The guess here is that the majority of BGA Daily visitors aren't Instagram regulars (I know I'm not) and so they might have missed this video that appeared on the Dartmouth football Instagram page. (The green tint was on the original. As they say, it's not a bug it's a "feature" ;-)
I watched it – twice – and have to admit that it drove me nuts. Not quite like that woman who had seizures when she heard one particular entertainer's voice on the TV (LINK) but after watching the video machine-gun through clip after clip I was worn out. Here's the original:
Three-star recruit James Wright was previously committed to East Carolina University, before deciding on Kansas. He also held offers from Army, Georgetown, Dartmouth, Temple, James Madison, Miami (Ohio), and Western Kentucky.
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Bloomberg has a story under the headline, Dartmouth Accused of Anti-Asian Bias in Varsity Team Cuts. From the story (LINK):
The Ivy League school announced in July that it was dropping men’s and women’s swimming and diving, men’s and women’s golf, and men’s lightweight rowing to help address a massive budget deficit caused in part by the coronavirus pandemic. Those five teams included more than 30 Asian-American varsity athletes, nearly half the total number at Dartmouth.
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Dartmouth President Phil Hanlon updated the college community yesterday with a letter that said the school is proceeding with its COVID-19 plan regarding bringing students back to campus. From the update (LINK):
After much careful consideration, we have decided to move forward with our plan to return approximately half of our undergraduate student body to Dartmouth, beginning Sept. 8.
And . . .
While setting a threshold to adjust our plan based on an absolute number of cases on campus does not take into account important factors such as identifiable risks or whether cases were part of a containable cluster, we will use a 1% positivity rate in our testing cohort--largely undergraduates--in any given week as a trigger for an immediate review of our in-person operational status.
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One of the most annoying things on the Internet (and there are a lot of them) is the slideshow website that forces you to click through 20 or 30 or more "slides" to find the one that interests you. Thankfully, a site featuring an article headlined, Can you answer these real 'Jeopardy!' clues about your state? was not one of them.
Out of curiosity I scrolled down to the New Hampshire entry to see if there was a Dartmouth-based clue. Was there? Check for yourself and while you are at it see what you know about the states you've lived in HERE.
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EXTRA POINT
It turns out my ESPN+ subscription was set to auto-renew on Sept. 2. I canceled it yesterday morning, and in the afternoon I received an email survey about my experience with the service.
In the comment section I wrote something like this:
I am giving up my subscription because I use it to watch Ivy League sports. With the Ivy League not playing football this fall I won't be visiting the site. If ESPN+ had archived versions of games on the site I would have maintained my subscription.
For what it's worth, in my perfect world when you visit an "auto-renewing" subscription page in the days leading up to the deadline it would bring up a page actually asking you if you would like to a) continue your subscription for another year, or b) cancel subscription. If you didn't respond by the end date of the subscription all you would get would be the splash page inviting you to renew with the site content put on hold.
When BGA Premium subscriptions started falling a few years back I had loyal readers suggesting I install an "auto-renew" function. I have no doubt it would have stemmed the decline to an extent but there was absolutely no way I was going to do that and saddle people who weren't going to read BGA with another year's fee. When I switched over the website and clicked a wrong button that actually turned on auto-renew for several days I was horrified. I quickly re-set the site and sent apologies off to the handful of people who had responded. Yup, I'm no fan of auto-renewals and probably not the best business person you'll ever meet . . . but I can sleep at night ;-)
