Rules Changes?

From the NCAA:

The NCAA Football Rules Committee, which met Tuesday-Thursday in Charlotte, N.C., has recommended several rules proposals intended to enhance student-athlete safety for the 2012 season.

Among the changes . . .

The committee voted to move the kickoff to the 35-yard line (currently set at the 30-yard line), and to require that kicking team players must be no further than five yards from the 35 at the kick, which is intended to limit the running start kicking teams have during the play.

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Jonathan Tannenwald's wonderfully named Soft Pretzel Logic column on the Philly.com website offers, "An in-depth look at Ivy League television rights."

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From Lehigh Valley Live.com:

Lafayette College, Lehigh University considering 150th game at Yankee Stadium

There is speculation that the 150th renewal of the most played rivalry in college football might end up at Yankee Stadium.

Lafayette-Lehigh is on my bucket list of college football games I hope one day to see. Harvard-Yale, Army-Navy and Amherst-Williams are also on the list.

The 150-game mark for The Rivalry got me thinking about the most-played Ivy League game. Any idea?

It's Yale-Princeton, played 134 times since 1873.

Dartmouth's most-played rival? Harvard with 115 games. The others:

• Dartmouth-Cornell: 95
• Dartmouth-Yale: 95
• Dartmouth-Princeton: 91
• Dartmouth-Brown: 89
• Dartmouth-Columbia: 82
• Dartmouth-Penn: 79

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Harvard grad Jeremy Lin. What more can you say? Maybe this from ESPN:

The 89 points he scored in his first three starts (including Friday) got him a historical distinction. They are the most scored by an NBA player in his first three starts since the NBA-ABA merger 1976-77. That predates the start of the Magic-Bird era, encompasses Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James -- all of 'em.

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And finally, former Daily Dartmouth writer and raconteur Elliot Olshansky '04 – once infamous for loudly reading Dr. Seuss rhymes from the stands while Dartmouth opponents took foul shots – has written Roberts Rules of Karaoke. From the notes for the book:

Elliot Olshansky’s debut romantic comedy marks the birth of a new genre―guy lit. Olshansky, a graduate of Dartmouth College, currently serves as NCAA.com’s lead writer on college hockey and lacrosse, and covers the NHL’s New York Rangers for New York Hockey Journal.