Stuck song syndrome hit me after a loyal reader shared this, but you know what? It's OK and it's going to be OK. That's the message.
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With the demise of the Ivy League digital network archived football games are no longer available online so you have to take what you can get, in this case the 2015 thriller between Dartmouth and Harvard. If you are a Dartmouth fan you might want to turn away in the final minute. From a Harvard release (LINK):
Harvard is slated to re-air the 2015 Ivy League football contest between the Crimson and Dartmouth on Wednesday, May 20, at 4 p.m. ET. Fans can relive the exciting game on Twitter at @HarvardFootball.
The highly anticipated match-up was set to take place under the lights at Harvard Stadium and featured the No. 15/16 Crimson and the No. 22/22 Big Green. Both squads came into the tilt undefeated at 6-0, with Harvard also carrying a 20-game winning streak into the Friday night showdown.Harvard coach Tim Murphy and his staff will offer thoughts in real time during the broadcast @HarvardFootball.
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The Dartmouth Review writes about seniors Isiah Swann and Nike Lalos getting their shots at the NFL. (LINK)
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The CFL was slated to begin training camp this week and in light of that the Calgary Sun has a story under the headline, Stampeders: 40 things we were looking forward to this season. (LINK)One of the 40 has to do with a certain former Dartmouth linebacker. From the story:
Flo, finally: Maybe it’s because he sort of has Charleston Hughes’ body-type, but Folarin Orimolade has been a guy we’ve been keeping an eye on ever since he arrived in Calgary in 2018. He might have had a big year last season, but a knee injury robbed him of that opportunity. A fully-healthy Orimolade could be a real force for the Stamps at defensive end next season.Find the Stamps bio for Orimolade, listed at 5-foot-11, 234 pounds, HERE. He is listed as a starting defensive end on the Calgary depth chart HERE.
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EXTRA POINTMaybe I've been under a rock or something but I did not realize The Writer's Almanac is once again available, now via Podcast and on the internet.
Although I was an English major as an undergraduate I can't say I'm a huge fan of a lot of the poetry Garrison Keillor reads each day but there's a wonderful calming quality to the five-minute program's familiar piano intro and the narrator intoning, "And here is the Writer's Almanac for Sunday, May the 17th."
Until I clicked in this morning I didn't know today is the "81st birthday of young adult novelist Gary Paulsen" who "ran away from home at 14 and joined a carnival. Later, he worked as a farmhand, construction worker, truck driver, sailor and magazine proofreader."
Or that "On this day in 1902, archaeologist Valerios Stais discovered the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient analog computer from the first or second century B.C. that was used to calculate the position of the sun, moon, and stars in relationship to the observer’s position on the surface of the earth."
Tune in to The Writer's Almanac HERE and, "Be well, do good work, and keep in touch."
Listen to "The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, May 17, 2020" on Spreaker.
