Might as well cut right to the chase.
Sagarin has Dartmouth a 21-point choice at Brown and Princeton a 15-point pick at Penn. Should chalk hold, the Big Green and Tigers would share the Ivy League title. Massey has Dartmouth winning, 35-20, with 81 percent confidence, and Princeton winning, 28-20, with 78 percent confidence.
Elsewhere on the final Saturday of the season, Harvard is an 11-point pick over Yale per Sagarin and is pegged to win, 27-24, with 60 percent confidence by Massey. Columbia is favored by six at Cornell per Sagarin and to win, 24-21 with 57 percent confidence by Massey.
Green Alert Take: Sometimes the Ivy League is really clueless. For reasons of fairness, interest and yes, drama, the conference should mandate that every game on the final day of the season start at the same time.
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The Dartmouth has a story about the easy win over Cornell HERE and Big Green longsnapper Josh Greene does a fine job putting the season and what it means to him in perspective in the column he writes for The D HERE.
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The local Valley News has a Dartmouth-Cornell follow HERE.
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I worked in college sports information for five years and in the Dartmouth press box for a lot longer than that so I understand. Still, watching a replay of the ESPNU broadcast from Memorial Field it's hard not to wish the main game camera could be on the visiting side showing the more impressive and more crowded home stands. To get a sense of what that might look like, albeit at halftime when the home side has emptied out with spectators visiting the rest rooms or grabbing refreshments, check out a video of the Cornell marching band performance shot from the visiting stands HERE.
Green Alert Take: And oh by the way, it was fun to see a real marching band perform on Memorial Field.
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EXTRA POINT
I'm worried.
Robo, our hard-working robotic vacuum cleaner, is in a bad way. It's been cleaning our kitchen, dining area, living room and a space we call "the stupid room" every day for 2½ years. It was not an expensive model and has been worth every penny we would have spent on one of the name-brand vacs.
Alas, for the past handful of days Ol' Robo has run for perhaps 15 minutes and then put on the brakes and beeped for help. I'd find it, hit the power button once to turn it on and once more to make it go, and off it would roll for another 15 minutes or so. Then it was rinse and repeat.
I'm guessing that after 2½ years of hour-long vacuuming sessions and daily recharging the battery has worn down, but that's just a guess. I'm going to email customer support and see what they have to say. When we had a different issue last year the support people not only got back to me quickly, but arranged to send a couple of replacement parts free of charge. I'm hopeful they will be able to help with this issue but we'll see. Either way, we've already gotten our money's worth out of Robo and if need be, will gladly replace it. I'll let you know but I've got to run. It's beeping at me again.
