A Familiar Name

(Click to enlarge.) Courtesy of Hageman family

There were Atlanta Falcons hats galore when former University of Minnesota defensive tackle Ra'Shede Hageman was selected by the team in the second round of the NFL Draft. Hageman's father, Eric '90 (alongside the guest of honor) was a Dartmouth defensive back from Wayzata, Minn.

Find a pre-Draft story about Ra'Shede Hageman and how he uses the difficult childhood he endured before being brought into the Hageman home here.

Falcons Blogs has a story about the impact the 6-foot-6 310-pound Hageman could have in Atlanta. (LINK)

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Interesting that spring sports can play right through exams but football players can't. The Wall Street Journal writes about the Columbia men's tennis team under the headline: Econ, Chemistry and Columbia Tennis; The Team's Unprecedented Run Is Occurring Smack in the Middle of Final Exams

Green Alert Take: I'm not an Ivy League grad, so perhaps one of the Ivy presidents can tell me if I am spelling the word hypocrisy right.

Green Alert Take II: Oh wait a minute. Dartmouth football did play right through exams. Scratch that as a reason for the ban on the playoffs. The presidents must have another reason they aren't sharing.

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Chase Womack, who played last fall as a fifth-year senior gets a nod and a headline in the Austin Statesman for his selection to the National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society.

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Watched three former Green Machine Little Leaguers I coached help Hanover High School to a 1-0 win over archival Lebanon yesterday on Dartmouth's Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park. One played shortstop and scored the game's only run, one caught and one played left field. At the same time the Marauders were winning at Biondi, Hanover was defeating Lebanon at Dartmouth's softball stadium.

That Certain '14 had the opportunity to play a game for Hanover on Dartmouth's old softball field and That Certain Nittany Lion played for the Hanover baseball team at Red Rolfe. It remains a special memory for both.

Dartmouth deserves a big thank you for allowing the local rivals to hold their biggest games of the year in the college's beautiful facilities.