Will The Dalai Lama Stay for 7-on-7 Drills?

With the Dalai Lama scheduled to come to Lehigh University this Friday for five days of teachings, the buzz around Lehigh has not been about Lehigh football, but rather the teachings of enlightenment, Ethics for the New Millennium, and (of course) Richard Gere. (Not to mention the traffic advisory and increased security in place for his stay.)

The Lehigh series of teachings comes at a fantastic time for the University, as the Chinese government has been working a whirlwind of talks with the Dalai Lama's representatives in order to get him to show strong support for the Beijing Olympics that are a mere 30 days away. It's likely that his talk will generate some news on that front - perhaps even some big news.

While my family and I will be front row center for his talk on Sunday (sans voice recorder, sadly), I'm tempted to ask His Holiness something different than the long list of questions that must barrage him daily about the Beijing Olympics and the recognition of autonomous Tibet: namely, how can one gain true enlightenment if one wants Lehigh to finally put a stomping on Lafayette in "The Rivalry" for the first time in five stinkin' years? (Obviously, I'm a real long way away from enlightenment...)

Of course, I could totally be wrong: His Holiness might be fine with a grown man seemingly fixated on beating a certain football team eighteen miles away in Easton. If that's the case, perhaps he could kick back, relax and stick around for Lehigh's trio of high school and youth clinics next week. The Mountain Hawk coaching staff is available during these weeks to preside in the eighth annual high school 7-on-7 shootout, a clinic for high-school aged football players, a clinic specific to "O" and "D" linemen, and a fun 3-day youth clinic for those aged 7-13.

Interested folks can click here for more information to get signup sheets and cost information for this fantastic opportunity for young football players to hone their skills and show their stuff in front of Division I coaches.

You could even say that the Lehigh coaching staff might... enlighten... some folks with these clinics.

UPDATE: The Morning Call Bloggers talk of a transformation of Murray Goodman's parking lot, transformed for a different type of tailgater this week.

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....

UMass 21, Lafayette 14, halftime

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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