After a relaxing couple of days it's time to get back to BGA Daily and, surprise, not much is happening. Call these the dog days of . . . late spring?
Missed this lengthy interview with former Dartmouth standout Niko Lalos when it was posted. I've got it set to start where the New York Giants pass rusher talks about his decision to come to play and study in Hanover rather than take a preferred walk-on slot as a big-time school:
Holy Cross Athletics has announced it will introduce a pilot program for the sale of beer and wine at Fitton Field and inside the Hart Center at the Luth Athletic Complex for all home football, men's and women's basketball and men's ice hockey games, beginning with the 2021-22 school year.
From the release:
(S)ales will start when gates open 90 minutes prior to kickoff and conclude with eight minutes remaining in the third quarter. Alcohol sales during basketball games inside the Hart Center will conclude after the first media timeout of the second half.
Green Alert Take: When I was the Dartmouth beat reporter I was often the only one covering basketball games. Sometimes if I had an early deadline I would look across the floor and signal – joking because I knew it wasn't about me – that I didn't need a media timeout. Now there's a legitimate (?) reason for those phony "media" timeouts.
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Alcohol sales signal a changing landscape in college athletics, but there's a much bigger change afoot as a Stanford job posting reminds us. The job title: Coordinator/Assistant Director, Name, Image & Likeness Services. From the job listing (LINK):
(T)he Coordinator/Assistant Director, Name, Image & Likeness Services will manage student-athlete Name, Image & Likeness (NIL) education and support efforts for (Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation). This new position will serve as the point person for Stanford’s unique in-house approach to NIL, and will synchronize that approach with new and existing student-athlete recruitment efforts.
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| Bomoseen State Park beach in a screen grab from the Vermont parks website |
EXTRA POINT
On the drive home from our weekend camping across the state we parked the '84 VW camper at a classic summer restaurant in the beautiful White River valley. Haddock and shrimp "boats" at the shaded picnic table were great but the perfect ending to lunch on a 90-degree day? Vermont maple creemee cones. Never heard of them? Yankee Magazine's New England Today Travel explains (LINK):
Slightly creamier than soft-serve but with a lower milk-fat content than traditional hard ice cream, these sweet spirals can be found throughout Vermont at a number of shops, food trucks, farm stands, and creameries. While recipes vary, most places simply add (real!) maple syrup to an ice cream base. Hard-core creemee lovers will attest to the importance of using the highest-quality maple syrup.
