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Scenes from the first two weeks of spring football practice, courtesy of the Dartmouth football program:

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Dylan Mellor (right) and teammate Billy Sheehan, a Randolph Macon quarterback commit.

Incoming wide receiver Dylan Mellor was one of five recipients from the greater Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., area to be awarded the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame's National Capital Chapter's Scholar Award. Mellor was the only one of the five headed to the Ivy League.

Here's Mellor's highlight video:

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Fighting blowing rain and headwinds, former starting quarterback Alex Jenny '10 completed the Boston Marathon  yesterday in 3 hours, 22 minutes and 43 seconds. Jenny somehow managed to train for Boston while also studying full-time for his MBA at Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School. Here he is at the finish, arms raised in celebration:

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The Daily Princetonian writes about the disparity between male and female head coaches' salaries in the Ivy League and compares recruiting budgets between the genders. There's a chart showing the averages for each Ivy school.

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From CBS Sports:

SEC commissioner Mike Slive looks frailer after many months fighting prostate cancer. His hair is thinner -- "I saved a heck of a lot of money by not getting any haircuts" -- and he walks more gingerly.

But if there was any doubt how Slive feels heading into his final months as commissioner, he demonstrated that Monday with some of his old feistiness when discussing a longtime rival.

Find the full story with the Dartmouth '62 HERE.

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From a Hartford Courant story about Cornell basketball standout Shonn Miller graduating and using his last year of eligibility as a grad student at UConn:

If it were possible, Miller said, he would have stayed at Cornell.

"I don't know why that's the rule in the first place," he said. "but I had no control over that situation."

Green Alert Take: The only thing more ridiculous than allowing student-athletes to graduate from one school and then immediately compete as a grad student at another if they haven't used up their eligibility is the Ivy League's refusal to let its athletes finish their careers as grad students at their own schools.

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The seventh of Dartmouth's 12 spring football practices is scheduled for this afternoon. The weather is pretty miserable right now so your guess is as good as mine as to whether they'll be out there this afternoon. If they are you'll want to check BGA Premium tonight for full coverage.