The Fighting Artichokes

Just one more note on mascots-slash-nicknames because this is too, um, delicious not to mention. To the right I present Fighting Artie, mascot for the Scottsdale Community College Fighting Artichokes. And yes, there is a Fighting Artichokes football team. From a release last fall: "The 2006 Artichoke football team finished the season on a positive note with a 21-14 victory over Eastern Arizona. The win gave Scottsdale a 6-4 overall record and 6-2 mark in the WSFL. It also propelled the 'Chokes back into the NJCAA top-20."

Regular readers of this space may recall that while I recognize the utility of the cell phone, I don't own one and really don't want to. (In the interest of complete disclosure, we bought one last summer before leaving on our cross country trip in the '84 VW camper. When the prepaid card - which cost more than the phone - ran out, the phone ended up in a pile of junk somewhere never to be seen or heard from again.)

But I digress. A subscriber sent along a link to the Entertonement site that bills itself as having, "Over 100,000 of the greatest quotes and sounds for use on MySpace or as free ringtones!" Fittingly for an endeavor that has Dartmouth roots, there are 15 ringtones pertaining to Dartmouth including Dartmouth's In Town Again, Dartmouth Touchdown Song, Dartmouth Fight Song, Glory to Dartmouth (with or without vocals). Most are songs but there's also Michael Wilbon of ESPN's PTI ranting about Keggy the Keg as well as a handful of other Dartmouth-related bits from ESPN. ...

Here's the Keggy the Keg mention:


The Manchester Union Leader has a UNH notes column today that includes a few thoughts about the new coaching flow chart in Durham (and where John Perry fits on it). It mentions that 15 NFL teams have expressed interest in tomorrow's Pro Day featuring wide receivers David Ball and Aaron Brown, guard Tucker Peterson and defensive back Corey Graham.