens recounted Thursday. “I once bought a tanned elk skin from his father as part of a fundraiser.

“I talked with (Nate) and told him to come on out and be a combination (basketball-football) guy for us. Obviously he has done well with football.”

Although Solder was projected as a Dartmouth basketball recruit, Teevens had other plans for him. “He would have played for us,” the coach said in no uncertain terms.

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A couple of former Dartmouth players were at Radio City Musical Hall for the draft last night and were quoted on ESPN.com. Click here to read what Carroll Papajohn '10 and Bo Yanker '10 had to say about the NFL labor issues. Thanks to a loyal reader for a link I never would have found ;-)

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Still on the draft, because longsnapper Shane Peterlin knows the odds are against him being drafted he probably can't wait until the last name is called. At that point you can bet he'll have a telephone handy in hopes of a free agent offer. The Daily Dartmouth writes about Peterlin, who is represented by Plan B Sports Management out of Cincinnati.

Peterlin and defensive end Charles Bay both have attracted the interest of NFL teams. Teevens told the Daily D:

“We like to recruit guys with the aspiration to play in the NFL, and we try to help them parlay that athletic talent into a possible career. At the same time, I also want them to have an academic dream. We talk to them about dreams outside of athletics. That’s the unique thing about the Ivies.”

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A headline from the University of New Hampshire football site:

CHaD Announces Plans for N.H. East-West High School All-Star Football Game at UNH

Green Alert Take: I was a little taken aback that an all-star game to support Children's Hospital at Dartmouth would be played 90 miles away from CHaD. Hopefully the west stands project at Memorial Field will be completed before long, allowing the Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl Game to return to its rightful home, and the new CHaD game to be played where it probably belongs as well.

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Six-foot-ten, 240-pound Yale basketball center Greg Mangano has declared for the NBA draft. That said, Mangano told the Milford-Orange (CT) Bulletin

“I fully intend on pulling my name out by the May 8 deadline. There is a form I have to send into the NBA offices by May 8. I haven’t hired an agent and that will get me fully reinstated by the NCAA.”

Mangano averaged 18.6 points and 10.4 rebounds in Ivy League player this year.

According to Mangano, while he knows he won't be picked if he stays in the draft, Yale coach James Jones told him there has been very real NBA interest. That's in contrast to the situation some years ago when a Brown benchwarmer who had no intentions of continuing to play submitted his name for the draft as a lark. Needless to say, he got lots of press and lots of laughs but was not picked.

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And finally, we had a very nice birthday dinner in town earlier this week with That Certain Hanover High Graduate. Barring a cold getting worse she'll be running the 5000 for the first time this spring tomorrow at the UMass Pre-Conference Meet. And congrats to her for being selected to be a Dartmouth Undergraduate Advisor (UGA) next year!