Adam Bergen Exceptional in East/West Shrine Game

Bergen Gets Glowing Reports
TE Adam Bergen appeared to help himself out in this weekend's East/West Shrine game. I watched part of the game and saw his 1 completion for 24 yards which set up a score on the next play. To me, that wasn't as important as seeing him do a very good job run blocking on an East team that seemed to be able to move at will. It was difficult to judge his pass blocking since no blitzing is allowed in the game, but overall to this unbiased reporter he definitely showed to any naysayers that he belongs on the same field as the guys from Notre Dame and USC this Saturday.

But don't take my word for it. Read the following excerpt from I-AA.org:
I-AA Players in the 2005 Shrine and Gridiron All-Star Games

#87 LEHIGH tight end ADAM BERGEN... 6041 268lbs, 4.76/4.77... Looked very solid physically... Helped himself during the week of practice... Shows good athletic ability... Consistently open... Catches everything thrown to him... Had 1 catch for 24 yards... 2004 I-AA.org All-Star Team... 2004 First Team All-Patriot League...

I-AA PLAYERS WHO HELPED THEMSELVES IN THE GAMES:
TE Adam Bergen, Lehigh

Another writeup from the game on Lehighsports.com:
Bergen shines in East-West Shrine Game

Just in case you didn't get enough Bergen...
Here's something else I found that y'all might like. It's a postseason interview done by Sportsdialogue.com - the people there seem pretty high on Adam.
NFL Draft Profile

You say you wanted to read it? Well, since you insist...

I had the chance to talk again with Adam Bergen now that the season is over and see how he felt the year went for him and Lehigh.

Sportsdialogue.com: What is your official size and speed?

Adam Bergen: 6-5 260 4.74 (in the spring)

SD.com: How difficult was it to swallow the one point loss in the playoffs to James Madison (14-13) on November 27^th?

AB: It’s was hard to lose by one point especially now they are playing in the national title game.

SD.com: What’s the one aspect of your game that has improved the most during your senior season?

AB: My run blocking improved each week.

SD.com: How is your neck feeling these days?

AB: No problems at all. I think that got blown out of proportion.

SD.com: Is their any player that reminds you of you in the NFL today?

AB: No one in particular the TE position is more in demand now which is a good thing.

SD.com: What was the best part of this your senior season?

AB: The whole experience. Being Co-Champs of the Patriot League and making the playoffs. It’s been a great senior year.

SD.com: What has been your most memorable victory while at Lehigh?

AB: My freshmen year beating Hofstra. We won the game in OT on a field goal.

SD.com: What has been the best part of playing football at Lehigh University in Bethlehem PA?

AB: The friendships I’ve made on the team.

SD.com: Describe Adam Bergen in a few words?

AB: Very confident and a hard worker

The only thing that can be said for sure is: Bergen appears to have the notice of the NFL scouts. It's 3 months until the draft, but TE is always a thin position and Adam seems to be representing himself well. Right now, I'm hoping: day 1 pick.

How The Ivy League Is Able To Break the NCAA's Scholarship Limits and Still Consider Themselves FCS

By now you've seen the results. In 2018, the Ivy League has taken the FCS by storm. Perhaps it was Penn's 30-10 defeat of Lehigh a couple of weeks ago . Or maybe it was Princeton's 50-9 drubbing of another team that made the FCS Playoffs last year, Monmouth. Or maybe it was Yale's shockingly dominant 35-14 win over nationally-ranked Maine last weekend. The Ivy League has gone an astounding 12-4 so far in out-of-conference play, many of those wins coming against the Patriot League. But it's not just against the Patriot League where the Ivy League has excelled. Every Ivy League school has at least one out-of-conference victory, which is remarkable since it is only three games into their football season. The four losses - Rhode Island over Harvard, Holy Cross over Yale, Delaware over Cornell, and Cal Poly over Brown - were either close losses that could have gone either way or expected blowouts of teams picked to be at the bottom of the Ivy League....

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Are you watching this game? UMass had this game under control until about 3 minutes in the second quarter, and then got an interception, converted for a TD. Then the Leopards forced a fumble off the return, and then converted THAT for a TD, making this a game. It's on CN8. You really should be watching this.

Examining A Figure Skating Rivalry: Tonya and Nancy

It must be very hard for a millennial to understand the fuss around the Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding figure skating scandal in the run-up to the 1994 Olympics. If you're of a certain age, though - whether you're a figure skating fan or not, and I am decidedly no fan of figure skating - the Shakespearean story of Harding and Kerrigan still engages, and still grabs peoples' attention, twenty years later. Why, though? Why, twenty years later, in a sport I care little, does the story still grab me? Why did I spend time out of my life watching dueling NBC and ESPN documentaries on the subject, and Google multiple stories about Jeff Gilooly , idiot "bodyguards", and the whole sordid affair? I think it's because the story, even twenty years later, is like opium. The addictive story, even now, has everything. Everything. The woman that fought for everything, perhaps crossing over to the dark side to get her chance at Olypic Gold, vs. the woman who...

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