About Dartmouth the magazine writes:
Big Green matched best mark since '97 behind linebacker Michael Runger (98 tackles)Lindy's didn't exactly go out on a limb picking its potential offensive and defensive players of the year. The magazine chose Cornell quarterback Jeff Mathews for the offensive honor and Princeton defensive lineman Caraun Reid for the defensive honor.
Interestingly, Lindy's picked Game One opponent Butler to win the Pioneer Football League and advance to the NCAA playoffs in the first year the conference is eligible. From the blurb:
(Quarterback Matt) Lancaster, (tailback) Trae Heeter form one of FCS' most underrated backfields.Colgate's Gavin McCarney is Lindy's first-team FCS quarterback over Mathews. Bucknell's Matt Steinbeck is second-team FCS defensive back and Princeton's Anthony Gaffney is second-team FCS return specialist.
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Kudos to Dartmouth coaches Keith Clark, Don Dobes, Mike Bruno and Kiely Nagle for helping Lauren's First and Goal camp at Lafayette College set a new fundraising record in support of its mission "to provide financial support for brain tumor research and cancer services, to offer financial and emotional support to families living with pediatric cancer, and to increase awareness of the disease."Lauren's raised $104,000 this year. Read about the effort here.
The good news for those who stumble over the name Football Championship Subdivision is that it is going away. The bad news for those who were hoping for a return to the I-AA label is that's not coming back.
As The Sports Network explains, the NCAA has decided to call the old I-AA/Football Championship Series simply the FCS.
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Yahoo has a well-done piece about Dartmouth grad Ed Lucas and the heartwarming story of his long slog to the big leagues. It begins this way:When he graduated from Dartmouth College in 2004, Ed Lucas announced to his baseball coach that he didn't want to be one of those 30 year olds still hanging on in the minors, "just playing to play."
This year marked Lucas' 10th in professional baseball, and in those previous nine seasons he had never played a single major-league game.
"I kinda chucked that plan," he said.
While his Ivy League teammates headed to Wall Street, boutique law firms and even major-league front offices, Lucas went on commercial flights in the morning and long bus trips at night. He was good enough to keep a uniform – a .399 career slugging percentage and a great arm, necessary for all left-side infielders – but not quite good enough to get "the call." He'd become his own worst nightmare: 31 years old and still playing minor-league ball.Read the full story here.
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Dartmouth junior Abbey D'Agostino looks to defend her national championship in the 5,000 meters at the NCAA Championships from historic Hayward Field in Oregon at 9:15 tonight. ESPNU is broadcasting live from the meet starting at 7:30 p.m. eastern. (Now go click on the video above to meet D'Agostino.)
From a story about D'Agostino's trip to the NCAA's on the Dartmouth website:
"Her 15:11.35 in the 5000m at the Mt. Sac Relays is the fastest time in the nation this season and the third-fastest time ever run by a collegiate woman in-season… D’Agostino has won every race she has lined up for this season."
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From a Dartmouth release under the headline Dartmouth Leads Nation in APR Public Recognition Awards Again:A total of 976 NCAA Division I athletics teams were honored by the NCAA with Public Recognition Awards based on their most recent multi-year Academic Progress Rate (APR), with Dartmouth leading the way with 25 such teams. This was the second straight year the Big Green had the most teams honored, and they have been among the top three in each of the eight years the awards have been bestowed.
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Some of you have sent along notes that when clicking on your bookmark to get to this page or the premium site you've gotten that annoying icon over there to the left. Don't worry. BGA is still here ;-)
The back story is that with the patient help of someone who wouldn't take any money for doing her part we rebuilt the site right about this time last year and that resulted in a new domain name: greenalertfootball.com.What you want to do is make sure you change your bookmark to greenalertfootball.com, which has a button in the right-hand column that looks like this one and will take you right here:
Conversely, you can bookmark this page and get to the premium page by clicking on those words up there in the right column that say VISIT THE PREMIUM SITE HERE.
If you haven't seen that yellow triangle, ignore everything you just read and don't change anything.
Got it?
Now if someone can please explain to me why I don't just move the blog to the premium site and end all the confusion, or find a more productive way to start my day<( ;-)
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And finally, a little fun for your Friday morning (stick around to the end for a laugh):
