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The Cincinnati Bengals website has a story about Dartmouth product Isiah Swann that, not surprisingly, includes comments from onetime Big Green and Cincinnati standout Reggie Williams and mentions both Bengals owner Mike Brown '57, a former Dartmouth QB, and Katie Brown Blackburn '86, his daughter and the team's executive vice president. (LINK)
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There's no mention of Niko Lalos but a Giantswire story on the USA Today Network is an indication that the Dartmouth defensive end made a smart choice signing with Big Blue. From the story:
The New York Giants had a busy offseason, addressing various areas of need including linebacker, offensive line, cornerback, safety and backup running back.
Despite the dump of resources into those positions, the team did little to improve another glaring weakness: edge rusher.Find the story HERE. (And thanks for the link ;-)
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The Dartmouth writes about Ernest Evans '16, the former Dartmouth player who died last month of complications from injuries suffered in a 2017 accident. (LINK)
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College Sports Journal has a posting under the headline, Dear NFL, A Letter From the FCS, that takes a look at the record-low number of draft picks this year from the lower half of Division I football. (LINK)
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Florida Tech is pulling the plug on its young Division II football program, which began in 2011 and was a member of the Gulf South Conference. From a story on the school website that notes the 120 players will have their scholarships honored for up to four years (LINK):
"The unprecedented uncertainty created by COVID-19 makes these moves prudent, but no less painful," (President Dwayne) McCay told the campus community in his letter. "We must do what is necessary to preserve resources critical to our educational mission and ensure our ability to successfully serve students when face-to-face instruction resumes this fall.The Florida Tech website has a page of FAQs about how it is dealing with the end of the football program HERE.
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While auto racing is starting this week, the PGA will follow before long and baseball is talking about starting in early July, Dr. Anthony Fauci is sounding a cautionary tone about the prospects for football this fall in a lengthy interview with Peter King on the NBCSports site Pro Football Talk. Fauci told King (LINK):“Sweat does not do it. This is a respiratory virus, so it’s going to be spread by shedding virus. The problem with virus shedding is that if I have it in my nasal pharynx, and it sheds and I wipe my hand against my nose—now it’s on my hand. You see, then I touch my chest or my thigh, then it’s on my chest or my thigh for at least a few hours. Sweat as such won’t transmit it. But if people are in such close contact as football players are on every single play, then that’s the perfect set up for spreading. I would think that if there is an infected football player on the field—a middle linebacker, a tackle, whoever it is it—as soon as they hit the next guy, the chances are that they will be shedding virus all over that person.
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Can't say as I ever went through the door but Morano Gelato, a popular fixture on Hanover's Main St. since 2010, is shutting down. Per a story in The Dartmouth, the business has "permanently closed due to “economic hardships” amid the COVID-19 pandemic." (LINK)
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EXTRA POINTFor those of you keeping score, the 1984 VW Westfalia Vanagon drove like a champion up to Colchester, Vt., on Lake Champlain, yesterday. The mechanic who specializes in these unique vehicles will give it a thorough inspection today or tomorrow and then let us know what he he can do to make it as trustworthy as a 36-year-old vehicle can be.
After the two-hour drive back home yesterday in Mrs. BGA's car I headed to the post office to pick up the mail. Inside our little PO box were two thick envelopes with several pages of pleas for donations to worthy causes accompanied by dozens of colorful return address stickers.
It was a year ago this month that we moved across the river to Vermont and Mrs. BGA kept watching for that first envelope filled with stickers. When it didn't come soon enough for her she sent off an order to have some printed. I laughed and told her she just needed a little patience. I think it was within two or three weeks of her purchase being delivered that the first of the never-ending onslaught of unsolicited labels arrived.
Seriously, how many return address stickers do you need, particularly in an era of email and online bill paying? And that brings up a thought.
How ironic is it that so many of those envelopes filled with paper and labels come from so-called conservancy organizations? I'm not going to name names, but both of yesterday's mailings came from folks who want to save the trees!
