I seem to recall working hard to squeeze every senior into the Block D.
Captains Nick Howard, Quinten Arello and Shane Cokes join with Coach Buddy Teevens in a pseudo oil painting.
Old friend Kevin Demoff '99, in his 15th year as president of the Los Angeles Rams, will now also oversee the NBA's Denver Nuggets, NHL's Colorado Avalanche, Major League Soccer's Colorado Rapids and the National Lacrosse League's Colorado Mammoth per a story on the Rams Wire. (All are part of the Kroenke Sports & Entertainment.)
This is a big move for Demoff, who has been the Rams’ COO since being hired by the team in 2009. He’s a key front office executive for the Rams, working closely with general manager Les Snead and head coach Sean McVay, as well as VP of football and business administration Tony Pastoors.
(Tony Pastoors '10 is a former Dartmouth safety.)
For a Tuck School of Business story about Demoff, click HERE.
#
I don't know about you, but I'm at a point with the Dartmouth basketball union story where all I want is for someone to tell me when it's over and what happened. If you want to know what a few fans who watch Ivy League and FCS college football think about it, there's an Any Given Saturday message board thread headlined AFL-CIO Comes to Hanover that you can click through HERE. As you'd expect there are some snarky comments mixed in with intelligent and sometimes belligerent observations.
#
Don't know what this will mean – if anything – to Ivy league football recruiting, but the AP has a story under the headline College football's early signing period moves up 3 weeks to before conference championship games. From the story (LINK):
The three-day early signing period will now start the Wednesday after Thanksgiving weekend, when the major college football regular season ends.
And . . .
The CCA (Collegiate Commissioners Association), which is comprised of the commissioners of all 32 Division I conferences, also said it is still considering a proposal to add a third signing period for college football in June, starting in 2025. A decision will be made by this June.
#
EXTRA POINT
Sap buckets are now hanging on the trunks of sugar maples here in northern New England (although the bigger operations all collect sap through tree-to-tree plastic tubing). The best sugaring is when the temperature is above freezing during the day and below freezing overnight.
We know it's sugaring season because our field abuts a "sugar bush" and the farmer who used to own our property has a right-of-way across the bottom of our field to get to the trees. A few times a day we'll see an ATV zip through our field to check on the pumps running the operation. In another couple of weeks or so the collection will be finished and all that will remain is boiling off the last of the sap. In case you are wondering, it takes about 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of delicious Vermont maple syrup.
