"One of the more fascinating guys we have. A big defensive tackle who is an accomplished musician."
Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens in 2017 on Miles Sanders
Miles Sanders, a 6-foot-3, 290-pound lineman from Chesterfield, Mo., missed his freshman season with an ankle injury, spent the fall with a video camera in his hands helping record practice, and then decided to chuck it all and pursue a passion for music that the high school sports website for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote about HERE.
From the bio on Sanders' website (LINK):
Singer/Rapper, MILES, combines his melodic tone with hip hop to create a unique brand of upbeat music. He brings his audience a style of music that reflects his urban taste, lyricism, and choir upbringing. MILES incorporates his music influence of Chance The Rapper, Charlie Puth, and Khalid to create music that exemplifies friendship, partying without a care, and living life to its fullest.
Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Miles Sanders, always had a love for music but grew up focusing on academics & football. He was accepted into Dartmouth with intention to play football but it was his strong passion for music that would cause him to leave school, move to Los Angeles, and pursue his music career full-time.
The onetime Dartmouth recruit eventually signed with Elektra Records and has just released the official video for his single, Desperados. (LINK) Watch it here, and no, it's not that Desperados.:
Tennessee State coach Rod Reed on a shortened spring campaign: "It's a playoff atmosphere. You lose one or two games in conference, that's it."
Green Alert Take: Hey coach, now you know what life is like in the Ivy League.
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Headline in the Milford Daily News out of Massachusetts (LINK):
Westborough's Sean Sullivan commits to Yale after receiving football scholarship offers from all eight Ivy League schools
Green Alert Take: You would think someone in a sports department midway between Harvard and Brown would have pointed out that there are no football scholarships in the Ivy League, right?
UPDATE: The headline has now been corrected.
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EXTRA POINT
I don't know about you but as I was watching the inauguration special last night I found myself wondering why singers who are lip-synching bother to hold microphones.
They don't really think they are fooling us, do they?
Between us, I think the microphones just make obvious lip-synching even more annoying . . . if that's even possible.
