Go With The Flo

"I try to lead by example. I don't think you can tell anyone what to do if you're not doing it yourself.” 

Folarin Orimolade

Former Dartmouth standout Flo Orimolade ’17 shared a few thoughts after a recent practice with the Calgary Stampeders. The Stamps will kick off their regular season against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on June 7. CLICK HERE to watch and listen to Orimolade’s interview.

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When I was at the newspaper, we had a local freelancer who covered the Olympics for us. Anytime someone with even a peripheral connection to Dartmouth did anything remotely successful in the world of skiing, the writer would submit a story and eventually a bill. We used to joke that if the skier in question even knew where Dartmouth was the writer would send us a story, hoping to earn a check.

David Shribman ’76 certainly doesn’t need to toss in references to Dartmouth to get in print. His Pulitzer Prize, his years as executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and his standing in the world of journalism guarantee that. But as a proud alum who worked in the sports information office as an undergrad, he still regularly manages to sneak in a few references to the Big Green anyway. Consider these excerpts from a column in Canada’s Globe And Mail headlined, Harvard’s elitism makes it a soft target for Trump’s attacks (LINK):

For seven seasons Jake Crouthamel, Dartmouth’s football coach, stood before his forces and yelled the same question each day before his Big Green team faced the Harvard Crimson. “Do you hate them?” he asked.

And . . .

Its putative rival, Dartmouth College’s 1976 graduating class included linebacker Reggie Williams, who played in two Super Bowls, and baseballer Jim Beattie, who pitched in the World Series.

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The name in the headline Chad Q. Brown continues to cultivate his relationship with Purdue athletics (LINK) might have a familiar ring for Dartmouth football players from the early 2000s. Or maybe the initial Q would throw those players off.

It turns out that the Chad Q. Brown who founded and is president/ CEO of Profile – which bills itself as “the leading assessment provider for athletic, corporate, and higher education organizations” – is the same Chad Brown who served as Dartmouth’s tight ends coach for the 2000 and 2001 seasons. Here’s his bio from an old media guide:

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EXTRA POINT

I used to love a to-do app named Wunderlist, only to see it bought and shut down by Microsoft. The Dark Sky weather app was a winner until Apple pulled the plug and rolled it into the less appealing Weather app. As a holdout from cell phones, I had a few dollars in a Skype calling account until Microsoft shut it down earlier this year.

The latest of my favorites to bite the dust is Pocket, which allowed me to choose virtually any online news or feature story that showed up on my computer and save it both in the cloud and on my machine for later reading with a single click. It will still be around for a bit, and I can still go back to Instapaper – until someone buys and shut it down – but I’ll miss Pocket, which worked seamlessly.