Green Recruit Honored

Click here to watch the video of Dartmouth-bound tailback Kyle Bramble of Floyd Central HS in Indiana being honored as the Touchdown Friday Night Player of the Year as chosen by the NBC station Wave 3 in Louisville, Kentucky. Half of the decision for the station's player of the year (drawn from all ranks of football) was decided by web voting and half by the station's staff.

Lots of love for Dartmouth in the clip that ends with the anchor saying, "He may play as a freshman."

(Special Thanks to That Certain Brother BGA for sharing the link ;-)

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The Tulsa World has a story about Dartmouth defensive line coach Calvin Thibodeaux heading back to Oklahoma to coach defensive tackles at Tulsa. Coach Bill Blankenship had this to say about the former Oklahoma Sooner:

. . . I really like that fact that he spent a year at Dartmouth. In recruiting for Dartmouth, he understands the type of young men that we’re trying to reach out to academically . . .

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Columbia's website has a video interview with Jeff Adams, the offensive lineman hoping to get an NFL shot after playing in the East-West Shrine Game. Dartmouth tailback Nick Schwieger, defensive back Shawn Abuhoff and offensive lineman Ryan O'Neill are among the Big Green seniors also hoping to get a chance at pro football.

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Off the gridiron, the Dartmouth ski team topped the homestanding Catamounts last week in the Vermont Winter Carnival at Stowe, Vt., where the cross country portion of the Dartmouth Winter Carnival has been moved because of a lack of snow down in the valley. Up here on the mountain we have snow and we have ice that has made our driveway a challenge for the past two or three weeks. See, the driveway cuts through a stone wall and a little slide to the left or a little slide to the right and it will be time for new headlights ;-(

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Harvard grad Jeremy Lin has exploded on the NBA the past couple of games with first 25 and then 28 points playing at the point for the New York Knicks. Catch this from ESPN about Lin:

(Knicks' coach Mike) D'Antoni thought about taking him out late in the third quarter. Lin convinced him to reconsider. The coach obliged, saying later that he was going to ride Lin "like friggin' Secretariat."

D'Antoni's 'Secretariat' brought the Knicks home in the back stretch.

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Did you know Cornell has now won 10 consecutive Ivy League titles and hasn't lost an Ivy match in 11 years? The Cornell Sun has a story about the latest title.

In case you are wondering, six Ivy League schools field wrestling teams. Quick, in addition to Dartmouth, which dropped the sport in the '70's, what Ivy doesn't hit the mats at the varsity level? Give up?

It's Yale.

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The New Hampshire Scholar-Athlete ceremony in Concord yesterday was well done. Unfortunately for That Certain Hanover High Senior, Governor John Lynch shook hands with a good number of the student-athletes who traveled to the state capital but had to leave before greeting the Hanover kids.

Of course, if any Hanover kids really wanted to shake hands with the Gov they could have done it at a Dartmouth basketball game last winter when he was sitting inconspicuously in the stands in a group of three or four fans, drawing absolutely no attention from anyone at the game. It was a quintessential Upper Valley sight.