Pallotta is headed to Dartmouth on a football scholarship to play quarterback.Dartmouth? Yes, apparently.
Football scholarship? Um, no.
Quarterback or safety, his other position? To be determined.
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The same publication had a previous story about Pallotta's travels from school to school last summer that included this:During a one-week stretch in mid-June, Pallotta will visit three Ivy League schools (Harvard, Yale and Penn) and two prestigious Patriot League schools (Bucknell, Lehigh) and the camps and campuses they will visit will play a role in helping decide his college choice in the months ahead.
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The Conway (NH) Sun has a story about the passing at age 88 of Jim Westhall Sr.,who did play-by-play on the 16-station Dartmouth football radio network for one season in the 1950s. Westhall was a Duke alum who went on to head the Volvo International tennis tournament. An obit in the New Haven Register included a file photo of Andre Agassi giving Westhall a buzz cut on the court after the Volvo moved to Connecticut.
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The Columbia Spectator offers up a few anecdotes from the road in a story about coach Al Bagnoli's first year on the recruiting trail for the Lions.
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The Ivy League appears to be closing in on holding a postseason basketball tournament. It's hardly a secret that there's been a push for a tournament for a while and the Ivy has been inching in that direction, but a CBS report suggests it could happen as soon as next year.Green Alert Take: Kudos to the Ancient Eight if it finally joins the 20th century. (Yes, I know what century it is, but the Ivy League won't be joining the 21st until it either adds an 11th game for football or allows football to do what every other Ivy League sport can do and compete in the postseason.)
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A couple of days late on this, but huge congratulations should also go out to the 11th-ranked Dartmouth men's squash team, which defeated No. 2 Harvard this week for the first time in . . . wait for it . . . 69 years. Find a story HERE. The Crimson, who hadn't lost their season opener since 1977, had beaten the Big Green 73 consecutive times according to the Harvard website.
