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Would even the most ardent Dartmouth University sports fan pay at least $125 for a letter sweater purportedly from the 1910s? You have three days left to bid HERE or you can buy it outright for $175. (Told you it was a slow day.) Caveat emptor.
For what it's worth, there's a white Dartmouth University sweater, also advertised as being from the 1910s, for sale HERE with bids starting at $150 or yours for $200. Same warning applies ;-)
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By now you've probably seen a few different versions of this story but just in case, from the Sports Illustrated site (LINK):
A well-placed source told SI Saturday, “I think by the end of the week the fall sports will be postponed in all conferences.”
Even that timetable might be accelerated. Sources told SI on Sunday that the Big Ten is moving toward a decision to cancel the 2020 fall season, while engaging other Power 5 conferences on a uniform decision to be announced later this week.
Yahoo's Pete Thamel, the former New York Times college sports writer who seems to break more stories than just about anyone, wrote essentially the same thing HERE.
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If it seems that colleges are changing their decisions on sports almost daily that's because colleges are changing their decisions on a lot of things almost daily. Middlebury student Benjamin Renton has been updating an interactive map showing just how much change has been happening regarding in-person classes this fall (below). If that doesn't work for you, visit his site HERE.
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EXTRA POINT
This spring Mrs. BGA and I planted sunflowers down a trail I mowed into our "back 40" field, which is neither in the back of our house nor 40 acres, given that our entire property is only six acres.
The idea was to have a row of towering sunflowers lining the trail and bringing smiles to folks walking up our road or driving by.
Despite the losses, we were looking forward to having the remaining sunflowers brightening our days and those of people passing by until we took a drive yesterday and saw blooming sunflowers everywhere we looked.
Ours?
They are of the variety Mammoth Russian Greysripe (Helianthus annus) and they are supposed to grow to 8-12 feet. The tallest of our surviving plants might be 30 inches tall, and that's probably being generous.
I'll let you know how things turn out but yeah, it's not looking good, particularly given that the oldtime Vermonter who brush hogs our field is probably going to be stopping by any day to tell us if we don't get it cleared pert' soon it's going to be even more of a mess.
I guess if we plant sunflowers against next year we'll get 'em started a l-i-t-t-l-e earlier ;-)
