Matt Smiley, who handled kickers and punters as a charter member of the staff Buddy Teevens assembled upon his return to Dartmouth in 2005, has been promoted to special teams coordinator for the Buffalo Bills. (LINK)
Smiley worked under Teevens with the Big Green in 2005-06. Here's his Dartmouth bio:
Find Smiley's Buffalo Bills bio HERE.
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Can't say as I ever thought one day I’d be posting something from a website called Celebrity Net Worth but when a Dartmouth grad owns a major sports team, that major sports team happens to be the Cincinnati Bengals, and the Bengals happen to be playing the the Super Bowl, well . . .
Find the story HERE.
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Remember the Dartmouth placekicking commit who changed his mind and decided to take an offer instead from Notre Dame? Turns out Zac Yoakam didn't give up Dartmouth for a scholarship but rather for a Preferred Walk On opportunity. (LINK)
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Speaking of the player merry-go-round, unlike most FCS schools, New Hampshire has traditionally gone light on transfers. No knowing if that will change long range with Ricky Santos taking over for Sean McDonnell as head coach, but in these changing times even the Wildcats are dipping their toes into the portal to bring in Pierce DeVaughn, a defensive end from UConn, and Kyle Finnick, a defensive tackle from Dayton. (LINK)
Dartmouth defeated 3-8 UNH last fall, 38-21, and will face the Wildcats again on Oct. 16 in Hanover.
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One Ivy Leaguer and just two players from the Northeast are among the 21 FCS standouts invited to the NFL Combine. Headed to Indianapolis are Brown quarterback EJ Perry and Nick Zakelj, a 6-foot-5, 325-pound offensive lineman from Fordham.
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This is kind of fun. A Yahoo Sports story headlined, His NFL dreams were dashed, so he became an Olympian tells of Charlie Volker's journey from All-Ivy League Princeton running back to Olympic bobsledder. Find the story HERE.
Volker carried 18 times for 111 yards and one touchdown against Dartmouth in 2016 and ran for 40 yards and three touchdowns a year later against the Big Green.
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EXTRA POINT
We've had Griff the Wonder Dog since he was a pup. He will turn eight this spring and by now I would have thought we knew most everything about him. Turns out we didn't.
We've had Griff the Wonder Dog since he was a pup. He will turn eight this spring and by now I would have thought we knew most everything about him. Turns out we didn't.
I honestly don't know how I discovered this but sometime in the past week or so I learned that he has a very strange response when you make the "shhh" sound, as you would to "shush" someone.
Hearing that sound, he comes running and then stares at me nervously (and this is most definitely not a nervous dog). I don't know what he's thinking or expecting and so I find myself saying "shhh" a little too often out of curiosity.
Griff is incredibly well-behaved and smart but the one time he can be a little head strong is when he's outside and doesn't want to come in. When that happens I sometimes have had to invite him to, "Go in the car? Go in the car?" With that he'll streak for the garage and stand by the back door to the car. More than once I've hopped in behind the wheel and driven him a couple of minutes because, well, because a promise is a promise, even to a dog.
A few weeks ago Griff finally pulled the squeaker piece out of his favorite toy and fiddling with it I realized I could make it squeak by blowing in it. (Genius move, huh?) Anyway, each time he heard the squeak he'd come running. When we let him out at night by himself and we decided it was time for him to come back, I'd open the door and instead of calling his name blow through the squeaker a few times.
The squeaker is pretty small but it makes a loud and annoying sound, so it's a good thing our closest neighbors are several hundred yards away. Otherwise when I blow the squeaker they might just respond by going "shhh." And with that, poor Griff would be like a chameleon on a plaid shirt. He wouldn't know if he's coming or going.
