Growing Pains: Mother's Day Edition#TheWoods pic.twitter.com/MRrUNcHmyE
— Dartmouth Football (@DartFootball) May 8, 2022
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In case you missed it, BGA Premium has a 2,000-word account of the Saturday's Dartmouth Green-White football game.
The local daily also has coverage of the final day of spring football HERE.
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Here's a nice graphic pulled together by the Ivy League, proudly crowing about its lacrosse success:
We're going to need a bigger graphic. 🌿🥍 pic.twitter.com/WhOrTujotw
— The Ivy League (@IvyLeague) May 9, 2022
Here is how the men's lacrosse bracket looks:
1. Maryland - (Manhattan/Vermont winner)
8. Brown - Virginia
5. Princeton - Boston University
4. Yale (- Saint Joseph’s
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3. Penn - Richmond
6. Rutgers - Harvard
7. Cornell - Ohio State
2. Georgetown - (Robert Morris/Delaware winner)
Green Alert Take: First things first. I'm all for the men's and women's lacrosse teams having the chance to challenge for national titles. Every Ivy League athlete competing in an NCAA sport should have that opportunity. Perhaps the Ivy League could Tweet this in the fall to celebrate the only conference sport it bans from the playoffs:
Among the arguments floated for why the Ivy League won't allow its teams to compete in the NCAA football playoffs is that they would interfere with finals. For what it's worth, Ivy teams begin play in the NCAA men's lacrosse tournament this weekend and if they advance, they will play again next weekend. If they are fortunate enough to continue on, the semis are May 28 and the championship is May 30.
If I read the calendars right, Penn graduation is May 16, Yale is May 23, Princeton May 24, Harvard May 26 and Brown and Cornell May 28.
I may be wrong but it would seem there will be a lot of papers to finish, quite a few theses to polish off, and more than a few exams taxing lacrosse players over the three NCAA Tournament weekends. The Ivy League must be confident they can handle it.
So please explain to me again why one Ivy League football team can't handle the same pressures six lacrosse teams can deal with?
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EXTRA POINT
Dogs may be creatures of habit, but they still amaze me.
Griff the Wonder Dog eats his dinner at about 5:45 each evening. He may be out of site napping by himself upstairs but within a minute or two of his dinner time he'll show up expectantly in the kitchen. While I pour a healthy serving kibble into his bowl he just sits and patiently waits. He won't move a muscle while I go around a corner to grab a bottle of fish oil so I can put a couple of squirts in with his food to prevent a recurrence of a skin condition he had several years ago. As hungry as he might be, he absolutely will not touch the food until I look him in the eye and say, "OK." With that he attacks his dinner.
Breakfast? That's a totally different story. We have never asked him to wait so most days he is chomping away before the last of the kibble is rattles into his metal bowl.
What's amazing is he never, ever, ever gets mixed up.
