Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Elsewhere

This might make you a little dizzy – why it goes as fast as it does in places I don't know – but take a virtual tour through the new football stadium that will be going up across the state at the University of New Hampshire. Those of you who saw the old place last fall will certainly appreciate the difference.



Sure would have been nice, though, if they had relocated the track . . .
A transfer tight end is moving up the depth chart at USC. That's no surprise.

The surprise is that 6-foot-6, 240-pound Connor Spears transferred from Columbia. Find a story from the school paper HERE and an ESPN piece HERE.

Call Spears (USC bio) one that got away from Columbia. Oh, and maybe Dartmouth as well . . .

Spears' father, Bob '81, was a record-setting swimmer for the Big Green who went on to earn an MBT at Southern Cal and then an MBA at Harvard.
At age 36 former Brown quarterback Kyle Rowley is still playing the game with the Portland (Ore.) Thunder of the Arena Football League. A story about him from the Portland Tribune begins this way:
There are plenty of things Kyle Rowley could be doing with his Ivy League education.
But rather than working in an office and wearing a suit to work every day, the Brown University graduate prefers to put on pads.
Working for a Fortune 500 company would give him nowhere near the joy he gets from being an Arena Football League quarterback for the Portland Thunder.
“I’m a firm believer in doing what you love,” Rowley says. “I played at Brown and got an Ivy League degree, but football was always my priority, even in college.
Find the story HERE.