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| Ernest at graduation |
Check out the GoFundMe page established to help Ernest and his family continue their fight HERE to read a couple of new updates and to help out if you can. Here are a few relatively recent photos:
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FBSchedules has a posting about Yale scheduling its first game ever against Central Connecticut State. It's rare to find out about the inner workings of Ivy League scheduling so it's interesting to learn that Central Connecticut will receive a $10,000 guarantee as well as 1,000 complimentary tickets to the Oct. 5, 2024 game.
Central Connecticut will then turn around and pay out a $10,000 guarantee and 250 complimentary tickets a year later to American International when the DII team visits New Britain. (LINK)
The New Haven Register starts its story about the Yale-Central Connecticut game this way:
The one game on the Connecticut college football schedule that might have drawn the most buzz in 2019 would have been a showdown between Northeast Conference champion Central Connecticut State and Ivy League-co champion Yale.
Green Alert Take: Doesn't say much about the kind of season FBS UConn had, huh?
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Spring sports have been canceled, the NBA, NHL and baseball are on hold, whispers are starting to be heard about college and pro football in the fall and the Canadian Football League called off its evaluation camps. Ah, but there's hope north of the border. From a Montreal Alouettes release, . . .
"(O)ur screening teams remain active to assess potential young people in North America. Our training camp is still scheduled for two months from May 17, and the first game of our regular season is scheduled for Friday June 12 in Calgary. Our teams remain mobilized to prepare the start of our season."
Green Alert Take: We'll see . . .
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Former Dartmouth, Yale and Brown assistant Don Brown, now defensive coordinator at Michigan, will receive a $600,000 "retention bonus," on April 1. That will raise his salary to $1.7 million in 2021.
Green Alert Take: Donnie has skipped around a lot in his career. From Hartford (Vt.) High School to Dartmouth in 1982, to Mansfield to Dartmouth to Yale to Plymouth State to Brown to UMass to Northeastern to UMass to Maryland to Connecticut to Boston College to Michigan. Now, it would seem, his itinerant nature is paying serious dividends.
Green Alert Take II: Where do I sign up for a retention bonus?
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A Dartmouth rower who did a winter internship at the CDC writes about that experience HERE. From Michael Green's '21 story:
I arrived at the CDC when there were only a handful of people diagnosed and no deaths. Two days before I left, the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic while I was out at a farewell lunch with my team. While I waited for the afternoon bus on my way home, I received three separate emails, two from administrators and one from my head heavyweight rowing coach telling us that the Ivy League decided to cancel all competitions and practice for spring sports.•
The first Dartmouth undergrad has tested positive for COVID-19. (LINK)
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EXTRA POINT – Did you know that when spring debuts at 11:50 p.m. it will mark the earliest arrival of the season in 124 years? I didn't either but if it is in the Old Farmer's Almanac it has to be true. Right? Learn more HERE.
Green Alert Take: While our neighbor farmer drove by in his ATV just now to check on his sugar bush, the snow falling as I write this has me wondering.
