Covering Up

My favorite part of doing the Green Line football newsletter over the years was designing the covers. I'm not a graphic artist – far from it – but I did once stay at a Holiday Inn Express. ;-)

Excuse me if I've shared some of these before but I'm not sure which, and maybe the newbies will get a kick out of them. (Click the photos for a better look.)

The trickiest part of this one was the raised lettering on the snow globe reading Dartmouth 28, Princeton 24.

For this one to be more accurate Hunter Hagdorn's football should be made out of felt.

If I had the software then that I have now, this one would have been a lot easier to pull together.

The marquee isn't quite perfect but I spent a lot of time getting it this close.

I did a Yankee Stadium cover with the famous facade, but have to admit I like this one better.

I'll be sharing another handful tomorrow.

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Among the dozens and dozens of stories about the Dartmouth men's basketball union movement was one from Forbes under the headline Dartmouth Has A Decision To Make On Approach To Players’ Union. From that story (LINK):

With the Dartmouth University men’s basketball players voting to form a union, the New Hampshire Ivy League college has appealed the Feb. 5 decision from Region 1 of the National Labor Relations Board that recognizes the Dartmouth University men’s basketball players as employees.

The Forbes piece has no fewer than 15 mentions of Dartmouth University.

Green Alert Take: I'd expect better from Forbes.

Screen grab from a WCAX TV report (LINK)

Also, NBC has a video (LINK) with this description (italics are mine):

Two basketball students at Dartmouth University formed a union in the hopes of getting compensated for being athletes. 

Green Alert Take: I wonder how this quote in the NBC video from Cade Haskins will go over with some people:

"We're not the only ones frustrated with the Ivy League and with our own school. It's everybody. Everyone feels like we are being used in the Ivy League and we want to change that."

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EXTRA POINT
A couple of updates. 

First, the local power equipment company picked up the electric tractor yesterday and called in the afternoon after identifying the problem. It is what I thought it might be. It won't be a cheap fix, but at least it will be fixed.

And second, I knew better than to try to drive to my hiking trail yesterday given what the warm temperature and rain would mean to the already muddy road. That being the case, I elected instead to get my exercise in by heading around the corner and then up, up, up a one-track dirt road that dead ends a mile up the mountain when it's too steep to continue.

Although there's only a handful of houses on the road, there were still pretty serious ruts and the mud was nasty. True story: The mud pulled one of my shoes off and as I hopped around to try to pull it out of the mud, the other one was sucked off, leaving me standing in muddy socks. Getting the first one back out of the mud was an absolute thrash.