Following up on a listing of the top quarterbacks in the state of Washington that featured Dartmouth-bound Jackson Proctor (LINK), Scorebook Live now has a listing of the top tight ends in the state, and once again the Big Green is represented:
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The headline we've all been waiting for in The Dartmouth (LINK):
Student-athletes begin spring practice
With local non-conference competition set to begin next weekend, softball, men’s and women’s track and field and men’s and women’s tennis are expected to begin competing April 24.
Given that competition has to be "local," and that graduation isn't far off for most other colleges and universities in the region it remains to be seen what games and how many games can be scheduled. When teams/athletes do start to compete, spectators will not be allowed per the story.
There's also this from the story:
“The Provost has announced that he's planning for a fully open fall, and I think we're following his lead on that,” (Head athletic trainer Ben) Schuler said. “I do suspect that there will still be some things that are not within the ‘norm’ while we still maybe are dealing with the lingering effects of COVID-19, but we're planning for a normal slate of games and competitions the way we do for every fall.”
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Dartmouth's PEAK Magazine has a Q&A with interim athletic director Peter Roby '79 HERE.
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The Dartmouth has a one-on-one with New York Mets president Sandy Alderson ’69 HERE.
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Are you getting a kick out of Aaron Rodgers serving as a guest host on Jeopardy? He's doing a good job but he's not the first NFL veteran to host a game show. That honor belonged to someone who used to kick a ball in Hanover – and no, we're not talking about Nick Lowery '78.
That honor belonged to former San Diego Chargers kicker Rolf Benirschke, who lived in Hanover when his father was a professor at what was then Dartmouth Medical School. How Benirschke was hired to host the daytime version of Wheel of Fortune is a funny story. Check it out HERE.
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Recruiting is heading back toward normalcy for the first time in more than a year. From an ESPN story (LINK):
The DI Council approved all Division I sports to return to their regular recruiting calendars beginning on June 1, the NCAA announced on Thursday.
The Council acknowledged schools in different areas of the country could be limited based on regulations set by campus, city and state requirements, but the schools are no longer restricted by the created dead period that had been enacted since March 13, 2020.
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EXTRA POINT
We were all set to drive our 1984 poptop Volkswagen Vanagon up to our "bus whisperer" on the shores of Lake Champlain this morning for its annual workup only to call an audible with the arrival of a spring snowstorm.
There could be 8-12 inches fall on the spine of the Green Mountains today and I'm here to tell you an ancient, top-heavy VW bus with rear-wheel drive and very little power is not the vehicle you want to drive over the mountains in those conditions.
