THE SKINNY: Valpo seeks significant improvement after it only beat Stetson in (coach Landon) Fox's first season. Fifth-year senior quarterback Chris Duncan has thrown for 3,725 career yards, eighth-best in school history, and his top two wide receivers, Deuce Larose and Ollie Reese, also are returning. It's key for the Crusaders' struggling program to get bigger and stronger across the offensive and defensive lines. Offensive lineman Sam Vas and defensive lineman Trejuan Purty hope to have a say in that goal. They're set at linebacker with Jaxon Peifer and Laddie Skarecky, but it will be hard to replace safety Jamari Booker. The schedule includes home-and-home series with Butler and Drake.
Valparaiso 2021 Spring Schedule:March 13 at ButlerMarch 20 DrakeMarch 27 ButlerApril 3 at DrakeApril 10 at Morehead StateApril 17 San Diego
ATHLON Conference Rankings for Spring (LINK)(Dartmouth opponents)1. Missouri Valley2. CAA (New Hampshire)3. Big Sky4. Southland5. Ohio Valley6. Southern7. Big South8. Patriot9. Southwestern10. Northeast (Sacred Heart)11. Pioneer (Valparaiso)
Taylor had hats from Stanford, Notre Dame, Michigan, Vanderbilt and Yale to choose from at his announcement.
He comes to Stanford as a preferred walk-on, but with financial aid, he is fully covered financially. A 4.0 student, he has already been admitted to the school.
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| Jennifer King (left) and Callie Brownson last fall. CLICK HERE to watch the video. |
Headline from a story on the Cleveland Browns website: Callie Brownson doles out advice, relishes the 'wow moments' at NFL's Women's Careers in Football Forum; The Browns’ Chief of Staff spoke on a panel along with three other women who recently broke into coaching in the NFL. (LINK)
Among the other women on the panel – Jennifer King, like Brownson a veteran of a year on the Dartmouth coaching staff. The Raleigh News & Observer has a story headlined, Jennifer King took a chance on herself. NC trailblazer is now an NFL assistant coach.
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The Dartmouth has a story headlined, Three coaches of reinstated teams return, others decline. (LINK)
While men's golf coach Rich Parker, diving coach Chris Hamilton and lightweight rowing coach Dan Roock are returning, women's golf coach Alex Kirk and head swimming coach Jamie Holder are not. Kirk has moved to Naples, Fla., and is working at a course down there, but Holder is still in the Upper Valley and actually wanted to return, although not without guarantees that apparently weren't coming. From the story:
Holder, who declined to return to his swimming and diving head coaching position, said that when the team was reinstated, he was initially “angry” about the damage the programs had experienced. However, he added that he is excited for his team to compete again. Though Holder plans to remain in the Upper Valley, he said that he and the College could not reach a mutually agreeable contract.
“My general sense is that [the swimming and diving team] wanted me to come back, and I wanted to come back, but I needed to come back under a set of terms that was going to make me feel supported.” Holder said. “The [College] was not willing to negotiate with me on that … I’ll miss the opportunity, and I’ll miss the kids, but ultimately I think it’s the right decision for me under the circumstances that they were offering.”
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The COVID-19 outbreak on campus has spread and the college is working to contain it. From a story in our local daily (LINK)
Dartmouth College has shuttered indoor gathering spaces and shifted in-person classes to a remote format at least until Tuesday in light of rising numbers of COVID-19 cases, according to the college provost.
As of Thursday, the college had 37 active cases of COVID-19 in students, with 112 students and employees in either quarantine or isolation, according to the school’s dashboard. Those numbers could rise, Dartmouth Provost Joseph Helble said in an email Thursday to the Dartmouth community. This is up from a previous high of 25 active cases in mid-January, college spokeswoman Diana Lawrence said.
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EXTRA POINT
We have a "smart TV"– so-called because it has internet capability – in our bedroom.
In addition to being able to wirelessly subscribe to online services like Netflix and Hulu (which we don't) the TV can stream YouTube videos. While I'm notorious for being able to fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow, on those rare times when I'm not that lucky I appreciate the "sleep sounds" videos I've discovered recently on YouTube.
Last night I wasn't trying to sleep but was reading a novel in bed with the relaxing sound of rain on a tent in the background that soon had me putting the book down. (LINK) As is the case with a lot of these videos, the screen goes black after a short intro and the sound plays for a long time, in this case 10 hours! (I usually set the timer to turn the TV off after an hour.)
There are a bunch of videos of ocean waves breaking on the beach, including one looking through windows. (LINK) There are videos featuring the sound of fire (LINK) and rain (LINK), thunder (LINK), blizzards (LINK), forests (LINK) and cities, (LINK), planes (LINK), trains (LINK) and automobiles (LINK), fans (LINK), washing machines (LINK) and dryers (LINK). Tibetan bowls (LINK), Native American flute songs (LINK) and the always popular "Binaural Beats Brainwave Music for healing REM Sleep (LINK).
OK, I hope you get the picture. Or the sound ;-) Now I think I need a nap
