"If I have to, I’ll live with it but obviously I want to play. So I’m not thinking about anything but playing.”Oh, and to quote Steve Jobs, one more thing . . . Congratulations Jay, on getting the blog going ;-)
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Speaking of Ivy bloggers, the Brown Bear Blogger has an update on how Pro Day went for Brown players. Among other things, he reports that quarterback Kyle Newhall-Caballero's 40 time of 4.57 was faster than any quarterback at the NFL Combine not named Robert Griffin III or Russell Wilson. KNC is listed at 6-foot-3, 210 pounds. Scouts from New England, Buffalo and Cleveland showed up in Providence.•
Saw a nice story about former Dartmouth basketball great Larry Lawrence '80 in the Macon Telegraph this week. Drafted by his home state Atlanta Hawks, Lawrence was the Ivy League player of the year in his medical redshirt season of 1981 and went on to enjoy a long and distinguished career overseas.From the story:
Lawrence grew up the son of a cement finisher father and a stay-at-home mom in a modest home off Hillcrest Avenue, and education was big in the Lawrence household even though neither his dad, Malachi, or his mother, Julia, finished grammar school.Actually, his sister Audrey, who played for the Dartmouth women's team, was a class of 1987.
While he is the only member of his family to graduate from an Ivy League school, he was not the first to get a college degree. All of his 11 siblings attended college, resulting in careers as a teacher, an aerospace engineer, a lawyer, an Air Force lieutenant colonel, a minister and an investment banker, among others.
Lawrence's daughter Alyssa is a highly regarded 6-1 forward and honor student at Ursuline Academy in New York.
Find a story from Larry Lawrence's selection to the New England Basketball Hall of Fame here.
