First, incoming Dartmouth recruits are starting to post this on their social media accounts:
It seems Dartmouth had a standout receiver, Dave Shula, who got in Brown's craw at times. Shula would go on to be the Cincinnati Bengals' head coach."Whip and I both struggled in that game," Brown says. "Of all the games we wanted to play well, I've heard Whip say that was a tough one for him, and it was certainly tough for me because I was trying to destroy Dave Shula. I did not have my mind where it needed to be."In my mind, my job was to make him pay. I was going to come up and deliver blows on him all day."It didn't quite work out that way.
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Surfing through a site that collects Tweets from college football players entering the transfer portal, I came across one that cracked me up. I can't find it again so I'm going to make up the team name, but you'll still get the gist. Oh, and it wasn't a Dartmouth or Ivy League player.
Keeping in mind I'm making up the team name, the Tweet began like this:
Forever A Rocket
Then the writer went on to wax poetic about how wonderful his experience was playing for the team and how much he loved his coaches and teammates and the school. Then it ended like this:
With that being said, with two years of eligibility remaining I am entering the transfer portal.
Seriously? I'm reminded of the NFL quarterback who said, "I will do anything for this team and my teammates," but refused to get vaccinated.
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EXTRA POINT
You've read in this electronic precinct references to TigerBlog and my appreciation for the writing ability of TB, better known to some of us as Jerry Price. Over the years Jerry has evolved from Princeton's sports information director to its senior communications advisor and historian. He also somehow found the time and energy to write the novel With You.
Jerry is now out with a full-color, 500-page coffee table book, I Can Do Anything; Stories from the First 50 Year of Women' Athletics at Princeton University. While it might have been easiest to simply compile a sport-by-sport encyclopedia of Princeton women's athletics, Jerry is at his core a storyteller and so he chose to make Anything a collection of stories that draws you into the, well, the story of Princeton women's athletics and by extension Ivy League women's athletics. Consider the start of one of those stories:
Don't tell the NCAA, but before she was a grandmother, an engineer, a competitive equestrian show jumper, a Princeton student and one of the greatest basketball players Princeton has ever seen,Claire Beth "CB" Tomasiewicz '79 was a professional athlete. Actually, you can go ahead and tell the NCAA. The statute of limitations must be up.
Among others, the book includes chapters titled, The Sculptor, The Mothers and Daughters, A Piranha Among the Guppies, Small Feet, Huge Feat, and Doctor, Doctor, Doctor. I've had a copy for a week or so now and it's easy to pick up, read a few pages or a chapter, and a day later flip through to another section.
Read more about the journey Jerry took in writing the book HERE.
Princeton alums and anyone interested in the evolution of women's sports should find Anything worth reading. For more information on the book or to order a copy, CLICK HERE.
