Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Mal Content?

Former Dartmouth defensive end Malcolm Freberg '09 gave it the old college try on the TV reality show Survivor but came up short of the pot of gold. Freberg told Entertainment Weekly:
You lose a football game, you don’t hate the other quarterback that beat you, but you hate that you lost. So I’m cool with the people, but the situation is rough, I’m not Jeff Kent with a World Series to play for. I got my chance to play Survivor and came up 24 hours short.
Freberg, who has been tending bar in Los Angeles, may be putting his Ivy League education to work soon. He told HitFlx:
I'm talking with a few people and starting at the beginning of next year, I'm hopefully going to be doing a tutoring program in Central L.A. working with under-privileged kids, without getting teaching credentials, getting back into working with kids.
There's a Q&A with Freberg here.

(Thanks to emailers who sent along notes about how the TV series turned out because, um, I've never watched a second of it ;-)
Harvard quarterback Colton Chapple and defensive end John Lyon will be playing in the FCS Scout Bowl Saturday in Myrtle Beach, SC. link
Some of his Kansas City Chiefs teammates call him "Nasty Nate" Eachus. Legendary Syracuse columnist Bud Poliquin writes about the former Colgate great who Dartmouth somehow never saw in the backfield during the series between the teams. Eachus discusses what it's like to move up from the FCS to the NFL here, and talks about the tragedy in Kansas City and his relationship with Jovan Belcher here.
Should Kids Play Football? That's the headline of this piece by New York Times op-ed columnist Joe Nocera.
Hope to have a look at Dartmouth's Early Decision class on BGA Premium tonight.