Thursday, April 02, 2026

Closing In On It

With spring practice beginning next Tuesday, Dartmouth is currently going through mat drills. What's that you ask? What are mat drills?

The answer first appeared on this site 10 years ago. Click HERE to read that post, or just watch a little of what's happening below:

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A reminder that BGA Overtime will go live again next week when spring ball starts. If you haven't investigate the OT site, you can take a look at it HERE. 

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Dartmouth continued its meet-the-new-coaches series earlier this week with this social media posting:

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An email landed in my in-box yesterday with a reminder that the Dartmouth Friends of Football Golf Classic is set for Saturday, June 20, at Montcalm Golf Club, about 15 minutes from campus. The email provided this tentative schedule:

• 10:30 AM: Shuttle service to course
• 11:30 AM: Registration and lunch
• 1:00 PM: Shotgun start
• 6:00 PM: Post-round reception

The email also noted that they are still recruiting sponsors for everything from the tournament itself down to tee box and green sponsors.

To register for the event, click HERE.

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Sometimes you have to take a step back to take a few steps forward. No idea what will happen, but along with the news of Brett MacConnell being named Dartmouth's new head men's basketball coach earlier this week comes news that two of Dartmouth's most promising young hoop players have entered the portal. Find a listing by school of basketball players in the portal HERE.

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I'm not a fan of click-bait "best of" type postings that force you to click, and click, and click only to find out the headline was a tease. Fortunately, just one click brings up the full listing of The 39 Most Stunning College Campuses in the World. You'll take pride in who comes in at No. 7. Click HERE to see who it is.

Green Alert Take: Gotta admit, I really, really like the setting for No. 20. Of course, that may have something to do with seeing a basketball game there in the dead of a northern New England winter. ;-)

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EXTRA POINT
I'm not going to relitigate why it is so unbelievably annoying that there are databases out there that will not accept our address for the delivery of packages, but here's what I will tell you. After about 90 minutes of trying last evening to order something that cannot be found locally, the paint is peeling off the walls here in the BGA World Headquarters from all the screaming and expletives that came out of my mouth. (OK, that's not entirely true. The paint is not peeling.)

Time will tell if putting our actual town where a PO Box should go will work. Audibles like that sometimes do. Other times, packages are returned to sender.

It is utterly absurd that I can put in my house number, street, town and zip code into the online forms and then be told my address is not valid.

After discussions with our postmaster a while back, I went into Google Maps and tried to change the listed location of our house from the next town to our little town. An email back from Google said the change was accepted, but the postmaster warned me that not every business uses the Google database. He also warned that some of the databases may not be updated for months or even a year. All I can say is "Argh," but I can't shout it. My throat is too sore from shouting last night.
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