Another Name

Another day, brings another recruiting target, for another year down the road. And this is no small target.

According to Yahoo.com and Scout.com 6-foot-8, 311-pound Brian Moran of Atherton, Cal., and Sacred Heart High School already has offers from Dartmouth and Stanford. Moran's father, Matt, was an offensive lineman for the Cardinal. Find an early list of schools that have shown interest in him here. If nothing else, the list shows Dartmouth is in good company.

The Dartmouth Friends of Football Golf Classic is set for June 19 at Hanover Country Club. Find information about the event here and you can download the brochure/flyer on the event here. (I get a chuckle out of the use of the term Classic. I've seen the swings some of the football Friends have, and classic isn't the first word that comes to mind ;-)

Down at Penn work on the $25.7 million George A. Weiss Pavilion project making adaptive reuse of the area under one side of the Franklin Field grandstand is wrapping up. Check out the first few pictures of slide show in the Daily Pennsylvanian. For more information on the project, the news release announcing it can be found here. It will be interesting come Oct. 2 to see how this ambitious and innovative effort turned out.

Kudos to Dartmouth football opponents Brown, Penn, Yale, Holy Cross and Colgate for their efforts in helping build up the national bone marrow registry. No one asked, but it just seems to me that coordinating a league-wide effort is something the Ivy League office might think about in the future.

No news on the Dartmouth men's basketball coaching search. Yesterday the Cornell Sun had piece about candidates in Ithaca. Today the Columbia Spectator reports that sources have indicated interviewees include, "current NJIT head coach and former Columbia assistant Jim Engles, St. Mary’s associate head coach Kyle Smith, and University of New Orleans’ head coach Joe Pasternack."

Judging by the names that have surfaced for the three Ivy League openings, it doesn't appear that any of the schools has decided to follow the Harvard model and go after a big-name coach.

Another big day on the diamonds for Dartmouth as the baseball team notched an 8-2, 3-2 sweep of Yale and the softball team knocked off the Bulldogs, 7-3 11-3. Both teams are tied for the lead in their divisions. The baseball team is knotted with Brown (with a nod to Harvard, which swept the Bears yesterday) while the softball team is all-square with Harvard.

Spring practice No. 4 for the Dartmouth football team at 4:45 this afternoon. The goal, as it is after every practice from the preseason through the final game in November, is to have a full story on BGA by 10 p.m. Eastern. Sometimes it is a little later than that but it's always the goal ;-)