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David Brown '79, a former Buddy Teevens teammate at Dartmouth and now president and CEO of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, will be "roasted and toasted as a Face on the Barroom Floor" this year at the Omaha Press Club Show. (LINK)
Brown won two letters at defensive end for the Big Green and was awarded the Earl Hamilton Varsity Award for friendship, humor and a love of the outdoors as a senior. He also played baseball for the Big Green. He has headed up the Greater Omaha Chamber for a dozen years.
Green Alert Take: If the roasters want some really good stuff they ought to call a few of his former teammates. Nothing is sacred in the locker room ;-)
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Princeton seems to win the most Ivy League championships each year but Harvard has claimed the 2014-15 triple crown of championships that might be most important to the old guard. The Crimson won the Ivy League football last fall, added the men's basketball earlier this month, and just captured the ECAC men's ice hockey title.
Joining Harvard in the NCAA hockey field, by the way, is fellow Ivy League basketball champion Yale. The Bulldogs, who narrowly missed their own share of the "old guard triple crown" when their football team came up just short against Harvard, are going to the ice hockey NCAAs for the fifth time in seven years.
Green Alert Take: With Princeton's traditional success those who always worry about HYP domination may actually be on to something.
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Yale is slated to begin spring football practice this week. The Bulldogs will be the fourth Ivy League team to hit the field. Dartmouth spring ball is scheduled to begin two weeks from tomorrow.
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Back to Princeton. Former Dartmouth three-point specialist and assistant coach Courtney Banghart will lead the 31-0 Tigers against No. 1 seed Maryland (31-2) at 6:30 tonight in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The game will be on ESPN2 in Maryland and New Jersey, and on the WatchESPN app and ESPN3 elsewhere. Find a preview HERE.
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We were in town yesterday and marveled once again at how different things are down in the valley compared to up here on the shoulder of Moose Mountain. In town there's still some snow in the shadows, but large patches of (brown) grass are taking over. Up here we have a good two feet of snow left and absolutely no hint of clear areas anywhere.
I took Griff the Wonder Pup on the snow-covered, but well-packed trail toward the Dartmouth Outing Club cabin in the woods behind us yesterday and thought to take the hypotenuse back to our house. Three steps in and I was in snow above my knees. Needless to say we ended up coming out the way we came in.
Oh, and it was 0.9 degrees when the pup and I went out for his constitutional this morning. Enough is enough . . .
