The Ivy League was supposed to be a two-horse race between Harvard and Dartmouth, but a rookie coach and a band of plucky Quakers turned it into a three-way finish.The piece includes a few notes from Dartmouth's season. Read it HERE.
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A Sports Illustrated story looking at how Hall of Fame tight end Jackie Smith, "has lived his life after his crucial drop in the Cowboys' loss to the Steelers in Super Bowl XIII," includes a mention of his son, Greg '97, a former Dartmouth football captain.Greg Smith transferred to Dartmouth from Missouri (LINK) and was the Big Green's leading rusher in 1995 as well as on the undefeated 1996 team. From the story:
Smith’s children had to contend with the drop as well. Greg, his younger son, would go on to play football at Dartmouth, where he would hear it on the field: Oh, Smith—your dad’s the one who dropped the ball in the end zone!The story notes that these days Greg Smith is "Vice-President of Sales for OneSpace, a company that helps place freelance writers." That line hit close to home so it got me Googling a little ;-)
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| Find Greg Smith's OneSpace bio HERE. |
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Another email asking about the Green-White spring football game has arrived but despite my occasional inquiries no white smoke has puffed out of the top of Floren Varsity House yet ;-) Once the date is finalized I'll be sure to post it here.
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From a Wall Street Journal blog about a campaign stop in Plymouth, N.H.:Not one minute into listening to a presentation at a local drug-abuse prevention center here, John Kasich interrupted with a suggestion.
“I think you ought to add a couple of people to the board who are famous people in New Hampshire, particularly athletes,” he said. “Do we have any … former Dartmouth football or basketball players?”
Never mind that Dartmouth’s Ivy League athletes are hardly boldfaced names here, an hour west though the mountains from the university.That wouldn't work on so many levels. And by the way, Plymouth is an hour east of Dartmouth.
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Speaking of the presidential race, if you think you are tired of the politicking ahead of Iowa and New Hampshire, be glad you don't live here. If it isn't a campaign worker on the phone it's a robo call from the candidate him/herself or someone with questions for one of several polls. Fortunately the circus is going to move on before too long.
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These releases make my eyes glaze over but you may be interested in a note about the Ivy League signing with a "marketing rights agency." (LINK) From the release:
JMI Sports is a full-service collegiate marketing firm providing the highest quality management of athletics multimedia rights and breaking new ground in the creation of campus-wide sponsorship programs, maximizing the economic potential of universities.
Here's a novel idea to help market the Ivy League: Join the rest of the free world and hold a postseason basketball tournament.
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Looks as if the big snowstorm is going to hit south of us. Most years that would be a huge disappointment but not so this year.With the renovations we are doing here on Moose Mountain our garage has been a workshop/staging area for our contractor for several months. The idea of digging our cars out when the plow guy finishes with the driveway is not appealing. (For what it's worth, we haven't had a kitchen or any running water on the first floor since before Halloween. It's been lots of microwaving, sandwiches and visits to Subway . . . )
