All-Name Team

Although not all schools have released their official lists of recruits virtually all the names have been posted somewhere, which can mean just one thing. It's time for the Ivy League Class of 2015 Football All-Name team.

Each of the Ivy schools had to be represented on the team, whose 11 members are listed in alphabetical order (with the exception of the captain of the team, who will be revealed last) ...

• Courtland Clavette, Brown LB
• Cameron Crage, Dartmouth QB
• Max Fink, Yale DL
• Jakobi Johnson, Princeton DB
  
• Obum Obukwelu, Harvard DT
• Ijeoma Odigwe, Columbia DL
• Trenton Rivera, Penn OL
• Xavier Russo, Brown LB/TE
• Niv Sultan, Harvard DL
• Fiaalii Togiaso, Cornell DT
  

And the captain of the team is ...
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• Feerooz Yacoobi, Penn FB

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The Associated Press reports that the Dartmouth men's basketball will play New Mexico State in the opening round of the Great Alaska Shootout during Thanksgiving week. Dartmouth was 5-23 last year. New Mexico State was 16-17. Also in the field are Alaska Anchorage, Southern Mississippi, Murray State, Cal Irvine, San Francisco and Central Michigan.

From a Cornell basketball blog tweet:

At least the Big Green will be comfortable with the weather and endless frontier.

Green Alert Take: I'm one of those rare folks who enjoys the trip to Cornell and would be very comfortable living around Ithaca, N.Y. But seriously, have you driven those endless, winding farm roads to Ithaca? And regarding the weather ...

Here's the average monthly snowfall for Hanover. Note that in January Hanover receives a little over 18 inches of snow on average. About 17 inches fall in a typical December.


This is the average snowfall in Ithaca, which shows a little more than 24 inches on average in January and 24 inches in December.

Go ahead. Click on the links and check out those daily highs and lows in January as well. You might just be surprised ;-)

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A web site called The Best Colleges lists what it calls The 50 Most Amazing College Campuses. These lists are ridiculously subjective – make that just ridiculous – but like car accidents, they are hard to pass by without looking.

Here's how the site explains its thought process for the list:

Because students who graduate from beautiful campuses typically report higher overall satisfaction with their college experience, we decided to put together these rankings of the 50 prettiest college campuses in the United States.

Ivy schools that made the cut:

26. Cornell
24. Yale
20. (T) Princeton
11. Harvard
9. Dartmouth

And the prettiest campus in the country according to this survey? Elon University.