Monday Fun Day

Doing a little research I stumbled across this story with impressive incoming freshman Zion Carter, a 6-foot-7, 240-pound tight end with pretty fair football bloodlines. Don't miss this one:

ICYMI: Here's my story on Berkeley Prep senior Zion Carter (@zioncarter19).
The son of #UF great and Super Bowl champ Kevin Carter (@KevinCarter_93), Zion spent the first three years of high school playing basketball. But this year he's following in his father's footsteps. pic.twitter.com/MyThGZ0xs8

— Kenny Morales (@KennyMoralesTV) October 1, 2018

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Somehow I managed to miss a few more thoughts on the Alliance of American Football that former Dartmouth quarterback Jack Heneghan penned for Axios including this:

"While yesterday's news was shocking and left many of us pondering our futures (NFL, XFL, retirement?), we played enough football here to know that the on-field product is not what doomed the AAF."

Find Quarterback Jack's full note HERE.

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Have you ever picked up the flight magazine in the pocket of the seat in front of you when you are on a plane? Of course you have. Occasionally I'll grab one and as a freelance writer have an idea for a story I'd like to submit to one of these magazines and I never seem to follow through. I bring that up because AMTRAK has its own magazine, which as a lover of trains I have looked at on occasion. Little did I expect that the railroad magazine The National would sniff out a story right under my nose. It's titled:

Dartmouth College’s Football Coach is Using Robots to Revolutionize the Game; People thought Buddy Teevens was crazy for banning player-on-player tackling in practice. Now, his MVP Robots are taking over the NFL

Find the story HERE.

Green Alert Take: Call it the one that got away. I could have written that one blindfolded ;-)

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Speaking of the MVP, it's been featured all over TV and in print but I missed this from a while back with former Rams coach Jeff Fischer, who was instrumental in Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens deciding not to tackle in practice. It's fun to see the NFL players getting their first look at the MVP:

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Left over from last week, the NCAA did not tighten down on graduate transfer rules but made things a little fairer for recruits who are left at the altar by their coaches. From a story posted on ESPN (LINK):

The council did pass a new rule that will go into effect this fall semester, allowing athletes who have enrolled in summer school and are on scholarship to transfer and be immediately eligible at a new school if there is a head coaching chance before the first day of fall classes.