Their wait finally ended Saturday. “We always sing our alma mater after every game,” Teevens said. “One of the fun parts of preseason is the freshmen having to learn the words. I watched them Saturday. Some had it. Some kept stumbling but giving it their all. That was the best moment for me — the joy of having that feeling again.”
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Fanbuzz has a story headlined “Keggy the Keg” is College Football’s Funniest Mascot about the anthropomorphic keg that once made regular, if unsanctioned, appearances at Dartmouth sporting events. Not particularly popular in the athletic department, Keggy is seldom seen anymore. (LINK)
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The Dartmouth does a little investigative journalism in a lengthy story headlined, Leaving on the Early Coach. The piece is introduced this way (LINK):
In the first edition of his new column, former sports editor Justin Kramer analyzes Dartmouth’s unusually low retention of head coaches compared to its Ivy League competition.
The story tries to answer this question:
How did Dartmouth athletics end up in this situation — with the most head coaches with two or fewer years’ experience in their role, the fewest with 10 or more years in their role and ranked last in the Ivy League in both mean and median coaching tenure?
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Columbia has a story about the passing of former SID Bill Steinman (HERE). Bill was the Columbia assistant SID when I had the same role at Dartmouth. I always looked forward to catching up and trading stories with him whenever I was in New York City for a Big Green game with the Lions. His passing comes just five months after his brother Jim Steinman, the composer and lyricist largely responsible for Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell recording, died.
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EXTRA POINT
Regular visitors to this electronic precinct might remember that on the last full weekend of July each year I would put my old sports information tool set to work providing coverage of the annual Tommy Keane Invitational golf tournament which honors the legendary Dartmouth golf coach and Hanover Country Club pro. With the closing of HCC the Keane had to find a new home last year, and this year it had to find both another new home as well as a new date. That new date is this weekend.
The TKI, which began in 1975, kicks off with qualifying today and runs through Sunday at The Quechee Club, about 15 miles southwest of Hanover. In addition to writing the Fearful Forecast (which will go up this afternoon in advance of tonight's Harvard-Brown game) and the Sacred Heart preview (to be posted tonight), I'll be covering Tommy Keane qualifying today. I obviously can't make the first day of match play tomorrow when I'm at Memorial Field, but I'll be at Quechee Sunday to provide coverage of the championship before putting my BGA hat back on. You can follow my coverage of the tournament at the Tommy Keane blog HERE.
Yup, it's gonna be a busy weekend!
