Triple-threat Dartmouth kicker Riley Lyons has been named a College Sports Journal/GameWornUniforms.com national player of the week for his performance against Holy Cross.
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Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens will be interviewed on the Inside Ivy League Football blog radio show tonight at 7. If you aren't up for sitting at the computer at that hour, the show will be archived here.
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Penn's game notes for Saturday's nationally televised game at Dartmouth can be downloaded here. The Ivy League notes are available here. The game will be carried on cable/satellite channel NBC Sports.
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A columnist for the Daily Pennsylvanian writes that standout Quaker defensive lineman Brandon Copeland needs more help up front. The piece ends this way:To win against the Big Green and contend for an Ivy title, Penn’s defense will have to get better. And fast.
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I knew there was something that made me uncomfortable about Harvard athletes involved in the cheating scandal being advised by the university on how to save a year's eligibility and now a Harvard grad teaching at Sarah Lawrence College has written about the issue for CNN here. From the column:The secretary of Harvard's Administrative Board, the body that rules on individual cheating cases, sent around an internal e-mail to resident deans saying that fall athletes might "consider taking [a leave of absence] before their first game."
The internal e-mail, obtained by The Crimson, Harvard's student paper, and confirmed by a resident dean, sends a clear message. You may be guilty of cheating, but here is a strategy for reducing the damage you suffer to a year's unpaid vacation.
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A junior college football team helps a handicapped woman move into her new apartment. Nice story on WNEP television in northeast Pennsylvania. It's a nice story.For a classic feel-good story about a football team helping someone out, watch ESPN's 2010 report Picking Up Butch about the Middlebury College football team, athletes and one very special fan.
