Looking Ahead Without Further Adieu/Ado ;-)

Season tickets for Dartmouth football are now on sale at a discount price. Find out more HERE.

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The first Big Green football game of the season is still almost five months away but preparations for the 2023 season resume today with the seventh of 12 spring practices. Be sure to check BGA Premium tonight for a story out of the session.

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Yeah, yeah I was going to cut back on the Shane Cokes at Colorado mentions and videos, but you kind of have to give it a look when a video is headlined, Shane Cokes - The Most Dominant Defensive Lineman From CU’s Spring Ball. Watching the video (that's Cokes addressing the team behind the title of the video) it's clear the former Dartmouth standout has already made his mark as a leader in Boulder. Check out the video HERE.

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Speaking of former Dartmouth players now in the FBS, a 247Sports story headlined Louisville football already has 15 new additions from the portal includes a capsule look at offensive lineman John Paul Flores '22, who spent last fall as a grad transfer at Virginia before moving on to Louisville. Find the story HERE.

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I get a little too much credit for finding obscure football mentions for BGA Daily. But this one? Hat's off to the friend who shared it because it's not something I would have ever stumbled across.

A Usage Tip of the Day from the book Garner's Modern Usage offers up a familiar name in an entry explaining the difference between the homonyms adieu and ado. It traces back to coach Buddy Teevens' days running the show at Tulane and a 1994 Times-Picayune story headlined, Bigger and Stronger, But Is Wave Better? that included this sentence:

“If Teevens’ 1992 and 1993 Green Wave teams . . . are the only measuring stick, then it’s much adieu (read ado) about nothing.”

Wordsmiths can find the full entry HERE.

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I thought it might be a typo when I first saw it, or that a change would be coming, but no, it's true. Yale has seven, count 'em, seven home games this fall. A release on the Yale football page HERE confirms it. The Bulldogs last had that many home games in 1989 when they won a share of the title along with Princeton by going 6-1 in the Ivies and 8-2 overall. Their first road game is in Hanover!

Yale's 2023 schedule:

Sept. 16 – Holy Cross
Sept. 23 – Cornell
Sept. 30 – Morgan State
Oct. 7 – at Dartmouth
Oct. 14 – Sacred Heart
Oct. 21 – Penn
Oct. 28 – Columbia
Nov. 4 – at Brown
Nov. 11 – at Princeton
Nov. 18 – Harvard

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EXTRA POINT
That Certain Dartmouth '14 shared with us a photo of a petroglyph she spotted on a camping trip over the weekend around Moab, Utah. As a ranger at Utah's Bryce Canyon National Park and an earth science major at Dartmouth, you can understand her interest in things like this.

Ah, but as someone who grew up in around sports, she also imagined something in this rock art that not everyone would see. Can you guess what it is?

TCD'14 decided the figure on the left is playing with a football. Not bad. Proving they are a good couple, her boyfriend suggested the figure on the right is holding the Super Bowl trophy.