Friday, February 25, 2022

A Little News, Finally

Fifth-year tight end JJ Jones, who had no more Ivy League eligibility, has added another offer for his final year of college football. Jones, who caught 10 passes for 146 yards and one touchdown while earning a spot on the All-Ivy League second team team last fall, already had an offer from North Carolina Central.

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Harvard posted one of those absurd schedule "announcements" yesterday (LINK), but I'll give the Crimson credit for at least spicing it up with a quick video:


Merrimack? Seriously?

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Because the Ivy League changes its schedule once every ice age the only real news most years is in seeing who Ivy League teams are playing out-of-conference. To that end, here's what I've pieced together regarding the non-league schedules, keeping in mind not every school has posted their 2022 slate.

BROWN
Bryant
at Rhode Island
at Central Connecticut

COLUMBIA
at Marist
at Georgetown 
Wagner

CORNELL
at VMI
at Colgate 
Lehigh

DARTMOUTH
Valparaiso
at Sacred Heart
New Hampshire 

HARVARD
Merrimack
Holy Cross
at Howard

PENN
Colgate
Lafayette
???

PRINCETON
at Stetson
Lehigh
at Lafayette 

YALE
at Holy Cross
Mercer
???
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EXTRA POINT
NPR has a piece clearing up the confusion about whether the Ukrainian capital should be pronounced/spelled Kyiv or Kiev. (LINK) Two things.

First, in a box somewhere I have QSL card I was sent from "Kiev" after mailing the shortwave radio station there the band, time, program and quality of the broadcast that I listened to one night when I was in high school or junior high school. That, of course, was when it was  Kiev and part of the USSR. It was interesting getting mail from behind the Iron Curtain.

Second, this Tweet from Marketplace's Kai Ryssdal regarding the push to pronounce the city Keeve:

Now that everyone's saying 'Keev,' is 'Paree' far behind?

Good point. 

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