BGA – The Sequel will have coverage and analysis after both the poll release and media day. Also on tap prior to the start of the season will be a Dartmouth team preview as well as an opponent preview.
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Not sure who to credit for this photo of quarterback Jackson Proctor with Peyton Manning at the recent Manning Passing Academy, but this is from the Dartmouth football Xwitter account:
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EXTRA POINT
Late last month I expressed my annoyance with NBC announcers at their reliance on using the metric system in discussing the long jump during a broadcast of the U.S. Olympic Trials. Here we go again.
A wire story yesterday reported that Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh broke the women's world record in the high jump by clearing 2.10 meters. The old record of 2.09 meters was set in 1987.
You tell me how high she jumped in terms of feet and inches, and by how much she broke the record. I'm waiting . . . .
Look, I get that the world of track and field operates on the metric system around the world. But relaying heights and distances in this country solely in meters is preaching to the choir. The track cognoscenti may have an appreciation of those numbers, but it's Greek to me and I'm sure to most of you. Is it too much to ask the announcers to also include numbers that are meaningful to the rest of us? I'd like to think they'll do that from Paris, but we'll see.
For the record, Mahuchikh's jump of 2.10 meters translates to a little over 6-feet, 10½ inches. The old record was a little under 6-10 1/3. inches, so while it was a record, it wasn't by much.
