Unfortunately, a lot of the stories I would like to post here either never made it to the Web or have been taken down. Here’s a sampling of some of what is still out there in hyperspace as well as a couple of stories I resurrected:

SURVIVOR’S LUCK – Dartmouth College football program series

Tipped off in the nick of time that wearing a baseball cap indoors is a surefire way to reserve a room in Buddy Teevens' doghouse, the Dartmouth football players who crammed into the back of Hanover Inn's posh Hayward Lounge for their new head coach's introductory press conference in January of 2005 were quickly and surreptitiously stashing their lids while Teevens was greeting well-wishers in the hotel lobby.

Better to expose a bad case of hat-head than make the wrong first impression on the man who will determine your football fate.

BIRTH OF A COMEDIAN – Upper Valley Image

If Reg Pierce had wanted to turn Pierce's Inn into a photo op for Country Living Magazine, he probably could have pulled it off. But one of the last things Reg wanted was a place where visitors had to worry about tracking mud through the door or setting a beer down on a rickety antique coffee table without a coaster or accidentally knocking a Royal Copenhagen figurine off a shelf.

A student presents an 'unequivocal opposition' – Concord Monitor

HANOVER- It would be easy to convince yourself that there are two John Turners.

You could believe there's John Turner, the former 280-pound lineman for the Dartmouth football team who will be in Berkeley, Calif., tomorrow tossing University of Tennessee bodies around while playing lock for the Big Green rugby side in the national Sweet 16.

And then there's the more genteel John Charles Turner, a dedicated Ivy League student who somehow found enough energy during the final lap of his rigorous five-year bachelor of engineering program to compose a piece for piano and cello that he'll debut in Spaulding Auditorium on April 26 as part of the college's 27th annual Festival of New Musics.

It would be easy to think there are two distinct Turners. Easy and wrong. Turner will tell you as much.

TWIN BILLING – Middlebury Magazine

Eleven minutes, one and a half ounces, and one cowlick were all that separated Amber '03 and Erin Neil '03 at birth. Not much more has come between them since.

Hall’s Haul The Talk Of The Ivy League – Link

Brett Hoover of the Ivy League office is home in Plainsboro, N.J., watching the YES Network broadcast of the Dartmouth-Harvard football game, laptop computer at his side, online.

Two-hundred, sixty-one miles to the northeast, Big Green coach John Lyons has called timeout, a decision longtime voice of Dartmouth football Rick Adams reports from his sunny radio cubby high above Harvard Stadium.

Taking advantage of the break in play to make her way from the end zone back to the 20-yard line is Dartmouth sports information director Kathy Slattery, shooting digital pictures on this day with a spanking new 300mm, f/4 lens.

It is Saturday, Nov. 1, 2003. There are 12 minutes, 58 seconds remaining in the game between undefeated and nationally ranked Harvard and the underdog Big Green.

Less than two minutes have elapsed since Crimson quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick hit Rodney Byrnes with a 55-yard lightning strike to slice Dartmouth's lead from 23-9 to one touchdown in one fell swoop.

The Big Green is in a third-and-28 hole at the Harvard 40-yard line because quarterback Charlie Rittgers collided with the referee for a bizarre 18-yard loss on the last play.

It is crunch time.

For everyone.

A Friend, A Teammate, A Hero – Link

For Ex-Dartmouth Linebacker Zack Walz,

Pat Tillman  Was More Than Just Another Football Player

GOLF SCHOOL PRO TEACHES LESSONS FOR LIFE – Valley News

Part of Andy Prosowski's pitch as co-owner of Golf Schools of Scottsdale is that when you attend one of his sessions, “You get a golfing instructor for the rest of your life."

Apparently, The Quechee Club's director of instruction means what he says.

"A guy from Wisconsin called me up right about this time last year," recalled Prosowski. " He said he played great at Golf Schools, but had lost it and was about ready to slit his wrists.

"So we e-mailed back and forth and talked on the phone. When I didn't hear from him for a couple of weeks, I called back and said, 'Is he dead?' "

Prosowski was joking, of course.

As it turned out, his email and phone tips had straightened the man's game out enough that he hadn't felt the need to call.

"Then, two weeks ago I got an e-mail from his wife," Prosowski said, picking up the story. "She told me on his 60th birthday he shot the lowest round he ever had, a 72."

I e-mailed her back and said, 'Thank God he didn't slit his wrists.' "

Kielt has 4-TD day for HC – Worcester Sunday Telegram

Holy Cross coach Tom Gilmore made it clear after yesterday’s 44-26 win over Dartmouth that senior Mike Kielt is no reserve tailback.

He won’t get any argument from the 7,518 sun-splashed fans who turned out for Dartmouth’s Homecoming as Kielt ran 16 times for 120 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 5 passes for 75 yards and a fourth TD to help the Crusaders improve to 3-3.

90 Years and Counting – Constructive Images

Blink when you drive by and you might just miss the understated Trumbull-Nelson headquarters on Route 120 in Hanover. But travel just about anywhere else in and around the greater Connecticut River valley region of New Hampshire and Vermont and the Company’s impact is impossible to miss.

Founded by W.H. “Harry” Trumbull in Hanover in 1917 as a builder of fine homes, Trumbull-Nelson has long since grown into the Upper Valley’s largest general contractor. The company that today specializes in a tremendous variety of institutional, commercial, and industrial construction projects has helped redefine the region over its 90-year history.

A Mann For All Seasons – Ivy League Sports

Dressed in cap and gown like the classmates who arrived with him on the Hanover Plain in the fall of 1998, he heard his name read over the PA system, strode across the podium, shook hands with Dartmouth College president James Wright and walked down the steps of the elaborate stage in front of Baker Library to the applause of family and friends.

Ah, but graduation day last June was a little different for Brian Mann than it was for most of the rest of the Class of 2002.

"It was a great day and something I'll always be glad I did for my parents and my family, but it was very strange," he said. "It was strange because of the way my close friends were feeling and reacting to everything that was going on. For me, it was kind of a shrug of the shoulders, just one more day at Dartmouth, I've got plenty of time left up here."

That's because while Mann marched with his class, he didn't actually pick up his diploma last June, the way he always thought he would. The way he would have, if he hadn't broken his hand 14 months ago on a day he'd just as soon forget.

The way he might have if he hadn't decided to rearrange his academic schedule -- and his life -- to return to the Dartmouth football team this fall as a fifth-year senior quarterback.

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