The Bear Is Stirring ... And Funny

One of a series of short videos promoting Cornell's Homecoming, this one made me laugh. Even Penn fans may find it funny. Check it out:



Cornell has another video featuring the Big Red bear here, as well as a "Pep Talk from the Coach" inviting fans to this year's Homecoming.

Green Alert Take: You've read it here a few times already, but the bear on the hill is stirring under Coach Kent Austin.

*

Sacred Heart's Homecoming opponent? Dartmouth on Sept. 24. SHU tries an invitation to Homecoming video of its own here. No mention of the fact that the football opponent is the Big Green.

*

A Real Green Alert: Not sure how long it will last but today's Feature Article on Wikipedia is The Green. That's the Dartmouth Green. Thanks to a loyal reader for pointing that out. (In case the feature article changes by the time you click through, you can find the full article here.)

*

If you read the message boards, he seems to be a bit of a polarizing figure around the Ivy League and even at his own school, but talented Yale quarterback Patrick Witt is much more than a very good football player. Witt, who has a 3.91 GPA since transferring from Nebraska, has won the Francis Gordon Brown Prize, "awarded to the student in the junior class in Yale College who most closely approaches the standards of intellectual ability, high manhood, capacity for leadership and service to the University set by Francis Gordon Brown, who captained Yale Football's "Team of the Century" in 1900." (link)

(This was posted a while back but in case you missed it, quarterback Cole Marcoux won Dartmouth's William S. Churchill Prize as "the man in the first-year class whose academic achievement is outstanding and whose record of contribution in other areas indicates those qualities that Mr. Churchill wished to reward, especially those of fairness, respect for duty, and citizenship.”)

*

The Daily Pennsylvanian sports editor predicts a third consecutive Ivy League title for the Quakers – although not outright – and success for the team's new offensive line.

*

Colgate's game notes for its showdown at Holy Cross Saturday have been posted. The Raiders next opponent after Saturday: Dartmouth.

*

From a Texas Rangers blog:

The club also promoted right-hander Kyle Hendricks to Double-A Frisco. The Dartmouth product was the Rangers' eighth-round pick in this year's MLB Draft.

Hendricks, 21, had a 1.93 ERA in 20 relief appearances for short-season Spokane. He logged 32.2 innings, yielding 20 hits while walking only four and fanning 36. The 6-foot-2 hurler features an 88-91 mph fastball to go along with a 77-80 mph curveball.

Find Hendricks' stats here. That's an impressive jump, by the way.

*

The atrocious Maryland football helmets sure look an awful lot (emphasis on awful) like those worn in roller derby action by the Charm City Roller Girls' All-Stars Team. The Baltimore Sun reports. (Thanks for the link.)

*

Part three of the four-part look at how this year's freshman class has looked so far in practice will be posted tonight on Green Alert premium.

If you haven't already subscribed to BGA, you may need an Evelyn Wood (no relation ;-) class to catch up pretty soon! There have been more than 27 stories running more than 30,000 words posted since media day on Aug. 9.