Soggy Sunday

Greetings again from Happy Valley where the Internet is back working. (Sorry about yesterday.) The rain is coming down and packing up the tent is not going to be much fun. Then it's off to Lewisburg, Pa., where that Certain Hanover High senior has a meeting with the Bucknell track/cross country coach.

Yes, I named the school. And the Patriot League school she visited last week was Colgate. Oh, and she's still got her fingers crossed that something might happen with the Dartmouth wait-list.

Those three schools are in an interesting dance right now, which is why I've named all three of them in one place for the first time. (TCHHSS also took a second visit to Hamilton College of the NESCAC last week, but while she thoroughly liked the school it's probably fallen off to the side.)

But I digress.

I'm sitting here in a tent in Bellefonte, Pa., trying to figure out what to write about high-level meetings among athletic department officials from the three schools. (Sunday night: I've edited something out because I don't want to betray any confidences.)

Do I share information (that is starting to spread) or sit on it out of concern that there's still some back-room wheeling-and-dealing going on that could be jeopardized if word gets out?

The final decision: I'm going to sit on it. Please don't hold it against me if you don't get the big scoop here, and understand that I'm trying to do the right thing.

Trust me, though, you'll want to keep checking out the blog because if Mrs. BGA heard it, albeit through a back channel, word is going to get out and soon.

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In NFL Draft news, Brown defensive lineman David Howard was chosen by the Tennessee Titans in the seventh round. Teammate Bobby Sewall is headed to the Titans as a free agent. ... Colgate's Pat Simonds is going the free agent route to the Philadelphia Eagles.

UNH's Scott Sicko had a free agent deal lined up with the Dallas Cowboys but has decided to walk away from football. Interesting story here.

In spring football action, Yale quarterback Patrick Witt completed 12-of-16 passes for 245 yards and three touchdowns in the Bulldogs' Blue-White game.

The Harvard Crimson-White game featured Collier Winters passing for 177 yards and running for 34 with two touchdowns.

Princeton held its spring game but unfortunately you have to watch the video to find out what happened because I haven't watched it. Sure wish they'd put up a story.

Penn has named its captains. Holy Cross also chose captains.

And finally, the forecast of rain kept the attendance down to 55,000 at Penn State yesterday, but the Blue-White game of Blue-White games was still quite the extravaganza.

Remember that commercial where the wife says something to the husband along the lines of, "I thought you were on the Internet." And he answers, "I finished it."

Well, that's about the way it is with the Soph and his unending T-shirt, baseball hat, souvenir hunt in State College. I'm not sure there isn't anything he hasn't been tempted to buy as we visited all the shops on College Avenue three or four times apiece. Needless to say, he did buy a "few" things. Oh, and we are bringing home some grilled stickies ;-)