A Familiar Name (Or Two)

Four years ago in this electronic precinct you saw a series of funny videos with incoming linebacker Michael Tree like this one. Health issues ended Tree's career, but not his video career. He was back on camera yesterday with this short political announcement that finishes with some good music and a beautiful smile (if I do say so myself):



Voting for Dartmouth student body president began last night and runs until 8 this evening. Stumbled across a video from one of the debates here.

Vote early and vote often. (Just kidding ;-)

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Missed this earlier but the writeup on Penn's spring game last week began this way:

It was an impressive defensive performance at the University of Pennsylvania football team's annual Spring Game on Saturday. The Penn defense had six sacks and three interceptions, and allowed just two field goals on a gorgeous spring afternoon at historic Franklin Field.

Is the Penn defense going to be very good next fall or was it the fact that quarterback Billy Ragone and tailbacks Brandon Colavita and Lyle Marsh didn't play? We'll let you know in September. Or may be October.

Ragone, the story says, "is still recovering from his season-ending ankle injury suffered in the Ivy-title clinching win over Harvard on Nov. 10."

Conner Scott, the brother of former All-Ivy Dartmouth receiver Tanner Scott, recorded a 50-yard touchdown catch.

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Dartmouth is playing two Patriot League teams next fall with the Big Green playing host to Holy Cross on Sept. 28 in Week Two and entertaining Bucknell on Oct. 19 in the fifth game of the season. Kudos to the PL for having a spring football update page that offers a little information on what Dartmouth will see from the 2013 Crusaders and Bison.

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Yesterday was another big day for the Dartmouth diamond sports as the baseball and softball teams both took doubleheaders, completing four-game sweeps of Brown.

The baseball team is now 22-6 overall and 8-4 in the Ivy League. That gives the Big Green a three-game lead over Yale and Harvard as it bids for a sixth consecutive Red Rolfe Division crown. Dartmouth is one game behind Columbia – and owns the tiebreaker with the Lions – to host the Ivy League Championship Series if both teams get that far.

The softball team is 18-17 overall and tied with Harvard atop the North Division standings with an 8-4 record. Penn is 10-2 and atop the South Division standings.

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While they are playing baseball down in
the valley we still have snow in the shadows here on the mountain. 

Yesterday was one of those days when ridge line after ridge line dotted the horizon.
Click the pic to supersize it and see the fabulous view we had up here yesterday.