Here's the text about Dartmouth. See if you can find the mistakes:
Dartmouth Players to Watch
• Jackson Proctor had a passing stat line last year of 716 yards with a 75.3% completion rate (73-for-97), four touchdowns, three interceptions, and an average of yards per game. His rushing stat line was 17 carries for 168 yards and one TD.
• Last year, Nick Howard ran for 613 yards on 138 carries (61.3 yards per game) and scored 10 times.
• Paxton Scott picked up 51 receptions for 630 yards and two touchdowns last season. He was targeted 47 times, and averaged yards per game.
• Charles Looes did his thing last season with a memorable stat line of 7.5 sacks.
• Sean Williams collected four interceptions while adding last year.
Wasn't too hard, huh? Yup, Nick Howard '23, a fifth-year senior last fall, is using his final year of NCAA eligibility at Butler this year. And Charlie Looes '23, another fifth-year last fall, is at Rice this year.
The SFGate piece has a "By Data Skrive, Special to Hearst" byline. A little digging reveals this:
Data Skrive is a technology company that takes human-written and -edited content, and then uses AI to assemble it into original sports and entertainment articles that answer common reader questions such as how to watch a sporting event or TV series.
Green Alert Take: The Howard/Looes stuff is yet another reason to be careful what you read, particularly when AI is involved.
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A Columbus Dispatch story reminds us that Ohio State head coach Ryan Day very easily could have ended up wearing a Big Green uniform. From a story headlined Reunited at last, Ryan Day and Chip Kelly hope for Ohio State football glory together (LINK):
Ryan Day took the call from Chip Kelly that changed his life at a pay phone in his school cafeteria.
Almost 30 years ago, Day was a senior at Manchester Central High School in New Hampshire. He was a promising quarterback with grades that earned him Ivy League offers. Cornell, Brown and Dartmouth were his top choices.
Then Day got that call from Kelly, a University of New Hampshire assistant coach he’d known for years. Kelly understood how prestigious the Ivy League was. But he also knew he could tap into Day’s ultra-competitive nature.
“He kind of challenged me,” Day said. “He says, ‘The Ivy Leagues don’t play for a national title. Don’t you want to play more than just eight games a year?’
Green Alert Take: OK, the Ivies play 10 games a year but the point is well taken. If playing for a national title is your dream – whether winning it all is realistic or not – the Ivy League is off the table.
Green Alert Take II: Earth to Ivy League, earth to Ivy League. Are you listening? No one will think less of you if you allow your teams to go to the playoffs. In fact, a lot of people will think more of you.
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The Analyst has announced its 2024 Buck Buchanan Award Preseason Watch list and Dartmouth will see two players mentioned: Brown corner Isaiah Reed and Fordham linebacker James Conway. Here's the full list (LINK):
Defensive Linemen
Finn Claypool, Drake, R-Jr., 6-1, 232 (Pioneer Football League) – 2023 Finalist
Ckelby Givens, Southern, Jr., 6-2, 230 (Southwestern Athletic Conference)
Brody Grebe, Montana State, Sr., 6-2, 248 (Big Sky Conference) – 2023 Finalist
Eli Mostaert, North Dakota State, Sr., 6-3, 287 (Missouri Valley Football Conference)
Elijah Ponder, Cal Poly, R-Sr., 6-3, 245 (Big Sky Conference)
Josiah Silver, New Hampshire, Sr., 6-2, 243 (CAA Football)
David Walker, Central Arkansas, Sr., 6-3, 260 (United Athletic Conference) – 2022 and 2023 Finalist
Linebackers
Amir Abdullah, Illinois State, Sr., 6-3, 215 (Missouri Valley Football Conference) – 2023 Finalist
Adam Bock, South Dakota State, Sr., 6-1, 225 (Missouri Valley Football Conference) – 2021 Finalist
James Conway, Fordham, Sr., 6-2, 225 (Patriot League)
Micah Davey, McNeese, R-Jr., 6-2, 239 (Southland Conference) – 2023 Finalist
Erick Hunter, Morgan State, Sr., 6-4, 210 (Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) – 2023 Finalist
Logan Kopp, North Dakota State, Jr., 6-1, 217 (Missouri Valley Football Conference) – 2023 Finalist
Noah Martin, Samford, Sr., 6-1, 232 (Southern Conference)
Bryce Norman, Southeast Missouri, Sr., 6-0, 220 (Big South-OVC Football Association) – 2022 Finalist
Ken Standley, Mercer, Sr., 5-11, 225 (Southern Conference)
Elijawah Tolbert, Eastern Illinois, Sr., 6-1, 240 (Big South-OVC Football Association)
Riley Wilson, Montana, Jr., 6-2, 224 (Big Sky Conference)
Defensive Backs
Oshae Baker, UT Martin, Sr., 5-10, 200 (Big South-OVC Football Association)
Kendall Bohler, Florida A&M, R-Sr., 6-0, 193 (Southwestern Athletic Conference)
Kimal Clark, Central Connecticut State, Jr., 5-10, 200 (Northeast Conference)
Rex Connors, UC Davis, Jr., 6-1, 203 (Big Sky Conference)
Caleb Curtain, Elon, R-Jr., 6-1, 191 (CAA Football)
Kenny Gallop Jr., Howard, Grad, 6-0, 214 (Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) – 2023 Finalist
Tyler Morton, Nicholls, Sr., 5-10, 165 (Southland Conference)
Isaiah Reed, Brown, Sr., 6-0, 180 (Ivy League)
Isas Waxter, Villanova, Sr., 6-2, 215 (CAA Football)
Saiku White, Lafayette, Sr., 6-0, 201 (Patriot League)
TaMuarion Wilson, Central Arkansas, Sr., 6-2, 205 (United Athletic Conference)
Cole Wisniewski, North Dakota State, Sr., 6-4, 217 (Missouri Valley Football Conference)
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EXTRA POINT
I'm not a fan of paying for add-on streaming TV stations but we did take out a Peacock subscription to catch the Monk movie, a little more of a couple golf majors, some B1G Ten football in the fall and currently coverage of the Olympics via Roku.
When I turned the TV on this morning they were showing beach volleyball from Paris and, as is almost always the case when Peacock is showing sports, the picture was washed out. It doesn't happen with regular programming; only with sports and only watching Peacock via Roku. We had a trial subscription last fall and it was an issue with the NFL games "exclusively on Peacock" and with Penn State football.
Notably, it's not a problem with the free streaming stations we have like Tubi and Pluto and FreeVee. Only with the one we pay for, which makes it doubly annoying.
A web search revealed we're hardly the only viewers having the issue and offered a number of steps to possibly correct the problem. Given that everything else on the TV works just fine, I'd argue the problem is with Peacock and not with us. The last thing I want to do is make some changes that affect the rest of the TV networks.
Fortunately, we can get a perfect picture of Peacock sports by accessing them on a laptop and then using Mac's AirPlay functionality to beam the picture to our TV. But that kind of kludge-like fix shouldn't be necessary.
