An emailer sent along a link to the much-appreciated video above that I'm not sure I would have seen otherwise. For what it's worth, if you watch to the 30-second mark you will see a very young That Certain '14 holding up a sign at the NCAA women's basketball tournament at UConn some years ago.
One of the neat things about growing up locally and attending Dartmouth is that you have a longer relationship with the college. In addition to the shot from the video (the original is reproduced below), That Certain '14 was in the publication "Dartmouth Now" as a fifth-grader being tutored in a scene from Macbeth at Hanover's elementary school. Find that story here. Interestingly, 10 years later she took an acting class at Dartmouth this spring.
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Former jayvee quarterback Ed Lucas got his first big league hit last night, an RBI single to right center in the seventh inning of the Miami Marlins' 5-1 win over the Mets.The Daytona Beach News-Journal has a column entry that includes the following about Lucas, who played baseball for Johnny Goodrich at Spruce Creek High School in Florida:
Lucas played football and baseball at Creek while enrolled in the school's I.B. program, graduated top-10 in his class and went to Dartmouth to play football primarily.
“Not your average run-of-the-mill kid,” Goodrich said. “I remember when he would leave football practice, he'd still be padded up, and come over to the batting cages and hit. That's the kind of athlete he was.”
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The column in the Harvard Crimson about the Ivy League ban on football going to the FCS playoffs has spurred Columbia blogger Jake Novak to start an emailing campaign to let the Ivy office know that, in fact, fans would like to see their teams have the chance to go on. That led to a response from the Ivy League office. Click here to read more.Jake's posting has brought on a firestorm of discussion on the Any Given Saturday messageboard under the headline, New Salvo in War Against Ivy League Postseason Ban. There were four pages worth of responses as of this morning.
Green Alert Take: I've said it before and I'll say it again. To ban just one sport from the playoffs is wrong and a complete slap in the face of everyone who ever wore an Ivy League football uniform. In essence, it's saying, "You are not worthy." It is completely indefensible.
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Find more info on the tournament here.
