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Dartmouth baseball, meanwhile, completed its first four-game sweep of Harvard since 1995 and came within a Cornell win over Princeton yesterday of hosting the Ivy League Championship Series. Dartmouth, now 28-10 overall and 14-6 in the Ivy League, plays the best-of-three series at Princeton starting Saturday for the Ivy championship and the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Green has won 10 consecutive games.*
Defensive back/Daily Dartmouth writer Chad Hollis does a Q&A with four athletes including fellow DB Shawn Abuhoff and offensive lineman Ryan O'Neill. (link)*
The College Sporting News site has a list of FCS draft classes from 2000 through this year. Dartmouth's Casey Cramer is listed in the 2004 class.*
A Columbia Spectator story about Harvard's slam-dunk recruiting in men's basketball includes a quote from Lions coach Kyle Smith that reminds us of the value of the Harvard "brand." From the story:“I don’t think that’s any secret,” Smith said. “I’m a parent and if the Harvard coach says I’d like to sit down and talk with you about your son I’m going to listen for sure.”
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Four Brown sports have received at least a temporary reprieve. From a Brown Daily Herald story:The men's and women's fencing teams, men's wrestling team and women's ski team will be allowed to compete through next academic year, wrote President Ruth Simmons in an email to the Brown community Friday afternoon. Simmons' recommendations to the Corporation about potential cuts of varsity teams will be postponed until the fall.
Simmons will still recommend to the Corporation in May that the University make changes to its athletics program this fall by reserving fewer spots for recruited athletes, creating a plan to increase athletics staff and coaching salaries, improving financial aid for all students and fundraising for the athletics department's "most urgent additional needs," she wrote in her email.
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A funny column about how the United Football League will get one writer's attention during the NFL work stoppage mentions Joe Moglia, the Omaha Nighthawks' coach. It points out he hasn't coached since 1983 when he was defensive coordinator at Dartmouth. Joe wasn't actually the defensive coordinator – although that continues to show up everywhere – but you get the idea.*
Russell Wilson, the talented North Carolina State quarterback and son of former Dartmouth football player Harry Wilson, has been granted his release from the Wolfpack. Wilson's exploits as an All-ACC quarterback with NC State were widely heralded but this story seems to suggest that a rift developed over his continuing to combine college football with minor league baseball in the Colorado Rockies organization.*
As a couple of football parents heard again during yesterday's Freshman Parents Weekend hike up to Velvet Rocks, I'm pretty bullish on life up here on Moose Mountain. It's pretty special. That said, it doesn't come without its challenges.We don't get much traffic on our dirt road, but it's not unusual when we do for cars to stop right at the end of our driveway to look at the view across the road. Lately, though, every car coming down the road has either stopped or slowed down at the end of our driveway. That's because for about 50 yards, including right in front of our driveway, the road resembles a muddy minefield. Mud season is over – everywhere except in front of our house.
The other challenge we've been battling the past couple of days is not having any water as the pump to our well appears to have gone kaput. That being the case, we carried bottles and milk cartons across the road to the 1700's farmhouse that is used as a summer getaway to load up. They have an old hand pump that I raise and lower rapidly until the spout starts to spit out water. Perhaps because the piping is old and the well is used infrequently you wouldn't want to drink the stuff. But it sure does come in handy for other purposes ;-). The pump guy is coming today, none too soon!
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