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On his @MathBomb page, Kent Lee Platte describes himself as "Navy veteran, math junkie, football nut," and "Creator of #RAS," an acronym for Relative Athletic Score, something he describes as, "a metric that can easily and intuitively gauge a player’s athletic abilities relative to the position they play and provide tools to contrast and compare based on known measurables."Here's what the MathBomb fellow Tweeted of Dartmouth offensive lineman Zach Sammartino:
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To the list of players headed to Dartmouth in the fall add the name of Carr Urschel, a 6-foot-4, 205-pound outside linebacker/defensive end from St. Mark's School of Texas. There are a bunch of Tweets and Retweets congratulating him on his acceptance HERE. Find his highlights HERE.
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Dartmouth has started what has the look of a series of "Welcome" cards for incoming freshmen on its Instagram page. Pictured below (clockwise from top left) are defensive end Gannon McCorkle, quarterback Devon Lingle, tight end Nick Sani, defensive back Leonard St. Gourdin, wide receiver Paxton Scott and wide receiver Isaac Boston.
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Dartmouth athletics and those of us who who were fortunate enough to call him a friend have lost someone special with the passing of Tony Adams, the longtime sports anchor at Burlington, Vt., CBS TV station WCAX. (LINK)
Tony, who was 95, helped kick off television in Vermont in 1954 and was at the station until 1989. Along the way he spent a decade doing play-by-play as the voice of Dartmouth football.
After retirement he was a hospital volunteer in Burlington for the better part of 30 years and until recently was a daily fixture at the TV station, delivering the mail. I last saw him just a couple of years ago taking advantage of the elevator to the new Dartmouth press box to catch a Big Green football game. He was a very nice man.
After retirement he was a hospital volunteer in Burlington for the better part of 30 years and until recently was a daily fixture at the TV station, delivering the mail. I last saw him just a couple of years ago taking advantage of the elevator to the new Dartmouth press box to catch a Big Green football game. He was a very nice man.
Generations of Vermonters knew well his famous signoff: "Good night, good sports."
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Dartmouth Alumni Magazine covers the impact of COVID-19 on the college and its part in dealing with the pandemic HERE.
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Dartmouth-Hitchcock has launched clinical trials for potential COVID-19 virus treatment Remdesivir. Find a story HERE.
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EXTRA POINT
I can't begin to tell you how many times I had to pull forward, pull back, pull forward and pull back to get our beloved 1984 VW Vanagon camper cross-wise in the back of our garage for the winter while still leaving room for our cars. (Pretty big garage, huh?) For the record, the VW has a manual transmission and without power steering it was a real workout. If I had to guess it took at least 50 changes in direction, struggling to turn the wheel while creeping ahead and back inches at a time. (It would have helped a lot if I'd been smart enough to back it in to start. Live and learn ;-)
Here's the VW in the garage with our two cars:
It wasn't until after we got it parked in the garage, of course, that a neighbor driving by suggested buying inexpensive dollies for each wheel from Harbor Freight. We did find the dollies, on sale and much cheaper than expected, and I used them a couple of weeks ago to get the VW out. That wasn't exactly a piece of cake. (It took about 100 turns on the jack at each wheel to get the bus high enough to slide the dollies in place, then 50 or so more at each wheel to jack it down onto the dollies. After spinning the bus on what are essentially four-wheeled skateboards I had to reverse the jacking procedure to set the camper back down on the garage floor.) Not that I'm complaining, although that's exactly what I'm doing ;-)
So now the VW is parked alongside the garage and it's just sitting there because, like everyone else should be, we are under a stay-at-home order. We'd hoped to take it up to Burlington for a pretty thorough overhaul and then hit the road most weekends, but that's not happening for a while. Here's hoping we get to use it this summer.
Here's what it looks like when we are camping. Maybe we'll pop the top and camp in the yard if that's our only alternative:
