| Tanner Aiono |
OL
| Biology |
3.38
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| Davis Brief |
P
| Environmental Studies |
3.24
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| Ben Culmer |
OL
| Engineering |
3.29
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| Jared Gerbino |
QB
| Sociology |
3.21
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| Brandon Hester |
WR
| Sociology |
3.34
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| Niko Lalos |
DL
| Economics |
3.41
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| Jake Pallotta |
QB
| Economics |
3.22
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| Anders Peterson |
OL
| Economics |
3.59
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| Jack Traynor |
LB
| Engineering |
3.66
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One of the players honored was senior Jake Pallotta, who found a fun way to pass a little time back home in Canton, Ohio. He joined with younger brother Jaret, a redshirt tight end at UMass, and sister Lauren, a high school freshman already drawing recruiting internet on the hardwood, for a Pallotta Family version of Dude Perfect. He reported their exploits in a TWEET reposted below:
An overly dramatic documentation of something fun we did yesterday pic.twitter.com/CCspZyJnlk— Jake Pallotta (@JakePallotta) April 15, 2020
Jake reports that it might have taken upwards of 200 tries and perhaps an hour to sink the shot, in part because ping pong balls, being as light as they are, were harder to drop accurately and didn't always bounce consistently.
Green Alert Take: College students trying land ping pong balls in cups? Never heard of such a thing. ;-)
Green Alert Take: College students trying land ping pong balls in cups? Never heard of such a thing. ;-)
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Back to football. It isn't just spring practice that is taking place virtually.
Big Green head coach Buddy Teevens was scheduled to speak at the Dartmouth Club of Houston later this month but, like so much, that visit was called off because of COVID-19. Ah, but in place of the hosting the veteran mentor the club will hold a Zoom videoconference with him next Wednesday.
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Not to be a Gloomy Gus, but it's hardly news that concerns regarding the 2020 football season are starting to grow. College commissioners met with Vice President Mike Pence regarding the issue yesterday and CBS Sports writes:
"Our players are students. If we're not in college, we're not having contests," said Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby, who was on the call.
"Our message was, we need to get universities and colleges back open, that we were education-based programs, and we weren't going to have sports until we had something closer to normal college going on," he added.And then there's this from Dr. Anthony Fauci as quoted in USA Today when he was asked about college football this fall:
"There's a way of doing that. Nobody comes to the stadiums. Put (athletes) in big hotels, wherever you want to play. Keep them very well-surveilled, but have them tested like every week and make sure they don't wind up infecting each other or their families and just let them play the season out."
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A typical, grass Beaver Stadium parking lot with Mount Nittany in the background.
Long before The Certain Nittany Lion '16 ended up at Penn State he learned about the school – and the football program – when we would head to Happy Valley for the annual Blue-White spring football game, the only time I could bring the kids out there for a game. (I was always working on Dartmouth football Saturdays in the fall.)
TCNL'16 had planned to go out himself for the spring game this weekend only to have the game called off. Thinking out of the box, someone at Penn State came up with the idea of a virtual tailgate on Zoom. The school has posted photos of more than 40 parking lots where people usually tailgate. The "virtual lots" will open at 11 a.m. and various virtual activities will place through 1:30 p.m., accompanied, I'd bet, some folks trying to land ping pong balls in cups. ;-)
When we first talked about moving out of Etna (a rural part of Hanover) we barely considered anything beyond the immediate Upper Valley. But after spending a summer in a tiny house in the Vermont woods and discovering that there was a bus that made commuting to Hanover a cinch, we expanded our horizons and ultimately landed here in sweet little West Newbury, Vt.
The heavily subsidized "Stagecoach" bus to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for Mrs. BGA is just $1 each way (without the usual parking hassles at the hospital) and when I'm working at the college I can ride for free. For Mrs. BGA it is a chance to unwind with a novel for a half hour each way, and in the fall I would start my BGA Premium stories on the ride home after preseason practices. We put barely any miles on our cars, didn't have to worry about gas prices and let someone else get the white knuckles when the roads were snow covered this winter.
Another sign of the times: For social distancing purposes and the safety of its drivers, the bus company has requested that anyone who can drive to town in their own car leave the bus to others who can't. Any so Mrs. BGA is making a 35-minute drive each day to DHMC and listening to audio books instead of reading. But hey, at least the gas is cheap.
TCNL'16 had planned to go out himself for the spring game this weekend only to have the game called off. Thinking out of the box, someone at Penn State came up with the idea of a virtual tailgate on Zoom. The school has posted photos of more than 40 parking lots where people usually tailgate. The "virtual lots" will open at 11 a.m. and various virtual activities will place through 1:30 p.m., accompanied, I'd bet, some folks trying to land ping pong balls in cups. ;-)
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EXTRA POINTWhen we first talked about moving out of Etna (a rural part of Hanover) we barely considered anything beyond the immediate Upper Valley. But after spending a summer in a tiny house in the Vermont woods and discovering that there was a bus that made commuting to Hanover a cinch, we expanded our horizons and ultimately landed here in sweet little West Newbury, Vt.
The heavily subsidized "Stagecoach" bus to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for Mrs. BGA is just $1 each way (without the usual parking hassles at the hospital) and when I'm working at the college I can ride for free. For Mrs. BGA it is a chance to unwind with a novel for a half hour each way, and in the fall I would start my BGA Premium stories on the ride home after preseason practices. We put barely any miles on our cars, didn't have to worry about gas prices and let someone else get the white knuckles when the roads were snow covered this winter.Another sign of the times: For social distancing purposes and the safety of its drivers, the bus company has requested that anyone who can drive to town in their own car leave the bus to others who can't. Any so Mrs. BGA is making a 35-minute drive each day to DHMC and listening to audio books instead of reading. But hey, at least the gas is cheap.
