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Wednesday, April 05, 2023

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The first day of Dartmouth spring ball is in the books and with a veteran coaching staff and so many returnees it looked pretty much like any other first day of spring practice but for the absence of head coach Buddy Teevens. Acting head coach Sammy McCorkle said afterward the session went pretty much the way Teevens would want. Per college policy, there was no update on the status of Teevens, hospitalized since a bicycle accident last month. Check out the Day One practice story on BGA Premium. 

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It didn't offer much in the way of new information but WMUR TV out of Manchester, N.H., had a quick piece on McCorkle assuming the role as acting head coach in place of Teevens yesterday. Click the screengrab below to watch.


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The Dartmouth also wrote about McCorkle stepping in to run the team in Teevens' absence HERE.

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Former Big Green and Carolina Panthers' offensive lineman Matt Kaskey '19 is in camp and under contract with the USFL's Birmingham Stallions. The always funny big guy was the second player featured in a "Pass the Phone" Tweet put out by the team. Watch the short piece HERE (and thanks for the link!).


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It wasn't all that long ago that Dartmouth drafted teams, had honorary coaches and played the spring game like a real game. It was a lot of fun but given injury concerns, these days the Green-White is, understandably, a non-tackling intrasquad scrimmage.

If Hugh Freeze had his way, spring games wouldn't just be what they were a generation ago, but they'd be even more interesting. The new Auburn coach would like to see the NCAA allow schools to scrimmage another team in the spring. In the video Tweet below, Freeze says:

Coaches are smart enough to control (the physicality) -- we're not going to hit each other's quarterbacks. I just think it would be great for the sport. I think it would be awesome. NFL gets to scrimmage against each other, high schools get to scrimmage against each other, and for the life of me I don't understand why we haven't gotten to the point where we can pull that off."

Check out Freeze's thoughts:

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EXTRA POINT
If you are a regular visitor to this electronic precinct, you know I don't own cell phone and don't want one. Although I find them intrusive, I have had a couple of iPod Touches that I use for recording interviews, listening to podcast and checking my email when I have WiFi access.

With Apple discontinuing the iPod Touch (and a series of operating system updates essentially turning my old Touch into a handsome paperweight), I've replaced it with a newer iPhone retired by one of my kids. It has no SIM card or service so it's no longer a phone, but it serves perfectly as a recorder and allows me to check my email and the web when I have WiFi. That's all good – and out of stubbornness I still refer to it as my iPod Touch.

My pseudo iPod Touch does everything I need it to do and I like it. Here's what I don't like: Apple's finicky lightning chargeport. Driving to practice yesterday afternoon I wanted both to listen to a podcast I had downloaded and to charge the "iPod," but when I plugged the thing in I got the annoying message, "iPhone cable not supported." Look, I know Apple recommends using their proprietary cables or others that they certify, but dagnabit, that cable worked before, and it worked again when I got back home. It just didn't want to work when I needed it.

That's hardly the first time a lightning cable worked for me, didn't work for me, and then worked again. That's pretty annoying and I'll bet it's happened to you as well – although probably not with an iPod Touch. ;-)

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