Sunday, July 07, 2024

A New Name

Back from our Fourth of July visit with friends at their lake house before heading off to what we like to call the VW Vanagon-palooza later this week. (It's actually called the West River Westies.) In the meantime, we have a new name for you . . .

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Bancone is a tight end at Phillips Andover Academy. He's around 6-foot-4 or 6-5 depending on which site you choose and 220ish pounds. He will captain the PE football team this fall. He hails from Summit, NJ, and if I've got it right, previously was at Seton Hall Prep. While he attracted attention from most of the Ivies he reports Dartmouth was the first to offer.

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Another day, another top-whatever-position listing. Today it's defensive tackles per Fan Nation and while Dartmouth didn't have one of the top-10, it didn't miss by much. From the intro (LINK):

Some notable honorable mentions that received votes include Dartmouth's Josiah Green, Delaware State's Darren Cook, Maine's Izaiah Henderson, Weber State's Matt Herron, Davidson's Darryn Kindles, Wofford's Brandon Maina, Jackson State's Jeremiah Williams, and North Carolina Central's Quantez Mansfield.

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ESPN has a nice story about Dartmouth product Ben Rice smacking three home runs for the Yankees yesterday, becoming the first rookie ever to do that for the legendary franchise. Better yet, he did it against the team's arch-rival Boston Red Sox. Find the story HERE.

If you have access to the Boston Globe, you can read the full story about Rice that begins this way (LINK):

NEW YORK — Growing up in Cohasset, Ben Rice was that one kid in the neighborhood who liked the Yankees.

He wore an old-school Yankees jacket to games at Fenway Park, rooted for Derek Jeter, and even scrawled “Yankees Rule” on the Pesky Pole before one of the games he attended with his father.

Blasphemy!

Most of his classmates at Nobles loved the Red Sox but Rice stayed true to the pinstripes.

Rice became an accomplished player himself, a hard-hitting first baseman and catcher in high school and then at Dartmouth College.

“Those were the two teams that liked me the most,” he said.

The Yankees jumped first, grabbing Rice in the 12th round. The Red Sox regretted it Saturday when Rice became the first rookie in Yankees history to hit three home runs in a game.

Not Gehrig, DiMaggio, or Mantle. Ben Rice of Cohasset. Dan and Sophie’s kid.

And Rick Bender, showing again why Dartmouth made a mistake moving on from him as SID, dug up this:

And this . . .

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EXTRA POINT
Mrs. BGA and I went to the Vermont Symphony Orchestra Summer Festival performance last evening at Burke Mountain ski resort in the state's Northeast Kingdom – except of course lightning in the forecast saw the performance shifted into a stuffy elementary/middle school. We've seen the VSO's Fourth of July pops-type show in four or five different outdoor venues around the state in the past and this was the first time we ended up indoors (and the first time this year they were indoors). Oh well. We couldn't picnic on the mountain so we tailgated in the school parking lot ;-)

Anyway, the VSO wrapped up the first half of its show with John Williams – ET: Adventures on Earth and I found myself wondering if works like that would be taken more seriously by classical music aficionados if they weren't associated with popular movies. I think so . . .

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