Sunday, February 16, 2025

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Who says the two ball-sport athlete is a dinosaur? Not Dartmouth's Harrison Keith.

The 6-foot, 200-pound sophomore – who started the final two football games of the season last fall at strong safety – made his collegiate debut with the Big Green lacrosse team yesterday, scoring the go-ahead goal with 8:02 remaining as Dartmouth opened its season with a 13-11 win over Bucknell. Watch his goal here:

Keith, a Choate product who comes from Fairfield, Conn., had 10 tackles and a pass breakup for the Big Green last year. Find his football bio HERE and his abbreviated lax bio HERE.

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As an aside, the hero for Dartmouth in its opening game was a transfer. Thomas Power, who scored 66 goals in two seasons at DIII Colorado College, had five goals and two assists in his first DI game.

Green Alert Take: You don't have to take many, but sometimes a transfer can make a big difference. Yale, Princeton and Harvard football have shown that over the years. For the record, Power played his high school lacrosse at Cherry Creek in the Denver suburbs, the same school where running back Pete Oberle '95 played before transferring to Dartmouth from Colorado State and helping the '96 Big Green to an undefeated record. (A little trivia for you. Both of the Big Green's 1995 captains were from Cherry Creek. Oberle was joined in that role by high school teammate Taran Lent, a linebacker.)

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It's been quite a year for former Dartmouth wide receivers coach Jarrail "JJ" Jackson. Last fall he was named the NAIA Region 5 coach of the year after leading a Texas College team that hadn't had a winning record since 2005 to a 7-3 record, including a 5-3 mark in conference.

Also serving as head baseball coach this spring, Jackson saw the Steers end a 99-game losing streak (you read that right) with a 6-5 win down in Tyler, Texas last Sunday over the Eutectics of the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis. Here's what relief looks like when you avoid a 100-game losing streak:

For the record, Texas College's most recent win before last week was 16-3 vs. Tougaloo on March 10, 2020. 

(Thanks to a friend for passing along the information.)

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From baseball to the hardwood.


Look who is in the photograph SI's NIL Daily website used to illustrate the story: Dartmouth. That was no accident.

From the story (LINK):

On Friday, the Trump administration’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) officially rescinded a 2021 memorandum that classified college athletes as employees under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).

And . . .

This comes just weeks after Trump fired Jennifer Abruzzo, the NLRB’s former general counsel, who issued the memorandum and was one of the strongest advocates for college athletes to be granted employee status.

And . . .

Recognizing that the new administration would not be sympathetic to their cause, the Dartmouth players withdrew their petition in December, and the NLRB’s Los Angeles office dropped its case against USC, effectively ending two of the most significant labor challenges in college sports.

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But that's not the big story for Dartmouth men's basketball this winter. That's coming on the floor where the Big Green stands alone in second place in the Ivy League standings (you read that right) and is in strong position to make the Ivy League tournament for the first time with a 6-3 conference record. (The top four teams play in the tournament.)

Last evening Dartmouth put an 88-49 hurt on Cornell for its fourth-consecutive Ivy League victory and third straight in a rout. After opening the late-season run with a 95-89 win over Columbia, the Big Green had crushed Harvard  (76-56) and Columbia (78-56) before last night's 39-point romp.

The Ivy League standings:

Yale 9-0

Dartmouth  6-3

Princeton 5-4

Cornell 5-4

Brown 4-5

Harvard 4-5

Penn 2-7

Columbia 1-8

Dartmouth's remaining games are at Penn and at Princeton, home against Yale and Brown, and on the road at Harvard. The Big Green is 12-10 overall.

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EXTRA POINT

Although we haven't had a big storm yet this winter, the snow just keeps coming, day after day. The forecast called for another 5-10 inches today, and it kind of looks like the weather folks got right the way it's coming down.


Here's something you may not realize if you don't live somewhere like this. It isn't the big, beautiful and  fluffy flakes that add up. What I call "department store" snow (because it's the kind of stuff art directors put in store windows at Christmas) doesn't build up. In fact, what might also be called "Hallmark movie" snow is a pretty good sign that either Mother Nature is just putting on a show or the storm is winding down.


The stuff that adds up are the tiny flakes that come straight down for hours and hours, and that's what we are seeing right now.

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