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| Josh Balara |
The morning's email brought this update from his family:
Josh is a fighter! The first two regimens of chemotherapy unfortunately have not provided much change. He is currently undergoing a third regimen and hopeful this treatment will be more effective. He is handling the treatments well and taking one day at a time. His family is there for him every step of the way and he will continue this fight. Please continue with good thoughts and prayers!”
Find the GoFundMe page set up to help Josh and his family HERE.
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In the latest edition of As The Portal Turns, we have these additional "offers" via Twitter:
• Defensive lineman Shane Cokes has added North Carolina State to a growing list of suitors.
• Tailback Noah Roper made it two Pioneer Football League offers with Butler following Valparaiso.
• Offensive lineman Michael Flores is also hearing from the PFL, with Butler and Morehead State offering.
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As reported here way back in August (LINK), the Ivy League will be sending a team of graduating (and graduated) seniors to the Far East to play a team of Japanese all-starts in the Dream Bowl in Tokyo. on Jan. 22. Find an Ivy League release HERE.
Columbia's Al Bagnoli will head up the coaching staff for the Ivy League team, which I have been told can include Ivy graduates who spent this fall as grad transfers outside of the league.
The Ivies previously sent teams to Japan for the Ivy Epson Bowl from 1989-96.
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Chris Wilkerson's first season as head coach at Eastern Illinois didn't go quite how he might have hoped with a 2-9 record, but even with three losses by three points and another by a touchdown, Dartmouth's former associate head coach enjoyed his homecoming. Find a lengthy story about his return to his alma mater HERE.
Wilk was at Dartmouth from 2005-13 before a successful head coaching run at the University of Chicago. His son Peyton, just a grade schooler when the family was in Hanover, has committed to play for him at EIU.
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For those of you keeping score on the Ivy League proxies competing in the FCS playoffs, Holy Cross is either a 7½-point or 8-point favorite over New Hampshire in tomorrow's game depending on which "book" you follow. To read a story about UNH trying to knock out its second Patriot League team in as many weeks (the Wildcats defeated Fordham in their playoff opener) click HERE.
Green Alert Take: Two Patriot League teams can participate but the Ivy League presidents won't let one team go on. What's wrong with this picture?
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EXTRA POINT
I've written about this before but my frustration is such that I have to vent again.
What happened to the days when you were phoning someone down the road and you could dial seven numbers and the call went through? I had to dial the post office in the next town over yesterday and it took me more than a half-dozen tries.
I tried dialing 222-xxxx and got that annoying computer-generated tone and recording saying, "We're sorry. Your call cannot be completed as dialed."
I tried dialing 1-222-xxxx and got a recording saying I didn't have to dial 1.
I tried 802-222-xxxx (even though I live in the 802 area code).
I gave 1-802-222-xxxx a shot.
Frustrated, I started dialing an 800 number listed on the PO website only to hang up before it started to ring when I realized I wasn't going to get anyone local.
I even thought briefly about 802-1-222-xxxx.
I finally got through the second or third time I dialed one of that series of numbers, but because I don't remember which one I'm going to find myself going through the same dance the next time. Unless, now that I think of it, I can get an operator to help me place this call.
