Dartmouth grad Jake Guidone is the subject of a story in Connecticut's Journal Inquirer, which projects the former All-Ivy League standout as the Huskies' starting center this fall (LINK):
From the story:
The fact that UConn won only one game a season ago and has just four victories to its credit in the last four years didn’t dissuade Guidone from making the move.“Personally, I see it as a completely new team. I don’t see this as the team they were last year. I don’t think anybody sees this as the team they were last year. This is a new slate, new players, new coaches,” Guidone said.
And . . .
Guidone has been fitting in well, it seems, after moving from northern to southern New England in January.“It’s been great. It’s been a lot of fun. Love the guys on the offensive line, love all the guys. They took me in, all the transfers, helping us acclimate, adjust to the way they do things here,” Guidone said. “It’s nice to have a genuine group of guys who care for each other and who see the bigger picture.”
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Speaking of Dartmouth grad transfers, tight end JJ Jones' list of offers continues to grow:
Proud to say I have received an offer from my dad’s alma mater @NMStateFootball❗️Go Aggies‼️🤠@CoachWrightNMSU @Coach_TSanchez #AggieUp pic.twitter.com/9hxOtSEybO
— JJ Jones III 🐺🪶 (@jj_jonessss) April 20, 2022
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| Day One of Dartmouth spring practice |
From a Guardian Sports press release (LINK):
NFL owners announced that the League would mandate Guardian Caps during the early part of training camp for all OL, DL, TEs, and LBs.
Dartmouth has been using impact reducing, soft-shell helmet covers for several years.
Here's a video explaining the value of the helmet covers:
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The Harvard Crimson takes a look at Harvard's decision to schedule a home-and-home with the University of St. Thomas, a decision that has been debated at length by message board posters unhappy that the Ivy League doesn't play more competitive non-league schedules. Find the Crimson story HERE and the back-and-forth message message board thread resulting from news of the scheduling HERE.
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EXTRA POINT
Our electricity went out overnight, as it does relatively frequently. Unfortunately, our solar tracker sends power directly to the grid for credits, rather than to our house, so we were left in the dark. (We wish the tracker would charge a power-wall battery backup, but for reasons I don't fully understand that functionality was not available to us.)
Anyway, I awoke a little after 5 a.m. and when I noticed the clock radio wasn't doing its normal thing and beaming the time on the ceiling in red numbers, I figured I would have to go outside and manually open Mrs. BGA's garage door so she could get to work this morning. That's a little tricky because the builder of our house decided not to have a regular door into the garage, meaning for me to get in the garage to open the one of two garage doors requires climbing through an unlocked garage window. But I digress.
I was still in bed thinking about the silliness of not having a pass-through door into the garage when I heard a quick beep from our Emerson clock radio. I looked over to see the red LED on the inexpensive clock radio flashing through a whole series of numbers, including 2022. It eventually stopped the light show at 5:25.
I always knew there was a battery backup in the radio, but I thought that just kept the time advancing behind the scenes so that when the LED came back on the clock part of the radio would be accurate.
What I didn't realize is the clock radio is more sophisticated than I thought and the story is a lot more complicated than a simple nine-volt battery backup. It starts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's official atomic clock in Boulder, Colo., which sends the exact time to a shortwave station in Fort Collins, which broadcasts a digital code across the country where many clock radios – even cheapos here in the back woods of Vermont – use it to be up-to-date. (Check out a story in Smithsonian Magazine to learn more.)
For what it's worth, we've probably had that clock radio for at least 20 years and today is the first time I realized there's a button you can push to show the day, month and year. And yup, that 2022 I saw flash by just before the LED settled on 5:25 was what tipped me off ;-)
