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Missed this a couple of days ago but former All-America corner Isiah Swann '20 has been cut by the Canadian Football League's BC Lions. (LINK)
Green Alert Take: It's hard not to think the injury that saw Swann released before training camp with the Cincinnati Bengals a year ago had something to do with this.
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Former Dartmouth softball player Tessa Grossman, who earlier did a virtual strength and conditioning fellowship with the Bengals will now be one of four Bill Walsh fellows to intern with the Atlanta Falcons during the preseason. Find the story HERE and her Dartmouth bio HERE.
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OK, this is weird. For those who don't like the printed word, Wikipedia Reader has a 99-second history of Dartmouth's Memorial Field:
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This has shown up all over the place but for those of you who might have missed it, Alabama football coach Nick Saban made a not-so-subtle recruiting pitch when he revealed that his likely starting quarterback, Bryce Young, already has name-image-likeness deals approaching $1 million. That despite throwing one touchdown pass as a freshman. Find the story HERE.
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In the aftermath of the formal announcement of Kathryn Lively stepping down as Dean of the College (LINK), a recent grad who had served as an editor of The Dartmouth has an opinion piece under the headline Resign, President Hanlon; Kathryn Lively’s resignation is cause for optimism — but the job remains unfinished. (LINK)
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EXTRA POINT
As predicted, a ferocious rainstorm with heavy wind and lightning blew in from the west last evening. The wind was so strong that it sent one of the hanging baskets with our transplanted Aerogarden "cascading petunias" bouncing off the deck.
Lightning continued unabated for at least a half hour until at one point a huge crash of thunder seemingly from just up the hill behind our house really got our attention.
So did something else.
After the thunder I heard a voice coming down from upstairs and it didn't sound like the digital voice of our smoke detector, which ridiculously called out "Evacuate, evacuate" the last time I hit a wrong button while trying to replace the backup battery.
No, this voice sounded more . . . well . . . human. It probably spoke only three or four words but I was so surprised to hear it in all the confusion after the booming crack of nearby thunder that they didn't register.
I certainly knew there wasn't anyone upstairs and it didn't sound like the smoke detector. With no other real alternative, I pretty much decided I had imagined the voice and was "hearing things."
Sheepishly, I asked Mrs. BGA, "Uh, did you hear that?"
To my surprise, she said she did.
We still don't know what it was. I suppose it's possible that the TV in our bedroom had somehow been turned on for a couple of seconds by the nearby lightning strike. Or maybe the lightning momentarily triggered the clock radio. I know it wasn't my laptop, because that was downstairs. Could it have been my iPod Touch?
I suppose it had to have been the smoke detector after all. But honestly, why would a device that barks, "Evacuate, evacuate, evacuate" until you want to hit it with a hammer when you touch a wrong button speak just three or four words and then go back to sleep?
I have never believed in ghosts, but the more I think about what we heard last night the creepier it is starting to feel.
